Is La Boca a good place to stay?

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Sandra G

I wouldnÂ´t recommend La Boca as a place to stay, there are other nicer areas in Buenos Aires. I also know most tourists find La Boca as a tourist trap.
If budget is an issue, there are other neighborhoods, like Belgrano, Caballito, San Telmo, or some parts of Palermo, that are also affordable and nicer than La Boca.
IÂ´d suggest you keep searching for other locations if you can.

Buenos Aires Guide

La Boca, Buenos Aires -http://www.buenosairesstay.com

La Boca is found just south of San Telmo and Puerto Madero. It is a favourite of Buenos Airesâ€™ visitors famed for being picturesque with brightly coloured houses of wood and corrugated iron that are decorated with grotesque effigies of famous Argentines. The streets are alive with tango, street performers and more recently La Boca has become the cityâ€™s bohemia. This is a great neighbourhood for a day sightseeing, to learn some tango, buy great local art and craft and enjoy the street performers who range from the most chic and acrobatic tango dancers, to some of the strangest, wonderful and outlandish crazies to perform anywhere. There are some great photo opportunities and a visit to La Boca should not be missed. I tend to take visitors around 11h00 on a Saturday or Sunday and then off to San Telmo for a wander around the street market and antique shops, then on to Puerto Madero for a late lunch and an early evening walk along the diques (docks).
La Boca has an even greater claim to fame; La Bombonera (J.F Armando) Stadium, home to Boca Juniors, is located in La Boca and is one of the most successful teams in South America. This brings me to my last point on tourism, if you are a football fan do not leave Argentina without seeing a football match â€“ you will be held hostage by tides of pure emotion, and beaten back and forth by wretchedness and euphoria. Even â€˜football widowsâ€™ enjoy Argentine football matches.
La Boca is a very old part of the city where settlers from Paraguay and northern Argentina first founded a permanent settlement at the mouth (boca) of the Riachuelo River that flows into the Rio Del La Plate, which forms the eastern boundary of Buenos Aires City. La Boca was the first port of Buenos Aires and the population grew steadily in the XIX century from an inflow of immigrants from Italy.
We claim on this website to â€˜tell it like it isâ€™ - some parts of La Boca are not a place for unaccompanied female or elderly visitors late at night, although parts of La Boca are slowly gentrifying and it is a much safer places to live. We have lots of requests for apartments in La Boca that tend to be good-value-for-money and so La Boca, Buenos Aires is a new neighbourhood listed by Buenos Aires Stay.

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Stephen D

i dont recomend you to stay in La Boca, its a wonderfull place to visit, a tourist trap, but to stay look for other near places

san telmo, recoleta, belgrano ,palermo

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jumpin' jellybeans

So you can say La Boca is a bit of a tourist trap, but there's a whole community inside of it! Just the colors themselves are enough to draw you to them! There are genuine things to see there, and even if you decide not to stay there, you must be sure to visit it!

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