Angelos
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La Paz RV Park Re-opening
Not sure if this is the right place to post this -- but here goes!
During a bike ride this morning from El Comitan to El Centenario (a few miles outside of La Paz), my husband and I noticed an RV Park reopening. This
is not the very large government RV park that was opened some years back and has since closed, but a smaller one just down the road from that. Coming
north on Mex 1 out of central La Paz it is after the Maranatha campground that is on the left and before the San Juan de la Costa split to the right.
It is on the right hand side of the road after the OXXO (on the right) and right on the water where the inner bay comes in contact with Mex 1.
Cost is $40 pesos per person per night and includes all hookups. There is a nice pool (looked clean to me) and the owners plan to have live music
Thursday through Sunday.
They were painting and doing a lot of fixing up when we stopped by and said they just opened today.
I would estimate at least 15 spaces - maybe more (should have counted). Don't know how many are actually ready - as they are still painting and doing
a lot of work. But it is actually open - as of today. I didn't ask about laundry and other services - although there is public laundry really close
by.
Next time we go by, I'll be glad to take a few pictures or get other information in case anyone is interested. Just reply here and let me know what to
ask about.
Charlene
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DENNIS
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Sounds like a bargain, 40Ps each per night. Thanks.
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rob
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I wonder if that could be the old Los Aripes RV Park just on the western edge of El Centenario? I stayed there on my first trip to Baja in 1994 and it
was bad - drunken manager who did not remember being paid - and in 2000 when it was worse.
It is actually a beautiful property and I hope they resurrect it - La Paz could use another RV park.
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Angelos
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I am attaching a picture from Google Earth of the spot. You may recognize it from this. It is actually quite scenic.
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comitan
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Los Aripes RV Park
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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longlegsinlapaz
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Yes rob, it is the old Los Aripes site....I certainly hope it's under new ownership & that the plumbing in the communal bano/showers in the center
of the camp have been revamped to direct black water into a closed septic rather than the open air leech pit it went into in 1999! I spent 2 weeks
from hell there! Returning from my property in El Comitan one afternoon, I discovered personal belongings that had been stored in sealed cartons
under the RV strewn throughout the park & down on the beach....the owner tried to declare his kids innocent, but the red indelible marker they'd
used to write on my RV/folding chairs/trees/rocks/each others hands, faces & bodies was a dead give away!! He & his wife were more concerned
about how to clean his kids up than the damage they'd done.
It does have a pretty view looking out across the bay, but there was a strong raw sewer smell, a lot of highway noise & the pool was a
slime-filled mosquito breeding ground....the smell & the pool easily fixable, but not the highway noise. I'd personally only recommend it if it's
under new ownership & they've corrected the black water drainage issues.
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$40 peso's? Sounds to good to be true. Angelos, can you confirm that price?
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
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Angelos
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It is $40 pesos per person per night. That is what the sign said and we stopped and I asked the new owner and he confirmed the price. I actually asked
him several times in several different ways to make sure I understood between my Spanish and his English -- so for two people, it would be $80 pesos
per night - and he said yes.
The spaces are not very wide - but they seem long.
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longlegsinlapaz
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Good!! New owner will hopefully maximize the potential of the location & provide this area with a much needed RV park. I wish them well in their
new venture.
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Phil S
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Many years of trips from Loreto to LaPaz on business & back. Many years of "smelling" the bay when the tide was out. Many years of noticing the
RV Park there, and wondering how the heck the tenants could stay there, smelling the decaying odor from the bay????? Was it just me, or did anyone
else smell that bay odor??? Or was it really sewer I was smelling. Angelos: since your bike riders, and this is perhaps on your 'route'. Do you
experience the odor I am talking about?
[Edited on 4-19-2011 by Phil S]
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rob
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Longlegs certainly nailed the OLD Los aripes RV place more graphically than I did (the swimming pool was indescribable and the children very
unpleasant)! The memories flood back to me now - she left out las cucarachas MUY agresivas . .
Phil S - I would like to think it WAS the bay odor you noticed and not the sewers. In late autumn (end Oct/Nov), perhaps with falling water temps,
there must be a major weed die-off in the lagoon and the stench is indescribable. But for GENUINE odor, the real thing, nothing beats Fidepaz.
I hope the new owners get that running (I think it will need $$) - in winter its a delightful spot, traffic notwithstanding.
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David K
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Stayed there on honeymoon in 1985... Was fine and the owner treated us to oysters he had just harvested off the mangroves. Too bad things change. It
was called Los Aripes de Arriz (?) or something like that back then.
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