Buenos Aires Airport Pick-up & Transfers

Argentina’s main international airport, Ministro Pistarini (commonly called Ezeiza) is 35 km from the Buenos Aires city center and is not serviced by subway or light-rail.

After a long international flight landing in Ezeiza’s chaotic arrivals area, the last thing you want to do is change money at the airport (you’ll get a horrible rate, unless you go wait in line at the airport’s National Bank, which is only open during office hours) and then hunt down a legal taxi and haggle in funky Italian-like Spanish.

Ezeiza’s ‘Taxi Mafia’

Travelers should be aware that there is what is referred to as a ‘mafia’ of taxis at Ezeiza and even locals consider hailing a cab at the airport a sketchy prospect.

Those who do decide to take a chance and just hail a taxi at the airport would be wise to go out of the terminal and find an official taxi that is dropping passengers off in the departure area, instead of grabbing an empty one waiting like a vulture looking to prey on tourists outside of arrivals.

Recently a crime syndicate was uncovered where shady chauffeurs ‘tip off’ robbers to potential theft targets, who are then robbed immediately upon arriving at their hotels. In November 2019, a Canadian man was assaulted and robbed of his Louis Vuitton bag containing a laptop as he was checking in to his downtown hotel. A British man was robbed of his Rolex watch while unloading bags in the street after arriving at his Airbnb with his family. In the saddest case another British man was shot and killed as he tried to fight off the robbers outside of the Faena, one of the city’s most exclusive hotels.

Buses & Shuttles from Ezeiza to Buenos Aires

The absolute cheapest way to get to Buenos Aires from Ezeiza is to take the public bus number eight. Few travelers go for this option because it takes at least 1.5 hours, it can be a struggle to get on and off the bus with luggage and you need a pre-paid subte smart card to pay the fare.

Previous travelers to Argentina who already have a subte card and want to fetch the number eight to get to downtown can do so by walking about 60 meters down the road leading out of the airport to the bus stop. The number eight bus comes about every 30 minutes.

The second most affordable option to get to downtown Buenos Aires are the shuttle buses available at the airport such as Manual Tienda Leon, which leave approximately every thirty minutes.

The drawback to the shuttle bus option is that there is often a line after flights land, so there may be a wait of up to an hour. At slow times they wait for the bus to fill up before heading to the city.

You have two choices if you take Manuel Tienda Leon (or one of the other shuttle minibus services): get dropped off at their office in downtown Buenos Aires and take a taxi from there, or pay an additional fee to be dropped-off at your hotel or AirBnb.

Those who who choose to only book the shuttle service to Manual Tienda Leon’s downtown drop-off point across from Luna Park will want to be mindful about being in the busy downtown area with luggage.

It is also a good idea to calculate the distance from the Manuel Tienda Leon office to your hotel or Airbnb because the total price between the shuttle and the taxi may end up being similar to private pickup for two or more people, but with a lot more hassle.

The higher-priced Manuel Tienda service to your ultimate destination involves getting dropped off at their downtown office, unloading luggage and then waiting for their taxi service to take you to your final destination.

Because they try to consolidate rides, customers may have to wait or go pick up passengers going the same direction, so the whole process can be tiresome and time-consuming and leave weary travelers wishing they had just booked private airport pickup.

Those who prefer a direct Ezeiza shuttle service with no stops, unloading luggage or waiting can book it online here (at no extra cost to you).

Uber & Ride-Sharing from Ezeiza

Normally ride sharing apps are great option internationally, but in Argentina some online ride-sharing apps are in legal limbo or are Spanish-only.

Uber is blocked on the airport’s free wifi because the government supports the taxi unions in their fight to preserve their jobs in the age of ride-sharing.

If you have your own cellphone data plan that works locally you can try to call an Uber, but be aware drivers often cancel airport pickups because of ongoing clashes with aggressive taxi drivers.

→ Read more about the Uber controversy in Argentina and other available ride-sharing apps here.

Renting a Car at Ezeiza

It is also possible to rent a car to get into town from the airport, check out our Argentina driving information and car rental page here.

Since Buenos Aires has pretty aggressive driving and travelers may be tired after a long flight, renting a car immediately after landing at the airport is only recommended for experienced drivers.

