Spectacular & Spacious Ocenafront Luxury

• 2,000 sq. ft., 2 bath, 2 bdrm single story - $389,500 USD - Best priced Las Brisas

Club Marena, Playas de Rosarito  -  Imagine a spectacular panoramic view across Bahia Descanso, from this south facing luxury resort condominium.. Situated five miles south of Rosarito Beach is, the crown jewel of the gold coast, Club Marena. This, high end, luxury home is only available for sale to those who are looking for finest amenities & furnishings, nreathtaking visats and superlative amenities.

Fall asleep to the sound of crashing waves and wake up in the morning to a spectacular view of the bay. This turnkey ready home is being offered with all the upscale amenities included; widescreen satellite television w/ home theater sound system, DSL, Jacuzzi bathtub, stainless steel BBQ, high end appliances and a library of videos. This property is a family gem that is perfect for the retiring couple or a family looking for a beach home with some of north americas best surfing out your window.

Start the day off with a swim in the oceanfront pool or a relaxing jacuzzi end it enjoying the perfect BBQ looking down at the surfers on the perfect pealing point waves. If this sounds like the kind of retreat you are accustom to then you have found the right place.

Club Marena is a deluxe, private, guarded, gated, resort community with a world class, private surf break, a spectacular oceanfront pool complex, a quality tennis facility, manicured gardens & ponds, golf and several spa’s (close by). Leave the masses behind and bring your family and friends down to enjoy a true Baja classic. Indulge yourself and relax Mexico style with the mild, year round climate, clean air, fresh ocean breezes, and warm sunshine. You may choose private walks, relaxing evening swims or the night life of Puerto Nuevo Lobster Village & the Rosarito Beach nightclubs nearby.

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Club Marena at km38.5, Playas de Rosarito  -  Announcing a price reduction on Club Marena Las Olas 602, a 3,000 sq. ft., 3 bath, 2 bdrm single story "no stairs".

This spectacular oceanfront palacial residence is adorned with high end finishes, exquisite luxury furnishings,   Antiques and designer pieces from Kreiss as we as Viking & Meile appliances make this condo a true luxury home. There are 3 fireplaces and the den has a Sharpvision/Bose audiophile home theater.

this is an incredible deal in Baja's Finest Address. Club Marena!

Now $495,000 USD - Luxury at $165 per foot.

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In the dead of winter you will find dedicated anglers cutting holes into thick, iced over, lakes to enjoy their passion... Fishing… It's an obsession that draws so many of us, with a penchant for the outdoors, into its familiar and engaging fraternity. People will endure all kinds’ travails to enjoy their craft and will expend massive amounts of resources to get to all corners of the earth to drop a line for the chance of a hook-up. It's a passion that dates back to the earliest of human experience and stirs a primal instinct that is undeniable in all of us. It is chronicled throughout history and prominent in biblical lore.

Baja offers some of the best fishing in the world. Period. From Marlin in the south to Yellowtail in the north and everything in between it's about as good as it gets.. Out of 28 species that the International Game Fisherman’s Association (IGFA) keeps records on 16 of the world records (over half) were landed in Baja California. The richest Marlin fishing tournament in the world is hosted by Bisbees in Los Cabos and celebrates million dollar winners every year. Baja offers everything from the most posh chartered private angling yachts to the Spartan panga fleets that cater to the desires of adventurous souls who aspire to a more unique fishing experience. There are countless beaches that speckle the coast and offer the beach angler a soulful solitary experience as they cast from the sand.

However, with all of this, I have chosen a different fishing experience; much more like the impassioned ice-fishermen of colder climes. From my deck in Baja I can walk out to a post that hangs out over the ocean in such a manner that it affords a projectile cast out to the edge of a choice of fertile reefs. Perched on a patio, 20 feet above sea level, i set up my tackle and bait in anticipation of the rising tide. For the two hours leading up to high tide I set up my 14’ surf casting set up rigged with a bit of squid and give it a mighty cast. Then instead of sitting on a hole cut in the ice I sit myself in the huge hot tub built into the patio. Rather than chilling my bones I soak them in the bubbly hot cauldron while I wait for hook ups. It’s truly glorious. Cabezon, Corvina and Calico Bass are typical in this environ. The reef is productive and the tub beats any beach, boat or frozen platform.

