Tailor-Made Argentina Tours

There is no fixed price, because there is no fixed trip. What moves the budget is the season you travel in, how many days you stay, the category of hotels and lodges, whether you want private guides throughout, and how many domestic flights the route needs — Argentina is a big country, and internal flights are often the difference between a relaxed itinerary and a rushed one.

We quote every trip from scratch and itemise it, so you can see what each decision costs and move things around before you commit. The quote is free and carries no obligation. If you want an order of magnitude first, our guide to what a trip to Patagonia costs breaks down the main items.

Seven days is enough for one region done properly: Southern Patagonia, or Mendoza and the wine country, or the Northwest. Ten to twelve days lets you combine two regions without living in airports — the usual pairings are Buenos Aires with Patagonia, or Buenos Aires with Iguazú and Mendoza. From fourteen days the country stops feeling rushed and you can add Península Valdés, Iberá or a crossing into Chile.

Under five days we would rather talk you into a single destination than sell you a route you will spend flying. Sample routes by length: one week, ten days, two weeks.

It depends on the region, which is exactly why a tailor-made route can follow the seasons instead of fighting them. Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego are at their best from November to March, with October and April as quieter shoulder months. Antarctic voyages sail from Ushuaia between November and March. Mendoza is good from September to April, with the grape harvest around February and March. The Northwest — Salta and Jujuy — works almost all year, and is driest from April to November. Iguazú is open year-round and hottest from December to February. At Península Valdés southern right whales are present roughly from June to December, and the Punta Tombo penguin colony from September to April.

More detail in our guide to the best time to visit Patagonia.

Almost every itinerary starts in Buenos Aires, and most of the country is a flight away from it: roughly three hours to El Calafate or Ushuaia, an hour and three quarters to Iguazú, two hours to Salta or Mendoza. Driving those distances is possible but it eats days you would rather spend somewhere.

We book the domestic flights as part of the trip and build the route so the connections work, including the ones that only run on certain days. Where the road is the point — the Salta valleys, the Seven Lakes, the Uco Valley — we put you in a car or with a driver-guide instead. Background reading: how to get to Patagonia.

Tailor-made trips are private by default: your dates, your pace, your own guide and vehicle, and an itinerary nobody else is on. If you would rather travel with others, we also run small group departures, which confirm from six travellers.

Some things are shared by nature — the boat to the Perito Moreno glacier face, the Antarctic ship, a winery lunch — and we say so in the proposal rather than letting you discover it on the day.

You tell us the outline: rough dates, how long you have, who is travelling and what you do not want to miss. A specialist who has been on the ground builds a route around that and sends you a written proposal with a day-by-day itinerary, the actual hotels by name, what is included and an itemised price.

Then we rework it. Most trips go through two or three versions before they are right, and that is normal — the point of a tailor-made trip is that the second version exists. There is no automated builder behind this: a person reads what you wrote and answers it.

A deposit confirms the reservation and the balance is paid before you travel. The exact amounts and dates are stated in your written quote and set out in our terms and conditions, which are worth reading before you pay anything.

You can pay by card or by bank transfer. Argentina Pura S.L. is a Spanish-registered company, so your booking sits under Spanish and EU consumer law and the transfer goes to a Spanish account.

Yes, and most longer trips do. The crossings that work without wasting a day are El Calafate to Torres del Paine, Bariloche to the Chilean lake district, Buenos Aires to Colonia and Montevideo by ferry, and Iguazú from both the Argentine and Brazilian sides. Antarctica sails from Ushuaia between November and March and pairs naturally with a few days in Patagonia beforehand — see Antarctica cruises.

Broadly yes, with the ordinary caution any large country asks for. Patagonia, the Northwest and the wine country are calm and rural; in Buenos Aires the sensible precautions are the ones you would take in any big city, mostly around bags, phones and where you change money. Travelling with a local operator removes most of the friction — transfers are arranged, guides are known to us and there is somebody to call.

We go into it properly in our guide to travelling safely in Patagonia.