The Best Way to Spend a Rainy Day in Buenos Aires

Whenever it rains, all most of us want is some comfort food, and when you’re in Buenos Aires, that takes the form of meat. The city is littered with delicious steakhouses, or parrillas, and you can duck into any one that you find and indulge in the tasty morsels of meat they have on offer. Make sure to get a taxi on the way home: you are definitely going to fill up and possibly get the meat sweats after your meal, and no one wants to be in the rain with the meat sweats.

The rain is also a great excuse to cancel everything and just stay in bed. Head to the nearest bakery, or panaderia, and grab some pastries, or facturas, to chomp away on as you Netflix and chill your rainy day away. One of the perks of being in Buenos Aires when it rains is that no one expects you to do anything, so spend your duvet day guilt free in the knowledge that everyone else is doing the same thing.

Just because it rains, it doesn’t mean that it’s cold. Heavy, tropical thunderstorms are common in summer after a few days of temperature increase, so the skies are likely to open to wash some of that humidity away. Wet and humid are definitely no conditions you want to be outside in, so take cover in the delicious air conditioned screening room of your closest cinema. Most foreign films (i.e. in English) are subtitled for locals, so you can probably catch a flick in the original language in most movie theatres.

Rainy days are the perfect time for some afternoon delight, and Buenos Aires is full of love hotels, where you can escape for an hour or three with your significant other and partake in some fun sexytimes until the rain dissipates. Look for the “playa privada” sign on the windowless buildings and you’ll know you’re in the right place. Most telos have parking lots so you can drive right in, keeping you out of the rain until you’re safely indoors.