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No I was talking about northern Baja. Where we are and PV the season observation still apply. The Caribbean side has a different type of lobster. Any place in MX serving lobster outside of season is flying it in, it's frozen, or they are buying from illegal fishing sources. Some is even flown in from China and Asia.

We do northern Baja lobster often, but only when in season (Nov-Feb) and it's very flavorful. But off season it's usually been frozen and dry/tasteless. Puerto Nuevo has several great lobster places and we are lucky to only be 10 minutes away. We also can see the fisherman checking their lobster pots from our balcony so we have a good idea when the good harvest starts.

True, we try and cross Saturday or Sunday morning and that's normally less than 20 minutes. If you cross after 1500 hrs it's pretty fast during the week.

Super easy, I wish we had done it rather than do the Park & Stay at the Hilton.

If you come into San Pedro you could have them go into the parking lot rather than being forced to circle around. It might cost a few $ but the parking lot is an easy walk from the terminal and you could find them pretty easy.

Leave it to the CA Governor to turn this into a political statement. The point is Mexico has done their part now it's time for CA and Feds to step up. Building the roads and buildings is the easy part. CBP can't even staff the POE's here now let alone add another. I have Sentri so the Otay East won't effect me, except to take some traffic off the San Ysidro crossing.

The real "pay off" project will be the train route from the Atlantic to the Pacific as an alternative to the Panama Canal.

The elevated expressway has been blazing along, much faster than what I expected. For through traffic it will help a lot, not so much for local traffic as there will only be a couple of exits between Playas and the airport. We drive from Rosarito to San Diego as little as possible, but this should make our trip better. One of our Rosarito neighbors works for a large road construction company in San Diego he sees the construction being as good as anything in the US. The new Mexico City airport is supposed to be amazing compared to the old one. We have friends who fly through there often and they rate it very high on worldwide airports. Before the project was taken over by the military it was behind schedule and over budget. Now lets see if they can get the metro out to it. What would really help would be for the US side to complete their part of the Otay East Port of Entry. Mexico got their side all done. I guess somebody forgot to tell the US CBP they were going to staff it. It was suppose to be open last Spring now nobody will commit to an opening date.

Milhouse related CBP is using facial recognition at YVR for NEXUS. I would assume GE is the same since it's all the same CBP Trusted Traveler program. My card is actually a SENTRI card but it grants me the same benefits as GE. I meet a couple of CBP officers who worked pre-clearance, one at YVR and one at LHR. Those were great duty assignments.

Yes it's the same. Last 4-5 time we came back into the US I never had to show any documents it was all done by facial recognition and the CBP officer had me on his screen by the time I got to the exit door.

It's been a long time since we flew through YVR, but you just jogged my memory. We clear US CBP in YVR? We have Global Entry so I assume that would speed up the process just as it does when we clear at SFO or LAX?

Keep in mind the Mexican military manages most of the huge infrastructure projects in MX. When the Mexico City airport couldn't get built on time the President told the military to take it over. They are now running the construction of the Mayan train and a huge expressway going from Tijuana airport out to Playas. Any improvements to cruise ports will be run by them also. Don't look at this as a way to increase the size of the "military" they do much more.

Reads to me it's PP per cruise not per port.

If you RSVP in advance you will pay a little more but it won't change. The estimator is just that and estimate. Uber does use dynamic pricing so it can change hour to hour.

It had nothing to do with the passengers. The cruise lines were trying to leverage the city by dropping the port all together until they upgraded the facilities, which they did. San Diego is probably one of a few cities that doesn't need cruise ships. Their cash cow is conventions.

You will be right in the middle of the commute. You can check the Uber www site for an estimate. You could have dinner at LAX and then wait until around 1900 hrs when it most likely will thin out. But if it were me I would just suck it up and get on the road ASAP.

Never happen. They tried it with Port of San Diego when they jacked up port fees and it didn't last long.

Except it's all basically a one party system. The Morena party controls both houses.

How soon is "very soon"? If it's after February don't both it will be out of season and not very good.

Good idea, either commute Monday afternoon/evening or Tuesday morning are both going to be horrible. After 1900 hrs on Monday won't be to bad if you're in that late.

Recent cruises it's been hit or miss with the onboard water package. We have gotten both glass and cans. The cans were fine and tasted just like water. I would order from the ship and take my own bottle or stainless container and just fill it. I doubt you will notice the cans tasting different. It's more psychological than anything.

Went to Rome last summer and it almost hit 100, most of the week was mid-90's. Paris year before in September and it was around 90. Not doing without A/C again.

It's a beautiful hotel and I just looked for our July cruise and the prices are very reasonable even for a two room suite. However, no A/C and not sure I want to chance that in July. Granted 76 is the average and the record high was 98, with my luck we would be there for the new record.

No comparison go to the El Cordova in Coronado.

They should still be good currency hasn't changed since 1993. What denominations and how much do you have?