Safety tips for tourist visiting Buenos Aires.                      

Buenos Aires is a relatively safe city. General safety recommendations, are the same for in every big city: do not walk on parks at night, or less crowded streets and avenues, do not exhibit valuable objects when you are walking along the street, avoid to show that you are carrying foreign money. Bringing money in your front pockets is always a good advice, wherever you travel to.

But there are two issues that you should specially take in mind:

1) When you arrive to Ezeiza International Airport, do not take any taxi, or rented car offered by a single person at loud voice. There are official counters where you can hire safe transfers from Ezeiza Airport to Buenos Aires City. The most traditional company is Manuel Tienda Leon (www.tiendaleon.com.ar). You can take a transfer(car with chauffer) for 46  argentine pesos (U$S 16 aprox). You can also buy this transfer in advance in the website. This is a fix rate, and it will take you directly to your hotel. Tienda Leon also offers buses and vans that leave you in Plaza San Martín.

2) The other recommendation is, always take Radio Taxis (they have a logo on the top of the cab). When you are in the hotel you can ask in the reception to call a Radio Taxi for you. Do not take plain cabs (without radio), radio taxis cost the same, are safer, and there are a lot of radio taxis companies offering this service. In the streets you can take also radio taxis without calling them.

Do not miss advice 1) don't take taxis, or remises offered by people in the Airport. There are not safe, there is like a Taxi Mafia in the airport specialized in cheating tourists and giving unsolicited tours to travelers (whether they are or not locals).