The great fishing along with the proximity to the border make this a natural for a weekend getaway. The relaxed environment and friendly locals will keep this area popular well into the future.
How Safe is San Felipe…
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Testimonial 1
By TripAdvisor Member: Erwin_From_Canada…Just returned from a Marathon trip of 6,000 kilometers from Vancouver BC Canada to San Felipe. We bought Mexican Insurance online before leaving from www.bahabound.com We drove to El Centro and stayed the night before crossing into Mexico at Mexicali in the morning. The border was uneventful, and once across there were many of the typical white on green signs pointing you through town and onto the highway 5 to San Felipe. There is one military checkpoint about an hour out of San Felipe. They were pleasant and professional. Highway 5 is four laned for a good part of the drive. There are currently a couple of gravel detours beside the highway where they are widening and repaving. No problems though. In San Felipe itself we found a good food store to stock up “DJ’s” where we bought some amazing steaks we barbequed later in the week and other good food. We saw “POLICIA” in their cars and trucks, but they were not many, and they were low key. We went out to town at night for pizza at “Fats” and we felt safe dining, walking and driving. Another night we went out for ice cream, again no worries. The locals were pleasant and all our dealings with them showed them to be honest and trustworthy. Two examples, workers pruning trees on the road outside the walled and gated condo compound asked us if the tools they found were ours, and when we said no, they later asked the owner who had forgotten them there while working on his boat a couple days before. Second example: I left my shoes on a relatively inexpensive $40 per head fishing trip. They dropped us off at the beach in front of the condo instead of via the marina to save us time. In the morning, my shoes were sitting in front of our door. In terms of safety, we drove all around San Felipe in my car, good areas and the humble…. We ran into some kids on a missions trip building a house for the locals, and they were camping out – aparently they were not scared either. Driving around town, never a dark stare, never a threatening gesture, but the occasional hola or a wave. The vendors on the “Melacon” (main drag in town by the beach) are pleasant and not too pushy. The only negative experience was the long border lineup back into the USA. The street hawkers working the border lineup are determined to wash your windows and to wipe down your car with their dirty cloth or to sell you something while you slowly crawl toward the border. The people in the sentri lanes were through in a flash, but we regular folk had to endure. Not unsafe feeling, just anoyed that I had to tell 50 people a firm “No Gracias” So yes, we felt our trip was safe – two cars, 3 Adults, 2 teenages, 2 preteens.
Testimonial 2
By Gary and Jean SWAT company …As you know for a number of years San Felipe has been the destination of choice for busloads of college spring breakers and San Felipe greatly relied on their revenues. The reason San Felipe was so popular was closeness for travel and the total safety in our little fishing hamlet. Well nothing has changed here. No violence, no unusal activities or unsavory characters. Just sand, sun, shrimp and margaritas. The inspection station is closely checking everyone coming in and out of the area which is a good thing. For everyones’ safety extra tourist police are in town on holidays and race weekends. In the recent weeks, I have had reason to cross the boarder in Mexicali/Calexico, San Luis/ Algondonas, and even the news crazy Cuidad Jaurez Crossing and every passing was absolutely routine, non eventful and placid. Slow but completely safe. I am including the news statement that the spring break organization put out to the parents about why they are canceling San Felipe this year. It had nothing to do the the real safety here but had everything to do with parents being concerned about news reports of trouble in Tiajuana and Cuidad Juarez. We are hundreds of miles away from Cuidad Juarez and 200 miles from Tiajuana. I hope this puts a more balanced perpsective on the news frenzy and how it is adversely affecting the town of San Felipe. Many of our family businesses will be devastated and will probably need to close their businesses. Spring break makes or breaks the year’s business here. It is very sad for us that the news has given such a biased report about what is really happening. Just like all areas of the United States are not the same, so every part of Mexico is not the same. I am sorry to hear about the massacre in Alabama, but I don’t think that should keep people from traveling to Alabama for spring break either. So to family and friends, do not worry, come down and have a fun spring break. And know that we are perfectly safe and having the time of our lives.
