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marla
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Villas de Loreto
This is the message I just emailed to the owner of Villas de Loreto.
I must say I was very disappointed at our visit to your hotel, after hearing glowing reports from so many friends. I can't believe I paid $393 for a
room for three days for myself and my three children only to have to listen to concrete mixers all day long. If I wanted to listen to construction
noise, I would have stayed home. We were basically driven out of the hotel by the noise all day when my intention was to park by the pool and watch my
kids swim. In fairness to your guests, you should have warned them about the construction and given them the opportunity to cancel, or severely
discount their rooms.
Also, after a windstorm there was concrete dust all over the patio chairs, which I discovered when I sat on them. Your staff should have cleaned them
off. Other chairs were dirty as well.
Additionally, the waiter Uvaldo at the restaurant kept hitting on my friend and even came to her door one night, alarming her, even though she was
trying to avoid him (He also hits on every other unattached female guest). And I could not believe you are charging $1.50 for a small bottle of
drinking water. As a professional travel writer I have stayed in moderately priced hotels all over Mexico and I have never been charged once for
drinking water, even in the least expensive establishment. This was offensive.
I was hoping to have a positive experience with you and your establishment but I am sorry to say that was not the case and I will certainly be telling
all our mutal Baja friends as well.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a
speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David
Thoreau
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Bob and Susan
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HA HA HA
They're closing!!!!
[Edited on 3-14-2006 by Bob and Susan]
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marla
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Yes that is why they don't care. I got a response saying "you can't please all the people all the time." In other words, "F-you." Good thing I believe
in karma.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a
speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David
Thoreau
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David K
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Baja Cactus provides free bottled water (well it's probably not free but included in the $30 room fee)!
Thanks for the heads up Marla... Did you look at the Iguana Inn? I have read more good things about it for a Loreto stay, than the Villas I believe.
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tim40
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Marla, you did not mention if you personally reached out to Ron and Wendy? I have stayed with them with family and friends many times. Even though
they are closing, I would not want anyone to think your experience is a shared one. Never heard of such a situation. We will miss this special
place.
When searching for the end of your rainbow you only have until dusk....
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Bob and Susan
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This place was the BEST in Loreto...it truly will be a loss
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capt. mike
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hey Marla....
you need to LOWER your expectations for baja travel.....anything else is whining, sorry - but you have to learn to expect at times inconsistancies
with regard to promises and deliveries. This ain't stateside quality no matter where you go.
Perhaps you've been too many times to the glam areas of Mexico where they do deliver a tad better but at hugely inflated rates compared to what you
get for your money in the good ol' USA......
roll with the action - it always varies. You'll mislead your readers if you report based on one experience. Villas De Loreto has had a majority of
great press over the years, all places can have variations in delivered quality at times.
take a shot or two of reality with your tequila sunrises on a perfect beach somewhere.
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
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Capt. George
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When in Loreto:
Want a pool, privacy and a caring owner? Look no further then Coco's Cabanas...
Quiet, CLEAN, close to town and very reasonable....call early for reservations.. Barrett's place becoming more and more popular.
I have nothing to do with Coco's other then having stayed there many times....you will not be disappointed!
Capt. George
\"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men\" Plato
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movinguy
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We stayed there last year and had no problems. But . . .
Why is there construction going on if they are closing? Converting to ???
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
hey Marla....
you need to LOWER your expectations for baja travel.....anything else is whining, sorry - but you have to learn to expect at times inconsistancies
with regard to promises and deliveries. This ain't stateside quality no matter where you go.
Perhaps you've been too many times to the glam areas of Mexico where they do deliver a tad better but at hugely inflated rates compared to what you
get for your money in the good ol' USA......
roll with the action - it always varies. You'll mislead your readers if you report based on one experience. Villas De Loreto has had a majority of
great press over the years, all places can have variations in delivered quality at times.
take a shot or two of reality with your tequila sunrises on a perfect beach somewhere. |
Hey Mike-I'd agree with you had she paid $93/night. She paid $393/night. First, I wouldn't pay that in Baja. Next, if I did, I'd expect a bit of
service as well.
