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Mongering in Mexico City Day 0 of 6
Earlier, in another forum, I said:
[QUOTE=Quagmire1974;2761454]Barring any unforeseen circumstances, I will be in Mexico City for the first week of December. Airline and hotel reservations have already been made, and this will be a strictly-mongering trip.
Thanks to those of you who have reached out through private messages and / or have kept this forum relevant with fresh information. Please look for my trip report to be posted here sometime in December.[/QUOTE]I've returned from Mexico City, and will now share with the ISG community what I experienced while mongering in the city. Instead of writing a lengthy, eye-watering report, I'll contribute a series of shorter reports that will describe how each day unfolded. This particular report will detail the choices that I made to create and support my mongering activities prior to my arrival in Mexico City. So, here we go.
1) Airline: for my flight to Mexico City, I chose Aeromar.
[URL]https://www.aeromar.mx/en[/URL]
I previously used Aeromar for trips to Monterrey, Mexico (twice) and Oaxaca (once) without incident. Unfortunately, this time around, the departure to Mexico City was delayed nearly six hours, so instead of landing at Benito Juarez International Airport in the late evening as originally scheduled, I landed a couple of hours after midnight. Fortunately, Customs and Immigration was fast, and the taxi from the airport to my hotel took about 15 minutes.
2) Love Motel: instead of running the risk of having to register my companions with reception at my regular hotel, I opted to use a love motel for my activities. After considering numerous love motels, I chose VMotel Boutique Viaducto due to positive online reviews and its location near the Tacubaya subway station.
[URL]https://vmotelboutique.com/habitaciones-viaducto/[/URL]
A convenient feature about this love motel is that you can actually make a reservation online in lieu of arriving and requesting a room on-demand. Using the motel's official website, I did just that, and after entering my preferred dates of stay (totaling six nights), selecting a room that was offered (twin suite), and paying the requested 8400 Mexican Pesos through PayPal, I was immediately emailed a reservation voucher, which I printed and brought with me to Mexico City. I would eventually need this voucher, and my passport, to check-in.
3) Regular Hotel: since my love motel was located near a subway station, I needed my regular hotel to have the same convenience. With a recent positive experience with another Marriott in a foreign country under my belt, I chose Mexico City Marriott Reforma Hotel.
[URL]https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/mexmc-mexico-city-marriott-reforma-hotel/overview/[/URL]
From this hotel, it is a 15-minute walk to the Sevilla subway station, which is on the same line (Line 1) as the Tacubaya station. And the total time from the front door of Mexico City Marriott Reforma Hotel to the front door of VMotel Boutique Viaducto, through a combination of walking and subway rides, is 45 minutes.
In the next segment of my report, I'll detail my first mongering session in Mexico City.