General Reports

[Artisttyp]

If you're booking the Ticuan online through their website, tax is included in the price.

Yeah Ticuan won't charge it and Pueblo Amigo offered me tax free in person today. Grand Hotel DOES charge you the tax. I would be interested in knowing all the hotels that don't charge it.

[Fmojo]

Looking into doing monthly stays at a nice hotel at some point. Tax for something like the Grand Hotel was like $425 US. I don't think the Ticuan quoted me any tax on top of the daily rates. Could this be correct? Do some hotels not charge a hotel tax to foreign visitors?

Anyone with experience? Knock the tax off the price and it might work but an extra $425 on top of it is brutal.

Thanks.

If you're booking the Ticuan online through their website, tax is included in the price.

[StRobert]

https://www.yahoo.com/now/mexico-tig...014937450.html

Will Grant. Mexico and Central America Correspondent.

Sat, January 14,2023 at 5:49 PM PST1 min read.

Mexico has brought into force one of the world's strictest anti-tobacco laws by enacting a total ban on smoking in public places.

The step, which was first approved in 2021, also includes a ban on tobacco advertising.

Several other Latin American countries have also passed legislation to create smoke-free public spaces.

However, Mexico's legislation is considered to be the most robust and wide-ranging in the Americas.

It amounts to one of the most stringent anti-smoking laws in the world. Mexico's existing 2008 law. Which created smoke-free spaces in bars, restaurants and workplaces. Is now extended to an outright ban in all public spaces. That includes parks, beaches, hotels, offices and restaurants.

There will also be a total ban on the advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products, meaning that cigarettes cannot even be on show inside shops.

Vapes and e-cigarettes are also subject to tighter new restrictions, particularly indoors.

The Pan American Health Organisation has welcomed the step and applauded the Mexican government for implementing the ban.

The organisation says that tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death in the world, responsible for nearly a million deaths in the Americas each year, either through direct consumption or exposure to second-hand smoke.

However, some smokers are dismayed at the draconian nature of the new law.

In essence, it means that many will only be allowed to smoke in their homes or other private residences.

Others have raised questions about the practicalities of enforcing the law.

With police corruption so rampant in Mexico, many fear that rather than issuing real fines or punishments for smoking in public, some officers will use it as a pretext for taking bribes. - (So it looks like you can't smoke cigarettes in Hong Kong and Adelitas from today.)

[StRobert]

Orthogonal to our main discussion, but does anyone have an opinion as to the best places to get cigs in Tijuana? Bought a carton at Oxxo on the way out last time, worked out about $35 for Marlboros.

You can buy cartons of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages at the "Tijuana Duty Free" store right at the entrance to the US pedeast (pedestrian border crossing).

[Dogers69]

Looking into doing monthly stays at a nice hotel at some point. Tax for something like the Grand Hotel was like $425 US. I don't think the Ticuan quoted me any tax on top of the daily rates. Could this be correct? Do some hotels not charge a hotel tax to foreign visitors?

Anyone with experience? Knock the tax off the price and it might work but an extra $425 on top of it is brutal.

Thanks.

I pay by the day and don't pay tax. Maybe its included. I find prices in person cheaper than travel websites. Are they giving you a discount? If not I would definitely not rent anything by the month. Your better off getting hk vip card, doing that once or twice week on Mondays Tuesday, spend 120 night at Marriot once or twice, stay in Playas de Tijuana on days you don't need Hong Kong, hotel Baja, and Ceasars, plus theres few newer hotels off revolution a few feet I've never stayed.

[Sol12]

According to the guy at PedEast (I took the Crazy Train down this time) PedWest is indeed open for weekdays 6-14 h, and not this Monday that's a Federal Holiday.

Yeah the Tijuana papers had been talking about it most of the week, I guess the first hours it was opened on Monday only about20 people went thru so I guess the word didn't get out to well.

