vivaloha - 11-14-2007 at 10:06 PM
Is Playa Los Cerritos really turning into a
PRIVATE BEACH or something....?
If anyone has been down there in the
last few months, I'd really be curious
to hear what it looks and feels like...
Parking? Golf carts? Please give
me any reports or facts...just curious...
Thanks - vivaloha
Marie-Rose - 11-15-2007 at 07:33 AM
Was there sunday. Certainly a different place than 3 years ago. The Cerritos Beach Club is busy... lots of people eating and drinking. Live jazz
music (keyboard and singer).
Lots of people on the beach and in the water. The beach club servers seem to be serving drinks even out on the beach.
The palapa's beside the beach club were opening their "spa". A couple of tables for massage. 2 for one specials on sunday. I believe the normal
price is going to be $75 for 50 min massage and $160 for 1 hour deep tissue massage. One of the other palapa's is a surf shop and one sells clothing
etc.
They are offering yoga classes, boot camps. There is a large building going up further down the beach...?? the condo's???
A huge home being built on the rock bluff that overlooks the whole beach... and I mean HUGE!! Rumor has it that they have been given a "stop work"
order... only rumor but there have not been workers there the past few times we've been.
They have shut down the local taco stand
Very sad for people like me and the locals!!! I loved that place.
The feeling... well, it certainly feels different!!! Some people will enjoy the comforts that spending money there will buy... nice lounge chairs,
bathrooms, showers. Other people HATE that it certainly is not the Cerritos of years gone by.
Sunman - 11-15-2007 at 08:58 AM
Yep, times are a changin'. I was there last month and couldn't beleive it. Rocked up expecting to drive out on the beach and camp (as usual) only to
find this huge beach club as mentioned above with 60" plasmas and $3.00 beers, and a surf shop next door....blew my mind. It was definitely very nice
but sad at the same time, just not my scene.
And then there's what used to be the San Pedrito RV Park... closed, delapidated, over run by reeds and bush. Kinda sad, used to enjoy camping under
the palapas there, could always grab a nice brekkie at the little restaurant there. Its for sale apparently, I guess they had enough of the arroyo
claiming the land back every time a hurricane blew through. At least thats the story I heard at the beach club.
vivaloha - 11-15-2007 at 09:06 AM
Thank you Marie-Rose for the update...My first time to Los Cerritos was
in the summer of 1986 and there was next to nothing there...a fisherman's
palapa built on the rocks on the norther-side of the beach...So sad to watch
it go to the highest bidder...did you have to pay for parking?
Marie-Rose - 11-15-2007 at 11:48 AM
Lots of free parking... so far
Al G - 11-15-2007 at 02:10 PM
A small reminder...the highway in that area is difficult to get off and on. In some places you need to drive along side the highway to find a safe
place. It may have change, but be aware.
Bajamatic - 11-15-2007 at 03:03 PM
Here's what I heard:
The whole bay (to the fence in the middle) was bought and the new owner is parceling off the land and selling it, and building himself a monster
house on the bluff. The house has been halted because he doesn't have environmental permits - will only be stopped for a short while. Beaches I
don't think can be made private in mexico, but access can be made difficult. I am told that this guy has no intention of making beach access hard as
this is a beach used by all the locals and he appears to be playing nice with all the local groups. BUT - count on homes and change.
Al G - 11-15-2007 at 03:47 PM
Interesting, I had heard he had security Guards to run people off the beach...I wonder if the gov. dropped a bomb on his head?
Gadget - 11-15-2007 at 05:08 PM
Interesting stuff huh?
Can't remember the guys name that is building the big resort Tequilla deal on the beach at El Pescadero, but the guy who is building the house on the
bluff is his developer from the states. Proposed 14,000 sq ft monument to himself.
We heard that they strong armed the gal, 2 children and her brother in law off their rightful land at Cerritos with a bull dozer because she wouldn't
sell out to him after her husband died.
The old trailer park at San Pedrito has indeed turned back to the bush. Actually it's correct name is Playa Estero, which is what it is again. Not
such a great place to set up a trailer park and restaurant. Now they are trying to sell it 
Hey, I got some swamp land for you with an ocean view for sale???? The water shed vado that crosses the hiway is several hundred
yards wide!
Posting from BoLA at in-laws house. No surf yet on the Pacific side. Just back from an attempted day surf at south end of 7Ss.
Bajamatic - 11-15-2007 at 07:56 PM
Day surf at the 7Ss - I hope that phrase never becomes too easy to claim!
vivaloha - 11-15-2007 at 08:19 PM
Wow...strong armed the wife, two kids and the brother in law with a 'dozer - cuz she wouldn't sell - ouch! Not very gentleman-like behavior 'eh?
Yeah, I kinda figured something big was happenin' cuz some locals were
talking about bulldozers starting work just as the sun was going down, working through the night...i heard the dude is from Texas or
something...anyways, what are we mere beachgoers to do...? Mighty money and progress won't be stopped...They can change the beach but they can't
change the tasty little waves which sometimes crank through there...Anyways, thanks for the info gang...and also thanks for the sad little info on the
devastated San Pedrito / Playa Estero zone...pretty hack-a-roochied place...and like you said Gadget, what do you expect when you rock out in an
arroyo...eventually its gonna flow!
Bajamatic - nice barrel shot! Did you photo that?
Von - 11-15-2007 at 08:59 PM
Dam! was there in 99' cannt imagine what kind of $chit is going on. Dam that sucks! but thats part of life .......