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[QUOTE=Artisttyp;1962106]Azul or Sonora Grill will stir fry veggies for you. Ask for a minimum amount of butter. Fresh Juice can be purchased across the street from HK alley side at the yellow juice store. Otherwise JUMEX brand juices are just as good if you look for " JUGO " not " Nectar ".[/QUOTE]Thanks, great suggestions.
Friday night I took 2,000 pesos from the Scotia ATM next to Adelita. Scotia's terminal fee was 9. 5 pesos. Bank America statement said the withdrawal was $97.84 total, worked out to 20.44 pesos per dollar, no other bank charges.
Why would someone waste time and risk being mugged waiting in line at the Cambios for 18.50 pesos per dollar, when they can withdraw money quickly and safely at 20.44 peso to the dollar at the ATM next to Adelita's door, with an armed Commercial Policia, a few beefy security goons, the huge Tequila mesero with his Pancho Villa hat, the kinky little dwarf mesero, and the continual flow of sexy, young, good-looking half-naked chicas going up the stairs for sex all night with their sexy fragrance wafting behind them?
For fresh vegetable and sea food dishes, walk across Ninos to Cafe China Kim Mon and order their fresh steamed / stir fried veg dishes. I usually have to have a few wingmen to go to Kim Mon as their dishes are huge, twice the portions served in the US. Half a block South of Kim Mon there are a few fruit shops and a market with all kinds of restaurants and vendors inside, worth checking out.
La Zona is very exotic, safe, sexy, juicy, tasty, exciting, satisfying for all senses and very affordable for the mass. La Zona should be the model for developing the New Sexy Society under our new El Presidente and the Republican Congress.
[QUOTE=HorseTrader;1962080]I exchanged my dollars for pesos at the exchange place that is a few feet to the west of the south end of the trolley. At the moment I made my exchange the posted exchange rate was 18.159, but the actual exchange rate for me was 18.500. My printed receipt and the money in my pocket confirmed that rate. The posted rate did not change while I was making the exchange. I've noticed this before but had never paid close attention to verify the posted rate didn't change while I was standing there. I guess I got a better exchange rate because I exchanged a relatively large amount ($420). Per [URL]OANDA.com[/URL], the interbank exchange rate is currently 20.822, so, there is a good bit of margin somewhere. I think next time I'll use my ATM card at a Tijuana bank and pay my bank's $3 foreign ATM fee (or whatever it is). I don't know how these little local places can afford to buy pesos at the 19.1 that was posted today..[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=BaxterSlade;1961474]Funny you should mention LOS Arcos. I was there last week on a Wed. Mid afternoon and the place was packed. I remember thinking it presents a whole different picture of the Tijuana economy, that most people don't see. I also thought might as well not even try to come here on a weekend night, probably a hell of a long wait. And as far as I could tell 0. 1 gringo there.
And oh yea the food was great.[/QUOTE]It's packed to the rafters on the weekend. Valet parking only, sometimes a line out the door. Very busy. El Hornero half a block east is also a good choice for stone oven pizza. Might be wood fired but I'm not sure. It's really good.
[QUOTE=CaptainSolo;1962289]Friday night I took 2,000 pesos from the Scotia ATM next to Adelita. Scotia's terminal fee was 9. 5 pesos. Bank America statement said the withdrawal was $97.84 total, worked out to 20.44 pesos per dollar, no other bank charges.
Why would someone waste time and risk being mugged waiting in line at the Cambios for 18.50 pesos per dollar, when they can withdraw money quickly and safely at 20.44 peso to the dollar at the ATM next to Adelita's door, with an armed Commercial Policia, a few beefy security goons, the huge Tequila mesero with his Pancho Villa hat, the kinky little dwarf mesero, and the continual flow of sexy, young, good-looking half-naked chicas going up the stairs for sex all night with their sexy fragrance wafting behind them?
For fresh vegetable and sea food dishes, walk across Ninos to Cafe China Kim Mon and order their fresh steamed / stir fried veg dishes. I usually have to have a few wingmen to go to Kim Mon as their dishes are huge, twice the portions served in the US. Half a block South of Kim Mon there are a few fruit shops and a market with all kinds of restaurants and vendors inside, worth checking out.
La Zona is very exotic, safe, sexy, juicy, tasty, exciting, satisfying for all senses and very affordable for the mass. La Zona should be the model for developing the New Sexy Society under our new El Presidente and the Republican Congress.[/QUOTE]I have used the ATM next to adelitas a 4-5 times. There is an additional charge when your statement arrives from BofA. Everytime I used that ATM, I get a an additional charge of 5. 50-8. 72 depending on how much I withdraw. When you factor that in when withdrawing 2-5 K pesos, the exchange comes out to be the same as the cambios.
Besides Scotia's 9.5-peso terminal fee, I never got billed any other transaction fee for withdrawing from a be o A VISA business debit card. The 9. 5 peso terminal fee is buried in the total amount.
