Recently we where asked what would be a good com pany we could refer people to for Rocky Point Hotels  we recomend Sea Side Reservations for all your hotel needs in Rocky Point Mexico. Alexis Watts has run the company now for 13 years and he and his crew is very knowledgable about Puerto Penasco Motels

If you want a great vacation location at a reasonable price then check out Rocky Point house rentals. These houses and hotels are located in Puerto Penasco, Mexico. There are many beautiful hotels a well as beach front homes to choose from with all the ammenties. The rates are extremely reasonable even during peak season and Holidays. The website Seasidemexico.com also offers other vacation locations in Baja California and San Carlos, Mexico. The site has tons of pictures of each hotel so you know exactly what to expect, no surprises here. Seasidemexico.com also has tabs for local events and activities in the different areas surrounding the hotels or at the hotels. There is a lot of helpful travel info as well. This site has everything to plan your Mexican beach vacation.

The battle of the beaches: Two seaside towns on the Gulf of California are tussling for tourists. Both promise sun, sand and serenity. But San Felipe is quaint. Penasco has more pizzazz. And they both want you.

Puerto Penasco Mexico

Once, it was enough to be Arizona’s beach, a nice wide patch of below-the-border shoreline where college kids could camp out and drink too much.

But now, it wants to be more than a mere party town. In less than a decade, more than three-dozen condo towers have risen in this town’s Sandy Beach area, surrounded by ever-widening waves of upscale vacation homes. It looks like a cellphone commercial by Samuel Beckett, all these rectangles of steel and glitz erupting at the edge of the barren, sandpaper-flat desert.

“Sandy Beach is like Maui. This is the happening spot,” condo sales specialist Mary Snyder told me as we stood in a model unit. “Out by the Mayan” — half an hour south of town — “is like Kauai.”

Because this is the desert and you can’t surf here, Snyder’s Hawaiian analogy is slightly imperfect. But it tells you something about Penasco’s ambitions.

Puerto Penasco (also known as Rocky Point) has been growing like a four-star weed, and it wants to steal visitors from Baja California – not only from San Felipe, its sibling across the sea, but also from the golfing-fishing-partying-and-real-estate-speculating juggernaut now known as Los Cobos.

The first flights from California started landing here Oct. 30 — three turboprop planes a week from LAX. A new airport, big enough to accommodate jets, is supposed to make its debut by summer 2009. And a new highway to the north is due to open later this year, shortening the drive from Southern California by about 100 miles.

So Puerto Penasco wants us. But do we want Puerto Penasco?

Some of us won’t. If you’re in search of cobblestone streets or colonial architecture or tropical landscapes or big waves, you’d be wasting your time here.

But if you’re looking for Mexican beachfront lodgings, fishing, watersports, off-roading and golf — well, many prices are lower here than in Los Cabos, and many penthouses are higher. And because this place has more than twice the population of San Felipe, it has more action as well.

A character study of two Mexican vacation towns

Sonora’s Puerto Penasco and Baja California’s San Felipe appeal in different ways to visitors from north of the border.

One day I found myself squinting at the sea from a Sonoran Sun Condo development, looking out a window filled with nothing but sky and sea. Far below, a lone couple strolled the chilly beach beside a row of palapas. This lavishly furnished unit, with three bedrooms, a kitchen and 1,600 square feet of patio space.

Meanwhile, just a mile or two up the coast lies the Reef, a beachfront restaurant, bar, RV park and convenience store that stands perfectly as a symbol of the older, grittier Penasco. It’s $5 a night to camp, the floor of the bar is concrete and the restaurant’s cuisine, according to its local advertising, is “gormet.”

For those who would rather skip 21st century civilization and commune instead with the stark natural landscape, there are the craters and lava fields of El Pinacate national park, 32 miles north of town. There’s a kayak rental operation by the old port, and San Jorge island, 27 miles away by boat, offers birding and snorkeling in the company of sea lions. The Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans, a local environmental group, organizes other day trips as well.