It’s just another great thing about life in Baja. Subscribe here to get daily tweets on stuff like this. Fishing, food, surf, golf and a wild variety of varied activities are represented at LifeInBaja… join us down here and enjoy all that Baja has to offer!!

La Jolla del Mar / Real, Playas de Rosarito  -  Announcing a price reduction on Oceanfront Villa #5 - La Jolla Del Mar, a 2,100 sq. ft., 3 bath, 3 bdrm 2 story "Big Patios". Now $398,500 USD - Major Price Reduction.

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Spacious Beachfront Luxury

• 2,100 sq. ft., 3 bath, 3 bdrm 2 story "Big Patios" - $419,000 USD - Lowest Price in La Jolla

La Jolla del Mar / Real, Playas de Rosarito  -  This is one of the few beach front villas in the new, La Jolla Del Mar resort. Three bedrooms and three full baths with a full den provide ample sleeping quarters for groups of up to 8. Two floors of decks balconys and a private lawn area in front of the two bedrooms that front the beach. There are pools on both sides of the villa and several hot tubs to choose from. Outfitted in the finest finishes of travertine & granite this villa is plush with fine furnishings. The galley has stainless appliances and is fully set up with all the appointments for the chef in your group.

La Jolla Del Mar is Rosarito's newest beachfront resort. Experience a festive environment with amenities at every turn. Three pools and five hot tubs adorn the grounds of this sprawling ocean front playground. The resort has a massive, private, white sand beach with fun surfing right out front. There are restaurants and bars on the premises and the gardens are spectacular. This secure gated community is ideal for families or groups who want the big private beach, great pools and proximity to all that Rosarito has to offer.

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It also means tourists as well as locals may be safer than many believe. In Fact they may be safer than in the US.

Mexico City's homicide rate today is about on par with Los Angeles and is less than a third of that for Washington, D.C.

Yet many Americans are leery of visiting Mexico at all. Drug violence and the swine flu outbreak contributed to a 12.5 percent decline in air travel to Mexico by U.S. citizens in 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, a blow to Mexico's third-largest source of foreign income.

Mexico, Colombia and Haiti are the only countries in the hemisphere subject to a U.S. government advisory warning travelers about violence, even though homicide rates in many Latin American countries are far higher.

"What we hear is, 'Oh the drug war! The dead people on the streets, and the policeman losing his head,'" said Tobias Schluter, 34, a civil engineer from Berlin having a beer at a cafe behind Mexico City's 16th-century cathedral. "But we don't see it. We haven't heard a gunshot or anything."

Mexico's homicide rate has fallen steadily from a high in 1997 of 17 per 100,000 people to 14 per 100,000 in 2009, a year marked by an unprecedented spate of drug slayings concentrated in a few states and cities, Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said. The national rate hit a low of 10 per 100,000 people in 2007, according to government figures compiled by the independent Citizens' Institute for Crime Studies.

By comparison, Venezuela, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala have homicide rates of between 40 and 60 per 100,000 people, according to recent government statistics. Colombia was close behind with a rate of 33 in 2008. Brazil's was 24 in 2006, the last year when national figures were available.

Mexico City's rate was about 9 per 100,000 in 2008, while Washington, D.C. was more than 30 that year.

"In terms of security, we are like those women who aren't overweight but when they look in the mirror, they think they're fat," said Luis de la Barreda, director of the Citizens' Institute. "We are an unsafe country, but we think we are much more unsafe that we really are."

Of course, drug violence has turned some places in Mexico, including the U.S. border region and some parts of the Pacific coast, into near-war zones since President Felipe Calderon intensified the war against cartels with a massive troop deployment in 2006. That has made Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, among the most dangerous cities in the world.

