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Live trip report begins in the beginning of this thread and continues (amid a fair amount of banter) until post #321 here.

Regular trip report begins here.



Other people's trip reports:

@chff: https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=101296.0

@Dan:
Original Post for the trip: https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/trip-notes/join-lifetime-kosher-catered-trip-antarctica/
Intro to trip: https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/trip-notes/follow-me-to-antarctica/
Part 1: https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/trip-notes/trip-notes-antarctica-part-1-buenos-airesplanning-positioning-adventure-lifetime/
Part 2: https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/trip-notes/antarctica-trip-notes-part-2-flying-end-world-southernmost-chanukah-party-ushuaia/
Part 3: https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/trip-notes/shabbat-shalom-southernmost-shabbos-earth/



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A Once-In-A-Lifetime Kosher Catered Trip To Antarctica!
A Once-In-A-Lifetime Kosher Catered Trip To Antarctica! FOMO support group

Antarctica Cruise Raffle
Antarctica Raffle #2, Fill Out This Form If You Would Like To Join A DDF Raffle!
New Antarctica Cruise Raffle! Win A Superior Cabin
Another Antarctica Raffle!

"First" in Antarctica?
Polar Zmanim On The Antarctic Cruise
Antarctica TR: the trip after Dan

Author Topic: Live Antarctica Trip Report  (Read 224766 times)

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #640 on: March 19, 2021, 11:47:21 AM »
Even less:
https://bluedollar.net/informal-rate/

Great bang for your buck in AR
The peso has been going very steadily downhill for the past few years

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #641 on: March 19, 2021, 11:59:21 AM »
Even less:
https://bluedollar.net/informal-rate/

Great bang for your buck in AR
Interesting that while the official ARS>USD rate has been going steadily upwards, the blue dollar rate has actually come down quite a bit.

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #642 on: March 19, 2021, 12:03:08 PM »
Interesting that while the official ARS>USD rate has been going steadily upwards, the blue dollar rate has actually come down quite a bit.
Blue dollar correlates with how hard the govt is currently making it to buy dollars.
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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #643 on: March 19, 2021, 12:15:38 PM »
Blue dollar correlates with how hard the govt is currently making it to buy dollars.
I thought the capital controls have remained the same for the past few years. I guess not?

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #644 on: August 08, 2021, 08:28:02 PM »
Nice, looks like this is the first trip report on DDF to hit 100k views ;D

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #645 on: August 08, 2021, 10:30:03 PM »
Nice, looks like this is the first trip report on DDF to hit 100k views ;D

https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?board=25.0;sort=views;desc
something fishy ;)

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #646 on: August 10, 2021, 12:33:41 PM »
Nice, looks like this is the first trip report on DDF to hit 100k views ;D

https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?board=25.0;sort=views;desc
Bots help bots. Duh.
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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #647 on: December 14, 2021, 04:30:21 PM »
Three years ago today!

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #648 on: January 18, 2022, 11:45:21 PM »
Check out his stories! In Antarctica with subarandco catering!
https://instagram.com/shelbysgottaeat?utm_medium=copy_link

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #649 on: January 19, 2022, 12:06:39 AM »
Check out his stories! In Antarctica with subarandco catering!
https://instagram.com/shelbysgottaeat?utm_medium=copy_link

I started following him on IG, seems like he went private NYC>LIM> Somewhere S Argentina, he's going with a group or something?

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #650 on: January 19, 2022, 01:02:07 AM »
I started following him on IG, seems like he went private NYC>LIM> Somewhere S Argentina, he's going with a group or something?

"Shleby's gotta eat"
I'm sure it's a group. A kosher caterer won't be there for 1 or 2 people!

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #651 on: January 19, 2022, 01:35:35 AM »
There is a group trip to Antarctica. Departed Monday. Returning before shabbos.

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #652 on: January 19, 2022, 01:54:41 AM »
There is a group trip to Antarctica. Departed Monday. Returning before shabbos.
They flew there? Was it advertised? Who organized?
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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #653 on: January 19, 2022, 03:11:41 AM »
They flew there? Was it advertised? Who organized?

Private group with friends, not advertised

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #654 on: January 19, 2022, 06:38:21 AM »
This is Scheiner, not a regular group.
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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #655 on: January 19, 2022, 09:01:06 AM »
This is Scheiner, not a regular group.
Yes

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #656 on: January 19, 2022, 09:53:53 AM »
This is Scheiner, not a regular group.
Translate for the OOTers please? Gevir taking friends on an outing?
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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #657 on: January 19, 2022, 09:58:21 AM »
Gevir taking friends on an outing?
Yes, Louis Scheiner -  he does multiple yearly exotic trips...

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #658 on: January 19, 2022, 10:14:37 AM »
Yes, Louis Scheiner -  he does multiple yearly exotic trips...
Cool. Would love to hear the logistics of flying to Antarctica if that's what they did.
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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #659 on: January 19, 2022, 11:00:53 AM »
Cool. Would love to hear the logistics of flying to Antarctica if that's what they did.
They took this yacht.

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