Wander Argentina’s Airport Pickup Service

For safety, comfort and convenience, Wander Argentina offers private pick-up from Buenos Aires’ Ministro Pistarini (EZE) to anywhere in Buenos Aires city as well as transfers to the domestic airports and cruise terminal.

After booking online below, you’ll receive an email confirmation.

Once you land in Buenos Aires, our procedure is to send a Whatsapp message via the airport’s free wifi (AA2000) when you are going through customs.

Our friendly driver will be waiting for you at the arrivals area by the Starbucks. You will know what he looks like from his Whatsapp profile picture.

The car is a roomy sedan with air conditioning, heat and wifi.

Transfers between Ezeiza and Aeroparque Jorge Newbery

It is important to note that Ezeiza is Buenos Aires’ international airport, but domestic flights do not fly out of there.

Those traveling immediately to another destination in Argentina will have to get a transfer to the local domestic airport.

In the pull-down menu below, we offer direct transfer from Ezeiza (EZE) to the domestic airport, Aeroparque Jorge Newbery (AEP) and vice versa, as well as transfers to newer domestic airport El Palomar (EPA), which is the hub for budget airlines such as Jetsmart and Flybondi.

Book your Ezeiza Airport Transfer

* We have used the same dependable and friendly airport driver for a several years. He only speaks some English, but we are just a call away in case there is any language issue.

We are all about giving you options. If you prefer, click here to book an Ezeiza transfer with an English-speaking driver.

The only drawback to booking your airport pickup online using our partner link above is that they request a lot more information to make a reservation and the service is slightly less personalized and reliable than our service.

They also may not provide a replacement pickup or refund if your flight is delayed or changed.

(Those who book directly with us will find that we provide our clients with a phone number, so that they can advise us of any changes to their itinerary.)

→ For solo travelers, a shuttle is a less expensive option. The shuttle bus waiting times described above can be avoided by booking the shuttle online in advance.

Click here to book the airport shuttle from Ezeiza airport while avoiding the lines to downtown Buenos Aires.

Airport Transfers

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Additional Airport Pickup Information

* Please note: the above rates don’t apply to major holidays. To arrange a pickup on holidays such as Christmas or Easter, please get in touch via our contact page.

-Private car services and taxis do not provide car or booster seats, but they are required by law. If you are traveling with children you will need to bring a car seat for children under four and a booster seat for older children.

As of 2018, all children between the ages of 4-12 are required to sit in the rear of the car and have a booster seat. An inflatable booster seat like this one is a good option for travel.

* If you are a group of four passengers, please be aware that we can only fit two full size suitcases and two carry-on bags in the car. If your group has four people with a lot of luggage, surcharges to hire a larger car may apply.

– The cruise port terminal is near downtown, so select the ‘Buenos Aires city’ option if you’re coming or going to the port to catch a cruise.

– Transfer rates to and from Palomar, the newer local airport servicing budget airlines cost the same as transfers to and from Ezeiza to Buenos Aires.

-Reservations cannot be made less than 30 hours in advance of pickup. Administrative fees may apply for reservations that cannot be fulfilled because of too small a time window or due to missing or incorrect passenger information. Please be sure to provide your arrival date and the flight number of your final flight to Buenos Aires.

– Please let us know as soon as possible if your flight is delayed or canceled and we will be happy to change the pickup time. If your flight is delayed in the air, no problem — we always check the landing time before heading to the airport.

-We also take bitcoin at the day’s USD equivalent, get in touch on our contact form to request our barcode.

How our Ezieza or Aeroparque Airport Pickup Works

As soon as we receive your payment we will be in touch to confirm your pickup. Please check the email address you provided to Paypal, or make sure to send us a separate message with your email address if a different one is attached to your Paypal account.

We can also arrange pick-ups for groups larger than four people, get in touch with us via our contact form.

→ Also check out our Buenos Aires City Tours and Day trips

→ Also don’t miss out on seeing Tango Show & other Tango-related activities such as classes and a milonga visit

→ Read about why you should book accommodation online to save the 21% sales tax

→ Get a free quote for travel insurance

*Falamos português (y español, por supuesto) escreva-nos através do nosso formulário de contato ou reserve on-line agora

Soccer Tour — See a Game Live

Wander Argentina offers exciting, safe and affordable tours to Argentine soccer games.

