Great to see everyone seems to be educated about this, now go and tell your Moms and Dads! The older generation seem to be far less aware. The major trouble is in the North which is 2,000 miles away - and yeah I wouldnt advise going there. But what the news is reporting is like saying dont go to Las Vegas because there are problems in New York. You wont have any problems in Cancun. Trust me, with a business that can be run online from anywhere in the World and father of a 4yr old, we'd be on the next plane out if I thought living here was the slightest bit unsafe. The "Travel Advisory" that the media is making a fuss over as if it's something new has been there for 5 years and changed very little since the beginning, just that it got updated and re-released recently.
I also think that we shouldn't trivialize the extreme danger in certain parts of Mexico that's not Cancun. The drug war between the cartels themselves and against the Mexican government near the border is real and very serious. There are innocent people dying everyday in the crossfires. This is why the US government really should stop with its failing drug prohibition policies and just legalize and regulate drugs like alcohol and tobacco. When you shift an inelastic demand from a black market to the local 7-Elevens, you effectively take away the ludicrious profit that bank rolls those real criminal activities. I can't believe the US government still has not learned its lesson from 1920s alcohol prohibition and the resulting explosion of mafia and crime spreed in this country.
Do you guys think this will cause a lot of people to cancel their trips and the number of people will go way down for 2009? I hope not, that would just suck.
Yeah I don't think people will actually go a cancel their trips. It sucks that this came up right before spring break tho. I'm more worried about there not being as many people down there for 2009 then I am of being in danger down there. I just hope that Oasis is packed to the limit and everyone is partying hard.
Student City has overbooked on most of the big spring break hotels, obviously they too thought numbers would be down. They are moving their clients to other hotels. Oasis was one of the hotels that they overbooked in, as well as Salvia, hence why we got moved out of there. No need to worry man, its gonna be packed to the roof!
