General Reports

[Artisttyp]

I can confirm this to be true. Pacific Beach is party-town San Diego. Ocean Beach is pothead central. Coronado is old money and old people where water pollution is a pain in the ass South of the bay entrance and often compels beach closures. There is also a large amount of shark sightings prompting beach closures as well.

Oddly enough Coronado Beach was rated the top beach in the USA maybe two years ago.

I have no idea how they come up with this shit. A close second was Montauk in Long Island, NY.

[Jackie888]

What is making you choose Coronado? You should go to ocean beach ir Pacific Beach. The ocean is often sobpoluut3d in Coronado that they won't let anyone in the ocean like Tijuana and if they do, they have signs saying it's not healthy. There's also nothing interesting going on in Coronado it looks like Florida. For old people.

I can confirm this to be true. Pacific Beach is party-town San Diego. Ocean Beach is pothead central. Coronado is old money and old people where water pollution is a pain in the ass South of the bay entrance and often compels beach closures. There is also a large amount of shark sightings prompting beach closures as well.

[Nothing24]

Plans fell through with a girl I was going to meet up with and was going to cancel my trip altogether until the next time our schedules synced up but decided to head out anyway and see if I could find something interesting. Got to HK around 5 and it was kind of slow. Couldn't find any worthwhile prospects. Grabbed a seat for a while and the only one that piqued my interest was a tall redhead but she was with an older monger. She was being really nice and affectionate and ended up going upstairs with him. Noticed one of my main girl's best friends at the bar and decided to head out before she saw me LOL. Not that there would be an issue, I wanted to check out the other bars anyway since nothing was really happening. Went to Tropical and hung out for about an hour. There were several cute girls but they were all just talking to each other and playing on their phones. Had about a handful approach me but none were being too playful so I only gave them a few tips and felt them up. I was very interested in one of them but she ended up heading to the back and never returned. Went to Chicago next and it was pretty slow as well. It was a little past 7 now. Thought I had spotted an 18 year old chick I was making out with a couple months ago but when I approached her I quickly realized it wasn't her because of her accent but she could of passed as her sister looks wise. We ended up talking for several minutes without me having to buy her a drink and she was caressing my hands and giving me little kisses. I told her I was going to circle the block and return later.

Headed back to HK and caught the tall redhead by herself. I went up to her and asked if she wanted a drink and she said yes. We grabbed a booth and she asked if it was cool for her to order the $30 wine. I hate sounding like a cheapskate but I told her only beer for now and she said ok. Before our drinks had arrived she started kissing me. Forgot her name but she said she's from Monterrey and had barely started working at the club. She kept kissing me pretty much the entire time so I figured I would definitely bang her but then she asked if it was cool if she went to the bathroom and I said yeah and she said ok but don't leave, wait for me. I said ok. After about 10 minutes my patience started wearing thin. Waited another 5-10 minutes and said fuck this and left the table. I didn't necessarily go on the hunt for her but I did keep an eye out but never saw her again. Who the fuck knows what happened. Maybe if I had waited around like an idiot she would have returned eventually but like I said, my patience had worn thin. With nothing else going on I figured I would bang a street chick and call it a night. Found a young one with big tits near hotel Irma. She quoted 400 pesos and 100 for the room. I asked how much in dollars and she said $35 so I went to get pesos. Didn't inquire about "servicio completo" because I knew seeing her titties bouncing around would get the job done for me. She ended up letting me pop them out of her bra anyways and she had nice hard nipples. As soon as I got them fully out I wasn't able to hold out much longer and blew my load. Caught a free ride back to the border via HK shuttle and only did about 10 minutes in line.

[Baxter Slade]

Popping up on my Instagram feed was the following: 20% off Sunday rooms w VIP card. My thought: nice, now I have discounts for sun-Wednesday and only pay full rate Thu-sat. Considering I'll be there for a little a week, was a nice surprise.

Dan.

With the VIP card you will still get the 20% off on Thursdays and weekends. But of course the price of the room does increase on Fridays and Saturdays.

[ReachKp31]

Popping up on my Instagram feed was the following: 20% off Sunday rooms w VIP card. My thought: nice, now I have discounts for sun-Wednesday and only pay full rate Thu-sat. Considering I'll be there for a little a week, was a nice surprise.

Dan.

Hi, I'm in Tijuana for this week as well. Let me know if you want to meet up and compare note on girls, cheers.

