Super Trip BA: discounts on accommodation and transportation for tourists visiting the City

08/04/2021 8:21 AM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 08/04/2021 8:21 AM

Hoteliers, restaurants and tourism service providers were used to receiving thousands of tourists in the City of Buenos Aires.

With the closing of the borders, foreigners no longer arrive in the country and the reality changed.

However, the Buenos Aires government, together with the private sector, launched

Super Viaje BA

, an initiative to attract Argentine travelers.

The program available on the website turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/SuperViaje aims to boost the industry through

122 discounts

- including hotels and means of transport - for national visitors.

“With this new initiative we seek to put the tourism sector on its feet and we want tourists to choose us to enjoy Buenos Aires.

Undoubtedly, it is the sector with the most potential for the City and with a

joint effort

we will be able to recover ”, stated Gonzalo Robredo, president of the Tourism Board of the City of Buenos Aires.

Hotels offer different benefits for tourists.

Photo Shutterstock.

Users can use filters on the web to find what they are looking for.

The hotels are divided by

categories

ranging

from 3 star 4, 5 to boutique accommodation.

They can also choose from the discount they prefer.

They range

from 10% to 50.

Other benefits are interest-free fees, 

family packages,

and a free night when two or more are booked.

In some cases the promotion is through a discount code.

Some of the hotels - today the maximum capacity in common areas is 50% - that joined this plan are NH, Howard Johnson Inn, Ker Urquiza, Intercontinental, among others.

NH Hotel Group hotels are part of the initiative.

Photo NH Hotel Group.

In the transport sector, those who arrive in the City of Buenos Aires by plane can access a

15% discount

at Flybondi.

The promotion is valid for every day, it is not cumulative and will be valid until October 1.

Companies

group

as Pullman General Belgrano, Sierras de Córdoba, Ñandú of the south, Cruise North, Almirante Brown, Urquiza, San Jose, Via Bariloche, Flecha Bus, Chevallier, among others also offer promotions for trips to the city.

In addition, the Kinto and Awto companies joined with offers for those who want to move through the streets of Buenos Aires by car.

Awto is an application to rent cars.

The objective is to encourage visits during the next long weekend, due to the holiday of Monday, August 16.

The proposal remains open for

more companies to join the program.

What to do

Tourists have a wide variety of outdoor activities or in closed spaces with sanitary protocols to avoid any type of contagion. 

The Tourism in Neighborhoods program has 10 open-air circuits.

You can download the guides (turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/es/turismo-en-barrios) of Belgrano, Villa Crespo, Colegiales, Chacarita, Barracas, Puerto Madero next to the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood and the Historic Quarter, among others.

Tourists visiting Puerto Madero.

Photo Germán Adrasti.

Artistic events are held at the Usina del Arte, the Recoleta Cultural Center and the 25 de Mayo Cultural Center.

Open air museums, cinemas, theaters, restaurants and shopping malls are open.

Tests

The City of Buenos Aires offers

free tests

to national tourists, both when entering and leaving.

It can be done by non-residents who stay at least one day and enter from more than 150 kilometers away or people who live in the City but re-enter after 72 hours.

They must be over 12 years old.

There are test centers with a shift which is obtained through the web and others without.

The results are reported between 12 and 24 hours through WhatsApp. 

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