SFandH
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Motels in San Felipe or Further South?
I'm looking for a moderately priced San Felipe motel to spend one night on our way south. No tourist activities, just a place to sleep. This is our
first trip to BCS via San Felipe, so I have no idea.
Someplace on or close to the highway in or south of town.
Recommendations?
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Lee
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Quote: Originally posted by SFandH  | I'm looking for a moderately priced San Felipe motel to spend one night on our way south. No tourist activities, just a place to sleep. This is our
first trip to BCS via San Felipe, so I have no idea.
Someplace on or close to the highway in or south of town.
Recommendations? |
I recommend Sandollar S. of town. $110 w/dog. King bed, clean, micro. Locked gate. They have a menu for food they'll order and pickup for
you. Room service of sorts. Not the best shower water pressure.
https://www.sandollarresort.com
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Chenowth Legacy Lodge
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Marc
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I would drive into town. The El Capitan has secure parking and a half block walk to restaurants.
Exercise regularly. Eat sensibly. Die anyway.
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Thanks for the replies. We decided to go all the way to Guerrero Negro and not stop in San Felipe except to buy gas.
I don't know why, but Google Maps is still showing getting onto the Tecate / San Felipe road from the toll road by driving past the interchange, into
El Sauzal, and making a U-turn to approach the interchange from the south.
See the blue line:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Rosarito,+Baja+California/Gu...
[Edited on 1-19-2024 by SFandH]
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Lee
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| Quote: Originally posted by SFandH | Thanks for the replies. We decided to go all the way to Guerrero Negro and not stop in San Felipe except to buy gas.
I don't know why, but Google Maps is still showing getting onto the Tecate / San Felipe road from the toll road by driving past the interchange, into
El Sauzal, and making a U-turn to approach the interchange from the south.
See the blue line:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Rosarito,+Baja+California/Gu...
[Edited on 1-19-2024 by SFandH] |
I've stayed at Cowboy, Caracoles, and TerraSal in Guerrero Negro. Started staying at Halfway Inn and love it. (Located as you're leaving the
military base going S.). Breakfast is good there and fills up when they open at 7am with travelers leaving.
Mario's is minutes away and have had good food there. Timing is everything at Mario's as shuttles with whale watchers eat breakfast and supper there.
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| Quote: Originally posted by SFandH | Thanks for the replies. We decided to go all the way to Guerrero Negro and not stop in San Felipe except to buy gas.
I don't know why, but Google Maps is still showing getting onto the Tecate / San Felipe road from the toll road by driving past the interchange, into
El Sauzal, and making a U-turn to approach the interchange from the south.
See the blue line:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Rosarito,+Baja+California/Gu...
[Edited on 1-19-2024 by SFandH] |
I see a red line across the on-ramp, so maybe it is closed for repairs. Just go 1 more block in El Sauzal and grab a torta at El Trailero.
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Don't mess with Tijuana or the beach cities traffic. Cross the border at Tecate, take the toll road east, bypass Mexicali's headache by staying on 2D
to the south of town. Then south on 5 to San Felipe. Easy-peazy.
In the past dozen years, I've driven down there more than 50 times and this has always worked as the absolute least hassle. Unless I'm forced to, I
avoid northwest Baja's humans and traffic.
What Lee said, two thumbs up for the Sandollar Motel in SF. Their pool view:
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the place is epic....
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Where in GN did you stay?
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If all you need is just a place to sleep... Going via El Sauzal and Hwy 3, there is a couple of motels on Hwy 3, 20-30 miles East of Ensenada, before
San Felipe though this would be too early stop for you. Paid 500 MXN last fall. Secure, they closed gate to the courtyard for the night. In GN paid
450 MXN last spring in a motel next to the hospital. Bed, hot shower, old TV set.
[Edited on 2-8-2024 by Alm]
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| Quote: Originally posted by Marc | | I would drive into town. The El Capitan has secure parking and a half block walk to restaurants. |
always worked for us!
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