Paris to Buenos Aires
How long did it take to travel from Paris to Buenos Aires in the 1920s and 1930s, and what did it cost? In 1925: 19 days door to door, 11 200 fr. 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
- Paris → Le Havre (by rail, about 3 h, estimate)
- Embarkation
- Le Havre
- Sailing
- Saturday 14 March 1925
- Steamer
- S/S Ville de Nantes · Franco-Platine · Le Havre – Rio de Janeiro – Buenos Aires
- Calls
- Rio de Janeiro
- via
- Lisbonne
- Arrival
- Buenos Aires, Wednesday 1 April 1925
- Door to door
- 19 days
- Fare · First Class
- 11 200 fr.
- Fare · Second Class
- 7 300 fr.
- Fare · Third Class
- 3 600 fr.
The journey in 1933
- Getting to the port
- Paris → Le Havre (by rail, about 3 h, estimate)
- Embarkation
- Le Havre
- Sailing
- Saturday 16 September 1933
- Steamer
- S/S Ville de Nantes · Franco-Platine · Le Havre – Rio de Janeiro – Buenos Aires
- Calls
- Rio de Janeiro
- via
- Lisbonne
- Arrival
- Buenos Aires, Wednesday 4 October 1933
- Door to door
- 19 days
- Fare · First Class
- 9 250 fr.
- Fare · Second Class
- 6 000 fr.
- Fare · Third Class
- 2 950 fr.
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