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Spring Break Cancun and Acapulco start strong! Booze, Babes and Bodyguards?
I've only seen TV reports, but the first week of Spring Break looks huge in Cancun and Acapulco. Cancun has over 200,000 spring breakers and is
hosting the MTV Spring Break events. Acapulco is going strong too.
No word yet on Baja locations. The beach in front of the Rosarito Beach clubs was busy, but not packed yesterday. They even had ultralight planes
giving for-pay rides up and down the coast. Hopefully someone will have some info on lodging occupancy rates. It could be those with their Spring
Break holidays this week chose the big MTV event in Cancun as their destination, and future weeks will be busier here in Baja.
Most kids pay for their Spring Break ground packages well in advance, so any recent events or bad news won't impact their travel plans IMO.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/mexico-drug-violence-worries-sprin...
[Edited on 3-15-2010 by Woooosh]
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I mentioned it on another thread. February occupancy rate for Cancun was 85%, and that was not in the peak of the season for them. I have speculated
that since the majority of Cancun visitors come from the East coast of the US, it just may be that there's a significant difference how the local
media reports, or doesn't report on the Mexican drug crime scene. Remember, we most of we nomads are from the left coast. And from my own personal
experience, having been to the area a number of times over thirty years, the Yucatan does not seem to present much of a strategic opportunity for
those trafficking in drugs.
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Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
I've only seen TV reports, but the first week of Spring Break looks huge in Cancun and Acapulco. Cancun has over 200,000 spring breakers and is
hosting the MTV Spring Break events. Acapulco is going strong too.
No word yet on Baja locations. The beach in front of the Rosarito Beach clubs was busy, but not packed yesterday. They even had ultralight planes
giving for-pay rides up and down the coast. Hopefully someone will have some info on lodging occupancy rates. It could be those with their Spring
Break holidays this week chose the big MTV event in Cancun as their destination, and future weeks will be busier here in Baja.
Most kids pay for their Spring Break ground packages well in advance, so any recent events or bad news won't impact their travel plans IMO.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/mexico-drug-violence-worries-sprin...
[Edited on 3-15-2010 by Woooosh] |
irrelevant to baja (except maybe cabo)
people think differently about fly-in beach resorts, relative to running the gauntlet in border region for driving/camping vacation.
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Don't trust goverment issued occupancy rates, the Mexican federal goverment has been liying all over the place trying to hide the fact that tourism is
way down.
Here in La Paz we get a chuckle everytime we read some idiot goverment tourism minister claims the rates are 75% in La Paz, when we can call the top 3
or 4 hotels and get the truth from them, usually 45% or less.
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Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
I mentioned it on another thread. February occupancy rate for Cancun was 85%, and that was not in the peak of the season for them. I have speculated
that since the majority of Cancun visitors come from the East coast of the US, it just may be that there's a significant difference how the local
media reports, or doesn't report on the Mexican drug crime scene. Remember, we most of we nomads are from the left coast. And from my own personal
experience, having been to the area a number of times over thirty years, the Yucatan does not seem to present much of a strategic opportunity for
those trafficking in drugs. |
The 2010 Spring Break Schedule by school shows over 2.1 million students have this week off. The busiest week by far and Cancun captured 10% of them.
02/15-02/19 276K Students
02/22-02/26 50K
03/01-03/05 230K
03/08-03/12 1.7 Million
03/15-03/19 2.1 Million
03/22-03/26 637K
03/29-04/02 516K
04/05-04/09 114K
So I guess the Spring Break season is over and baja missed it.
http://www.tripsmarter.com/panamacity/springbreak/sbcalendar...
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Maybe it's just me, but the opportunity to spend a week of fun and sun just seems so much more attractive in Cancun or Cabo than the Florida panhandle
or South Houston. Oops, excuse me, South Padre.. Plus, I would guess that the locals down South are way more tolerant of "bad behavior". How does one
identify a Mexican redneck?
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Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Maybe it's just me, but the opportunity to spend a week of fun and sun just seems so much more attractive in Cancun or Cabo than the Florida panhandle
or South Houston. Oops, excuse me, South Padre.. Plus, I would guess that the locals down South are way more tolerant of "bad behavior". Hoe does one
identify a Mexican redneck? |
I always went on skiing road trips with my buds...
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Dunno where you were, but I do think there's a bit of "the grass being greener" thing that goes on. When folks have spent an entire winter "up there",
sun and surf sounds good to them.
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Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Dunno where you were, but I do think there's a bit of "the grass being greener" thing that goes on. When folks have spent an entire winter "up there",
sun and surf sounds good to them. |
My University was on the quarter system. I went to school summer and took the winter quarter off to teach skiing. I knew my knee ligaments wouldn't
last forever- and they didn't. Now I relax on the beach with the geezers during winter and rent my Colorado place out to people who still have their
knees... lol
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Quote: | Originally posted by mtgoat666
Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
I've only seen TV reports, but the first week of Spring Break looks huge in Cancun and Acapulco. Cancun has over 200,000 spring breakers and is
hosting the MTV Spring Break events. Acapulco is going strong too.
No word yet on Baja locations. The beach in front of the Rosarito Beach clubs was busy, but not packed yesterday. They even had ultralight planes
giving for-pay rides up and down the coast. Hopefully someone will have some info on lodging occupancy rates. It could be those with their Spring
Break holidays this week chose the big MTV event in Cancun as their destination, and future weeks will be busier here in Baja.
Most kids pay for their Spring Break ground packages well in advance, so any recent events or bad news won't impact their travel plans IMO.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/mexico-drug-violence-worries-sprin...
[Edited on 3-15-2010 by Woooosh] |
irrelevant to baja (except maybe cabo)
people think differently about fly-in beach resorts, relative to running the gauntlet in border region for driving/camping vacation.
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I believe you are correct. Spring Break has nothing to do with Baja any more...
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Maybe you should tell that to all those business people in Los Cabos.
There's actually a big diff between so many who post on this board, and the spring break crowd, who drive down Baja. Which disturbs me when US media
start their anti-Mexico campaigns. Kids flying down to Cabo, PV, Cancun, even Acapulco, should not be all that concerned about the violence. That is,
unless the cartels have decided for whatever reason, that they wish to mortally wound the tourist industry. But, I think, however powerful the cartels
are, they have bigger fish to fry. If they don't move their product, nobody gets paid.
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Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Maybe you should tell that to all those business people in Los Cabos.
There's actually a big diff between so many who post on this board, and the spring break crowd, who drive down Baja. Which disturbs me when US media
start their anti-Mexico campaigns. Kids flying down to Cabo, PV, Cancun, even Acapulco, should not be all that concerned about the violence. That is,
unless the cartels have decided for whatever reason, that they wish to mortally wound the tourist industry. But, I think, however powerful the cartels
are, they have bigger fish to fry. If they don't move their product, nobody gets paid.
[Edited on 3-15-2010 by Bajahowodd] |
And as a poster said before- why would the cartels target their best customers in the USA- the college students. Maybe they should have some
Narco-Student mixers in Cabo so they can work on building lasting relationships and creating a sustainable business model. Maybe even some product
sampling. That's where the money is- and the place would be rockin'.
No more Pimps and Ho's parties- it'll be Narcos and Mules.
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Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
Don't trust goverment issued occupancy rates, the Mexican federal goverment has been liying all over the place trying to hide the fact that tourism is
way down.
Here in La Paz we get a chuckle everytime we read some idiot goverment tourism minister claims the rates are 75% in La Paz, when we can call the top 3
or 4 hotels and get the truth from them, usually 45% or less. |
But the Mexican govts. crime stats are trustworthy, right?
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