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Blast to the Past.

Are white-gloved butlers an extinct species?

Not at the Alvear Palace hotel, legendary crossroads in the swish Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoleta.

Sometimes travel is about more than the destination (though the exceptional city of B.A. is not called the Paris of the South for nothing). At the historic Alvear, do a bit of time travel—back to the opulence of the art deco era, the decadence of the belle époque. Afternoons, the city’s Ladies Who Lunch meet in the golden-hued Alvear lobby for tea and talk. Evenings, the city’s Movers and Shakers take over, rubbing elbows and trading gossip over snifters of Armagnac.

You’re invited.

Buenos Aires is a perfect start (or end) to any journey south—Argentina, Chile, even Antarctica. To ensure that you don’t miss the Alvear, R. Crusoe offers you a complimentary overnight including breakfast. Just book an itinerary of five nights or more by 31 December 2011 for travel any time in the future. Make it part of your Argentina journey, your Chile adventure, your voyage to Antarctica. Or wherever you set your sights south of the border.

Want more information? Call our South America expert, Jane Franklin, at 1-888-490-8019, or email her at jfranklin@rcrusoe.com.