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12-17-14 17:50 #15
Posts: 313Bus tickets
Originally Posted by EasyGo [View Original Post]
In 2013, I took the bus 15 times, 10 times my name and passport number is printed on my ticket.
In 2012,10 times my name and passport number is on the ticket, 17 times it is not. About 8 of the 17 were short trips with generic tickets, Santa Fe. Esperanza round trip.
My travels are too small a population sample to say there was a trend toward more control from 2012 to 2013 but it looks like the mechanism for charging for tickets in dollars exists.
One of those tickets in 2012 was for Santiago to Mendoza. This was my second bus ride over the Andes. If you should make this trip do it in the daytime for the views AND take a jacket, it is cold at the border crossing.
Don B.
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12-17-14 14:12 #14
Posts: 2700Buses or Trains
When I was there I just went to the bus station or train station, bought my tickets in Pesos.
When I booked through a travel agent, I used a credit card for those airplane trips around the country.
I never tried to pay in pesos.
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12-17-14 07:15 #13
Posts: 911Originally Posted by EasyGo [View Original Post]
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12-16-14 23:31 #12
Posts: 340Originally Posted by Gandolf50 [View Original Post]
I never heard anything about differential pricing for bus trips which is why I'd want to hear some real experiences rather than a minor news story running in the US before concluding it's an issue with buses.
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12-16-14 21:44 #11
Posts: 911Originally Posted by EasyGo [View Original Post]
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12-16-14 19:30 #10
Posts: 340I'm not sure I'd read too much into the story. I believe that that "dollars for tickets" only applies for travel outside of Argentina (like a ferry to Uruguay) and not for travel on buses within Argentina. I'd want to hear from somebody with recent experience with intra-Argentina bus travel before I scrapped a big trip.
The controls were created because the travel agents were gaming to multi-tier exchange rate system where they could buy travel for someone outside the country at the official rate and sell it to them at higher rate. So if I was needed a $US500 plane ticket between LA and Miami, an agent could buy it for me in BA and get the official rate and sell it to me for $US450. Both of us would come out ahead but the currency reserves would not. If it's all pesos, the government doesn't really care.
As you'd expect, the introduction of the controls was a complete shambles with agents not getting unclear, incomplete, and conflicting information from the government. It should be better now but I'm sure there is still lots of misinformation floating around.
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12-16-14 18:06 #9
Posts: 45Don B's comments.
Ya know Don B, give your info and opinions. It seems that there is always some dick here who knows better, is smarter and whose knowledge is just better than others. These type of people obviously have small dicks. I would like to hear more about your plans and ideas.
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12-16-14 15:43 #8
Posts: 313Miles
Originally Posted by Dickhead [View Original Post]
But rather than confirm or deny the use of pesos for tickets you had to be a dick.
One of the reasons I quit bothering to post and I should have kept it that way.
Don B.
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12-16-14 15:18 #7
Posts: 3510"I had about 10 days and 10,000 miles via bus planned."
That would be sixteen hours a day at a constant 62.5 mph. I kind of doubt that would be possible. I have traveled by bus to all 23 provinces and I'd have to be convinced that connections could actually be made to accomplish that. All the way from Salta to Punta Arenas is about 2,400 miles and takes three full days so even if you did that four times you would be short on miles and long on days. I went all the way from PA along the straits and up the eastern coast to BA and it takes quite a while. Maybe you mean 10,000 kilometers.
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12-16-14 14:39 #6
Posts: 313Damn
Originally Posted by WorldTravel69 [View Original Post]
If this includes bus travel I am probably going to deny Argentina of any of my dollars.
As part of my research for one of the books I have in progress I had about 10 days and 10,000 miles via bus planned.
There is an empirically derived "law" that states tha virtually everything the US government does is either UN-Constitutional, immoral or just plain stupid.
The stupid part certainly applies to Argentina.
Don B.
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12-16-14 13:41 #5
Posts: 2700Money Problems
Dinner for Dollars only.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2...rd-u-s-dollars
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06-19-12 02:51 #4
Posts: 746Thank you very much WT. It's a great article and I appreciate the trouble you went to to make sure we could all read it.
Bob
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06-18-12 16:58 #3
Posts: 2700Scan
I have the article. I will scan it. It is kind of funny. They dogs smelling car trunks for dollars.
Originally Posted by AllIWantIsLove [View Original Post]
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06-18-12 01:41 #2
Posts: 746Thanks WT I am sure it is interesting. But those of us without a WSJ subscription can read only the first two paragraphs. Maybe you or someone else with a subscription can post a summary of the article?
Bob
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06-17-12 13:01 #1
Posts: 2700Argentine Peso
Found this in the Wall Street Journal.
Trouble in Paradise.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...YWORDS=Dollars+becomes+Scarce+as+Argentina+Cries+Peso