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The
dates vary from year to year, but some time during February,
March or April, college doors all over Canada and the
United States are thrown open and students flood toward
their favorite party destinations for something they call
Spring Break,
a saturnalian activity reportedly
created by MTV in an attempt to boost its ratings
. The best-known destinations, Daytona Beach, Panama City
Beach, South Padre Island, and Cancun, are too distant
for the scrambling droves of Southern Californian students
who seem to require an immediate injection of music, noise,
booze and distraction. San Felipe, Baja, Mexico has slowly
been retooling itself to provide these kids with the things
they want. Local nightclubs that tailer themselves to
the demands of Spring Break are the Rockadile,
the Beachcomer
and the latest addition, BoomBoom.
It's the combination of weather,
sun, sandy beaches, late nightclubs, good restaurants
and party atmosphere that keeps students coming back to
San Felipe every year.
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Other activities
that may or may not happen, depending on who's doing what,
are casino nights, bar crawls, beach volleyball, paint-gun
wars, hosted happy hours, luaus and daily beach parties
with beachside musical events. Banana boat rides are perennially
available, of couse.
There are
several places on the internet that arrange Spring Break
tours to San Felipe, shuttling kids from as far away as
Washington state.
Alternatives
to the usual Spring Break destinations can sometimes be
found at GORP.
More traditional packages
can be found at Mexicotravelnet,
Club-Mex,
or sign up for a San Felipe
trip at SWAT.
MexicoSpringBreak
has a site that takes reservations.
These are a few of the comapnies that routinely offer
Spring Break tour packages to San Felipe and other party
destination spots.
What's to
do during Spring Break? Well, cruising around on All Terrain
Vehicles (ATVs) which can be rented from Bahia ATV on
Malecon Road #122., seems to be a popular activity. Be
sure not to ride them on the dunes though, unless you'd
like a $100.00 fine to keep as a souvenir. And of course
a Foam Party
is a must-do.
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