[BrotherMouzone]

Rambo, I catch the Old Town Flyer to the Old Town Station, Catch the trolly to San Ysidro. I pay a total of 1. 25 for the trip. Then call Uber after crossing the border - 100 pesos or so.

Thanks to the person telling about the bus to Centro. I will have to try that when I am not carrying baggage.

I've done the Old Town Flyer route to Old Town Station as well. The convenience there is you don't have to transfer to another trolley. But Old Town Station is further away from San Ysidro than the airport is (north) so it's not necessarily clear that you'd save time given that the Old Town Flyer takes you in the opposite direction of San Ysidro. Maybe you do save a little bit of time depending on the time of day you travel and the amount of time you have to wait to transfer. If you are using the Pronto card (instead of cash), the cost of going to Old Town Station vs. Taking the bus downtown to American Plaza is the same since the transfer from the bus to the trolley is free with the Pronto card.

I've done the taxi ruta to Centro several times even with luggage and never had issues. You would just tell the driver or the worker standing there that you have luggage and they'll put you on a taxi ruta that can accomodate you. They expect double fare if you bring luggage though, so it would be 20 pesos instead of 10. (I usually just give them $2 instead of the usual $1 I give them if I'm paying in dollars which is actually a bit more than that.).

[Captain Solo]

Ricky,

Too many times I encountered CBP agents who acted more like gang bangers than government employees. It indicates CBP supervisors and managers are not holding them accountable for misconducts. They are far less professional than city and state police.

It's good that you resisted the harassment. It may be risky to confront rogue CBP guys as they can cause inconveniences, may be even physical abuses. They beat to death a Mexican man at San Ysidro crossing a few years back.

Better to note their names, badge numbers, then when you get home, file written complaints to the location managers with specific charges, date, time, location, witnesses ect, then follow up with the case. If CBP won't respond, you can file Small Claim suits against the agents and their managers for $7,500 each. Make them go to court and sweat it out. Judgments will make them look bad. Their names will be in the records.

We have to do the right things to hold government employees accountable and they do their jobs properly and efficiently.

[Mexidan]

Popping up on my Instagram feed was the following: 20% off Sunday rooms w VIP card. My thought: nice, now I have discounts for sun-Wednesday and only pay full rate Thu-sat. Considering I'll be there for a little a week, was a nice surprise.

Dan.

[StRobert]

Here is one tour that I found. Just search "Coronado Island Tours" & you can probably find others. This company was charging $150 for a one day trip.

(https://www.toursloreto.com/all-tours/coronado/)

This link is to Isla Coronado near Loreto. Baja California Sur, 1000 miles south. He wants to visit I suppose Isla Coronado located near Tijuana on the Mexican side (visible from the pier at Imperial Beach). I suggest Tomasb call Tijuana tourist information phone number 078 (bilingual) or link https://tijuana.travel/en/assistance-078/ or ask at the hotel reception.

[WonderWhy]

Can you please provide detailed steps on how you did this and time for each phase?

I also go from SD airport to border via trolley and the total takes me much more time. At least 100 minutes.

Example: Airport to Trolley (via public transit): 20 min.

Trolley to Border incl wait time - 70 min.

Walk through border and catch taxi / HK-limo- 10 minutes.

Ride to hotel - 10 minutes.

TOTAL: 110 minutes.

Rambo, I catch the Old Town Flyer to the Old Town Station, Catch the trolly to San Ysidro. I pay a total of 1. 25 for the trip. Then call Uber after crossing the border - 100 pesos or so.

Thanks to the person telling about the bus to Centro. I will have to try that when I am not carrying baggage.

[Dogers69]

There is no other authority I have interacted with that has more Variance in the way I have been treated than CBP / US Customs. Sometimes it is point and "US Citizen?" - "Hand jesture to walk thru" = other times it is:

"What do you have in your pockets before I check you?"

Me: Put my hand inside shorts pockets and pull out to show empty.

"I didn't ask you to put your hands in your pocket. I asked what do you have in them?" -Secondary Inspection on that one.

Sometimes I will bring back my BP meds. And say "personal medications, nothing on schedule controlled list" Sometimes I am checked and other times I am not. In Tijuana choosing the wrong line can also be a problem. Seems these guys will sometimes pass everybody or harass everybody. There is no consistency with them.

