Buenos Aires

• Best use: Book one beautiful room, then eat. Teatro Colón and Corrientes pizza make a satisfying first visit without committing to a late steak dinner.
• Choose by appetite: Güerrín for pizza; Don Julio only with a confirmed reservation and a price you are comfortable paying. MALBA is the art alternative; Las Violetas is the shorter café stop.
• Big mistake: Treating an exchange-rate headline as a discount you are guaranteed to receive, or a bus's advertised ride time as the whole return.
• What to skip: Tigre on a tight window, several distant neighborhoods in one outing, and a speculative restaurant queue before reporting.

Getting back before pickup

Set your accommodation as the start and end of the outing. Check both journeys, waiting and any connections before leaving. Set a leave-by alarm that gets you back with time for rest and preparation before your required crew pickup. Cut the extra stop if the return becomes uncertain.

• Card payment: Visa's foreign-card guidance describes a preferential purchase rate while the scheme remains in force; its old percentage example is not a current discount. Mastercard notes that issuer fees and processing time affect settlement. Choose ARS, check your issuer and inspect a small completed purchase before a large bill. The guide converter cannot predict that settlement.

City journeys and payment

Check a live route from your actual origin. Check withdrawal or exchange charges before accepting them. Do not build the day around a promised cash-exchange advantage.