[blue]Greetings everyone,
I recently returned to BA through Ezeiza International Airport and noted a couple of recent changes in the "Arriving Passenger Control System".
Upon leaving the customs area with your baggage, you are confronted with a semi-circle of booths manned with barkers trying to get your attention and trying to sell you various services, including taxi and / or remis services to downtown. These prices ranged from $70 to $100+ pesos. The area is well designed to propel you towards these booths, and in fact it's sincerely doubtful that you will make it out of the area without being approached once or several times with taxi offers. My advice: Just say No.
Immediately after you exit this area, you will come upon the blue and white "Taxi Ezeiza" booth, where on this day I paid their posted rate of $53 pesos to downtown. For guests of Capt Dave's Mansion, they had a posted rate of $45 pesos to Vicente Lopez.
I paid the fare, got a receipt, and in less than a minute my luggage was being carried for me to a car waiting out front, where the porter and the driver both gladly loaded my luggage into the car's ample trunk space and we were off in the minimal possible of time.
The total cost: $53 pesos for the ride, $2 pesos to the porter, and a $5 peso tip for the driver = $60 pesos, tips and tolls included.
Personally, I don't understand why anyone would feel compelled to schedule someone to pick them up at the airport, which requires that you must pay for them to park their car while they wait for your arrival, or where you may have to carry and load your own luggage, or when they might be delayed and you might find yourself wandering the airport with your luggage looking for your ride, or where they may have scheduled to pickup another passenger on your flight, which may also delay your departure and over-burden your taxi with double the luggage, all for the privilege of paying more for the ride, and paying extra for the parking and the tolls.
I don't understand this because [I]there are taxi services pre-positioned at the airport waiting to depart immediately[/i], but hey, maybe it's just me.
Thanks,
Jackson[/blue]