Question for avrooster and others who might know,
I entered Argentina from Montevideo by Buquebus, I am flying to US from Ezeiza,
do I have the new $100+ fee coming out?
Hope not but I never trust bureocrats.....
Thank you.

No, you only pay arriving at EZE. If you entered at any other point you don't pay the reciprocity fee and it is not collected when you leave.

I flew into Santiago, paid the Chilean fee, and crossed into Argentina by bus to Mendoza. At the end of my trip, I flew home from Buenos Aires, and as Huentetu says, there was no fee when I left.

Thank you both. I feel better now.

Arrived in BA today, via AEP. No fee collected and I expect they won't look for any stamp when we depart. For what it is worth, AEP was a mess today. Packed with long lines even for immigration. The line for a remise was about 5-10 people deep and, with that, it was still about an hour for a remise to show up. We grabbed a taxi after a few minute wait, no problem.

Tengohambre, where did you fly from to end up at AEP?

We flew in from Montevideo. We arrived at AEP in late afternoon, early evening. It was a madhouse. Likely because it is the start of a holiday weekend but, still, it was quite a sight.

Also a lot of flights to/from neighbouring countries have been added to AEP by Aerolineas Argentinas recently. The number of aircraft using it has grown tremendously.

Hi Tengo hambre I agree with you the Eastern holiday makes everything crowded and looking like a mad house,
How was Montevideo, I was there two weeks ago and had a good time.

We were in Chile and Argentina in January. We paid the entry fee in Santiago, and when leaving Argentina I wondered about the departure tax and if it had been raised (it was). The previous time we were in Buenos Aires we paid cash before we checked in with our airline. This time it was included in our airline tickets. So you may or may not be paying a departure tax, but if you are it is prepaid in your airfare.

We liked Montevideo a lot, though we only had a short time to drive around. It was a beautiful day and many people were walking Las Ramblas and on the beach. We thought Montevideo felt a bit like a small Rio (way quieter) or a European city smack on the water. We had lunch at a simple place outside and it was fine. I wish we would have had time to visit Puerto del Mercado.

The new airport at MVD is very impressive. Small but great design. Bright and airy, easy to negotiate. Of note, there is a departure tax you must pay and, they don't permit you to board with any food, at all. Even closed chocolate bars and such. Maybe we got an awful security guy but he and others were throwing out all passengers' food left and right. To watch a couple of good Toblerone bars get thrown out was sad. I would have pursued the argument with someone more senior but we were already running for the plane.

BA was beautiful today. Great weather, streets relatively quiet with people gone for the long weekend. Yet, still, Palermo was packed.

Somebody had a hankering for Toblerone!

Hello, I feel that the guy in Montevideo throwing away the Toblerone is way out of reality. I cannot believe he was right. I shall check later inMontevideo and let people know.
Of course sometimes there is no way of challenging authority even if they might be wrong.
Regarding the airport it was designed by Ott an Uruguayan architect who also designed the modern Opera in Paris. He has become a Canadian citizen so most of the time he is quoted as a Canadian but I believe that he was not only born in Uruguay but also studied in Montevideo.
Uruguay tiny as it is, with a total population of only 3 millions has some good architects and artists like Torres Garcia the creator of the constructivist school of painting in the early 20 th century. Also Uruguay can be know for excelling in the past in soccer, having won two World Cups and two Gold Olympic Medals. However lately soccer seems to be in decadence.
In its time it was a first in South American for many social achievements like first in granting divorce, first in separating church from State, first in important children labor laws and so on, pity that somehow little by little let the State grow and grow and grow and we all know the consequences.

Graziella,
We were very impressed with Uruguay. The people, the land, the open spaces. The safety, generally. And, from what we have been told by friends in ARG, the banking system in Uruguay, and institutions generally, are substantially stronger than in ARG. Apparently, many people live elsewhere in South America and bank in Uruguay. Of note, we do find the food better here, in Argentina. The shopping and night life too.