Buenos Aires dines at ten and dances past two. Plan your days around the nights.
Which tango hall is worth the dinner add-on. What a La Boca walk costs before the crowds arrive. Whether Tigre or Colonia earns the spare day. Reviews of the tours you can book in Buenos Aires, with the price beside every one.
Four ways into the city
1Your first morning hereLa Boca Guided Walking Tour in EnglishCaminito’s painted tin houses and the port story behind them, on foot.from $13
2Among the vaultsLa Recoleta Cemetery Guided Tour in EnglishEvita’s family vault and the marble lanes of Recoleta, explained.from $13
3After tenPiazzolla Tango Show with Optional DinnerPiazzolla’s tango in the Galería Güemes theatre, dinner optional.from $48
4Gaucho countryGaucho and Ranch Day TourHorses, an asado and gaucho skills on a ranch in the pampas.from $168
A tango night in Buenos Aires: the show, the dinner, or the dance floor.
Every big hall in the city sells the same choice. Watch from the stalls, book the three-course dinner before the curtain, or take the class that runs first. What each version costs, and the hall that does it best.
Buenos Aires has forty-eight barrios. Start with these six.
The port quarter where tango grew up, the Sunday antiques fair, a cemetery laid out like a town, the cafés under the plane trees, and two escapes across the water.
What Buenos Aires visitors book first.
Every Buenos Aires tour →The bookings that fill a first week in the capital: the open-top bus, the big tango halls, and the two-hour barrio walks that cost less than lunch.
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Buenos Aires Hop-On Hop-Off Bus, Free Walking Tours & Discounts
Ride Gray Line Argentina’s open-top, air-conditioned double-decker around Buenos Aires, from San Telmo and La Boca to Recoleta and the Planetarium. Choose a 1-, 2-, or 3-day pass, use the multilingual audio guide, and add optional walking tours or discounts at selected venues. The full circuit takes about three hours, though traffic and stop changes can affect your plans.
From · $39
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Piazzolla Tango Show with Optional Dinner
from $48
3
City Highlights Guided Tour with Transfer
from $38
4
Hop-On Hop-Off City Bus Tour
from $35
5
Buenos Aires Hop-On Hop-Off Bus and Exclusive Benefits
from $35
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La Boca Guided Walking Tour in English
from $13
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La Recoleta Cemetery Guided Tour in English
from $13
8
Tango Show at Tango Porteño & Optional Dinner
from $40
Bus, bike or on foot: three speeds for the Buenos Aires grid.
The city is flat, wide and laid out on long avenues. An open-top bus covers the distance, a bike covers the parks and the riverside, and a walking guide covers everything a bus drives straight past.
- 1Buenos Aires Hop-On Hop-Off Bus, Free Walking Tours & Discountsfrom $39
- 2City Highlights Guided Tour with Transferfrom $38
- 3Hop-On Hop-Off City Bus Tourfrom $35
Tigre, where the Paraná breaks into river islands an hour north.
Varnished wooden launches, stilt houses with their own jetties, the Puerto de Frutos market on the quay. Go by train and boat, or stay on the water the whole way up from Puerto Madero.
Asado, empanadas, Malbec: how Buenos Aires eats.
Beef cooked slowly over wood embers, empanadas folded by hand, mate passed round a circle and a wine list longer than the menu. Book the grill, the class, or a long tasting walk.
Every food and wine experience →
Three things you only find in Buenos Aires.
Every capital has a cathedral and an old quarter. Not every capital lays its presidents to rest in a marble town, packs a stadium so steep it shakes, or shares one gourd of tea around a circle of strangers.
Recoleta Cemetery
Opened in 1822 on the garden of a Recollect monastery, the cemetery is a grid of family vaults in marble and bronze, with its own avenues, plazas and resident cats. Eva Perón lies in the Duarte family vault, easy to walk past without a guide. Go in the morning, before the heat settles between the walls.
- 1La Recoleta Cemetery Guided Tour in English★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 1,359 reviews
- 2Buenos Aires Bike Tour: North Districts, Recoleta and Palermo★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 91 reviews
- 3Recoleta Cemetery – Small Group Tour of History & Secrets★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 53 reviews
La Bombonera
Boca Juniors play in a stadium squeezed onto one city block in La Boca, its stands stacked so steeply that the ground is said to tremble when the crowd jumps. The museum and pitch-side tour runs on non-match days; for a game, home tickets go to club members first, so visitors come in through a package.
- 1Tickets to Boca Juniors Museum & Stadium★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 581 reviews
- 2Soccer Match in Buenos Aires with Transfers and Local Guide★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 103 reviews
- 3Boca Juniors and River Plate Football Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 · 82 reviews
Mate
Yerba mate is drunk through a metal straw from a gourd that one person, the cebador, refills with hot water and hands to each person in turn. You drink it all, hand it back, and wait for the next round. Saying gracias means you are done. A tasting explains the brews, the gourds and the manners nobody writes down.
- 1Group tango class with mate and snacks★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · 44 reviews
- 2Small Group Tasting to Become a Mate Expert in Buenos Aires★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 35 reviews
- 3Mate & paint experience with pastry tasting★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 19 reviews
What a day out in Buenos Aires costs.
Every tour on the site, split by price. The guided barrio walks stay among the cheapest things to book in the city.
Barrio walks, bike rides, short launches on the delta and the show-only tango tickets.
Tango with dinner, asado nights, food walks and the Tigre days with lunch on board.
Private guides, gaucho ranch days, Colonia by ferry and the flights north to Iguazú.
- 1Gaucho and Ranch Day Tourfrom $168
- 2Gaucho Day Trip from Buenos Aires: Santa Susana Ranchfrom $313
- 3Wine Tasting and Lunch at Bodega Gamboafrom $169
Four Buenos Aires bookings that will not wait for you to land.
Most of the city can be arranged the same morning. These four run on rehearsal schedules, match calendars, ferry sailings and flights north.
- 01Teatro Colon Guided TourGuided visits run to a fixed timetable around rehearsals and performances, and the English-language slots fill first.
- 02Tickets to Soccer MatchesHome tickets at Boca and River go to club members first. Visitors get in through ticket-and-transfer packages, which sell out on derby weeks.
- 03Colonia Premium Day Tour From Buenos AiresColonia is in Uruguay. The day runs on the ferry company’s sailing times, and you need your passport at the terminal.
- 043-Day Iguazu Falls Tour with Optional Airfare from Buenos AiresThe falls sit on the Brazilian border, nearly two hours north by air. Trips bundle the flight and the park, and the cheaper seats go early.
Buenos Aires runs late: dinner at ten, the milonga after midnight.
Restaurants sit half empty until half past nine, tango shows start after dinner, and the dance halls warm up long after midnight. Plan the day backwards from the night: book the late things first, then give the morning to a slow walk.
Plaza de Mayo to the delta: the run most first visits follow.
Plaza de Mayo
San Telmo
La Boca
Recoleta
Palermo
TigreBy barrio, and across the water
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