New York to Buenos Aires
How long did it take to travel from New York to Buenos Aires in the 1920s and 1930s, and what did it cost? In 1925: 21 days door to door, $419 in first class.
Passage computes it for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: pick two places and a date, and print the ticket the purser's clerk would have written.
The journey in 1925
- Getting to the port
- New York → Miami (by rail, about 36 h, estimate); Valparaíso → Buenos Aires (by rail, about 35 h 48, estimate)
- Embarkation
- Miami
- Sailing
- Saturday 14 March 1925
- Steamer
- S.S. Mayapan · Gulf & Antilles · Miami – Havana
- Calls
- Havana, Colón (Cristóbal), Callao, Valparaíso
- via
- the Panama Canal, Mollendo, Arica and Antofagasta
- the Panama Canal transit
- the Panama Canal transit, about 10 h
- Arrival
- Buenos Aires, Thursday 2 April 1925
- Door to door
- 21 days
- Fare · First Class
- $419
- Fare · Second Class
- $269
- Fare · Third Class
- $111
Transfer at Havana to the Isthmian Line Transfer at Valparaíso to the Andes & Pacific
The journey in 1933
- Getting to the port
- New York → Miami (by rail, about 36 h, estimate); Valparaíso → Buenos Aires (by rail, about 35 h 48, estimate)
- Embarkation
- Miami
- Sailing
- Monday 18 September 1933
- Steamer
- Havana · Pan-Pacific · Miami – Havana – Kingston – Colón (Cristóbal)
- Calls
- Havana, Kingston, Colón (Cristóbal), Callao, Valparaíso
- Night stops
- Kingston
- via
- the Panama Canal, Mollendo, Arica and Antofagasta
- the Panama Canal transit
- the Panama Canal transit, about 10 h
- Arrival
- Buenos Aires, Thursday 5 October 1933
- Door to door
- 19 days
- Fare · First Class
- $229
- Fare · Tourist Class
- $76
Transfer at Colón (Cristóbal) to the Isthmian Line Transfer at Valparaíso to the Andes & Pacific
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