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KurtG
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Quote: Originally posted by shari  | Las Dunas beside the grocery store puts a rope across the entrance at night and also has someone in the office right at the entrance but most
tourists wouldnt like the quality of those rooms or beds.
[Edited on 10-28-2015 by shari] |
Hi Shari,
I guess I am low on the scale of nomads' standards cause I think the Dunas is just fine. Ultra cheap, the rooms are Spartan but clean and the foam
mattress on concrete base is fine with me. On this trip I stayed at Hotel Ballenas which is just a bit more but has really good wifi and the owners
are very nice.
For just an overnight hotel I don't need much, quiet, hot water, wifi.
I hope to get to Asuncion on my way north next week. I'm on the bike while Kathy is at home waiting for the new grand daughter who is expected to
make her arrival in the next few days.
Kurt
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DianaT
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| Quote: Originally posted by KurtG |
..... On this trip I stayed at Hotel Ballenas which is just a bit more but has really good wifi and the owners are very nice.
For just an overnight hotel I don't need much, quiet, hot water, wifi.
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Kurt |
For an inexpensive overnight we have often used Hotel Ballenas --- very basic, and as you said the owners are great and live right there.
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DianaT
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That would be good for at least 50 pages! We enjoy some places that others won't go near and visa versa. We have rented houses that were filthy and
where the sheets were not changed, and others write raving reviews. We enjoy the Mission Hotel in Cataviņa and others have nothing good to say about
it. I don't think there would one place where there was total agreement, not one. 
So it would really be quite impossible to have a "Nomad" approved place --- that is unless Doug wants to play Triple A as he is Baja Nomad.
It might be a fun read, however. Then again, probably not.
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shari
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Look forward to seeing you Kurt!
You have to check the beds at Las Dunas as some are terrible...the new foam mattresses are good though and wifi works best in the end rooms. We stay
there alot and like the location if we are getting car work done etc as it is central and lots of stores nearby...great coffee across the street too.
Hotel Ballenas is also nice and quiet and a family operation but the rooms are a bit tired and need a carpet upgrade.
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UnoMas
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Another Malarrimo incident,
My wife and I stayed there in a truck and camper. We were parked up against the back wall in the R.V. spots. The wife went to take a shower in the
ones provided.
The windows had been broken out but replaced with plywood, there were holes carved into them....While taking her shower she thought she saw someone
watching her through the peep holes. When she exited the shower she walked around the back side to fine a employee standing on the propane tank that
had been watching her shower.  Just wanted anyone in the same situation to
be aware.
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BajaBlanca
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whoa, that is awful. I sure hope you told someone from Malarrimo? Awful.
even though I stayed at cowboys, it is definitely not safer, so to speak. There is no guard and no dog, but there is a narrow entrance and the
vehicle was right in front of my room. I just wanted to avoid he robber at Malarrimo's.
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ligui
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Maybe time to boycott this hotel until the owners step up to make it safe .
Good thing it wasn't my wife .... There would have been some -ss-kicking along with a call to the police .
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chuckie
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Would have been interesting to see whose burro got kicked and to see the Police response to assaulting a Mexican national...
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ligui
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Chuckie ... a man without honor .  I know the laws in mexico . I also know that
they don't put up with this chit either .
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chuckie
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Right...go for it...
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David K
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| Quote: Originally posted by ligui | Maybe time to boycott this hotel until the owners step up to make it safe .
Good thing it wasn't my wife .... There would have been some -ss-kicking along with a call to the police . |
"Malarrimo" translates to "Bad to get near" (ie. stay away!)
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rts551
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You got to wonder why he was still standing there after she dressed (I an assuming she did) and exited the shower....must not have been the brightest
light around.
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woody with a view
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must have been difficult to run with a chubby?
edit:
[Edited on 10-31-2015 by woody with a view]
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bajabuddha
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Maybe he was still stuck in one of the plywood holes... which is a good reason to always shower with a pocket knife.
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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watizname
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| Quote: Originally posted by rts551 | | You got to wonder why he was still standing there after she dressed (I an assuming she did) and exited the shower....must not have been the brightest
light around. |
A little squirt of shampoo thru the little hole would have taught even the dimmest bulb a lesson. 
I yam what I yam and that\'s all what I yam.
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: Originally posted by UnoMas | Another Malarrimo incident,
My wife and I stayed there in a truck and camper. We were parked up against the back wall in the R.V. spots. The wife went to take a shower in the
ones provided.
The windows had been broken out but replaced with plywood, there were holes carved into them....While taking her shower she thought she saw someone
watching her through the peep holes. When she exited the shower she walked around the back side to fine a employee standing on the propane tank that
had been watching her shower. Just wanted anyone in the same situation to
be aware. |
"She thought she saw"
Sounds like was not certain. Perhaps the person was just working near the wall and what she saw was not what she thought?
The son who runs the hotel seems like a good guy, did you talk to the inn keeper?
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motoged
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....and so goes the rumour mill....with added braggadocio....
"He said, she said"....some is true....or it ALL must be true...cuz you read it on the internet ....
A good reason to keep the stories rolling but not canonizing them in a Hotel List
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkhPuH8G5Hg
Don't believe everything you think....
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Bajahowodd
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Face it. There is not a secure parking lot at any hotel in GN.
In our travels over the years, I really can only remember Hotel San Nicholas in Ensenada that has a security guard 24/7, and is fenced in,
and the Hacienda Suites in Loreto that has a walled parking lot out back that gets locked after sunset.
Admittedly, as was previously post (goat?), There is almost no totally secure lots on the peninsula, but the two mentioned above are as good as it
gets.
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BAJA.DESERT.RAT
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2 more centavos...
JARDINES in san quintin has a night watchman that DOES watch.
i walked to the parking lot to get something out of my trailer around 3 a.m. and he was definitely watching AND wide awake and again at 6:30 a.m., he
was there when i went to get coffee.
THE OLD MILL in san quintin has a courtyard parking lot and i never had a problem there.
also in loreto, HOTEL ANGRA has a large, secure parking lot and they close the front gate at night ( only gate ) and open it again around 7 a.m. very
nice english speaking and very accomodating owners on site.
verdugo's in los barriles is safe and they close the front and back gates in the evening, around 10 p.m.
maybe 2.5 centavos ?
BIEN SALUD, DA RAT
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motoged
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La Misiones in Ciudad Insurgentes has a locked parking lot...nice clean and very friendly hotel - 6 rooms just south of traffic circle on west side of
ro ad
Don't believe everything you think....
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