Yor're staying at the Embassy Suites according to your prior posts. The cab to SD is very expensive. If you don't mind a min. of $100 round trip OK. If not use the public transit but take some precautions as you would in ANY city with a lot of people.There is a shuttle bus at Embassy that will take you to the main gate/hyway for no charge.
Make it a 3/4 day trip with public transit and you'll be fine and have a lot of fun.Travel after and before commuter's traffic just like in ANY other big city.
Cell phone and camera inside your bag. Small change in pesos available in your pocket. No large sum of money. The room safe is free. Use it. Passport in safe.Long pants. No Hawaian lays. No white sun block on your nose-blend it in. Leave the cowboy hat at the hotel and wear ball caps. Either NYY or Mets. Don't take a picture of the lady carrying a chicken on the bus. If you don't know the words to the songs there're singing don't sing. Go to both cafes on both ends of El Conde. Lemon ade in Paco's and Capuccino in the one in front of the park. (name escapes me).Pizza in between.
If you don't speak Spanish and get lost here are the key words/meta tags you need in English.
1) Gua-Gua
2) Boca Chica
3) Juan Dolio
4) Public(o)
5) Tourist Police(stand in front of park where you'll have your Capuccino)
A half of block from this park is a new (what is the name of the chain folks?) that is American. Never have been in there but I'm sure they have heard all of your questions for direction many times before.
Good luck
john
BTW-are you bringing your laptop? (your PM to me)
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