The Marriott in Tijuana

[kgard1916 33]

Does the Marriott have Wi-Fi? food onsite for my husband? What's close by when we get bored? We leave Thursday starting to get a little nervous.

[newmeby50 23]

There's the athere

[newmeby50 23]

There's a restaurant in the hotel that he can eat at, there's also a Wal-Mart up the road with a small shopping plaza. It's an up hill climb so we got the hotel shuttle to take us up to the plaza and we walked back to the Marriott. There's a place where you can exchange currency and a couple of little eateries there. The Wal-Mart is very different from the US. There's also a little place to eat at Mi Doctor Hospital if you're having surgery there.

[kgard1916 33]

Thank you

[juen 3]

Marriott had wifi....you will be very busy after surgery recovering. Hospital has wi fi too. Hotel is very pleasant and they take you shoppping to the market, beach or whatever the day you leave the hospital. Good idea to have movies downloaded to a tablet for your husband. Best of success to you!

[RadiantGal 5]

Hi,

I got back 3 weeks ago. The other posts are helpful, too. I will add a bit of detail. The food at the Marriott is excellent, I have heard, but we were on a tight budget, and my husband did not want to spend $15 for a hamburger. Here are some options. When you leave the Marriott and turn right you will come to the Walmart. Be careful as you walk around!! Sidewalks are skinny and uneven, and the traffic does not stop for pedestrians. There are a lot of taxis that use sirens to get your attention. Add the honking and awful drivers and traffic, it was very overwhelming my first day out of the hospital.

If you go left as you leave the Marriott, you will come to a footbridge over the street, the safest way to cross. As you descend the steps you will see a restaurant shaped like a sombrero called "Petreros", which came highly recommended and my husband enjoyed it. A little further down that side of the street is "Banorte", where you can use the ATM to withdraw dollars. That is the way to go instead of changing dollars to pesos and messing with all that. Try to get lots of single dollar bills and ask for dollars back or they will automatically give you pesos.

As you continue down the street past the sombrero restaurant, traffic eases up and you will see a Carl's Junior, and a small group of restaurants including Mexican, Teriyaki, and something else I can't recall. The Carl's Junior is probably the best bet for Breakfast.

No visit will be complete without a visit to "Revolution Avenue" , a tourist trap for sure, but this street is lined with little shops full of all sorts of goodies to take home. Beautiful ceramic dishes, etc, all hand painted. Each shop owner is very knowledgeable about their wares, and can be haggled down to at least half the original price. It is quite a long walk so you will want a Taxi; $6 each way for us. You will see a huge stainless steel colored arch at the end of the shops, and we found the cheapest prices in that area, along with many authenic Mexican restaurants filled with locals and emitting sumptous grilled aromas. It all smelled heavenly and I couldn't have any!

I hope this is helpful, and I have been wanting to post this info as I wish we had known this stuff sooner instead of by trial and error.

Take care, let us know how things are going!

RadiantGal