Crafting Argentina Experiences · One Journey at a Time
Crafting Argentina Experiences · One Journey at a Time
Most of the companies selling Argentina trips are not based in Argentina. Knowing which kind you are talking to changes what you can ask for, what it costs, and who picks up the phone when a flight is cancelled in El Calafate.
They are not better or worse than one another. They are built for different trips, and the difference shows up in the details you care about.
Offers Argentina alongside sixty other destinations and buys the ground services from a local operator. Departure dates are fixed and the price is closed well in advance. It fits when you want a set date and a set price and do not need the route moved.
Lists trips from many companies and passes your enquiry to one of them. Useful for seeing the range quickly. The company that answers you is still a third one, and the comparison fee comes out of the same trip price.
Holds the contracts with the hotels, the drivers and the guides. This is what we are. It fits when the route changes, and when something needs solving at seven in the morning in El Calafate.
A useful test: ask who signs the contract with your hotel. If the company selling you the trip cannot answer that, there is another company between you and whoever fixes the problem.
We are the receptive operator. In practice that means we are often the company the other two buy from, and it changes four concrete things about your trip.
Our own team in Argentina negotiates and holds the agreements with the hotels, the drivers and the guides on your itinerary. When a room, a transfer or a guide has to change, we change it ourselves rather than asking someone else to.
Every itinerary is quoted one by one, so dates, pace and hotel level are yours to set. After booking, the route can still be adjusted while the schedule allows it.
The same person follows your trip from the first quote to the last transfer, and a local WhatsApp line stays open while you are travelling. A problem in Patagonia at seven in the morning does not wait for an office in Europe to open.
Argentina Pura is a licensed travel company, CIF B67787275 · C.I.AN 297593-3, with its operations team based in Argentina. We answer every enquiry within 24 hours, and a person writes the answer.
Ask us the same six. They are the ones that separate two quotes that look identical on paper.
If the company selling the trip is not the one meeting you at the airport, there is an intermediary between you and whoever solves a problem. That is not automatically bad, but it is worth knowing before you book.
Argentina is long. Buenos Aires to El Calafate to Ushuaia moves the total noticeably, and two quotes are only comparable once you see that figure written down in both.
Ask for the alternative for that specific day, not the general policy. A real answer names the backup: the walkways instead of the boat, the other side of the falls, a swap of days inside the itinerary.
A cancelled flight at dawn in Patagonia needs someone reachable in Argentina, not a ticket queue that opens at nine in another hemisphere.
Insurance, meals not marked in the itinerary, tips and optional activities should be listed before you book, with amounts, not discovered afterwards.
With fixed departures, usually not. With a tailor-made itinerary, yes, and it is worth asking until when and at what cost.
Four country-wide routes we run ourselves, sorted by price. Each one is a starting point: the dates, the pace and the hotel level are set when we quote it for you.
From nine to sixteen days, sorted by price. Per day is a comparison aid, not how the trip is billed.
| Trip | Days | Route | Price from | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina: A Journey from North to South | 14 Day TripThe widest route for the money: Buenos Aires, the Mendoza wine country and the northwest, Salta and Jujuy, across fourteen days. | Days14 | RouteBuenos Aires · Mendoza · Salta · Jujuy | Price from2.259 € | Per day161 € |
| Buenos Aires & Argentina Highlights Tour | 16 Day TripThe longest here, and the only one that takes in Salta and the Bariloche lakes instead of the glaciers. | Days16 | RouteBuenos Aires · Bariloche · Salta · Cafayate | Price from2.441 € | Per day153 € |
| Argentina in 9 Days: Buenos Aires, El Calafate & Iguazú FallsNine days for the three headline stops, Buenos Aires, Iguazu and El Calafate, when your dates are tight. | Days9 | RouteBuenos Aires · El Calafate · Iguazú Falls | Price from2.885 € | Per day321 € |
| 11-Day Classic Argentina tripBuenos Aires, Iguazu, Mendoza and the El Calafate glaciers, with the cultural half built in, tango and a day on an estancia. | Days11 | RouteBuenos Aires · Iguazú · Mendoza · El Calafate | Price from3.276 € | Per day298 € |
Prices are per person, from, for the 2026 to 2027 season. Per day is a comparison aid, not how the trip is billed. Every itinerary is tailor-made and quoted individually.
Every quote we send lists this in writing, trip by trip. As a rule, this is how an Argentina package is built.
Hotels selected and checked by our team; private transfers between airports, hotels and excursions; excursions with English-speaking local guides; entrance fees to the national parks listed in your itinerary; daily breakfast and the meals marked day by day; a local WhatsApp support line for the whole trip.
International flights to and from Argentina; travel insurance; meals not marked in the itinerary; personal expenses and gratuities; optional activities, which we price in writing beforehand. Domestic flights between regions are quoted separately or included depending on the package, and your quote states which, with the amount. Argentina is a long country and these flights matter to the total, so we never leave them implied.
Argentina runs four thousand kilometres from north to south, so weather is always local. When a storm holds a boat in Patagonia or rain cuts a road in the northwest, we move that visit inside your itinerary and bring forward whatever works that day. Wherever the schedule allows, we rebook the highlight inside your trip at no extra cost.
Answer within 24 hours, from a person, not an autoresponder.
