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It is a great location for a newbie. The building is "seasoned", old elevator nice bar and safe. It is the best "base camp" I have found. There are worse places to stay. I do not like staying in the Zona cause I got to take a break from the craziness of the area. Nicer hotels around but you need a taxi for safety sake. I enjoy the tourist area during recharge periods and can enjoy the view from a third or fourth floor room. I am there for the chicas mostly and all I need is a room for is a bathroom / shower, light storage and a few hours sleep. If I want to get my drink on, I can top it off in their bar and then ride the elevator to my room without worried about policia. Go out back door, 1/2 block to Zona or out front door and you are on the tourist strip. I roam around without taxi at all hours. All I need are my LPC's (leather personnel carriers (shoes)).
I have tried it and is my back up
[QUOTE=Ho Lover1]When in TJ, I stay at the Hotel Enva. Just down the street from the Hotel Nelson. $22 per night daily and weekend rate. No problem with guests. Some Americans living there and many rotating in while visiting TJ. Great guys working there. Check the place out.[/QUOTE]A seasoned hotel too. No view other than roof tops. No bar so I can not get my drink on. The rate difference for the night was not that much when I tried it ( Hotel Nelson was still $32 a night in 2001). Enva works if you know your way around. Traveling back and forth from the zona at late night is not as easy. That can be a long block at 2-3 am for a newbie dodging barkers and the policia by the bank at the corner. I should be in TJ the first week of Sept. and will look there also.
For some reason Hotel Nelson would not give me a room one summer after 3 other soldiers and myself spent 4 days there. I came back there three weeks later and the desk guy said it was a family hotel and they were full.lol You think it was something I did? So I went down to Enva. The next summer I was back in Nelsons.