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[QUOTE=Echo9;1720654]First time poster, long time reader. I have questions about buying generic viagra in Tijuana. Is it possible to buy a generic brand of Viagra at the Costco in Tijuana?

Does anyone have experience using travelers checks in Tijuana? Where would be the best and safest place to cash? I haven't stayed in the Zona yet. I usually stay in San Ysidro or Zona Rio. I would like to get a room close Ave Revo on my next trip.[/QUOTE]You can get generic V at any pharmacy up and down Revu and about 1,000 other places in downtown. AFAIK, Costco will require a prescription. A USA one is OK.

Travelers checks? Seriously? Don't bother. I don't think many business will take them. Nicer hotels will probably cash them. Banks will, during banking hours. TCs have become far too big a PITA when traveling abroad. Just use the ATM. They're all over the place. Bank lobbies, Las Pulgas, some of the Zona bars.

You want to stay on Revu? The nicest place is Ticuan but that may still be closed, depending on when you visit. There are two "decent" hotels directly on Revu. Espana and Caesar's. They are rather like a Motel 6. Clean and basic. Hotel Nelson very close to the Zona, but is very, very old. There are several shitbag hotels on Revu, too, but I won't mention them. Villa de Zaragoza is one block east of Revu, between 7th and 8th. It's reasonably priced, clean and quiet.

Thanks for the Intel, sir.

I will try to contribute Intel to this forum. I'm not good with names. I remember the good, but forget the bad ones. Kenya in the alley. Anita (long black hair and braces) at AB are among the good I can recommend. Maybe on my next trip I will keep notes. How do you guys manage to remember names of chicas, location of hotels, name of restaurants?

[QUOTE=HugoTheMan;1720653]TAKE A BREAK. ?? Come on my amigo you can just ignore this crap. But while I'm serving out a ban on traveling to Tijuana, where else am I going to find this somewhat related to Tijuana drama??

Now speaking of the ban. Does anyone know a way you can take your cell phone into Tijuana and guarantee someone won't get that weird tone when they call you. I think that is the only thing that prevents me from sneaking off to enjoy an afternoon in heaven.[/QUOTE]If you take your cellphone off of roaming, you can prevent the weird tones that are transmitted when your cell links up with the Mexican towers.

You will only get spotty reception in LZ from the San Ysidro towers while in LZ, and practically no reception south of 2nd street, but aren't there laces in the US well cell reception also is poor?

I use Metro PCS and get pretty good reception in most rooms at the Leyva and HDS.

I didn't get good reception in the Master Suite #59 at Rizo de Oro, but that room is on the ground floor and the south end of the north annex, so the signal would have needed to travel through about 10 rooms to get through to mine. I think rooms on the highest floors of Cascades, near the north end of building get decent cell signals.

Of course it matters a great deal which cell provider you use. For example, I use to have Verizon. I kept my phone permanently off of roaming. And for many years my Verizon phone could get good signal from the San Ysidro cell towers when I was on the streets of LZ or in the Hotel Leyva. Then about three years ago a Mexican cellphone company put up one or more broadcast towers close to Hotel Leyva and my Verizon signal strength instantly went to shit. The might have been using the same, or very similar broadcast frequencies. Because of this I switched from Verizon to MetroPCS because my buddies MetroPCS's signal was still strong in LZ.

[QUOTE=Echo9;1720654]First time poster, long time reader. I have questions about buying generic viagra in Tijuana. Is it possible to buy a generic brand of Viagra at the Costco in Tijuana?[/QUOTE]For many years I have bought genuine Viagra (in Pfizer packaging) from the pharmacy located within Tijuana's Costco. No prescription was necessary, but you did need a Costco membership (both USA And Mexico Costco Membership cards are valid at the Costco in Tijuana). I never tried to get generic Viagra at Costco, so I don't know if they carry generic Viagra at Costco in Tijuana.

Nowadays I buy generic Viagra from Piri Pharmacy / Piri Mercado. Piri is located one short block east of the Arch on the pedestrian path.

Generic Viagra is widely available all over Tijuana, as PfordPfan previously reported.

[QUOTE=Echo9;1720828]Thanks for the Intel, sir.

I will try to contribute Intel to this forum. I'm not good with names. I remember the good, but forget the bad ones. Kenya in the alley. Anita (long black hair and braces) at AB are among the good I can recommend. Maybe on my next trip I will keep notes. How do you guys manage to remember names of chicas, location of hotels, name of restaurants?[/QUOTE]I've a photographic memory.

