Getting There...

The start of the trip was very interesting. Upon reading many reviews on our airline - Airlineas Argentina- during our last week of work before our trip, we were struggling to find a review which had something good to say about them - No individual entertainment units, cold food, no air conditioning, having to serve yourself drinks, delays etc.. Lets just say weren´t expecting a easy trip for the 14 hour trip from Sydney to Buenos Aires in Argentina via a short stop over in Auckland.

The 3 of us (Matt, George and me) met at the check-in gate at 10am on 22nd Feb about 2 hours before boarding, and even before checking in, we were approached by a worker of the airline asking if we wanted to delay our flight 24 hours and fly with Qantas, or even to delay it 48hours and fly business class on the Sunday.. Now we didn’t know this at the time, but apparently on the previous day, the same flight as us had an engine failure, and had to turn back nearly halfway to South America. Needless to say, it was tempting to get put up in a hotel, and travel in class to South America.. But we thought South America trumped it..


After a hour and a half delay in Auckland, we started thinking it might have been a good choice to change the flights, but we didn’t really find the flight too bad. Yeah it was a little squashy, food was hospital standard, and no entertainment. But i suppose you get that for going for the cheapest flights over there..

We arrived at Buenos Aires international around 4.30pm local time on the Fri. Tired from the trip, but then the feeling that we had actually were in Argentina started to hit us! Walking out of the airport we got approached by the usual tourist cabbies with inflated prices. We eventually arrived at our hostel in the heart of the city. A month of who knows what has begun!