"It took me eight hours to get there
," says a tourist at the entrance of a Pinamar building around noon.
This Tuesday the second fortnight of January started, traditionally the strongest in number of tourists and the routes were more than heavy.
January 16 is the day that tourists from the second half of January enter the hotels and rental apartments and, as usual, route 2 tends to get heavy to reach the beaches of the province of Buenos Aires.
The municipality of Pinamar expects to exceed the numbers of the first fortnight, which were around
92%
general occupancy on average, between hotel and rental spaces.
The occupation meant a decline of 4.8 percentage points compared to the same period in 2022, but 4.1 percentage points higher compared to the pre-pandemic.
In the particular case of this party, made up of Pinamar, Mar de Ostende, Ostende, Valeria del Mar and Cariló, the non-hotel beds far exceed the hotel beds.
There are 355,000 private houses and apartments without services, versus 25,000, including traditional hotels, inns, lodgings, apart-hotels, and serviced apartments.
"This phenomenon of high occupancy throughout the city and in all types of accommodation categories did not happen in previous years. This data indicates that we are receiving all types of public who choose different types of services or vacation rates" , indicated to
Clarín
the secretary of Tourism of Pinamar, Juan Ibarguren.
"Today the tourists were taking nine hours to arrive," he added and predicted: "We waited longer than in the first fortnight."
Norberto, 62, arrived with his family at Villa Gesell at 8 in the morning.
He knew it was going to be a difficult day, so he decided to leave at 3:30 in the morning.
"It was five hours, because the route was already quite heavy, but I have an acquaintance who left the capital at 5 in the morning, that is, barely an hour and a half later and it took him eight hours. Crazy," he says.
The most blocked places on Route 2, according to the tourist, were at the toll booth at kilometer 90 of Samborombón and when passing through Lezama.
Pinamar. special envoy
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