Tijuana

Pros: Quality artisanal works and nice people
Cons: Av. Revolucion is a bit beat

Millions of gringos cross the border at Tijuana for a day of shopping, dining, drinking, or maybe just for a brief glimpse of the largest of Mexican border cities. Yet Tijuana -- with its sometimes grim, mercenary population of transients and its...

Pros: Top-notch food and more tequilas than you knew existed
Cons: Be aware of the dress code

The one fundamental aspect of a restaurant that really makes it jump to the top of my list of favorites is passion. No, I'm not talking about romantic restaurants, I'm talking about restaurants having a passion for excellence -- plus a passion for...

Pros: prescription drugs; t-shirts; unique experience for sheltered Americans
Cons: aggressive sales techniques

No visit to San Diego is complete without the obligatory day trip to Tijuana, the most tourist-visited city in the world.

We got a cheapish motel room in San Ysidro, California, which is basically the American version of Tijuana. A suburb...

Pros: cost of products a lot lower then in USA. Fun, Lots of new things to do
Cons: Water you can't drink it. Food To afraid to eat it.. Stip Clubs all over, Kids and parents asking for money on the streets.

Review Topic:  Sights & Attractions

TJ Mexico what you hear about this place is true. When I was 18 years old I was living in Long Beach California, me and some friends decided to take a trip down to TJ Mexico to check out...

Pros: When you get away from the horrible Americans and their disgusting behavior, it is Mexico
Cons: Frat boys, bimbos, jarheads, and other American excrement polluting the town.

It was 7:30 in the morning and we were already running late. If we wanted to crack the border by 10 we would need to take our motion up to 11, pronto.

It was all Duende's idea. One night while munching on a tostada from Tito's Tacos...

Pros: good fresh bread! bargains to be had
Cons: umm...poverty.

One of the obvious temptations of being in San Diego, so close to the Mexican border, is a trip to legendary Tijuana. My brother had warned ahead of time, saying things like “don’t bother”, and “you’ll leave there depressed,” but I wanted to see it for...

Pros: Fascinating.
Cons: Corruption.

I've been going to Tijuana since I was 17 years old. This town is electric, dirty, fascinating, scary, and thought provoking all at once! I wanted to give my impression of the city and it's people so that you might make and educated decision on whether...

Pros: If I think long enough I might come up with some.......no, I couldn't sorry.
Cons: Aggressive sales people.

I'm sure Tijuana is not the ' real' Mexico and I am sure Avenida Revolucion is not the 'real' Tijuana but...it is the closest I got.

We decided to check out Tijuana one Sunday morning. We drove down to the border and parked at the Border...

Pros: Shopkeepers and passersby were helpful.
Cons: Crime!

After what happened to me while on a half-day tour to Tijuana, I could never recommend a trip there to anyone.

We started our tour at 9:30 in the morning when the tour guide that had picked us up at our San Diego hotel dropped us off on the...

Pros: Energy, cultural frisson, weirdness, and astonishment every three feet.
Cons: Cons so obvious that I'll leave them to others.

Let me state first off so that you may choose to stop reading now if you like: I LOVE Tijuana. Most commentaries about Tijuana, most visitor reports including the majority of those here on Epinions, focus pretty much exclusively on Tijuana as a day...

Pros: Good Food And Cheap Beer.
Cons: Don't forget the rain coat!

The ability to meet a lot of college girls across the border from San Diego in Tijuana is very easy. The number one aim of the visitors there for the night life is to pick up on the opposite sex and to get drunk.

Not necessarily in that...

Pros: wonderful people, very cheap prescription drugs and cigarettes, and an atmosphere of fiesta all the time.
Cons: Border crossings can be painful -- take care to know the rules.

Tijuana has a bad reputation. And it's not all just an urban legend. Recently, the police chief was murdered, execution-style, after hit men were paid by a deputy to knock him off. Bribes abound. It's a poor country with many desperate, destitute...

Pros: Interesting, exciting, great food, unique, colorful, good looking girls
Cons: dangerous

Tijuana, formally known as Aunt Juana's ranch, became Mexico's border city after Mexico lost most of California to the United States because of the Mexican/American war. Tijuana is a new city according to Mexican standards, and has very little in the way...

Pros: A choice of bars, a place for those between the ages of 18&20 to go dancing
Cons: Dirty, different justice system, can be unsafe if you are not smart

Yes, I'll admit it, I met and MARRIED a man I met on Avenue de Revolucion in Tijuana (TJ). YES, he was a sailor and YES I was a college student. So what? We've now been together for nearly 5 years and are happy as clams! Okay, now that I'm done being...

Pros: Inexpensive merchandise, plenty of dentists
Cons: Filthy and full of beggars

For our one year wedding anniversary, (April 2000) my husband took me on a fabulous trip to southern California. We flew into Los Angeles International Airport, rented a car and tooled around the California deserts and national parks.

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