Tour Includes:

– Transport and accompaniment to the game.
– Tickets to the game (even for games in which only ‘club members’ are normally provided access)
– Expert explanations: bilingual guides explain the ins and outs of the game, translate chants and provide insider details on players and clubs
– Accompanied return from the stadium

Terms of online booking:

– Specific game days and times are usually not decided until a few days before the game. If game time is not confirmed upon booking please be flexible.
– If for some reason you cannot attend the elected game, please inform us as soon as possible. We will work with you to arrange to see another game.
-Price is determined by the cost of the match tickets

Upcoming games

To inquire about upcoming games, check our list of upcoming soccer games and send us a message at the bottom of the page, or go ahead and contact us through our contact form.

Online Reservations: Victoria Hotel

Book the Victoria Hotel online!

One of San Telmo‘s most historic hotels and best-kept secrets is also one of the best bargains for budget travelers, with large private rooms starting at under US$15 per night.

When it was built at the turn of the 20th century, the Victoria Hotel was one of the tallest buildings in the neighborhood. Today, it retains its original interior with ceramic floors and breezy courtyards. The hotel welcomes guests from all over the world — book online today!

Room prices

With shared bathroom:

Single room -AR$ 250/night

Double room -AR$ 350/night

Triple room -AR$ 450/night

Quadruple room: AR$500/night

With private bathroom:

Single room -AR$ 350/night

Double room -AR$ 450/night

Double bed + single bed -AR$500/night

The Victoria fills up fast — please make your reservation one week in advance.

Terms of online booking

• Please make sure to indicate the date and time of arrival when you pay the deposit
• We will be in touch once we receive your payment
• After paying your small reservation fee via paypal, the cost of the room is due upon arrival
• Dates can only be changed for a later arrival date, with 48 hours notice please
• Reservation fee is non-refundable
• Room prices are in Argentine pesos. To see the price in another currency, please see our currency convertor

Reserve the Victoria Hotel Online

— For additional questions, please get in touch via our contact form

Where to Learn Spanish in Buenos Aires

If you’re going to spend anytime in Argentina it is a great opportunity to study Spanish. Even if you already speak Spanish, you may want to take a couple of classes to learn about the regional use of ‘vos,’ Argentinismos and a bit of Lunfardo, the unique slang used extensively throughout the country, and especially in and around Buenos Aires.

Learning Spanish in Buenos Aires: Public Schools

• Laboratorio de Idiomas, Universidad de Buenos Aires

The University of Buenos Aires Language Laboratory is an obvious option for very inexpensive and high-quality Spanish classes. Here you get a feeling for what its like to be a university student in Argentina — classes are excellent and the bar is set high, but inscription is a bit chaotic, the classrooms have paint falling off the walls, and it’s a miracle if the bathrooms have toilet paper. Students are not given the course material, but in charge of making their own photocopies of the study aids at a nearby copy shop.

Regular courses begin in March and August every year and have four hours of instruction per week for one semester. Their ‘super-intensive’ one-month courses, with 15 hours of instruction per week, are a little more expensive. The university can also provide a certificate confirming that you passed either the basic, intermediate or advance Spanish to provide for school or work.

For those with advanced Spanish they also offer excellent courses in Spanish for foreigners including, ‘Spanish through Cinema,’ ‘Literature of the Rio Plate,’ ‘Culture and Conversation’ and ‘Immigrants in Buenos Aires.’

Language Laboratory of La UBA
25 de Mayo 221
Microcentro
Tel: 4343 1196 / 4334-7512 / 4342-5922

• Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas ‘Juan Ramón Fernández’

Founded in 1904, the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas, commonly called ‘Lenguas Vivas’ is a school set in a beautiful historic building in the Retiro neighborhood. It functions as a secondary school and provides adult education.

They offer two-month courses with eight hours of instruction per week or four-month courses with four hours of instruction per week. These courses are great for those who speak well enough to get around, but want to keep improving at a steady pace. They also offer more advanced classes than the University of Buenos Aires, which only goes up to ‘level seven’ Spanish.

Their Spanish classes, taught by ex-University of Buenos Aires professors, tend to be slightly less expensive than the university. As with many state institutes, the professors are excellent but the administrative department is a disaster.

Lenguas Vivas
Carlos Pellegrini 1515
Retiro
Tel: 4322-3992 /96/ 98

— Learn Spanish Online! —

Private Schools

Private Spanish schools are a good option for those who don’t want to deal with the bureaucracy of a state school or whose schedules don’t fit with the classes offered at those institutes. Additionally, private schools tend to offer a smaller class size for more personalized instruction, extracurricular activities, and creature comforts such as nice chairs, classrooms with heat and air conditioning and beverages.

