Karin Jensen - Group Tour, United States
Thanks tremendously for your work on our tour. It was an amazing experience, and I am so grateful for what you did for me and my students. This was a bucket list adventure, and I received positive feedback from the others as well.
Here is what we especially enjoyed:
1) Everyone agreed that getting to dance with professional local dancers was a beautiful experience that aided our learning greatly.
2) Diego Alvaro was an excellent teacher who did well in quickly evaluating our level and tailoring lessons for what we needed.
3) Of the outings, the Pampas Ranch visit was a favorite. The food, folk dance performance, horse back riding and carriage ride were all a refreshing counterpoint to the urban experience of Buenos Aires.
4) The variety of milongas was wonderful. It was a treat seeing the different clubs, how the locals dance, getting to dance with some locals ourselves, and having professional partners to accompany us.
5) The hotel was well situated and comfortable with an excellent breakfast buffet. We enjoyed the nearby park, cafes, and art fair. Wow, the view from my room was fantastic. Thank you!!
6) The tango dance show on the first evening was inspirational, a very good way to kick off the week.
7) The cheese and wine tasting was relaxing, delicious, and elegant.
8) The boat ride near Tigre was pleasant.
9) The free time was about right. There was time for us to explore a little on our own, but also to rest before the milongas.
10) Cynthia showed good care in ensuring our safety and smooth transitions. Yoon was also a good guide. We appreciated her taking candid photos of the group and air dropping them into my phone, so that I could share them with the group.
Again, thanks for your work. It was a great experience. I attach a photo of Sven and me in front of the Obelisco Tango Club. :)
Karin Jensen, Alameda, California
Karin Jensen - Group Tour, United States
Paula Kamenish from Wilmington, USA
When I needed a month-long rental in Buenos Aires for my work, a friend recommended Argentinatango.com to me. At first I was skeptical: an online service? But I wrote to the director and he kindly and efficiently found me a perfect rental in a wonderful neighborhood. He also arranged for me to have a very professional driver and was always nearby with good advice about the city. As a result, I really did feel like I HAD A FRIEND IN BUENOS AIRES. In my spare time, I availed myself of the tango lessons that Argentinatango.com was able to set up for me, and the teachers were of excellent quality and lovely to work with. Overall, I was impressed with the professionalism, personal attention, and reliability of the service provided by Argentinatango.com. I will use Argentinatango.com again while I continue to recommend their services to other travelers.
Paula Kamenish from Wilmington, USA
Catherine Larose from Montreal, Canada
I thoroughly enjoyed my Argentina Tango experience. What I liked best was that everything was looked after for me. I didn’t have to think or worry about anything. All I had to do was show up. You have a wonderful group of people working for you from the guides to the instructors – they were all terrific and very professional. I would do it again…
Kind regards,
Catherine
Catherine Larose from Montreal, Canada
Marko Pekkarinen from Melbourne, Australia
Our Argentina Tango Tour was great! Our hotel was beautiful and conveniently located in the centre of the city. The lessons were very high standard, we all learnt a lot. And we really appreciated the pick up service to and from all the milongas, and the guides/partners were very courteous and helpful. We bought heaps of shoes (especially my wife!), in styles that we just can't find here in Australia.
All in all a very memorable trip, and we are planning on coming again soon.
Cheers,
Marko Pekkarinen
Social Dancing Australia
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Marko Pekkarinen from Melbourne, Australia
Claire Weyland from Luxembourg, Luxembourg
I have just returned from a five-week stay in Buenos Aires and would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Argentina Tango for ensuring I had the time of my life. I stumbled across their website pretty much by accident when contemplating going to the New Zealand Tango Festival earlier this year. While browsing the site I started giving serious thought to signing up for an intensive one-month tango course and so fired off an email with a whole load of questions. I received a prompt reply from Carlos, who was very helpful and more than happy to elaborate on what would be involved. More than anything, he gave me the reassurance that my absolute beginner status would not be a hurdle and that learning the tango in one month could be done! Payment was straighforward and carried out online and we stayed in touch throughout the months prior to my arrival. I was picked up from the airport by Cynthia, who went through my entire schedule with me and gave me an insight on what to expect at the milongas. I was put up in a great apartment in the heart of Palermo, a perfect location, with easy access to the Subte, shops, restaurants, cafés and beautiful parks. My lessons started immediately the day after my arrival and were structured in two daily blocks of two hours with plenty of time in between to allow for other activities or simply to rest my feet. Throughout the course, I had a variety of teachers, each designed to come in at different stages of my progress. Carlos kept a watchful eye on this and regularly danced with me to get a feel for how I was doing. He also contacted my teachers to receive their comments and feedback. All my teachers were very inspiring and I thoroughly enjoyed working with each and every one of them. The lessons were very challenging and rather reminded me of being back at school sometimes, but my enthusiasm never waned, thanks largely to the constant encouragement and good humour of my teachers. I really enjoyed the one-on-one setting of the lessons as it allowed us to go into a lot of detail and enabled me to understand the more technical side of the dance. I started going to milongas after only a couple of days of lessons and while I did have my moments of succumbing to stage fright and feeling as elegant as an elephant, this improved over the course of my stay, as did my dancing and my self-confidence. I met many great people in the milongas and have every intention of returning to Buenos Aires. Tango has become part of my life now and I cannot imagine being without it. I was very sad to leave Buenos Aires and to have to face reality once again. I was accompanied back to the airport, with Carlos making sure I went through passport control (just in case I changed my mind!) and boarded my plane to its rightful destination. I had the most incredible five weeks, the tango was all I had hoped it to be, and more. It was an experience I will not forget and one that I would highly recommend to anyone contemplating something similar. Tango Argentina went out of their way to make my stay enjoyable and special, exceeding all my expectations. Therefore a big thank you from one very happy tango dancer.
Claire Weyland from Luxembourg, Luxembourg