General Reports

[JamesOcla]

I have been to Tijuana a couple times and I know HK and Adelitas are the most popular. I over heard a couple times that working girls after their shifts go hang out a night club or bar but I never heard the name of the bar. Is there such a place where working bar girls go freelance also? Any help would be much appreciated. I will be down there for a couple days so I wanted to take advantage of all the goodies.

[Mr Enternational]

Thank you for the info. I never tried Uber in Tijuana but I have used it Stateside. I'm going to get out there. Lots going on out there. Everybody wanting to stay in La Zona walking around Coahuila for a week should consider switching it up a little bit. Landmarks, Points of Interest, popular places should be on your itinerary with an open mind.

Two months ago I met a chick on the trolley on the way back from Tijuana. She lives in Tijuana but was going to Dallas for vacation. She was going to come stay with me in San Diego last week when I got there but I arrived at midnight which was too late for her because she would have had to wait around a few hours. So the next day I went down to have lunch with her on her lunch break. I crossed over in the usual San Ysidro and walked up to First St. I called an Uber from there. It was 153 pesos to Otay and 138 coming back. My girl said it would have been like 300 in a normal taxi.

[MongerHunger]

Uber is about US $5 to the beach. I did four trips recently and one was terrifying: there is a road that runs parallel to the US border, quite hilly, and we hit 80 mph on potholey roads in a tiny car like a Kia Rio. The rest were fine.

Thank you for the info. I never tried Uber in Tijuana but I have used it Stateside. I'm going to get out there. Lots going on out there. Everybody wanting to stay in La Zona walking around Coahuila for a week should consider switching it up a little bit. Landmarks, Points of Interest, popular places should be on your itinerary with an open mind.

[DmBoggs74]

Where can I park for free for few days in san ysidro? Preferably closer to border crossing but if none of those options then at least in san ysidro?

I usually park at one of the Trolly stations and ride the trolley to the border. Pull up the website for the trolley and look at the blue line stations with parking. I have done this six times with no issues. I usually go on Friday afternoon and come back late Sunday. It's 2.50 for a one way pass.

When you come back. After you pass back through to the US you can get a ticket, ride the bus a few minutes to the Trolley at San Ysidro and back to your car. Another 2. 50 one way. The walk from where you would catch the bus to the trolley station sucks sucks. An Uber driver in Mexico told me about the bus.

[LovesToSploog]

Where can I park for free for few days in san ysidro? Preferably closer to border crossing but if none of those options then at least in san ysidro?

If I got alone I leave my car at Bayer Blvd. , the station before the border. I wait for the trolley and then in about 5 minutes, I'm at the border. It's about 2.50 each way there and back. So not entirely free but for 5 bucks you got parking there. I left my car there the morning of Saturday and returned Sunday night with no issues, it's probably risky to leave it a whole weekend time but there is parking outside the parking lot in the street.

[GoodSense3]

Where can I park for free for few days in san ysidro? Preferably closer to border crossing but if none of those options then at least in san ysidro?

[Simmer]

Thanks for the info. May have to add that to my itinerary for the next excursion. Different transportation options. I also like the local feel. Being open minded helps to broaden the experience.

Uber is about US $5 to the beach. I did four trips recently and one was terrifying: there is a road that runs parallel to the US border, quite hilly, and we hit 80 mph on potholey roads in a tiny car like a Kia Rio. The rest were fine.

[Captain Solo]

Not sure how much say Mexico's president have in prostitution, as it has been left to the states' jurisdiction.

AFAIK, Mexico's federal government has been prosecuting only [CodeWord908], not prostitution, cases in DF and in various states.

Jorgue Hank Rhon, owner of Grupo Caliente, was a capitalist mayor of Tijuana between 2004-2007. He was proposing legislation to ban street prostitution, I. E. Banning paraditas standing in the alley, making them work inside bars and lobbies. He got large demonstrations and protests on Coahuila and in front of City hall. Large groups of hundreds of men, women, children were marching through the alley, carrying banners, shouting slogans against the ban of street prostitution. The girls were having noisy sit outs in front of City Hall, accusing Mayor Rhon of destroying their livelihood. He had to quickly withdraw that proposed legislation.

The woman who ran Mexico's Federal Anti-trafficking organization in Mexico City did try to shut down Tijuana's putas bars industry by accusing them of trafficking minors. She had federal police raid all bars on Coahuila during Christmas holidays about 5 years back. Policia hauled off over 100 girls from HK, Adelita, Chicagp, Valentina etc to their stations for booking. Federal policia were caught groping girls in HK's lobby. There were no news of minors caught in the raid. She also imposed a no smoking ban in all Tijuana bars, but it lasted only a few weeks.

It does look like average Mexicans want prostitution to continue the way it is.

