
Rosarito Beach Travel Guide
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Rosarito is a city in Baja California, Mexico.
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Get in
Get around
See
Do
- The Rosarito-Ensenada Bike Ride twice a year in April and October, is a "fun ride" 50 miles along the coast and a few miles inland. Up to 10,000 riders participate in the ride, which ends with cervesas in Ensenada.
Buy
Eat
La Flor de Michoacan, on the north side of town on Benito Juarez, has a well-deserved reputation with tourists and locals alike. This restaurant is known for its carnitas (simmered and fried pork) dinners served family style with rice, beans, pico de gallo, fresh guacamole, and steaming, fresh tortillas wrapped in cloth and served in a basket. The restaurant also has a full bar and serves margaritas made with real strawberries. Carnitas plates are served two different ways. Mixed pork includes tripe and other pieces many do not find appetizing. If this is you, shell out the extra couple dollars and get the solid pork. You'll be hard-pressed to spend more than $10 a person, even with a pitcher or two of margaritas. The building is hard to miss, an imposing brick structure on a corner with a stop sign. Look for the word "CARNITAS" on top.
Drink
The Beachcomber lies in the central part of town in a resort village. The resort village is gated, so you'll have to park in the lot outside of the gate and take a small walk. If the guard asks at the gate where you're going, just say you're getting drinks at the bar, you don't have to have a house there to drink. The bar has a patio right next to the beach, making it the perfect place to drink a beer or margarita and watch the sunset. There is also access to the beach here as well. While the drinks aren't the cheapest in town, they aren't overpriced, and you're not going to pay a cover.
Sleep
Rosarito Beach is a fast-growing town. With that growth comes growing pains! For this reason, it is best to avoid all high-rises and accommodations in downtown Rosarito. Loud music coming from the clubs is a persistent problem that tourists face when they try to go to sleep every night. The best bet is for people to go to privately owned Villas or Condos or Houses. Listings of all three types are plentiful and readily found everywhere. The best resource recommended would be www.vrbo.com.
The bad aside, Rosarito Beach lies right on the Gold Coast and it is called the Gold Coast for a good reason! Along some spots on the coast, there are surfing meccas as well as stunning vantage points. The classic Mexican sunset closes the deal and the Baja California remains one of the best places to get away for the weekend for residents of San Diego!
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