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Punta Del Este – Miami of South America
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Punta del este is the Miami of South America!
The New York Times has a nice write up of life among the moneyed class in PDE Uruguay. This is a GREAT city for New Year’s Eve – it has the fun of Miami but without the ridiculous prices. The Frugal Traveller write-up here is a good summary of life there.
Feeling at Home Among the Elite in Uruguay’s Punta del Este
Horacio Paone for The New York Times
By MATT GROSS
Published: January 7, 2007
PERCHED on a bar stool and sipping a $7 Negroni, I surveyed the casino of the Conrad Hotel in Punta del Este with keen but detached interest. The slot machines blinked and burbled like exotic birds, and at the blackjack and poker tables, neatly dressed men and women glanced at their cards with stony faces. A poster near the V.I.P. rooms advertised an Enrique Iglesias concert
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