Mexico City travel advice thread

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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    edited March 2015
    see you all in Mexico ! :D
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  • henrixg
    henrixg Mexico Posts: 12
    I believe you guys have all the information already. We should meet before the show to hang out, I don't know if some of you are planning to be in line early, hopefully this time they'll sell the poster early and not at the time of the show.

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  • pouch15
    pouch15 Posts: 436
    I live in Mexico City, don't walk from the Riazor hotel to the venue.
  • CopperTom
    CopperTom Posts: 3,149
    pouch15 said:

    I live in Mexico City, don't walk from the Riazor hotel to the venue.

    Not what I wanted to hear.
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  • Indifference
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    northerndragon said:

    Once we get closer to the concert we can organize a meet up and make sure there is a plan to get everyone back to there respective beds safe and sound. :)

    Sounds like a plan!
    CopperTom said:

    pouch15 said:

    I live in Mexico City, don't walk from the Riazor hotel to the venue.

    Not what I wanted to hear.
    me neither

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  • marcPJfan
    marcPJfan Austin, TX Posts: 852
    My g/f and I are in for Mexico City. Got tickets Monday and booked our flights last night. Still trying to decide on a hotel.
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  • pouch15
    pouch15 Posts: 436
    Fiesta Inn Viaducto is a good hotel choice, and its near Condesa, a place with with nice restaurants and night life
  • ten474
    ten474 Los Angeles Posts: 186
    ElMachoBionico said:

    Red Lukin said:

    I booked a suite in Roma. It looks like a pretty cool area. It's a 15 min cab ride from Foro Sol, but I read online the metro is open until 1am on Saturdays. Worst case I'll stumble to the airport and catch a cab from there. Or I'll walk with you jammers to Riazor and ask the hotel to call me a cab.

    Colonia Roma is indeed a good place to stay (and Pearl Jam usually stay in a nearby hotel), but the metro really closes at 12 AM even on Saturdays. You shouldn't be worried about the cabs though; like Gabriel E. Ponzos said, there are plenty after a show.
    ElMacho, do you know what hotel PJ usually stays at? Someone told me the Four Seasons?

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  • ten474
    ten474 Los Angeles Posts: 186
    FYI, I went to Mexico City show in 2011. I have a friend who lives there in Napoles and stayed with him. Show was on Thursday, Thanksgiving. We were about 7 miles from Foro Sol, grabbed a cab at 5pm and CRAZY traffic. If I remember correctly, it took TWO HOURS to go about 6 miles. As we got about a mile away we realized it would be faster to walk the rest of the way. I remember it being VERY sketchy and it was only about 7pm. Very dark streets, sketchy people in the shadows. If I wasn't with my friend who is Mexican (and I kinda look Mexican) I would have been very sketched out. Even my Mexican friend was a little on edge.
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  • gangwarily
    gangwarily Posts: 64
    any recommendations on hotels close to the Foro Sol. grand prix and Riazor look as though theyre booked, somewhere we can get back to in a cab after the show. Thoughts?
  • ElMachoBionico
    ElMachoBionico Mexico City Posts: 18
    ten474 said:

    ElMachoBionico said:

    Red Lukin said:

    I booked a suite in Roma. It looks like a pretty cool area. It's a 15 min cab ride from Foro Sol, but I read online the metro is open until 1am on Saturdays. Worst case I'll stumble to the airport and catch a cab from there. Or I'll walk with you jammers to Riazor and ask the hotel to call me a cab.

    Colonia Roma is indeed a good place to stay (and Pearl Jam usually stay in a nearby hotel), but the metro really closes at 12 AM even on Saturdays. You shouldn't be worried about the cabs though; like Gabriel E. Ponzos said, there are plenty after a show.
    ElMacho, do you know what hotel PJ usually stays at? Someone told me the Four Seasons?

    Yes, that's the one.
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  • Red Lukin
    Red Lukin Canada Posts: 2,994
    Thanks for the info el macho.

    Ryan it makes sense since you're only a few stops away from centro. Plus the hotels will be full of jammers. I'm always down for a meet up with fellow jammers when traveling. Anyone interested in lucho libra on Friday followed by drinks? I'm not huge into fake wrestling but it could be fun

    Drinks we can try condesa, Roma, zona rosa or Centro. Condesa and roma might have a better vibe and more locals. Zona Rosa and Centro might be closer to those staying towards the raizor and more central for everyone.
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,344
    northerndragon said:

    Once we get closer to the concert we can organize a meet up and make sure there is a plan to get everyone back to there respective beds safe and sound. :)

    or whoever's bed they end up in.

    mexico city is fucking amazing. I was there many moons ago.

    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Muffin The Mule
    Muffin The Mule Amersham, Bucks Posts: 512
    If anyone is looking for a room at the Riazor I have a twin booked just for myself for Friday to Monday so have a spare bed. Please PM me if you're interested. I do snore but don't let that put you off!

    Is anyone else going from the UK?
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  • thebreaker
    thebreaker Posts: 22
    Only 243 more sleeps! Odelay!
  • ryanjp2323
    ryanjp2323 Posts: 562
    cant come soon enough. going to be an epic 5 day vacation!!!!
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  • ryanjp2323
    ryanjp2323 Posts: 562
    undone, gone, deep, leash, force of nature, Satans bed, off he goes, fatal, wash, man of.... be happy to get just one of these 10 in Mexico.

    also...on FB forums saw a posted youtube of the counterfeit market outside the venue in 2011. Think im going to haggle for the worst rip off / boot leg merch i can find!

    MEXICO!!!. saving my pesos!!! So many details of this trip to look forward to. Will be a few surprises as well I'm sure!!!


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  • CopperTom
    CopperTom Posts: 3,149
    ryanjp2323 said:

    undone, gone, deep, leash, force of nature, Satans bed, off he goes, fatal, wash, man of.... be happy to get just one of these 10 in Mexico.

    also...on FB forums saw a posted youtube of the counterfeit market outside the venue in 2011. Think im going to haggle for the worst rip off / boot leg merch i can find!

    MEXICO!!!. saving my pesos!!! So many details of this trip to look forward to. Will be a few surprises as well I'm sure!!!


    Post that video please.
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  • Red Lukin
    Red Lukin Canada Posts: 2,994
    edited April 2015

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  • BizzzyBozzzy
    BizzzyBozzzy San Diego Posts: 388
    I'm also at the Riazor coming in from New York. Booked two queens but haven't found someone to go with me yet. If it gets closer and I still don't have a 2nd it definitely makes sense to save some money and pair up.

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