[QUOTE=ScatManDoo;1720842]For many years I have bought genuine Viagra (in Pfizer packaging) from the pharmacy located within Tijuana's Costco. No prescription was necessary, but you did need a Costco membership (both USA And Mexico Costco Membership cards are valid at the Costco in Tijuana). I never tried to get generic Viagra at Costco, so I don't know if they carry generic Viagra at Costco in Tijuana.
[/QUOTE]Very interesting and a great tip on the prescription thing.

As there is no "official" generic V, I figure Costco won't sell the Indian knockoffs.

Tijuana Costco does sell generic Viagra however I don't think the price is any better than at Mercado Piri.

[QUOTE=ScatManDoo;1720842] I never tried to get generic Viagra at Costco, so I don't know if they carry generic Viagra at Costco in Tijuana.[/QUOTE]

A number of Mexican companies have been producing and marketing generic Viagra for years now. The first brand to appear was MaxiFort.

[QUOTE=Phordphan;1721182]
As there is no "official" generic V, I figure Costco won't sell the Indian knockoffs.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Reinaldo;1721288]A number of Mexican companies have been producing and marketing generic Viagra for years now. The first brand to appear was MaxiFort.[/QUOTE]Nothing against Mexican products, but I prefer the Indian brands bcause their pharmaceutical industry is very well developed.

[QUOTE=Jackie888;1721292]Nothing against Mexican products, but I prefer the Indian brands bcause their pharmaceutical industry is very well developed.[/QUOTE]The box of 4 Figral (100 MG Sildenafil) pills I bought at Piri says "Hecho en Mexico".

The box a single 100 MG Viagra (Sildenafil) pill I bought at Costco in Tijuana also says "Hecho en Mexico".

Both have always worked great for me. I biteoff about 1/3 of a 100 MG pill at a time.

The 100 MG Viagra costs around $9. 50 (US dollars) per pill.

The 100 MG Figral costs around one dollar per pill.

[QUOTE=Reinaldo;1721288]A number of Mexican companies have been producing and marketing generic Viagra for years now. The first brand to appear was MaxiFort.[/QUOTE]Let me clarify. There is no legal US "generic" Viagra, as Pfizer's patent hasn't expired. Unless MaxiFort is manufactured under license (I have no idea if it is, or isn't) then it's a knockoff.

I am looking for a cheap cell phone that I give to a SW in Tijuana. ? Where is the cheapest phone and plan and where is the best place to buy one. ?

[QUOTE=Hargow20;1721413]I am looking for a cheap cell phone that I give to a SW in Tijuana. ? Where is the cheapest phone and plan and where is the best place to buy one. ?[/QUOTE]Buy a cheap / used unlocked cell phone on Ebay, then get a Telcel sim card in Tijuana and you pay by the minutes and there is no plan.

[QUOTE=Phordphan;1721302]Let me clarify. There is no legal US "generic" Viagra, as Pfizer's patent hasn't expired. Unless MaxiFort is manufactured under license (I have no idea if it is, or isn't) then it's a knockoff.[/QUOTE]The active ingredient in Pfizer's Viagra is called Sildenafil.

In Tijuana we can buy pills containing 50 MG and 100 MG of Sildenafil.

It think on a board like this it might not matter whether these pills should be called generic or knockoffs.

I'd prefer to use the term generic, even if technically incorrect, just because that term is better understood (and hopefully not misleading).

I go to Piri because they seem to have the cheapest prices on these "generic" vitamin V's and a lot of different brands.

Additionally it is convenient for when I stay at HDS, since I'm often on Revo and Piri & the Tijuana Wax Museum is just a very short block on the pedestrian path from the Arch on Revo.

The first brand they were selling at Piri was the Maxifort.

But now they also carry other brands of Sildenafil called Figral and Mazzogram and a newer brand, who's name I think begins with an "E".

If buy a single pill of these generics at Piri, you'll pay around $2 or less.

If you buy 10 pills at once, the price gets down to only 80 to 90 cents per pill for some of the generic brands.

[QUOTE=Phordphan;1721302]Let me clarify. There is no legal US "generic" Viagra, as Pfizer's patent hasn't expired. Unless MaxiFort is manufactured under license (I have no idea if it is, or isn't) then it's a knockoff.[/QUOTE]I am getting a generic from kaiser. Comes in 20 MG tablets.