Testimonial 3
By GARY & CINDY GILBERT …Just wanted to let you know that our entire family travels to San Felipe Mexico MANY times throughout the year and we have NEVER witnessed or felt threatened or unsafe in our surroundings. We believe the news reports about Mexico are over exaggerated! San Felipe is a wonderful town with some of the most friendly, gracious, and caring people we have ever met. As a matter of fact, SF has a extremely low crime rate and it is much more safer than the city we currently live in in Northern California. We love San Felipe and look forward to retiring there when our youngest child graduates from high school.
Testimonial 4
By Gordie and Faith Middleton…We have been coming to San Felipe since the mid 1980′s and have been here twice, for thirty day stays, since last October. We have never had concern for our safety nor do we now. Folks simply need to take ordinary precautions, as they would in any U.S. hometown, and show respect for the people to whom this country belongs. In addition to the news of ‘drug violence’, our local news carried numerous reports about the elderly man (from our area in Washington State) who was erroneously imprisoned in Mexico recently. This was a horribly unfortunate event, but could have happened to anyone anywhere in the States as well. It is our understanding that the drug situation in Mexico is isolated to a few towns and neighborhoods, just as it is in the States. We have a friend, who has lived in San Felipe over 40 years and owns several local businesses, who has always told us this is one of the safest towns in Mexico. It is too bad that a small, quiet town like San Felipe is going to suffer such a setback by loosing the Spring Break crowd. Any college student would be as safe here as in Palm Springs; we just came through there on our way here last month. The reality is that there are far too many college students who are not yet mature enough to be Spring Breaking anywhere other than back home with Mom and Dad, and who will create their own unsafe situations regardless of where they go. One might suspect that the news of gang violence came at a convenient time since the U.S. has already been trying to encourage people to stay in the country and spend their tourism dollars at home. This may be a good thing for some people to do in our declining economy, ‘stay-cations’, but it should not be as a result of scare tactics and at the expense of our good friends south of the border. Generally people who are able to travel outside the country are also spending a fair number of discretionary dollars at home. We are not afraid to be here and plan to keep coming. We are more at risk of getting buried alive by flying plastic bags than of getting shot.
Testimonial 5
By Judy Carroll…I’ve been living in San Felipe for many years and for the past 9 years I’ve lived alone here. I have been traveling to and from the U.S. for almost 30 years. For the past 15 years I’ve traveled alone most of the time. If not alone, I have had lady friends who have traveled with me. For the past 2 years I have had to travel to and from for medical reasons. I have to go to a clinic in San Diego once a month and I make the trip alone most of the time. Once in awhile I take a Mexican National lady up with to me visit her son who lives in El Centro. The last trip up to the states, I was driving down Adams street in El Centro and I was making a right had turn into a lube and tune place, I must have been going too slow to suit the fellow behind me because he leaned on his horn and made very threatining gestures and cussed at me in a way that has never happened to me. I had a friend with me and she was truly frightened, (she lives in El Centro) I was just plain angry. I told her that in over 30 years of living in San Felipe, I’ve never had such an incident. On the contrary, anytime I’ve needed help on the roadways or the city streets there has ALWAYS been a Mexican National willing to help an old lady out. I can’t count the times I’ve had car trouble on the highway such as flat tires, and have never had to wait for long before a National comes along and offers help. I live alone and have never been afraid to live here. I simply can not imagine living in the U.S. I love the United States of America and I worry about the states of affairs there now but I would not be able to live here and feel safe. I think that the United States is in for some really hard times and I truly believe that because of the hard times petty crime will sky rocket. While it seems that hard times here in Mexico brings a certain comradary that softens the blow. While I have absolutely no desire to be filmed on your U-tube events (which are wonderful) I would like to contribute with my story and comment.
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