"The violence, homicides and cruel and inhuman assassinations, which fill the pages of our media, make us feel that there has been much more violence since this war against drug trafficking," said Bishop Miguel Alba Diaz of La Paz, a vacation city at the tip of the Baja California peninsula.

Mexico's violence is often more shocking than elsewhere in Latin America because powerful cartels go to extremes to intimidate the government and rival smugglers.

In just one week in December, the severed heads of six police investigators were dumped in a public plaza, kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva died in a two-hour shootout with troops at a luxury apartment complex in a resort city and gunmen slaughtered the family of the only marine killed in that battle.

In the new year, it's become even more grotesque. Three weeks ago, a victim's face was peeled from his skull and sewn onto a soccer ball. Days later, the remains of 41-year-old former police officer were divided into two separate ice chests.

Authorities say the vast majority of victims are drug suspects, but bystanders, including children, sometimes get caught in the crossfire.

Mexico has the same problems with corrupt police, gang violence and poverty as other Latin American countries with higher homicide rates. So why the decline in murders?

Experts say while drug violence is up, land disputes have eased. Many farmers have migrated to the cities or abroad and the government has pushed to resolve the land disputes, some centuries old.

During the height of the Zapatista uprising in the mid 1990s—a rebellion fueled by land conflicts—southern Chiapas state had a rate of nearly 40 per 100,000 people with 1,000 homicides a year. By 2008, that fell to 8 per 100,000 people with 364 killings.

De la Barreda attributes the downward trend to a general improvement in Mexico's quality of life. More Mexicans have joined the ranks of the middle class in the past two decades, while education levels and life expectancy have also risen.

Critics of Calderon's drug war say his frontal assault on cartels is giving Mexico a reputation as a violent country but doing little to stop the drug gangs' work.

"It's a bad international image that affects foreign tourism and foreign investment," said Jose Luis Pineyro, a sociologist at Mexico's Autonomous Metropolitan University who has studied the drug war.

Drug violence has encroached on the resort towns of Zihuatanejo, Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta and Cancun. The millions of foreign tourists who visit each year are almost never targeted, but a handful have gotten caught in the crossfire. In 2007, two Canadians were grazed by bullets when someone fired into a hotel lobby in Acapulco. In January, a Canadian couple was shot and wounded in a robbery attempt just outside Zihuatanejo.

The U.S. State Department travel alert says dozens of U.S. citizens living in Mexico have been kidnapped over the years, and warns Americans against traveling to the states of Chihuahua and Michoacan.

Chihuahua, home to Ciudad Juarez, had a horrifying homicide rate of 173 per 100,000 in the city of 1.3 million, or more than 2,500 murders last year.

Michoacan, famed for its Monarch butterfly refuge, Day of the Dead celebrations and picturesque colonial capital, is now also widely known as the place where five heads rolled across a dance floor. Drug violence is blamed for many of the state's 660 killings last year.

But in many parts of Mexico, villages are more tranquil than ever—a fact that retired nurse Marilyn Wells struggles to drive home with her American friends back home in LeMars, Iowa.

"'We're OK, there's no problem,'" Wells said she tells friends about the home she bought four years ago in Cabo San Lucas on the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. "I don't feel any less safe down here than I did before."

"As I pulled into the Pemex gas station the cheerful uniformed attendant bounded up to my window and that feeling of being pampered Baja style all came back to me..."

Life is busy for most of us. We plan, work, exercise, entertain and are responsible for a myriad of duties in our daily life. The daily grind can be exhausting for most and the challenges can wear us down over time. It is for this reason we all deserve the “full-service” lifestyle. We deserve to be pampered. We deserve that bit of extra service that makes life enjoyable and takes the edge off the draining effect of our modern life. It would be great if, in every aspect of our daily life, we were given full service like royalty.

While this is typically only available to people with very significant financial resources Baja offers just this way of life to all of us. In many parts of our life, on this glorious coast, there exists that extra level of service. Service that elevates your lifestyle to a different echelon. Start with the simplicity of getting gas. Pull up to the pump and the uniformed Pemex professional comes running to the car ready to serve. Call for rojo (premium) or verde (regular) and the gas flows without a single movement on your part. The windows are scoured to perfection and all the your automotive fluids are checked. Heck, they’ll even inflate your tires. Meanwhile you are presented with goods for sale by low pressure vendors with tamales, flowers and other curios. It is truly a service station.