The year-round population, growing fast, is about 60,000, most of whom live on the dirt streets set back from the beachfront resort zone. To the north is Cholla Bay, where the first  American vacation rentals started taking shape more than a decade ago. To the south is Las Conchas, a newer enclave of vacation homes, many still under construction.

The Puerto Penasco area has two 18-hole golf courses, both completed in 2006. (Los Cabos has seven; San Felipe, one.) There are ATV and watersports rentals, sunset cruises and plenty of bars.

Looking upon the sea on the evening of my arrival, a single shrimp boat cruised along. The beach, vast and litter-free, was nearly empty, amid gusty winds and 65-degree temperatures, routine for January. And as I watched, the beach grew: The tide was going out on a full-moon evening, and the difference between high and low tide here can be a quarter-mile.

If you keep your eyes on the sea and sky, you can easily imagine Penasco’s days as a fishing camp in the 1930s, and its emergence as a party place after the paved road to Arizona went through in the 1940s. These days, it’s illegal to take the storied totuava, a now-endangered fish that was plentiful in the 1950s and ’60s. But the catch still includes plenty of big fish: bass, corvina, grouper, pompano, sierra and yellowtail from boats, trigger fish from the shore.

Every spring, visitors come flooding in, including thousands of spring-breakers from the  Arizona, New Mexico , texas and colorado.  Throughout the spring, the summer and fall, it’s the Arizonians who keep Puerto Penasco busy.

The tourism office counts more than 72 restaurants in town, along with 14 RV and camping facilities  and dozens of hotels, motels and condo resort developments, with perhaps 5,000 rooms. Though most of the condo buildings are huddled along Sandy Beach, some of the fanciest lodgings lie half an hour south at the 3-year-old Mayan Palace, which combines time-share units with short-term rentals — at $395 a night and up.

I stayed, with mixed results, at the Peñasco del Sol Hotel, which somebody is going to have to nominate as a historic structure pretty soon — after all, it dates all the way to the early 1990s, when it was built near the Old Port area under the name Plaza las Glorias. And there’s another reason the Peñasco del Sol stands out.

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Seaside Reservation joins forces with Largest Property Management Company in America.
ResortQuest is the largest marketer and management company of vacation rentals in the U.S. By offering nearly 10,000 vacation condominiums and home rentals in resort destinations throughout the U.S. ,Canada, and now Mexico, Resort Quest is unlike any other company  since it is the industry’s largest property management and vacation rental company, Resort Quest offers vacation rental partners  properties  unmatched marketing exposure.
Starting June of 2008 Seaside Reservations has become an exclusive strategic partner with resort quest for all the Rocky Point area. This strategic alliance not only creates an unparalleled marketing reach for Sea Side owners. Resort Quest also now shares it’s hospitality training, Internet marketing, and management know how and business training programs.
Resort Quest produces monthly web seminars to help educate it’s offices and strategic partners on best practices in the vacation rental industry. A team of internet marketing specialists will be tracking and working with our website to help improve our already dominant presence on search engines and key portal websites. Now Sea Side will be able to use these corporate resources to help advance the professionalism of our people and  the business systems we employ
Starting June of 2008 Seaside owners will be able to trade time with other vacation properties in the Resort Quest inventory from all over the world. We will be sending out more details on how to participate in this new offering.
We will be branding the websites with our new Resort Quest affiliate logo and showing that Sea Side now has the worlds largest property management company behind it.

Remember when you would rent a house in Rocky Point, about 10 years ago, and the house had a water tank on the roof and a generator inside that would run all your power? Well, those days are gone folks. If you want a “camping experience”, then camp on the beach. If you plan to stay in a nice beach front home, then we recommend you call the Experts at Sea Side Beach Home Rentals. They have house rentals in all areas of Rocky Point, including Costa Diamante, Cholla Bay, El Mirador, Las Conchas, Las Palmas, Playa Dorada, Playa Encanto, Playa Miramar, Playa La Jolla, and Sandy Beach. Here are some photos of the Houses for Rent.