I think that agent is confused and gave you bad info. The border doesn't close for holidays and if it was to be closed they would notify the public. Also PedWest is one of the points for those seeking asylum to come to with that new border app.

[Sol12]

If we allowed big pharma to make cocaine heroin and make pot legal at the federal level, would the drug cartels collapse and be a fraction of what they are today. What do you think would happen on the Mexico side.

That's the big question on the legalization of it. Will it help or make it worse. If it's very expensive the Cartels I'm sure will still just produce it to sell to those that can't pay for the legal stuff. I mean marijuana is legal in California but with the high taxes on it many people still buy it on the street. So California tried lowering taxes to get more business.

[Sol12]

For people that grew up in San Diego or LOS Angeles, what the hell happened to these cities in the last 40 years that cars and houses are constantly being broken into. People are so brazen to just pull up a truck in the driveway and clean up. Doesn't anyone get shot breaking into houses. Do homeowners in California not have guns.

Well I've only heard of the problem getting worse over the last few years and it corresponding to the amount if homeless people. This pertains to the cars, I don't hear so many reports about homes but with people putting so much personal information on Facebook it's easy to figure out who's not going to be in town for some time. You could also question if people that stay at an Airbnb could later go back to rob the place knowing that nobody actually lives there and the neighbors are use to seeing different people come and go.

[Sol12]

Orthogonal to our main discussion, but does anyone have an opinion as to the best places to get cigs in Tijuana? Bought a carton at Oxxo on the way out last time, worked out about $35 for Marlboros.

Wouldn't the Duty free in Mexico be the cheapest?

[Sol12]

Looking into doing monthly stays at a nice hotel at some point. Tax for something like the Grand Hotel was like $425 US. I don't think the Ticuan quoted me any tax on top of the daily rates. Could this be correct? Do some hotels not charge a hotel tax to foreign visitors?

Anyone with experience? Knock the tax off the price and it might work but an extra $425 on top of it is brutal.

Thanks.

Since the tax is included in the price of things in Mexico I wonder if Ticuans price includes the tax and maybe if you went online it's different. Or they add the tax when you pay your bill. I would double check to make sure what the exact final price is.

[Artisttyp]

Looking into doing monthly stays at a nice hotel at some point. Tax for something like the Grand Hotel was like $425 US. I don't think the Ticuan quoted me any tax on top of the daily rates. Could this be correct? Do some hotels not charge a hotel tax to foreign visitors?

Anyone with experience? Knock the tax off the price and it might work but an extra $425 on top of it is brutal.

Thanks.

[Artisttyp]

Orthogonal to our main discussion, but does anyone have an opinion as to the best places to get cigs in Tijuana? Bought a carton at Oxxo on the way out last time, worked out about $35 for Marlboros.

Go to 5th street and Revolucion. The stand that sells tobacco also sells cartons. He has been there for years.

[CurryMonster]

Orthogonal to our main discussion, but does anyone have an opinion as to the best places to get cigs in Tijuana? Bought a carton at Oxxo on the way out last time, worked out about $35 for Marlboros.

[CurryMonster]

CBP put out the info last week stating it, so unless something has changed without them telling anyone it's suppose to open at 6 am On January 9th. As I write this it's 7:30 am on January 9th and the border wait site I use still shows PedWest as pending. It has PedEast pedestrian line at only 5 minute wait.

According to the guy at PedEast (I took the Crazy Train down this time) PedWest is indeed open for weekdays 6-14 h, and not this Monday that's a Federal Holiday.

[Jackie888]

For people that grew up in San Diego or LOS Angeles, what the hell happened to these cities in the last 40 years that cars and houses are constantly being broken into. People are so brazen to just pull up a truck in the driveway and clean up. Doesn't anyone get shot breaking into houses. Do homeowners in California not have guns.

Criminals are kind of uncooperative with the time. They tend to lay in wait and break in when you are not home. Then they sack the house for guns because it is so easy to move them.