They like to play games. The usa border is open so their border patrol became travel agency as their job is now to take fence climbers and bring them Dr's, food, lawyers, hotels, phones, $ ASAP. Before they sue us for any delays. So for fun they pick on men, usually gona be non latino as we stand out more. The grief I get, even with global entry, for being in California when I'm from east coast. You would think I was in Cambodia or Africa. They ask many questions we are not legally required to answer. In fact someone who films them could likely sue. The woman are the worst especially if there's no one behind me now they gona come at me like an angry girlfriend. With the questions. And yes I also had a guy, jump at me with that same shit "what's in your pockets". Instead of going into my pockets I said I don't know, and he grabbed my cell and yelled at me for not knowing my cell was in my pockets. And during this my hands had to be on the table as he patted me down. I was wearing a t shirt no bags at all no jacket and am a white guy. Maybe he wouldn't do it to every skin color.

[GentileBear]

There is no other authority I have interacted with that has more Variance in the way I have been treated than CBP / US Customs. Sometimes it is point and "US Citizen?" - "Hand jesture to walk thru" = other times it is:

"What do you have in your pockets before I check you?"

Me: Put my hand inside shorts pockets and pull out to show empty.

"I didn't ask you to put your hands in your pocket. I asked what do you have in them?" -Secondary Inspection on that one.

Sometimes I will bring back my BP meds. And say "personal medications, nothing on schedule controlled list" Sometimes I am checked and other times I am not. In Tijuana choosing the wrong line can also be a problem. Seems these guys will sometimes pass everybody or harass everybody. There is no consistency with them.

[RikyMichaels7]

Last month my friend from Texas and I were waiting in line at Otay to cross into the USA After about 20 minutes we ended up being stopped right in the front where the CBP lets people in. When it was our time to enter, I displayed my passport and my friend was about to pull his out of his back pocket when the agent started to lecture us about not being prepared. My friend asked, "prepared for what?" The agent said to have your passport out. The agent rudely said that he could send us back to the back of the line for not complying. My friend replied by saying, "it is right here" as it took him 2 seconds to pull it out. The agent admonished us again about not being prepared. My friend told him that he wasn't aware of the need to show his passport as it was his first time crossing, of which the agent replied, "Yea, sure. " I started to get hot and told him that he needed to learn some respect, especially when it comes to talking rudely to American citizens. He replied by saying, "I did show you respect. " I told him if that was his idea of respect then he should go get his Supervisor as I have the right to request one. He stated, "You don't have the right to a Supervisor. " I pointed to the sign that says all have that right. But he refused. I then told him, "Both of us help pay your salary through our Federal Withholding taxes" at which time he replied by saying, "That's a bunch of be. S. " he then told us, "Ok, you are going to the back of the line. " My reply was that we were not going anywhere. He then told us rudely, "Go, before you end up getting arrested. " As soon as I got to the agent booth where they check your passport, I requested a Supervisor. One came within two minutes and we shared our experience. She proceeded to say, "I am going to go talk to him now. " I told her that I had never been treated with such disrespect and that if he worked for me that he would be automatically fired. I further stated that the agent was inappropriately exerting his authority over respect for people. She gave me info. On how to file a complaint. I did file one on the CBP site on the internet. I received a response a week later indicating that the CBP takes complaints seriously and that an investigation will take place. Of course they can't give the outcome. So don't put up with this kind of stuff and you have the right not to be refused to speak to a Supervisor.

[LuvMexicanas]

That's all it takes to get from the San Diego airport to Centro Tijuana. You exit the terminal and look for the bus stop which you can't miss unless you're blind. Pull up the Pronto app on your phone and just scan to get on the 992 bus. After more or less a 10-minute ride, exit the bus at American Plaza station and get on the blue line trolley to San Ysidro, which takes about 45 minutes. Your initial scan on the bus is good for two hours so no need to scan again. Cross the border and go left when exiting the turnstiles and hop on the van that says Centro. After a 5-10 minute ride, pay 10 pesos as you exit the van at the Burger King on Revolucion.

[Hargow20]

Here is one tour that I found. Just search "Coronado Island Tours" & you can probably find others. This company was charging $150 for a one day trip.

(https://www.toursloreto.com/all-tours/coronado/)

I will be in Tijuana for my first visit in mid November and would arrive from Cabo San Lucas airport. After staying for a day or two I plan to journey to Coronado Island to spend a day as my flight is not until later in the evening. Any recommendations to travel there from Tijuana. I understand there is a ferry on the mainland to the island but don't know the best connections to get over there.