I hold frequent business meetings with clients, creditors, suppliers, directors, investors, stock holders, sometimes even with sexy and horny employees etc. In La Zona's bars. So they are perfectly legitimate business expenses.
I think certain types of be o A accounts, depending on the average balance, may be charged ATM fees.
Withdrawing cash from credit cards, Master Card or American Express, overseas usually incurs a $10 transaction fee plus whatever the terminal charges you.
[QUOTE=AnonX69;1962550]I have used the ATM next to adelitas a 4-5 times. There is an additional charge when your statement arrives from BofA. Everytime I used that ATM, I get a an additional charge of 5. 50-8. 72 depending on how much I withdraw. When you factor that in when withdrawing 2-5 K pesos, the exchange comes out to be the same as the cambios.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=CaptainSolo;1961906]Leyva is usually quiet all night. Don't know where the noise come from. ... Parking costs extra $2.[/QUOTE]The noise was music from the club below. And they said "no" when I asked if they had parking.
[QUOTE=WombatEd2;1962840]The noise was music from the club below. And they said "no" when I asked if they had parking.[/QUOTE]Hotel Leyva (at the their oldest wing) is adjacent to Chicago Club, not above it. The hotel that is above Chicago Club is called Hotel Jalos.
The Leyva's south-most rooms have small bathroom windows that face south, right into the big wall of the Chicago Club / Jalos building. The two buildings are only about six to eight inches apart. If you hear loud music in your Leyva room, it's coming from the Chicago Club next door.
The Leyva has a three story parking structure, more parking than is needed for their 48 room hotel. So they offer fee-based parking to the general public. However they often fill up early in the evening on Fridays and Saturdays, and reach their max.
Rooms in the (relatively newer) 4-story tower have parking included in the cost for the room. The rooms in the 3-story (older, southern, 'jail') wing of the hotel do not include parking in their room rates.
Hong Kong is still my favorite place for watching, but I sure got super services from one of the Tropical girls on Tuesday afternoon. 800 pesos for her plus 160 pesos for an all night room with my HK VIP card got me about 55 minutes of bliss. So good that I tipped 200 pesos. She spoke zero English and I couldn't even understand her name, so I can't give you a name. Thin girl with fake rack and big ass (fake?). Slightly longer than shoulder length straight black hair.
Interesting chat with Sonya in Hong Kong. Her English is perfect and she is interesting to talk to. Amongst other things she said she favors men who don't drink alcohol in the bar because they get drunk too often and then cause problems for her. It would be interesting to know how many girls think the same thing. I'll continue drinking one beer per visit and then water after that.
After walking to PedWest a couple days sago, this time I took the HK limo. Felt much safer. Tipped the driver $3.
Zero wait for anybody at PedWest at about 8 PM Tuesday. Looked like about 2 hour wait on Sunday evening for general and ready (I have GOES). Is PedEast still open? Lots of buildings in that area have been torn down but the limo driver thought PedEast might still be open.
Favorite find of the day was the fresh made juice in the little store across the alley from LC. Excellent stuff for very little money. That will become a regular stop for me. Thanks to Artisttyp for another good tip.
Yes Pedeast is still open. Seeing as how I do not have sentry, I have been avoiding Pedeast due to finding much shorter wait times at Pedwest.
The line at Pedwest can be deceiving. The worst I have seen it was backed up a few hundred feet from where the spiral staircase begins and it was only around a 20 minute wait.
[QUOTE=BaxterSlade;1963041]Yes Pedeast is still open. Seeing as how I do not have sentry, I have been avoiding Pedeast due to finding much shorter wait times at Pedwest.
The line at Pedwest can be deceiving. The worst I have seen it was backed up a few hundred feet from where the spiral staircase begins and it was only around a 20 minute wait.[/QUOTE]I've only crossed PedWest 2 times. On Sunday evening the general and ready lines started long before the spiral staircase, closer to the up ramp than the spiral down ramp. Very little movement was noticeable while I walked through the masses of waiting people; perhaps 2 or more hours wait. On Tuesday there was no wait for anyone.
Someone here probably a few shares of hotel Leyva, plugging it as a luxury Resort.
I hate to rain on someone else's parade, but hotel Leyva is all walled in with a small concrete courtyard in the center, that looks like a prison's exercise yard.
It feels as exclusive as a maximum-security federal penitentiary. It can also be an inclusive resort if you like prison chow.
[QUOTE=CaptainSolo;1961480]Before the 2008 passport requirement.
The Liberty walking path between the border, past the McDonalds, Liberty Plaza with many Pharmacies and bars / restaurants playing noisy music, over the foot bridge, to the Mercado de Artesannia, more tacos restaurants (3 for a $1 with $1 beers), Wax Musuem, El Arco, Ave. Revolucion, the Music Plaza ect. Were lively with hundreds tourists and dozens of carts and shops selling trinkets and souvenirs. Now that path is empty, shops and restaurants closed down, the jewelry carts disappeared.