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When it comes to car care it gets even better; Once a week the guys will show up at your home with their pressure washer and all the necessary gear to make you car sparkle, inside and out.  A full detail of the car goes for a measly $10. They come to your house, move the cars in and out of the garage, take care of everything all while you go about what is more important for you. This is a far cry from sitting in the Shell station robot washing system waiting for the blowers to come on. They even take everything out of the car and neatly organize it throughout the garage. Golf clubs are put away,groceries brought into the house and a box of miscellaneous toys and stuff are left inside the from door. Elmer you are a gem!

In the case of a break down you can have the mechanic come to you. Unprecedented in our lives in the US. Qualified mechanics will don their coveralls and shuttle their tools to your garage, your yard or the roadside, where you have broken down, to aid you in your peril. Change your oil or rebuild your alternator, they are there quickly and guarantee their work, at again, a fraction of US prices.

Home Helpers

Our houses are cleaned by grateful cleaning ladies who love their job and usually bring a treat of enchiladas, gorditas or burritos just as a bonus. The scrub, shine and organize the whole house into a gleaming palatial presence. We have gifted gardeners who manicure our grounds with precision and care. Our maintenance men show up at a moment's notice to fix any aberration or install any home improvement. Fix the plumbing? New ceiling fan?...no problem. This is all done for a small fraction of the price of a visit from a stateside service.

Going out for the evening is never a concern as our children's nannies are caring loving and always willing to care, cook and keep a loving eye on our children. They are truly an extension of our family. They aim to serve and keep our lives running easy and smooth.

Out to dinner and the experience continues from the pleasant greetings, to tortillas being made to order in the corner of the restaurant, to the attentive servers who will bow to your every request down to the flaming Mexican coffee at the end of your meal. Tableside live music makes its way to your meal with a request-only playlist and one is never harassed with the bill until the desire to leave is made clear.

Most of us live in resorts where the maintenance staff caters to any needs that may come about. Besides keeping the pools, tennis courts, health clubs and grounds in pristine condition they are on the circumspect for peripheral tasks required by resort residents. You need your furniture moved or your kayaks taken out to the beach they are there. Satellite dish set up or taking out the trash they are always there. One of our neighbors takes his fishing zodiac out each week and the staff is there at 5:30am to launch him and are at his disposal when he returns the help with the boat and the catch.

Catered Care

When we get sick we can have a house call if we like. You can sign up for a service with one of the local private healthcare providers and they will include house calls in your plan. Health care bring the greatest surprise with excellent care available at a fraction of a price. New hospitals in the area are revered for being on par or better than most in the US. Elective services in the area offer great opportunities with cosmetic surgery, laproscopy and cosmetic dentistry.

Wellness providers will come to your door on request as well. We can even care complete spa treatments right to our door. Facial, massage, pedicure and coiffure all in the convenience of your home for a fraction of the price that you would pay if your drove yourself to their spa in the states

When retirement is in your plans, and you are getting on in years, finding a full-time, in home, personal attendant to cook, clean and take care of your every need is an easy task. Shopping, errands and household coordination are no longer for you to worry. You will be given “full-service” for the rest of your life by a person who loves their job and will treat you with the care and love that is usually reserved for family members. This at a cost that ANY retiree will be happy to pay. There are also senior care providers line Serena Senior Care offers a complete line of in home care services with a US style of professional delivery. All this at prices that represent a huge discount over similar services in the US.

The same goes for buying real estate. Call up a qualified, experienced, outfit, like OceanFrontBaja Real Estate, and expect full service. Let them know where your interest lie and a custom tour and all your travel arrangements will be taken care of for you. It all goes with the territory and the culture the is part of Baja.

Baja is a full service world with a relaxed way of life. If this sounds like the lifestyle you've been looking for then it’s here waiting for you to enjoy. Come join us...