Mexico City - The Delaplaine 2022 Long Weekend Guide
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A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in MEXICO CITY, a fascinating city of over 21 million people. It's not as dangerous as a lot of other places in Mexico, and a visit here will be very rewarding.
Updated throughout the year, this concise guide will save you a lot of time.
"We had never been to Mexico City before, and only had 4 days, so this guide was perfect for our needs." –--Denise, F., Houston
"The Delaplaine guide books 'cut to the chase.' You get what you need and don't get what you don't." –Wilma K., Seattle
=LODGINGS, from budget to deluxe
= RESTAURANTS, from the finest the area has to offer ranging down to the cheapest (with the highest quality). More than sufficient listings to make your Long Weekend memorable.
=PRINCIPAL ATTRACTIONS -- don't waste your precious time on the lesser ones. We've done all the work for you.
=SHOPPING – some interesting out of the way places.
Andrew Delaplaine
Delaplaine lives on South Beach, Miami’s Billion Dollar Sandbar. He writes in widely varied fields: screenplays, novels (adult and juvenile) and journalism. He also has a series of Long Weekend Guides covering some 50 cities around the world. Email: andrewdelaplaine@mac.com He writes several series: The “JACK HOUSTON ST. CLAIR” political thriller novels. “THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES IV,” a series of novels starring the great-great-grandson of the famous consulting detective. “THE ANNALS OF SANTOPIA” series, an epic that follows a Santa born in 1900 through to his death 82 years later. The AMOS FREEMAN police thrillers. Other novels: “The Trap Door” follows a boy who is taken back in time to 1594 and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. “The Meter Maid Murders,” a comic look at a detective trying to nab a serial killer on South Beach who only murders meter maids. Has written and directed three features (one doc, two narrative features), as well as several short films and won several awards for his film work. (See imdb.com for details). His latest film, “Meeting Spencer,” starring Jeffrey Tambor, won the prestigious Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay. DELAPLAINE’S “LONG WEEKEND” GUIDES These no-nonsense guides contain Delaplaine’s recommendations and advice for travelers visiting these places for 3 or 4 days. As "The Food Enthusiast," he writes a series of restaurants guides, updated annually. He has no hobbies.
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Mexico City - The Delaplaine 2022 Long Weekend Guide - Andrew Delaplaine
MEXICO CITY
The Delaplaine
2022
Long Weekend Guide
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Andrew Delaplaine
NO BUSINESS HAS PAID A SINGLE PENNY OR GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK.
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Senior Writer - James Cubby
Copyright © by Gramercy Park Press - All rights reserved.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 – WHY MEXICO CITY?
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Chapter 2 – GETTING ABOUT
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Chapter 3 – WHERE TO STAY
High on the Hog
Sensible Alternatives
On a Budget
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Chapter 4 – WHERE TO EAT
Extravagant
Middle Ground
Budget
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Chapter 5 – NIGHTLIFE
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Chapter 6 – WHAT TO SEE & DO
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Chapter 7 – SHOPPING & SERVICES
Chapter 1
WHY MEXICO CITY?
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9634534208_d850a20fdb_oI love Mexico City, even though the first time I traveled there, with my mother, we almost brought her back in a box. She had made the mistake of using the ice cubes in her hotel room fridge to make a drink instead of pouring bottled water into the ice trays.
Boom!
You’re sick as a dog.
But that was many years ago. Generally, I’ve had nothing but wonderful times in Mexico City.
When I think about what Mexico City was and how it came to be what it is today, my mind still boggles.
You have to remember that the whole city is built on a drained lake bed. When there was still a lake, around 1325, it was established as the Aztec capital called Tenochititlán. The island in the middle of the lake was reached by way of a series of causeways. This was what Hernan Cortes found when he showed up in 1521. He promptly destroyed it.
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Mexico has a rich and bloody history, not unlike all the other countries in the New World where the indigenous populations where slaughtered or enslaved. (But one has to remember that Cortes didn’t do anything to the Aztecs that the English settlers didn’t do to the Indians.)
The altitude is high, over 7,000 feet, so if you come from a low-lying coastal area, be prepared for some difficulty in breathing. And while the government has made enormous strides in cleaning up the famously polluted air in Mexico City, it’s still pretty awful. You have to pray for good air. But you can never be sure of it.
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There are things about Mexico in general that you want to be aware of if you want to travel wisely—and safely. The State Department says 14 of the 31 states (and Federal District, or Distrito Federal, or D.F., which is Mexico City) have no travel warnings. The others you want to avoid because of the drug-related gang warfare that’s an ongoing reality in Mexico, responsible for ripping the country apart. (Americans are really to blame, since we’re the ones buying all the drugs.)
One of the reasons Mexico City is so much more safe than other parts of the country is that everybody wants to be able to come here and visit it in peace, and this includes a lot of the high-end drug dealers, many of whom have houses and families here. They don’t want to come here and duel it out on the streets the way they do elsewhere.
Of the 20 top foreign locations for Americans, 4 are in Mexico: No. 2 is Cancun, followed by No. 3, Playa del Carmen, Cabo san Lucas / Los Cabos at No. 11 and Puerto Vallarta at No. 15.
One good thing about Mexico City is that it has been sidestepped by the drug cartels so there’s no sense of the overwhelming violence that occurs in other parts of Mexico.
You will find the Distrito Federal (Federal District,