Fodor's Argentina: with the Wine Country, Uruguay & Chilean Patagonia (Full-color Travel Guide) Paperback – February 10, 2015

Good book for planning a trip to Argentina. We bought this along with the Eyewitness book. The sample itineraries are helpful. We feel that travel agent assistance from a South America specialist is still required due to the complexities of travel within the country. These books provided the information we needed to decide where we wanted to go, and we'll let the agent figure out how we do it.

A useful book for pre-trip planning of where to go and what to see. Works well with doing internet searches.

Fodors is always a reliable, excellent guide to the places to which we travel. Their restaurant recommendations are especially good. If they recommend a place, it is good.

I am planing to take a trip to the Argentine Puna (altiplano). There is no useful coverage which is a surprise considering the number of tour companies there and the beauty of the land. It does cover the strip north of Jujuy that is heavily traveled. Catamarca is one of the three provinces where there is significant Puna and the word appears nowhere in the text just on one map, and the capital, also Catamarca, is a dynamic university town. They skipped the whole province, I haven’t looked to see if there are others. Lonely Planet does a better job but not a good one. The north is not visited as heavily as the south but there is a significant tourist infrastructure there. Tour guides seem to focus on Buenos Aires, Patagonia, and the south and go lightly over the north. It is probably true that their biggest market is Buenos Aires and southern Argentina so the north is not interesting to them and not worth a lot of pages. After all, Argentina is a big place and I guess you can’t cover it all. Again, this does not seem to be limited to Fodor. (I am still learning about guide books.) I can get most of what I need off the internet but I still would like one useful tour guide...but how many do i buy? By the way the content for NW Argentina seems out of date. I could try going to a real bookstore....Maps of northwestern Argentina seem to face similar issues. I have bought 6 country maps (Michelin is still on order) and 3 or 4 regional maps, and no two agree on road systems, and Google Maps has some errors as well. It is remote so some advance knowledge, and reasonably current knowledge, is very useful (as is a GPS) but the two guide books I have aren’t any help there.

We used this guidebook primarily for the Lakes District and Mendoza's wine country. For the most part, it lives up to the Fodor's standard of well illustrated, helpful big picture as well as finely detailed travel assistance. Unfortunately, I found most of its sections on towns in the Lake District unusually sparse (a typical major town would only have three hotels, two restaurants listed as recommended). In Mendoza, the book went a bit overboard about wine at the expense of the many other activities available. In particular, they omitted any real discussion about the use of day tour companies or hired cars for the myriad other activities like horseback riding, traveling to the Andean foothills, nature trekking. I was also disappointed that one of the hotels it recommended was grossly misdescribed and our trip suffered some speed bumps because of our use of that hotel for purposes based on its description (restaurant, proximity to local sites).There may not be a better option, but I would look forward to an updated description that really needs to be about 25% thicker.

Good guide, but due to unclear reason it doesn't cover Punta Arenas. It is mentioned as a starting point for different trips, but never described.

I got the book for my Kindle for our cruise from Santiago to Buenos Aires. Good read but when time for the trip arrived I was not able to print 4-5 pages of useful tips, rather than carting my Kindle around and reading it on the sidewalk. If you are not allowed to print a few pages from a travel book you purchased for the Kindle, why bother. As I said: A very good read, but not at all useful on the sidewalks. I should have purchased the hard copy!

Very helpful in preparing for and during our two week trip to Argentina!

Great information as one would expect from Fodor. Perfect guidance for journey planning.

We are still in 'planning mode' for a trip to South America and this has been very useful - originally I thought I'd bought too many books with the Lonely Planet Guide to Argentina as well, but it now seems like we will be spending more time in Uruguay and there are some interesting suggestions in this book!

Informative and very helpful.

Good price for a good guide.