Even though this is a great event to take when you visit this city, you have to be aware of all the promises they make in order to hook you up.
We came here on December 28th (yes, Mexican fools day) and when we parked our cars we we're approached by Miguel, who is the Public Relations director of Tuna Compostela. He gave us a good deal as he did not charge us for our kids and gave us an adult for free and that if we wanted to go, we had to purchase them right away as they have limited attendance. BTW we were a group of 18 people. So far it was good until we showed up to our 8:15pm show where he had promised we were going to have 80 min of "callejoneada" with a big entertainer (El Gordo), as well as a "porrón" for our fruit juice. He did say they no longer serve alcohol.
Well, long story short we did not get our "porrón", they started with a nice show in front of Iglesia de San Diego, and then departed to start the "callejoneada" with approximately 150 people!!!!
It was insane! We could barely catch up with the crowd. We decided to go back and select a different show. We waited until the one at 9pm as it seemed less attended. Well, we were probably over a hundred customers walking along the stretched streets of Guanajuato.
It was scary at some point as you could barely move in some of the streets...some of them are so narrow that it can only fit 2 persons! So you can imagine waiting for all the crowd to go through this bottleneck.
As we moved along, they played nicely. However with so many people in the streets, we didn't arrive at the most iconic place: "Callejón del Beso". You could barely get into that street. So they left us a block from there and then they finished the show.
It's good if they truly adhered to their promises. But this was disheartening as we won't trust again next time we are here...we will walk on our own and just watch their show at the church.
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