Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay - Day Trip From Buenos Aires, Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay

For anyone planning a trip to Buenos Aires, I can’t recommend a day trip to Colonia del Sacramento enough! It’s very easy to get to (only an hour ferry ride away). And the Barrio Histórico (historic quarter) section of Colonia del Sacramento is a designated World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It is SO beautiful and relaxing. You can even rent golf carts and sand buggies to scoot around the city with. It’s a really unique, laid back place to visit.

For this post, I’ll break down how exactly to get to Colonia del Sacramento from Buenos Aires, a few points of interest and what I would do differently if I could go back. Enjoy!

So, this is going to be Colonia’s only downfall. Getting ferry tickets is a really frustrating experience if you’re trying to book in advance online. We visited Colonia del Sacramento on an Argentine holiday and tickets were selling out fast. So, I made sure to book my tickets before we left for our trip. Generally, though, it would not be necessary to book in advance online. You could buy tickets at any of the ferry offices in Buenos Aires.

All of those websites are absolutely terrible. You’re seriously going to want to smash your computer by the time you’re done trying to buy these ferry tickets! Buguebus was probably the least terrible website, but they were sold out of tickets for the times I wanted. So, the winner ended up being Seacat Colonia for me. (I could not get Colonia Express to work to save my life.) Seacat Colonia’s website is entirely in Spanish, though - FYI. And it also took me 3 tries of entering in all of my information before the website accepted it. Patience is key when getting your ferry tickets! ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).