{"id":11543,"date":"2022-03-09T06:10:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=11543"},"modified":"2022-03-09T06:10:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:10:55","slug":"favorite-baja-stops-the-rosarito-beach-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/09\/favorite-baja-stops-the-rosarito-beach-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Baja Stops: The Rosarito Beach Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the exception of our blogs on Tecate, most of what we write about Baja is well into the peninsula’s interior, far away from the touristy stuff clustered around Tijuana.\u00a0 Today’s blog on the Rosarito Beach Hotel is an exception.\u00a0 I love this place, and the beauty of it is that it’s only about 20 miles south of the border.\u00a0 It will take you longer to get through Mexican Customs in TJ than it will to drive to the Rosarito Beach Hotel.<\/p>\n

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You can actually see the Rosarito Beach Hotel from the toll road. It’s a short drive from the US border.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To get there from So Cal, just take I-5 south until you run out of road.\u00a0 Before you cross the border, though, make sure your car or motorcycle has Mexican insurance (we always use BajaBound<\/a>).\u00a0 After you’ve crossed the border you’ll need to stop at the Mexican Customs office (it’s huge and you can’t miss it), get your paperwork squared away, and continue south.\u00a0 Watch the signs for the toll road to Ensenada; that’s the road you want.\u00a0 Driving through TJ isn’t too bad; once you’re on the toll road it’s a pleasant drive along the Pacific Coast and you’ll soon see signs for Rosarito Beach.\u00a0 Watch for the Rosarito Beach Hotel sign, head east, and after a couple of blocks you will be at the hotel entrance.<\/p>\n

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The Rosarito Beach Hotel. Susie and I used to ride in the 50-mile fun run bicycle ride from Rosarito Beach to Ensenada when it ran that route. Those were grand times.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Rosarito Beach Hotel goes back to the 1920s when people like Clark Gable stayed there.\u00a0 The bar is great, the restaurant is surprisingly good, their Sunday brunch is incredible (it’s worth the drive there just for that), and the first meal is on the house.\u00a0 The rooms are modern and they are immaculate.\u00a0 The grounds are beautiful and the hotel has secure parking.<\/p>\n

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The landscaping and layout of the Rosarito Beach Hotel are well done. The hotel is immaculate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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All parking at the Rosarito Beach Hotel is world class. Those two KLRs belonged to yours truly and Baja John. We rode them on several of many rides through Baja.\u00a0 You can read about our Baja adventures here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A member of the wait staff in the Rosarito Beach Hotel. The service was superb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Rosarito Beach Hotel breakfast. The Sunday morning brunch is exquisite.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many times when we’re doing group rides, we’ll use the Rosarito Beach Hotel as a rally point after we’ve crossed the border.\u00a0 It’s hard to miss when you’re on the toll road to Ensenada, and if your group gets separated in the complexity that is the Tijuana border area, the Rosarito Beach Hotel is a good place to meet.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned above, the restaurant in the Rosarito Beach Hotel is good.\u00a0 If you enjoy world-class fine dining, Susanna’s may well be the best kept secret in Rosarito Beach.\u00a0 It’s just a bit north of the Rosarito Beach Hotel and within walking distance in the Pueblo Plaza courtyard collection of shops at Benito Ju\u00e1rez 4356 (walk north a block or two and turn right).\u00a0 \u00a0I have at least one dinner there every time I am in Rosarito Beach and I’ve never been disappointed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Susanna in her world-class restaurant. I love this place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Shrimp and steak in Susanna’s, one of many fine dinners I’ve enjoyed there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There you have it:\u00a0 The Rosarito Beach Hotel.\u00a0 If you’d like to read more about our favorite spots in Baja and some of the fabulous rides we’ve enjoyed south of the border, please visit our Baja page<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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With the exception of our blogs on Tecate, most of what we write about Baja is well into the peninsula’s interior, far away from the touristy stuff clustered around Tijuana.\u00a0 Today’s blog on the Rosarito Beach Hotel is an exception.\u00a0 I love this place, and the beauty of it is that it’s only about 20 … Continue reading “Favorite Baja Stops: The Rosarito Beach Hotel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,57],"tags":[3,628,2609,2610,2611],"class_list":["post-11543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baja","category-baja-cuisine","tag-baja","tag-baja-hotels","tag-rosarito-beach","tag-rosarito-beach-hotel","tag-susannas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/DSC00938-900.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11543"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16402,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543\/revisions\/16402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}