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Border Crossing

jadams - 1-7-2011 at 10:11 AM

Does anyone kmow a telephone to check wait times at the border. It would nice to know, when coming back from San Felipe to cross at Mexicali or Tecate

DENNIS - 1-7-2011 at 10:14 AM

Try this, but don't take the info as gospel. They don't want anybody knowing what they're doing.

http://apps.cbp.gov/bwt/

jadams - 1-7-2011 at 10:16 AM

Thats good if your at a computer, but hoping to get telephone number
Thanks Jim

DENNIS - 1-7-2011 at 10:23 AM

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Originally posted by jadams
Thats good if your at a computer, but hoping to get telephone number
Thanks Jim


If you were crossing at Canada, there's lots of available info. Mexico....not so much.
If you find a number, let us know.

In the AM, the San Diego radio stations give crossing times given to them by US Customs and they are, in most cases, outright lies. I can remember [in spite of my efforts to forget it] sitting in a morning line going north at San Ysidro, listening to the radio report a twenty minute wait as I was well into my second hour.

Go Tecate.

Pacifico - 1-7-2011 at 10:27 AM

619-690-8999

Update: Sorry, this is for San Ysidro. Let me see if I can find one for other crossings.....

[Edited on 1-7-2011 by Pacifico]

bajaguy - 1-7-2011 at 10:29 AM

http://www.sanfelipe.com.mx/getting_here/returning.html

Scroll down the above link for phone numbers......

bajaguy - 1-7-2011 at 10:31 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Pacifico
619-690-8999

Update: Sorry, this is for San Ysidro. Let me see if I can find one for other crossings.....

[Edited on 1-7-2011 by Pacifico]






You can telephone to the border crossing station in Tecate to find out what the wait time is by dialing (from Mexico) 001-619-938-8300.

Pacifico - 1-7-2011 at 10:42 AM

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Originally posted by bajaguy
Quote:
Originally posted by Pacifico
619-690-8999

Update: Sorry, this is for San Ysidro. Let me see if I can find one for other crossings.....

[Edited on 1-7-2011 by Pacifico]



You can telephone to the border crossing station in Tecate to find out what the wait time is by dialing (from Mexico) 001-619-938-8300.


Thanks Bajaguy! And lastly.....Mexicali @ 760-768-2383

That's the 3 main ones anyways.....

bajaguy - 1-7-2011 at 10:44 AM

Click on that link above, it provides some pretty good info

jadams - 1-7-2011 at 11:04 AM

thank you for the information, the web site and telephone numbers will help next trip (in a couple of weeks, I hope)
thanks Jim

Marc - 1-7-2011 at 07:09 PM

I just resign myself to 90 minute wait.

roadhog - 1-8-2011 at 08:17 PM

was surprised at time getting into US after ease of getting into Mexico:
10 minutes vs 1-2 hours.
Are the Arizona-California desert crossings preferable to Tecate ?

Paulina - 1-9-2011 at 12:14 AM

Jadams,

Please check your u2u, upper right hand corner in blue. I'm wondering if you're the jadams that I went to school with in Glendale.

P<*)))>{

ps. I meant to say GAA, not GCC.

jadams - 1-9-2011 at 06:05 PM

Sorry, I could not figure out how to open the u2ubox I went to school in Sacramento and first trip to Baja was in 1962 I'm old!

BajaNomad - 1-9-2011 at 07:56 PM

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Originally posted by jadams
I could not figure out how to open the u2ubox
You might have a pop-up blocker on. Try holding down the Ctrl button while clicking on the link and see if it works.

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Doug