Azcuenaga area between Vicente Lopez + Guido?
I have been looking at an apartment to rent for a holiday in BA with my wife. There is a great looking one bedroom apt on Azcuenaga between Vicente Lopez and Guido. The balcony has a great view of the cemetery...maybe I could watch the cats in the morning while sipping my coffee.
However, I read a review on Trip Advisor that this area might not be right for a stay with my wife. The review says there is noise from nightclubs and stripclubs and sometimes hookers on the street and sometimes unsavoury characters on the street at night. We don't plan to stand on the street at night but we would walk to and from restaurants on the other side of the cemetery and elsewhere.
I figured here was the right place to ask. Was the stuff on Trip Advisor exaggerated? Will it be uncomfortable for my wife and I to walk to restaurants from that location? Will there be a lot of night-time noise? We are experienced travellers so the odd hooker on the street is not a concern. And noise at night would have to penetrate the balcony doors 5 stories up to bother us.
Any advice from experienced BA visitors and residents on this board would be appreciated.
Pussified TripAdvisor bloggers
I've lived a block up the street from that intersection for more than 10 years. I can't imagine anyone except a prissy, broom-stick-up-their-ass TripAdvisor blogger thinking that the neighborhood is in any measure dangerous or "seedy" at any time of the day or night.
Nevertheless, if you or a member of your party might be the slightest bit queezy about meerly being in close proximity to establishments where men do not need to beg women for sex, then you and they can rest assured that Madahos, Play Woman and Solid Gold have all been closed and the street is essentially nothing but apartment buildings, the Madahos property soon to be reopened as a bank.
In addition, I would not be surprised to learn that the very same TripAdvisor blogger also blasphemed the neighborhood on the corner of Ayacucho and Alvear because Black is still open, not withstanding the fact that South America's only 5-Star hotel is right across the street.
Thanks,
Jax.
Bad Man's apartment is gorgeous
PM her and make a deal. I have rented the place with the view and you will be very pleased. Bad's apartment had night time security.
Byt is also an ok agency. I have rented their large one bad room called azcuenaga and las heras II. The owners are wonderful. It is a block away towards las heras.
When the hooker clubs were in their prime, there were touts all over the place trying to draw men into the clubs. They are closed and that is all past history. I used to find the touts anoying, but never dangerous.