Post by Ella. Worth a mention. There is an extensive network of busses and subway here. Easily accessible with a Sube card. We haven’t purchased one yet because they are notoriously hard to find and Uber is ridiculously cheap and convenient. Okay call us lazy.
Uber is illegal here. But everyone uses them anyway. Even city taxi drivers will accept Uber calls and pick you up in their taxi. That happened to us twice yesterday in fact.
There is another app called Cabify that provides a service similar to Uber but is legal (the drivers all pay for the appropriate permits). To use Cabify here though, you have to have an Argentine cell number. I opted not to get a local sim (or eSIM) so I’ve still got my US number. Which is a whole other discussion.
Back to Uber. Average cost of a ride has been US$6.00. Equivalent rides in the US would be $40.00, maybe even $50.00.
Because of the whole cash situation (a pain to get local currency, see previous post on cash), it’s easier to use Uber, which is tied to a credit card, as opposed to a taxi where we’d have to use cash. But because so many Argentinians are struggling with the devaluation of the peso at the same time inflation is crazy, we always give a cash tip.