Exchanging Currency

Its prudent to carry about 2000 pesos with you when leaving Argentina even for 6 months or 9 months so that you have cash for taxi and the first fuck as soon as you return.

[QUOTE=Member#3320;438717]Its prudent to carry about 2000 pesos with you when leaving Argentina even for 6 months or 9 months so that you have cash for taxi and the first fuck as soon as you return.[/QUOTE]LOL! In six months $2000 p might pay only the Taxi into town!! .

[QUOTE=Gandolf50;438719]LOL! In six months $2000 p might pay only the Taxi into town!! .[/QUOTE]Thats a exaggeration. .

I paid 70 pesos in 2007. Now I pay 300 pesos. Thats a inflation of 450 % in 7 years.

So if you have 2000 pesos when returning to your home country, and lets say end up paying 600 pesos one year later in BA, for taxi to town, you can still buy some sort of pussy in 1400 pesos.

[QUOTE=Member#3320;438723]Thats a exaggeration. .

I paid 70 pesos in 2007. Now I pay 300 pesos. Thats a inflation of 450 % in 7 years.

[/QUOTE]Ummm, no. (300-70) / 70 = 329% in 7 years.

10.55 pesos to the dollar today from "Mariana". She took me into a store down a staircase where she was standing. No fake bills. Mariana stands on Florida yelling "cambio" about 100 feet from Cordoba on the north side. When I entered the store I was the only one. When I left a few minutes later there were 10 people in line behind me with dollars in their hands. Mariana is cool, no pressure, unlike some of her associates in the same area.

[QUOTE=Dickhead;438729]Ummm, no. (300-70) / 70 = 329% in 7 years.[/QUOTE]Welcome back! You were missed here on the forum.

[QUOTE=Dickhead;438729]Ummm, no. (300-70) / 70 = 329% in 7 years.[/QUOTE]Rainman returns, 2.2[B]05[/B].

Got 10.80 yesterday in Microcentro.

(And paid $280 for a taxi from Ezeiza. Which really pissed me off..I was supposed to be landing at Aeroparque!

Here is some information for Cordoba, the city:

There is a blue market here, but nowhere as prevalent as in Buenos Aires. I wandered the streets for two days looking for arbolitos and didn't find any. Some taxis/stores didn't even want to accept dollars as payment at the official exchange rate. I ended up trading with some college students that a guy at my hotel knew who were looking to put away some funds. I got 10 pesos per 1 dollar. Might have been able to have gotten 10.25-10.50, but would have had to met someone off the internet at a McDonalds or the like. Nothing like a Calle Florida here. Start your trip in BA not Cordoba. On the plus side, everything is much cheaper in Cordoba vs BA.

Vampire over and out.

I spent the weekend in Puerto Iguazú where I also only got 10.0 for my USD.

Unfortunately there's no plus side to being in Iguazú....it's the most expensive town in Argentina (maybe The World!).

Either DavieW was making a joke, or has not traveled very much. He needs to go to Tokyo, London, or Moscow if he thinks Iguazu is expensive.

Tres3.

Is anybody going back to the states that has an excess of pesos to get rid of for dollars?

I've lived in 3 of those cities and visited the other. I lived in Iguazú for almost 2 years.

If you don't think Iguazú is expensive, you've clearly never spent much time there. You want an example. Traveling 5 blocks in a cab (on the meter) is 35 pesos and if you travel in a remís there's a 25 peso minimum. Here's another - a tin of Campagnola tuna in EOS supermarket (the biggest supermarket in Iguazú - none of the big chains have been allowed to open up there) is 28 pesos, compared to the 20.50 it costs in Carrefour here. Or how about a typical electricity bill - my mate has a smallish 3 bedroom house there (no air-cons) and pays 1500 - 1800 pesos per month. I've never paid more than about 60 pesos in Buenos Aires (only a one-bedroom flat, but with 2 oft-used air-cons).

Fine, in absolute terms (particularly taking accommodation costs into account!) of course you're going to spend more living in London, but in relative terms, taking average income into account, Iguazú wins by a long stretch.

I have been to Iguazu four times since 2002. Three times I stayed on the Argentine side, and one time I stayed on the Brazilian side. I still think London, Tokyo, Moscow, and several other world cities are more expensive. I guess we will have to agree to disagree, and move on.

Tres3.

This forum is fcuking hilarious!

Excuse me for trying to help out my fellow ex-pats. Sorry about that, I'll try to remember that that's against the rules and the only reason this forum exists is for people to take sides and knock lumps out of each other!

I am only trying to let people know just how expensive Iguazú is, based on the fact that I lived there for a couple of years and visit fairly regularly. I also helpfully provided some concrete examples of real price differences compared to Buenos Aires based on information gathered just this last weekend.

Now, how does "I've been there 4 times in the last 10 years, so let's agree to disagree" make any sense whatsoever? What really makes me laugh though, isn't just that someone can ignore the facts presented - I read it when it was posted, laughed to myself and left it at that - but then other people start *thanking* him for HIS post!

I get the same thing all the time on this particular thread for daring to find places with better exchange rates than other people are posting - "who cares about an extra 2c on the dollar!" - and the complainer gets half the forum backing him up!

What's the matter with you people?!?!? Or maybe I'm the idiot for thinking the idea is to help each other out?