To call our Sea Side Beach Home Rental Office in Rocky Point, Mexico, call 1-877-629-5691

“Good News Friends!” Sea Side is now renting Houses in San Carlos and Rosarito Beach, Mexico. To find out more information on San Carlos, or to book your house rental today, call 1-888-262-4508 or Long distance from the US at 011-52-638-38-37796, or click: Sea Side San Carlos. To find out about our rentals in Rosarito Beach, or to book your house rental today, contact Michelle at 1-877-767-2748, or click: Sea Side Rosarito Beach.

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Are you looking for a beautiful, luxurious House to rent in Mexico? Do you need something large enough for the whole family, but the condos just aren’t big enough for your group? Then, the Sea Side Beach House Rentals are perfect for you! Sea Side Reservations, “Your Rocky Point & San Carlos Experts”, are ready, willing, and able to find the perfect house for you to rent in Rocky Point, San Carlos, and Rosarito Beach. We have every size, style, and location for you to choose from. Let the experts at Sea Side make your vacation easy and fun, and call us for all your House Rental needs today!

For Houses in Rocky Point, call 1-877-629-5691 or: Sea Side Beach Home Rentals

For Houses in San Carlos, call to (Rocky Point) 1-888-262-4508 / Long distance from the U.S. 011-52-638-38-37796 or click: Sea Side San Carlos House Rentals

For Houses in Rosarito Beach, call Michelle at 1-877-767-2748, or: Sea Side Rosarito House Rentals

Houses in Rocky Point, Mexico

Houses in Rosarito Beach, Mexico

Houses in San Carlos, Mexico

Sea Side can make your vacation the best, by offering “Only the Best” that is available.

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The beaches in Mexico are open to the public and free of charge. It is important to be extremely careful swimming as very few beaches have lifeguards. Do not swim alone and keep you eye on the waves as they can be unpredictable. In all beach destinations the water condition flags are posted and should be followed. Do not panic if you feel you are being pulled out to sea. Swim parallel to the beach and usually in 50 ft. conditions will change.

View and book beach front homes.

The Marina Pinacate is the best bet for those who want the convenience of restaurants and bars close at hand and also a beautiful condo to have as their sanctuary away from home.  Some units are poolside and most all of the units have an ocean view.  These condos are very spacious and are located next to Plaza Las Glorias.

Sonoran Sun Resort is the ultimate in luxury beachfront and ocean view Rocky Point condos! You will enjoy a full service spa, beachfront swimming pools, Jacuzzis and scrumptious restaurant on site. Take advantage of the resort’s close access to the area’s most popular ocean spot, Sandy Beach, and spend a day in the sand. Or you can lounge by the beautiful blue pool and swim up to the bar for a refreshing drink while you take in the tranquil ocean views.

Exercise in the state-of-the-art fitness center or play a game on the private tennis court. Resort guests can also schedule fishing trips or a sunset dinner cruise, rent kayaks and boogie boards, play video games in the activity center, and so much more.

If you are looking for a vacation rental in the heart of Rocky Point yet just steps away from the warm waters of the Sea of Cortez, you have found the right place. Las Gaviotas Condominiums are located just off Calle 13 on Sandy Beach. Spend your day on the beach and your evenings at the night spots and restaurants within walking distance.

This is one of Rocky Points best! Las Gaviotas is a perfect location to enjoy all Rocky Point has to offer.

The condominium community is small enough to feel comfortable, yet has amenities to include a large pool, Bar-B-Que area, gated parking, 24 hour security and much more.

Unique common areas at Las Gaviotas are a great place for group travelers and families to gather. Bottled Water and linens are provided in all the condominiums. All you need to bring is your swimming suit and a beach towel.

Get ready to spend some time relaxing on the beach during the day and enjoying the great local recreational activities while you stay at Las Gaviotas – one of Rocky Point’s best!

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