• Expanish

There are many private institutes in Buenos Aires. One of them, Expanish is one of Buenos Aires’ most successful and well-known private Spanish schools. The school is located downtown in an historic UNESCO World Heritage building.

Expanish offers an intensive Spanish course of 20 hours per week, an intensive Spanish Plus class, which combines group classes with one-on-one instruction for a total of 30 hours per week and tailor made one-on-one classes.

Other courses include Spanish & Tango and Business Spanish. Class size is small, with a maximum of nine students per class.

Additionally the school has a student lounge, a study room and library, free wifi throughout the building and is fully accessible for wheelchair users. Extra curricular activities include film screenings, city tours, workshops and group excursions. A big bonus is the rooftop terrace with awesome views and a cafeteria to get something to eat and hang out between classes.

The school can also arrange homestays with an Argentine family or a room in shared apartment as well as volunteer opportunities that will allow you to improve your language skills while helping out the community.

Expanish is accredited by The Association of Language Centers (SEA) and follows a curriculum set by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF).

Expanish Spanish School
Tte Gral Juan D Perón 700
Microcentro
Tel: 5252-3040
From abroad: 1-888-EXPANISH

→ Read our guide on how to learn Argentine Spanish online on Wander-Argentina.org

→ also see ‘How to Speak Spanish like an Argentina‘ on Wander-Argentina.org

Do you want your private Spanish school listed here? Get in touch to arrange a visit.

0800 Vino—Wine Delivery & Storage

* Editor’s note: This business has closed. Feel free to check out out our wine and food tours in Buenos Aires.

One great thing about Argentina is you can get virtually anything delivered to your home — including wine.

The company 0800-VINO provides a free wine home delivery service for purchases within most of Capital Federal, and by prior arrangement to Greater Buenos Aires and other provinces. For smaller deliveries, a small surcharge applies. Outside of regular delivery times, orders can be placed online or by calling the sommelier’s cell number, and deliveries arranged accordingly.

The 0800 wine cellar is generally closed to the public, except for tasting events, although purchases can be made there by prior arrangement. Serious connoisseurs can even hire space in the cellar to store premium wine. Film director and part-time resident of Buenos Aires, Francis Ford Coppola counts on owner, Nigel Tollerman as his personal sommelier in Argentina and also uses the cellar to store his local collection.

So how do Argentine wines rate on an international scale, and which ones should we buy?

“The Malbec is leading the way amongst the reds and the Torrontés as a distinctive, fresh, aromatic, and economically-priced white. Malbec is developing a deserved reputation as a concentrated, full-bodied wine with complex dark spicy fruit, interesting aging potential and ability to adapt to the diverse local terrains, and an excellent price-quality relation on the international market, particularly in the USA,” says Tollerman.

“The quality at the top-end continues to increase and compete with the best of the New World, and greater consistency is now being achieved across all price points. Apart from Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon (most notably from Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza), Bonarda and Pinot Noir (from Río Negro, Patagonia) are also gaining in prestige and market share,” he says.

And if you’re looking for a great bottle of wine for under $10, Tollerman says there are plenty of options.

“Personally I would go with the Amalaya from Colomé, the Hess Collection winery located in Salta Province, along with the adjacent Tacuil winery— it is the world´s highest, and is a pioneer in high-altitude biodynamic winemaking,” he says. “It´s a distinctive and complex blend of principally Malbec, plus some Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and Tannat.”

“Otherwise I might plump for one of the fruit-forward entry-level Malbecs or Bonardas made by Hector Durigutti — a real up-and-coming force in Argentine winemaking.”

–by Dan Colasimone

0800-VINO
Anchorena 695, (corner of Tucumán)
Abasto
Phone (Office): 4966 2500
Cell: 155 771 0259

• Credit Cards Accepted
• Regular Delivery times:

Monday : 10am to 1pm ; 4 to 6pm
Tuesday : 10am to 1pm ; 6 to 8pm
Wednesdays : 10am to 1pm ; 6 to 8pm
Thursday : 10am to 1pm ; 6 to 8pm
Friday : 10am to 1pm ; 6 to 8pm
Saturday : 10am to 1pm ; 7 to 8pm

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