Ralf, Marcello and the team are the best. Always on call, instant response, and everything is taken care of. If you are new to BsAs, it's good to have someone on your side that explain the ropes. Nothing is too much trouble for these guys.

The apartment is exactly as shown. Immaculate, modern, everything works exactly as expected.

The location is ideal if you are looking to mix metro travel with the crumbling beauty and easy class of Palermo soho. For us, a few blocks further from the metro and more towards the center of the neighborhood would have been better as we ended up taking taxis everywhere anyway. As in NYC, you lift your hand and one magically appears, anywhere in the city, at any time of day or night.

Do take advantage of the blue rate if you have euros or dollars and your vacation will be 30% cheaper. The exchange rate during our stay was 8.9 blue rate was over 15. Ridiculous! Bring cash. You will not get that rate from ATMs or credit cards.

If you are an NY, SF, or LA coffee snob... rejoice! Lattente, just a few blocks up on Thames makes a pour over or macchiato that rivals Blue Bottle or Intelligentsia. Coffee maestro Danilo is from Columbia and personally sources the beans from organic estates that are growing insanely high quality beans.

Make sure to do a dinner at the "closed door" restaurant Casa Felix. It's a top experience and laughably inexpensive for what you get on blue rate dollars. And if you get tired of fat, delicious steaks and malbec every night, just one block away, on Thames off the corner of Charcas is a gem with menus on blackboards called Las Piazzaras Bistro is very serious cuisine at BsAs prices.