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| Tigre, Argentina, Visa Run If you are approaching the 6-month limit on your visa and are considering going to Tigre to get your next visa, we just did that and here are some details.We used Cacciola Viajes, MVD to Carmelo to Tigre and back. The return fare for non-Uruguayans is $1729 ($1399 if you are retired or a minor). They have a package for one night, US$98 per person, double occupancy). There is no "foreigner" price for that package, so the room winds up costing about $23 (or you could think of it as getting the room at the regular rate and getting the return fare at the Uruguayan citizen rate). Anyway, it seems the package is a good deal. There is also a 2-night package for $145. There are 3 departures per day in each direction. From MVD: 1:30 AM, 9:45 AM, and 5:30 PM. Trip takes about 6 hours. From Tigre: 8::30 AM, 4:30 PM, and 9:15 PM. If there are lots of passengers, they will have additional buses. When we went there was the usual at 9:45 and an earlier one at 9:15. In Carmelo you board and exit the boat from the front, in Tigre you use the back.(In Tigre, the luggage gets unloaded before the passengers are allowed off.) Boat has food and drink, not too over-priced. Example: a pancho is about US$2.00. No veg. options. Smooth ride, didn't see any birds, though. Bathroom doors are stiff and you have to push hard. Sometimes people think the door is locked when it isn't. You go through Uruguayan immigration in Carmelo, Argentina immigration in Tigre. I read somewhere that both were in Carmelo (to save time?) but that is no longer the case. The ferry docks about 2 blocks from the hotel. (Posada de 1860 -not 1830 as seen on the Cacciola brochure). OK hotel, a combo hostel and hotel. Our room had a double bed and bunk beds in an adjoining room, private bath (lots of hot water) fans, gas heaters, TV, (no CNN!) but no A/C. The windows had screens! The fan over the double bed was noisy, so I turned the bunk bed room fan on high and used that instead. Worked out OK. Hotel also has a small library and a bunch of board games. D |
| "More info"
Take your passport when you buy the tickets, the agent will print up a set of entry/exit papers with your details so you don't have to fill them out at immigration.There is a "departure tax" of A$30 when you leave Argentina (but nobody collected it from us when we came back). |
| "visas"
I just got back from a week in Buenos Aires. When I left at the Buquebus terminal, an Uruguayan agent took the visa I was issued at Carrasco aeroport when I arrived early January and the Argentinian agent, seated next to her, gave me an Argentinian visa. On the way back, it was the same routine, more or less in reverse. No one charged me any money. By the way, for Buquebus, when booking on-line, if you mention that you're retired, you get a significant reduction in the price of passage on the direct ferry. |
| "Departure Tax"
The departure tax I mentioned is described on the Cacciola Viajes brochure (tasa de embarque de regreso) and there is a sign posted in Cacciola's Tigre terminal with the same info. I don't know if this is specific to the Tigre terminal or not. Anyway, we weren't charged it, either, so maybe it no longer exists and the paperwork hasn't changed yet. |
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