Just my thoughts-
zac
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Sharksbaja
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"Hey Mike-I'd agree with you had she paid $93/night. She paid $393/night. First, I wouldn't pay that in Baja. Next, if I did, I'd expect a bit of
service as well.
Just my thoughts-"
I don't think she meant that. I hope not. Yikes, that's more that the Posada de las Flores
DON\'T SQUINT! Give yer eyes a break!
Try holding down [control] key and toggle the [+ and -] keys
Viva Mulege!
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Overpriced hotels are a pain in the burro....
How about rooms/bungalows from $500 - $2500 night?...."Palmilla". Of course, there is no charge for drinking water and you can hobnob with the rich
and insignificant. We stayed there with a Mulege group one night to watch the storm surge pound against the cliffs below..for that much money I
wanted the whole damn hurricane!
A memorable seaside 'snack', while watching the spray ruin Felipa's leather shoes, was a small plate of tiny, but watery, shrimps in some
too-much-cilantro-red sauce and two insipid glasses of what they called wine. That little tidbit...which we threw to the gulls...cost me $90 US. I
paid exactly that much for my first car...48 Ford 4-door sedan with a Columbia over-drive that I bought from a sheepherder who had used it to haul
lambs. I would rather sleep in that car and eat the carpet than stay at any of these overpriced hotels again.
Jeez...it's FUN to rant!
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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capt. mike
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hahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyone who'd pay $393 a nite to stay ANYWHERE in baja should not have travel writer credentials, and more importantly needs a serious CAT scan of the
hubris major section of their brain to look for incontinency and/or leakage of common sense neurons......has to be a typo?!
and with all due respect to Marla, i know she's a good person at heart and i am only poking fun in my common manner to do so.
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Bob and Susan
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She said....
"I can't believe I paid $393 for a room for three days for myself and my three children "
...that MUST have included the food unless....
there is a "small kid tax"
i'll have to look into that
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Some of their rooms are/were about $100, plus tax
My understanding is that they are building villas and condos, both for sale not to rent.
I have always found Uvaldo to be very nice. He owns the restaurant, is not a waiter.
That said, I would not be very happy to have to listen to construction noises when on vacation either.
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Bob and Susan
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"construction noises when on vacation"
don't ever vacation in so california...it NEVER ends!!!
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marla
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Capt. Mike, give me a break please. I have travelled all over the world including, in Mexico, to Chiapas, Jalisco, Mex. D.F., Michoacan, Oaxaca and
Sinaloa not to mention of course Baja. You think I expect five star hotels? Would I belong to this board if I did? Not likely. I have also been a
professional travel agent and worked in the travel field. I also have to travel on a budget. So paying nearly $100 a night for a hotel in Baja where
the sound of concrete mixers never ends is quite unacceptable as is the rude attitude of the management about it. Apparently now that the owners are
retiring they just don't care anymore. If I were by myself I would stay at the Iguana Inn which was highly recommended. But I have two small kids who
want to swim. Coco Cabanas didn't want the kids, so we were left with the Hotel Oasis, which was lovely, had a better ocean view, better pool and was
closer to town than Villas de Loreto anyway.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a
speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David
Thoreau
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marla
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Uvaldo is the owner of the restaurant? I hope his wife doesnt' work there and watch him hit on other women all day long. Not only did he hit on my
friend Laura and show up at her room late at night offering her an (unwelcome) nightcap, we also saw him hit on several other single women in the
short time we were there.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a
speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David
Thoreau
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Martyman
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Uvaldo is the man! Some of the best Huevos Rancheros ever. I didn't know he was scrambling eggs in some of the casitas.
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tim40
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Marla: unless I over looked it, I did not see a response to my question if you talked to Ron or Wendy about your concerns. If you did, and did not
get satisfaction...I am beyond shocked...they are quality people period! Closing does not change quality people. If you did not reach directly out
to them...well, sorry, you got what any of us deserve. If we choose not to vote...we choose to keep it to ourself.
When searching for the end of your rainbow you only have until dusk....
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