Travel writer gives Buenos Aires Stay the big thumbs-up!
It is nice to be appreciated, even better when it come from a travel journalist!!
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/aug/05/travel-poor-snappy-buenos-aires/
story: Poor but Snappy in Buenos Aires
Few disagree that Buenos Aires is the top urban destination in South
America, and it is, arguably, among the top budget destinations in the
world. My wife and I stayed in two apartments in the Palermo Hollywood
and the Palermo Soho districts; the costs were $313 and $375, each for a
week. A two-star hostel’s cost? About $50 a day ($350 a week). Granted,
there are perks to hostel stay–but there is a frenetic do-do-do to
hostel living that, in my experience, keeps me from savoring the world’s
greatest cities.
If trying on a tuxedo can be likened to checking in to a luxury hotel,
renting a downtown apartment can be compared to renting a local’s entire
wardrobe. In Buenos Aires a company, Buenos Aires Stay, has made it
affordable and easy to “try on” this elegant, expansive metropolis. The
apartments range from shabby-cheap, to chic, to shabby-chic, ranging
from below $200 to above $4000 weekly.
To book our apartments we used http://buenosairesstay.com/, and were
helped by a lovely group of Spanish-speaking British expatriates with an
immense passion for, and knowledge of, the city and the surrounding
campo. Their low administrative fees are easily worth the time they
spend “fitting” you to your apartment.
If you feel like splashing out, the website www.bastay.com offers luxury
rentals. For example, a cool $2700 will rent a 280 square meter
five-star penthouse apartment in Palermo Hollywood, set over two floors
that combines “sumptuous design” with all the amenities of a five-star
hotel (sauna, gym, pool, laundry, concierge).
We budgeted, splurging on the clothes and fascinating Argentine wares of
the burgeoning Soho district’s artists and designers. I completely went
off my economic grid, buying custom leather boots from Lopez Taibo, a
century-old cobbler for all of $120 (I have hobbit-wide feet so this was
a must).
Boarding the plane with my new shoes, I realized that I wasn’t entirely
ready to give back the Buenos Aires I had tried on.
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