Is the Mexican Riviera safe for families?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can do a week-long vacation for three to the Mexican Riviera (IAD to CUN direct) at accommodations on the beach and world-class food / variety for 3K. Doubt you could get as cheaply elsewhere in the Caribbean.

Where exactly? Please post the name of the place. Mexico is cheaper, but it's not that much cheaper for 'world-class' food and/or accommodations.

[Anonymous]

I worked for DHS and one of our agents was killed there (another seriously injured). A random thing (they were not targeted because they were law enforcement). Many years prior, DEA Agent Kiki Camerena was tortured for DAYS before they put him out of his misery and dumped his mutilated body at the side of the road. All these subsequent investigations were impeded and hampered by the Mexican GOV. For those reasons alone, I won't put a dime into their economy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are amazing resorts but there is no way my husband eould ever let us travel there now. He is someone who's profession allows him to be 'in the know' and he would never allow a trip there right now. I wanted to go to the Excellence in riviera maya. God forbid you get sick and have to leave the resort.

This is my DH as well, we won't be traveling to Mexico anytime soon. I would find an island.

Mine as well. Federal Law Enforcement and not at all the overly-cautious type. We travel frequently as a family. He would never agree to a trip anywhere in Mexico right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can do a week-long vacation for three to the Mexican Riviera (IAD to CUN direct) at accommodations on the beach and world-class food / variety for 3K. Doubt you could get as cheaply elsewhere in the Caribbean.

Where exactly? Please post the name of the place. Mexico is cheaper, but it's not that much cheaper for 'world-class' food and/or accommodations.

I stated world-class food. I'd never give up location to DCUM-types. Not a resort.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can do a week-long vacation for three to the Mexican Riviera (IAD to CUN direct) at accommodations on the beach and world-class food / variety for 3K. Doubt you could get as cheaply elsewhere in the Caribbean.

Where exactly? Please post the name of the place. Mexico is cheaper, but it's not that much cheaper for 'world-class' food and/or accommodations.

Iberostar Paraiso Lindo

[Anonymous]

I'd go Caribbean. Mexico is nasty.

[Anonymous]

What about a company sponsored trip with no kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked for DHS and one of our agents was killed there (another seriously injured). A random thing (they were not targeted because they were law enforcement). Many years prior, DEA Agent Kiki Camerena was tortured for DAYS before they put him out of his misery and dumped his mutilated body at the side of the road. All these subsequent investigations were impeded and hampered by the Mexican GOV. For those reasons alone, I won't put a dime into their economy.

DEA is a plague on society. Sorry for the agent but he should not have been there. The agency should be shutdown and money targeted to our elementary schools.

Here are just a few depressing tidbits on the money sucked out of our economy just to fund the DEA:

The total cost of the DEA from 1972 to 2009 according to the agency website was $536,367,800,000.00 with 10,784 employees in 2009. For the data available for the years 1986 to 2009, the average cost per arrest made was $9,893.09

The first budget listed on the DEA’s website is for 1972 with a budget of $65,200,000.

The 2011 Budget from the DEA’s website was $2,020,000,000.

The 2011 DEA Budget is nearly 31 times larger than the 1972 budget.

The official inflation calculator says inflation from 1972 to 2011 represents a 5.4x increase from 1972. The DEA’s budget has increased near 31x vs 5.4x for inflation over this 39 year period.


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[Anonymous]

U.S. citizens have been the target of violent crimes, such as kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery by organized criminal groups in various Mexican states. For information on security conditions in specific regions of Mexico, which can vary, travelers should reference the state-by-state assessments further below. This Travel Warning replaces the Travel Warning for Mexico, issued January 9, 2014, to update information about the security situation and to advise the public of additional restrictions on the travel of U.S. government (USG) personnel.

[Anonymous]

Yuck, Mexico?

[Anonymous]

Just watch the video where some Mexicans use a chainsaw to cut off the heads of suspected informants. In another they use a dull knife to behead a police officer (but because the blade was dull it took many minutes for the guy to die). These nuts would hesitate to kill a tourist?

[Anonymous]

I am re opening this thread because we are going to cancun, actually the chikungunya virus in the Caribbean worried us more than the crime in Mexico. Hopefully it will be fine and we are not choosing one problem over another. Anyone been to cancun in the last couple months? Any problems?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am re opening this thread because we are going to cancun, actually the chikungunya virus in the Caribbean worried us more than the crime in Mexico. Hopefully it will be fine and we are not choosing one problem over another. Anyone been to cancun in the last couple months? Any problems?

I want to hear about this too. Any thoughts on best transportation options to get to Puerto Aventuras? I don't really like the idea of just catching a taxi.

[Anonymous]

Just returned from a 1 week vacation in Cancun. No problems at all and never felt unsafe. Only left the resort one to walk across the street to the mall, otherwise we walked on the beach.

I don't get all the fear spread on these boards about Cancun/Playa. I understand fear along the border and maybe Mexico City.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH is uncomfortable flying to Cancun and taking a cab/shuttle to the Riviera Maya. I want to stay at Rosewood Mayakoba, which looks amazing. DH is ok with the dates, prices and resort but does not want to book if there is any chance of violence.

Has anyone traveled to this region recently?

Please help me convince DH.

PG and Montgomery Counties looks just like the Riviera lately so it is not much different.

The area is kinda gross but stay on the resort and you will be okay.