We left Toronto on January 13th for Miami then on to Buenos Aires via American Airlines. Using a service at the Buenos Aires airport we obtained a taxi to take us to our hotel 725 Continental. The hotel is medium size, in the downtown area, near the walking street and the obelisk. We ate dinner in the hotel and the food was amazing. Excellent quality and reasonably priced. Our room rate included breakfast. We arranged a tour through the hotel for the next day to a Gaucho farm including lunch. The tour was excellent. The bus was air conditioned and we picked up people from various hotels. The next morning we went for a walk, got lost, asked for directions and made it back to our hotel safe and sound. That afternoon we took a half day tour which included a train ride and a boat ride. One of the people on a tour had her bag snatched while waiting outside her hotel for the tour bus. A young lady came up to her to ask for directions and when the woman was distracted her accomplice took her purse which included her passport and airplane ticket back to her home. On the 17th the hotel arranged for a taxi to take us to the ship. It was very hot in Buenos Aires. More about Buenos Aires: On the ship we talked to numerous people who had wallets, cameras, purses, back packs stolen or almost stolen. It appeared that the two most common ways was to distract by asking for directions or to squirt a liquid on people from the back and then offer to wipe the bird droppings off the people. Be aware.

Embarkation: We arrived at the ship shortly after 11 am, the embarkation started at 11:30 and we were on the ship and in our stateroom before 12 noon. Very fast and painless.

Stateroom: Our stateroom steward introduced himself and indicated that we should put our "Make up the room" sign in the door in the morning when we go to breakfast and in the evening when we go to dinner. The room was always clean and everything worked that was supposed to. We always had a supply of soap, shampoo and lotion in the basket and fresh towels. We had plenty of room for our stuff. Read more