gnukid
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buying beds la paz?
Could anyone please suggest a high quality place to buy beds in la paz, BCS?
Simple traditional metal frames with wheels?
I don't know much about buying beds, but I know they should be good quality, be new and have a mattress cover to keep bugs out and nice sheets to
cover them? Thanks for helping us sleep!
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bajaguy
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Beds
We purchased our Sealy pillow top with box springs at COSTCO (in Ensenada). The set comes with six wooden legs you screw into the box spring frame.
We picked up our metal queen frame at a segunda
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El Norte
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Buying beds in La Paz
San Diego Furniture.
Don't buy from Ramos or you will likely not get the bed you picked out!
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bajaguy
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If you want a really great bed, try and get a Select Comfort. swe have two and really like them.
We purchased the sealy for the guest bedroom. 
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I second San Diego furniture...excellent quality and they were delivered to our house a half hour after we'd purchased them 
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Be-careful about the sizes.....
I bought a "queen" at Costco Ensenada and it was SMALLER that a normal queen bed.
USA bought sheets did not fit....
The width was the same but the length was about 4" shorter than a normal queen.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DaliDali
Be-careful about the sizes.....
I bought a "queen" at Costco Ensenada and it was SMALLER that a normal queen bed.
USA bought sheets did not fit....
The width was the same but the length was about 4" shorter than a normal queen. |
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mtnpop
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We found the same problem last winter.. bought a queen size and didn't check until we got it back to Mulege.. shorter like a RV mattress...
there are many furniture stores in Lapaz..
Coppel, Sears, San Diego, not sure if Liverpool out by Home Depot has furniture, and Segusino Furniture as you come on the malecon...
there is also a nice store in the new mall by Sorianos' also close to Home Depot.
good luck
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Alan
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I think all beds in Mexico are shorter than the US. There was a huge post about it several years past.
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gnukid
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Thanks very much, buying beds is a big decision, like getting married
I'll report back, after shopping this weekend!
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mojo_norte
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| Quote: | Originally posted by gnukid
Thanks very much, buying beds is a big decision, like getting married
I'll report back, after shopping this weekend! |
yes, one often keeps the bed longer than the wife.
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bajaguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DaliDali
Be-careful about the sizes.....
I bought a "queen" at Costco Ensenada and it was SMALLER that a normal queen bed.
USA bought sheets did not fit....
The width was the same but the length was about 4" shorter than a normal queen. |
The bed we purchased at the Ensenada Costco was a full size queen made by Sealy.....and our US sheets fit
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MitchMan
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When I furnished my place in La Paz six years ago, the size difference in Queen sized beds compared to American bed dimensions, caught me by surprise.
All the bed frames were for American sized mattresses, so now my Mexican queen sized mattresses are too small for the bed frames.
What is worse, the dam bottom fitted sheets are too big for the mattress. That whole scenario makes no sense.
Like Randy Newman said, "Short people..."
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RnR
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The San Diego store in La Paz stocks both US and Mexican size mattresses. Just be very clear about which size that you want.
Most of the display models are the Mexican sizes. So, when you say, "I'll take this one ......" You need to add, "But in a US size"
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They WOULD make the queen size the same length but then someone came up with the bright idea...
"Why waste three feet?"
Just walk down any sidewalk in any city and you will encounter the reason...over and over and over again.
Yes this is a sarcastic joke except for the part about five and a half feet to the bottom of the awning angle iron. In rural Oaxaca the doors are five
and a half feet in height.
I've spent many a night in a Mexican metal framed bed, diagonal with my feet resting on a chair piled high with luggage. Feel every gosh darnned
spring in the bed. Pillowcases that say "Cemex" on them. Traditional Mexicans don't call a blanket a "manta" until it weighs at least three kilos.
They camouflage poor quality sheets and pillowcases by adding a quart of starch to the laundry load. The maid pulls the sheets and stands them up.
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