On Ave. Revolucion full of souvenir shops, there are very few gringos in the day time. Most walkers are local Mexicans and their families. Groups of rowdy students and young gringos drinking and talking in bars at night are gone, replaced by local young Mexicans. A few strip clubs were busted a few years back, not sure if they are still open.
Coahuila in La Zona Norte, with its bars and sex hotels, is the only area frequented by Gringos, usually at night. Looks to me tourism in Tijuana is dead, except sex tourism.[/QUOTE]Tourism may be on the decline, but I think that has been replaced by Americans "living" in Tijuana. There seems to be a lot more California plates on a lot of cars. My friend said some folks sold their place in SD and bought cheaper, bigger and better places here and cross the border daily to go to work. She told me that as we were having breakfast at IHOP, next to TGI Fridays in Tijuana.
True there are lots of Mexican Americans living in Tijuana and drive to work in San Diego in the morning. The new trend finds hundreds young Asians living with their sweetest-looking young girls, setting up families, producing babies.
Every morning thousands of California cars cross the border into San Diego. I know an attorney who lives in Playa and drives to courts all over LA and Orange Counties. Don't know how he hacks all that driving, but he has a sweet, pretty young girl waiting for him every night with her hot meals and her wet, throbbing pussy. Hehe.
Life is good in Tijuana as long as they get along with their cartel neighbors who slit throats and boil off dead bodies in their backyard.
[QUOTE=OnceSailor;1963236]Tourism may be on the decline, but I think that has been replaced by Americans "living" in Tijuana. There seems to be a lot more California plates on a lot of cars. My friend said some folks sold their place in SD and bought cheaper, bigger and better places here and cross the border daily to go to work. She told me that as we were having breakfast at IHOP, next to TGI Fridays in Tijuana.[/QUOTE]
1000 pesos for an hour of hot sex is a goo deal. Define "good service" in details. Did she do DFKs, BBBJ, DATY, act hot and horny like she wanted to fuck your brains out?
But Holly the walker also promise 1 hour of everything-goes hot sex for $20. She's pretty good-looking and looked anxious to do just anything for her next meth fix.
[QUOTE=HorseTrader;1963012]Hong Kong is still my favorite place for watching, but I sure got super services from one of the Tropical girls on Tuesday afternoon. 800 pesos for her plus 160 pesos for an all night room with my HK VIP card got me about 55 minutes of bliss. So good that I tipped 200 pesos. She spoke zero English and I couldn't even understand her name, so I can't give you a name. Thin girl with fake rack and big ass (fake?). Slightly longer than shoulder length straight black hair..[/QUOTE]Lots of HK's top tiered chicas are working long hours, even on week days. Must be trying to save up for a big Felize Navidad. Of course they hate rude, useless drunks. If they have to spread their legs in bed, they may as well have a few orgasms.
They also hate the old geezers who swallow a fistful of vitamin V, then fuck them long and hard for the whole hour, trying to bust their 3 or 4 nuts for the night. The poor girls do get sore after fucking a few guys. Don't know how they keep doing it every night. Must be their love and devotion to their jobs. Wish the US executives love their jobs the same way.
[QUOTE=HorseTrader;1963012]Interesting chat with Sonya in Hong Kong. Her English is perfect and she is interesting to talk to. Amongst other things she said she favors men who don't drink alcohol in the bar because they get drunk too often and then cause problems for her. It would be interesting to know how many girls think the same thing. I'll continue drinking one beer per visit and then water after that. .[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=HorseTrader;1963012]Hong Kong is still my favorite place for watching, but I sure got super services from one of the Tropical girls on Tuesday afternoon. 800 pesos for her plus 160 pesos for an all night room with my HK VIP card got me about 55 minutes of bliss. So good that I tipped 200 pesos. She spoke zero English and I couldn't even understand her name, so I can't give you a name. Thin girl with fake rack and big ass (fake?). Slightly longer than shoulder length straight black hair.
Interesting chat with Sonya in Hong Kong. Her English is perfect and she is interesting to talk to. Amongst other things she said she favors men who don't drink alcohol in the bar because they get drunk too often and then cause problems for her. It would be interesting to know how many girls think the same thing. I'll continue drinking one beer per visit and then water after that.
After walking to PedWest a couple days sago, this time I took the HK limo. Felt much safer. Tipped the driver $3.
Zero wait for anybody at PedWest at about 8 PM Tuesday. Looked like about 2 hour wait on Sunday evening for general and ready (I have GOES). Is PedEast still open? Lots of buildings in that area have been torn down but the limo driver thought PedEast might still be open.
Favorite find of the day was the fresh made juice in the little store across the alley from LC. Excellent stuff for very little money. That will become a regular stop for me. Thanks to Artisttyp for another good tip.[/QUOTE]What's the deal with that limo. It was parked in front of HK the limo driver was telling me something while I was walking out of HK. I think he mentioned something about girls and sex inside the limo.
Can anyone confirm this. Are there hot girls waiting inside the limo. I couldn't understand what the driver was shouting at me.