[Travv]

Typically married women, once they get the vote, vote to take away the things (their husbands) men like to do, like drinking beer (USA prohibition), gambling on sports, competition from other women in Red Light districts etc. My guess is they do not want men spending the men's money on anything but the things the women want. The feminist groups in these countries pushed these laws through making it legal to sell sex, but not to buy, thus targeting men but not women. Considering that about 130 Mexican politicians have been assassinated lately largely due to the failed prohibitions on the drug trade, and the last time Tijuana politicians tried to ban streetwalkers, the streetwalkers threatened to expose the politicians to their wives for visiting them in Zona Norte, I doubt the local Mexican politicians want to start another failed prohibition war. Also, I believe the laws of the state of Baja California controls the law concerning Tijuana Zona Norte, not the Mexican Federal law.

I hope the new leftist president will leave legal prostitution in Tijuana alone. The prohibition of prostitution has recently been in many countries like France, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, etc. Before 1914 San Francisco (Barbary Coast district) was like Tijuana and had about 50 legal brothels but in 1914 California governor issued a ban on prostitution under pressure from women's organizations. BTW Imagine Hong Kong turns into McDonald's, Adelita turns into Burger King, Tropical turns into Starbucks etc. OMG total disaster!

[StRobert]

Something else can happen, they can go the Cuban route and make prostitution illegal and kill the whole scene, no more bars to shop around in, we'll be making contacts underground in hidden casas, girls afraid of getting caught or extorted by the police which in turn rises prices, reduces availability and kills quality. Think about it.

I hope the new leftist president will leave legal prostitution in Tijuana alone. The prohibition of prostitution has recently been in many countries like France, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, etc. Before 1914 San Francisco (Barbary Coast district) was like Tijuana and had about 50 legal brothels but in 1914 California governor issued a ban on prostitution under pressure from women's organizations. BTW Imagine Hong Kong turns into McDonald's, Adelita turns into Burger King, Tropical turns into Starbucks etc. OMG total disaster!

[Jim0129]

Is there a website that's good for meeting semipros?

Or is mileroticos all there is?

There is also sexytijuana.com but its about the same thing as mileroticos, a lot of fake pics and scams, very difficult to sort out the good from the bad, I just keep using the agencies.

[Jim0129]

The passport requirement after 9/11 killed off the high school crowd who used to flock to drink and dance in Tijuana on weekends. Then the bad PR about the cartel wars killed off the Navy / Marine crowd at the Chicago and other clubs when Mexico was put off limits. If AMLO gets elected Presidente of Mexico on July 1st, this should be good for tourism when the peso plummets against the dollar and Mexico gets cheap like Venezuela. I hear that in Venezuela, $3 will buy a backpack full of Bolivars and you can stay in the Caracas Hilton and other fancy hotels for the $3 worth of Bolivars a night. Expect tourism to skyrocket if the Mexican economy crumbles like Venezuela due to socialism and everything becomes dirt cheap. Beer for 5 cents a bottle or 50000 pesos in Tijuana in a few years? A hotel stay at Cascadas for $3 a night?

Something else can happen, they can go the Cuban route and make prostitution illegal and kill the whole scene, no more bars to shop around in, we'll be making contacts underground in hidden casas, girls afraid of getting caught or extorted by the police which in turn rises prices, reduces availability and kills quality. Think about it.

[John Clayton]

Thanks for the info. May have to add that to my itinerary for the next excursion. Different transportation options. I also like the local feel. Being open minded helps to broaden the experience.

The bus is pretty slow. Definitely 3rd world.

[MongerHunger]

You can catch it on Calle 3 between Constitucion and Ninos Heroes or it might be Calle 3 between Ninos Heroes and 5 de Mayo. There are 2 routes Playas #1 and 2. The #1 route will travel up the Malecon once it hits the boardwalk and bull ring (next to the ocean). Blue and white old converted school buses.

Thanks for the info. May have to add that to my itinerary for the next excursion. Different transportation options. I also like the local feel. Being open minded helps to broaden the experience.

[ScatManDoo]

You can catch it on Calle 3 between Constitucion and Ninos Heroes or it might be Calle 3 between Ninos Heroes and 5 de Mayo. There are 2 routes Playas #1 and 2. The #1 route will travel up the Malecon once it hits the boardwalk and bull ring (next to the ocean). Blue and white old converted school buses.

The Playas-bound bus stops and waits for passengers on the west-bound Calle 3 immediately to the west of its intersection with Nino Heroes.

I've never been on the route that goes on the Malecon, so I guess I've always traveled on Route #2. As soon as it reaches Playas, it travels on an inland street parallel to the coastline. I always get off at the first stop in Playas, with the bull ring in plain site one block away, closer to the ocean. We walked the one block to the ocean.