I took this from the Baja Nomads message board. Some truth (mostly about the rooms) and some funny. I told Juanita if I were inclined to respond to strangers on the internet, I would send in a picture of the empty parking lot at "La Pinta" last night compared to the full lot at Cielito.
C-Urchin
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Registered: 12-17-2008
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posted on 9-12-2009 at 09:54 PM
San Quintin
Glad to know there is a good place in San Quentin. I went there 2 years ago and stayed with friends at "Cielito Lindo". To be avoided at all cost.
I am out of adjectives to describe the squalor of that place. Run-down would be a compliment. Nasty filthy rooms, gray linens (were white a few decades ago) lumpy sweaty smelly pillows, dust everywhere, raw, live electrical, fungus holding the few tiles left in the bathroom, rocking toilets that leak and on and on. Then you have to walk for half a kl. in wall to wall trash to get to a dirty beach.
The restaurant is kind of fun but the second night you start to notice the rather ancient chain smoking hookers circling like "sopilotes" in the bar. Very high miles on those models. Their choice clientele is the welfare residents from the US who live in the trailer park next door. The last stop where the RVs are fossilized to the "polvo". Perfect cast for the "Twilight Zone"
I got in my car, drove off to La Pinta next door brandishing my American Express Beautiful, clean, comfortable little hotel and the beach there is out of this world! Sands of gold...