Subway = Subte, Buenos Aires

As all tourist know the subway is the most quick way to go to any place, and in BA the cheapest too!!!
We got 5 diferent lines:
1)"A": from Plaza de mayo to Primera Junta (Caballito Neighborhood), this is the best because connect you with all the other 4 lines.
2)"B": From L.N Alem to F. Lacroze
3)"C": From Retiro to Constitucion
4)"D": From the downtown to Belgrano Neighborhood
5)"E": From Downtown to Flores
Neighborhood

The Cost: $ 0,70

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A lot of the sights, particularly in the centre, are within walking distance. However, to reach some barrios, especially the northern ones in the city, it's best using the buses or Subte.

The subte runs from 5.30 am to 10.30 pm and costs 1,10 ARP (January 2010). There are six lines and usually you can waiting up to 10 mins for a train.

It's worth riding on Line C for the nostalgic stations and wooden carriage trains (See photos)

Buenos Aires should have the oldest metro in South America. It looks if they still use these old wagons made of wood from 1913, at least on Linea A. These line is one of the 5 metro lines in Bs As (just read there is also a so called ‘premetro’). Four are going to/from the city centre to/from several suburbs and one is more or less connecting these four lines.

The ‘Subte’ is very cheap (1.10 pesos for one ride, doesn’t matter how long), fast and runs very frequent (every 4 or 5 minutes a new train will arrive). Tickets can be bought at a ticket office or a machine. It is possible to buy tickets ('subtepass') for 1, 2, 5, 10 or 30 journeys.
The train stations are well marked on the walls, so you will not get lost. Most of the main tourist sights can be reached by the ‘Subte’, eventually in combination with a taxi.

More information, frequencies, fares and a map of the lines on the (English/Spanish) website of Metrovias.

For about 30 cents, you can't go wrong! The subte is not only the cheapest form of entertainment, it's a pretty good way to get around. It may not be as connected as Paris, London, or NYC, but it can still get you where you want to go. Just leave extra time at rush hours.

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We had so much fun riding the Subte, although crowded and quite hot for lack of air conditioning, the Subte provided us with the best means of transportation in Buenos Aires from our hotel in Palermo to the surrounding areas. We did use the subte often. The stations are kept quite clean.

The price of a ride on the Subte is $1.10 pesos and you can interchange with the 5 lines. The subte is quite limited with few and far between stops.

The last trian to leave the beginning or end of the line leaves promptly at 11:00 pm, so make sure to have alternate means of transport. We didn't realize this the first night in Buenos Aires during our first visit and had to take a taxi back to the hotel.

Also note, they do no have or provide you with routing maps, so make sure to take a look at the few maps that are posted throughout the stations.

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It may not be not the most streamlined subway system in the world, but certainly the best way to get to many areas of the city, Buenos Aires metro system is cheap (a single fare covers the whole system), efficient and reliable. It's also well used and quite safe, though all the usual advice about pickpockets and bag dippers applies.

Most of the sights of the city are within walking distance of each other, one way or another, but unless you're very organized you're bound to find yourself wanting to get from Point A to Point D or P at some stage - the subte's probably the way to do it.

There are six main lines (A, B, C, D, E and H), all starting from downtown, a bit like the prongs of a fork, so you may have to come quite a way back along one line before you can move out along the "prong" youy need. The trains are fast though and they run every 4 or 5 minutes, so there's never long to wait.

Avoiding rush hour's best if possible - that's 7:30 and 9 in the morning, 6 and 7:30 at the end of the day.

The A line is a city attraction in its own right. The first metro line in Latin America it still has its original 1913 wooden cars and some beautiful tiled panels and decoration on the stations.

Taking the subte (subway) is a fast, cheap and reliable way of getting around and seeing Buenos Aires. Though many of the main city sights are within walking distance of the centre, there a couple of places for which you'll need to use public transport, and at 0.70 pesos a trip (as of Sep 2007), it´s hard to beat the subte for value. There are five subway lines in all, which is not very much for a city the size of Buenos Aires and which don´t cover Boca or much of Recoleta, for example.

Quickest way to travel through Buenos Aires is using the subway / subte and afterwards continuing either on foot or by taxi (flagging down of official radio taxis) to arrive at destination...

Traveling by bus is much more cheaper then by taxi if it is a large distance, but you can get easily lost if you do not have a special map of Buenos Aires with you with the bus connections.

There are many free taxis (and many taxi companies !) searching for clients on the streets, so if you are not in a residencial area you can have a taxi within a few seconds to minutes.

At night of course you might have to wait a little longer. Taxi drivers then esp. search for clients tired of waiting at busstops.