Ensenada boasts a vibrant entertainment scene. From fine dining, exquisite art galleries, lively night spots and loads of locally inspired events throughout the year. Ensenada truly has something for everyone.

Ensenada is famous for its romantic places to eat, and a popular destination to experience a relaxed and tolerant nightlife. On Saturday evenings the streets are filled with everyone from local residents to all of the visitors.

Most of the hotels offer some type of night time entertainment and there are many night clubs for dancing and enjoying the south of the border atmosphere.

Ensenada has become popular for its party town atmosphere, and with regular stops by cruise ships and many other tourists there is always something happening in Ensenada.

The most famous and popular evening haunt is Papas & Beer. A tiny entrance leads to the upstairs bar and dance club. The music is loud and the hip young crowd is definitely here to party. Papas & Beer has quite a reputation with the Southern California college crowd

If you want to do more than lie around the pool and soak up some rays, you will find plenty of things to do in Ensenada.

You can take a tour of the town in a horse drawn buggy, go on a day trip to La Bufadora (a natural blow hole by the sea which shoots water into the air like a geyser), go to the beach and swim, go for a horseback ride, rent a jet ski, tour the harbor in a boat, go dancing in one of the Ensenada night clubs, or relax between shops at one of the fine Ensenada restaurants.

You will find that Ensenada has plenty of places to shop, but since the Ensenada cruise ships began to come on a regular basis, most of the larger shops know that the tourists have money and they are a lot less likely to bargain with you over price than in Tijuana.

So if you are shopping in Ensenada for bargains, your best bet is to stick to the small shops, street vendors, or take a walk up to the stores in the Mexican section around Juarez Street and shop where the locals do.

There is also plenty of action for sports enthusiasts including game fishing, diving, snorkeling, golf, sailing, kayaking, hiking, cycling and a myriad of other sports.  

The people in Ensenada are extremely friendly and always extend a welcome greeting to “gringos” (the local term for tourists)… for a true adventure nothing can beat Ensenada.