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Staying in Buenos Aires

During our online chat (most Mondays at 2 p.m.), you ask and we answer your travel questions -- mostly. Here's one we couldn't get to last week.

I'm planning to spend almost a week in Buenos Aires this fall and am thinking about renting an apartment for my stay. Can you recommend any reputable companies?

You can save a lot of pesos on short-term apartment rentals in Buenos Aires compared with typical hotel rates. The city's Web site, http://www.bue.gov.ar, has a searchable list of lodgings by type, but there are scant details; you'll have better luck using a commercial Web site such as Buenos Aires Travel Rent ( http://www.buenosairestravelrent.com), which has 85 pages (!) of apartment listings organized by neighborhood and price. A furnished studio apartment in the Palermo Soho neighborhood, for example, with two single beds, dining area, kitchen, bathroom and balcony, goes for $270 a week, plus a $35 administrative fee -- or about $44 a day.

-- K.C.S.