Recent content by El Vagante

Mod, you can lock this thread. Thanks to everybody who contributed!

Ha ha, yes I experienced Argentina's wacko money situation on my first trip here, when the official rate was about 10:1 and the blue was more like 15. That was before Macri. I don't know if injecting politics in the thread is a good idea, but I can't resist expressing the opinion that, as long...

Somebody suggested craigslist and soloduenos. I found a guy who owns some apartments just by mooching around on booking dot com and contacting him directly instead of booking through the site. Craigslist has very few BA apartments but I messaged one English-speaking owner there. I don't know...

I'm a newly arrived tourist from the U.S. I found a hotel online, but the website I used generates the price in USD by taking the hotel's ARS rate and converting to dollars at the official exchange rate. So I talked to the hotel owner who told me his exchange rate (not quite the blue rate, but...