My advice: Don't Use Argentina Currency
We are on a DIY Patagonia trip in Chile and Argentina. We have been in Argentina for 2 days now, presently in El Chalten, an Argentina tourist town by the famous Fitz Roy peak.
This evening, we went out to a wonderful dinner (langastino starter, steak, trout, malbec wine, bottled water, chocolate mouse). The total bill was 76500 pesos.
At the "official" exchange rate, our dinner bill would be $93.88 USD.
The restaurant, and just about every business in El Chal
I also don't understand why they care. But several of the tour operators we used on a recent cruise said they wanted cash in US dollars and they had to be very clean with no marks on them. So before the cruise we spent 15 minutes with our very patient bank teller getting the exact denominations of bills we needed, since the tour operators can't give change, and trading back and forth bills to get clean looking ones. No tour operator or merchant on our trip to Chile, Argentina, or Uruguay refu