WARNING – Michaelangelo Tango show: My pseudo-Portena ego is smashed to smitherines!

Here’s what happened.

It was our last night in Buenos Aires and I thought we should just go for a Tango & dinnner show. Last year we went to Ventana (quite good) and then La Querinda (some good dancing, but really so touristy and money grubbing as to put us off – wish it had continued to keep us off!)

This year we saw street Tangos, an excellent dancing program in the Borges Ctr., and a complete show at Tortonni with good comedy and music and dancing. So, I thought, let’s get in one more…..and DH agreed.

Well, this past year in checking TA and other sources, I had decided that Michaelangelo Tango would be a good show for us – good food in a gorgeous setting and a well described show. So I checked their web-site and called them up. In English, I was given the hours, the prices, the choices etc. So I made a reservation for last night. Then the gent tald me the address was changed, as work was being done at the Balcarse, Michaelangelo address – just moved down to Independencia. So, OK.

We took a taxi there and it was Viejo Almacen. Still gullible and still vulnerable because it’s our last night, I didn’t think much about it. It was only after dinner that I realized that this Tango show had nothing to do with Michaelangelo (except apppropriating their phone number). And I knew the name from TA posts as a BAD SHOW! But too late now…And yes, it was terrible. AVOID THE VIEJO ALMACEN TANGO show. The dinner was OK, the 6 instrumentalists were good, but the rest---AWFUL!

And worst of all, my (ego) sense of having fared so well in BsAs, was bruised! DH was a dear – no recriminations, lots of watch checking, but really a terriffic sport.

Then to boot, on the way home, the Radio Taxi driver used a funny meter and it cost us too much – the only time this has happened this year; only a few pesos difference, but there goes my ‘travel savvy’ ego again.

Our last few days were spent just walking and feeling the city – and new nooks and crannies of Recoleta. One treat was the small, Casa Carlos Gordel in Abasto and the neighborhood around there and Once, as well as the Abasto Mall. Different pulse beat and style – if you have time, worth a visit.

Flyingh home this evening, so packing and organizing then being taken to an elegant lunch at the Alvear Palace Hotel with new Fodors friends. How lucky can you get?

Happy & Safe Travels, ~MarnieWDC

I read your post about your trip back, but there seems to be something missing here.

What about Friday, your last day in town? And who were those mysterious "new Fodors friends" you mention?

Anyone I know? LOL!!!

You are a wonderful host and a warm and interesting man, Alberto. I was only reluctant to mention names - but the lunch you hosted at the Alvear was elegant and delicious. There could have been no better way to spend our last day in Buenos Aires than to have met and visited with you and Dr. Dawggy. DH and I agree that it was an excellent treat, and a wonderful afternoon - we are so grateful.

~MarnieWDC

Marnie: who on earth is this guy Alberto? LOL!!!

avrooster: He is a dear friend. ~M

Oh, I gather you prefer to keep his real identity to yourself and DH Vince. Good for you! LOL!!!!

Avrooster taught me a new term today.

PITA.

I translated it to mean
PITA = Person is totally awsome.

Rastaguytoday means "awsome" as in "awesome". LOL!!!

Just kidding. He is an "awsome" PITA.

And to think that there's now a preview button back in the forum.

Marnie,

Loved your trip reports.

Yes - the PREVIEW button is BACK. Good for Fodors for being responsive to our plaintive cries. Now, If only I could get my spell check to work here...

We are soooo missing BsAs - already. (

~Marnie