Comments on: A Cancun Experience

By: Chabex

Chabex — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:44:42 +0000

I love your article. I’m from Merida but right now I’m living in Cancun for work reasons, i miss merida like you now can imagine, they have no culture here but the worst thing is that people are not aware of that, they dont know how great is to live in a place where u can have the whole package, safety, hospitality, cheap prices and amazing places to visit. I found your page doing a little research about Lachlan, and it make me laugh a lot your “I personally feel cheated because I never had the pleasure of meeting him” hahahahaa, well, u should feel that way because I met him, and he’s actually CHARMING, I kind of feel dissapointed of myself, i can’t believe that i share nice moments with him ignoring the fact that he was a criminal… Shame on me… i should activate my sociopaths’radar… Well, im gonna visit ur blog more often, and i would like to chat with u sometime, take care!

By: BG

BG — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:50:34 +0000

Thanks, Chamako, for emphasizing how awful Cancun is for the people who live there.

By: Chamako

Chamako — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:25:19 +0000

Cancun.
Well, for a place with zero history, built relatively few years ago solely for tourism, with zero provisions for worker housing (much like US-border zone maquiladoras), it sorta almost functions. A little.

People from all over Mexico flocked there in hopes of jobs. Hell, they came from Belize, Guatemala and South America too. They promptly discovered that the huge multi-national corporations which violate Mexican law by claiming the beaches are “private” or “exclusive” don’t care a whit for the problems and issues of their very own employees.

Should guests of the ‘all-inclusives’ become ill from a suffering employee who lives in a tin shack without any plumbing whatsoever…? Meh. Just a cost of doing business and then only when the tourist finds a way to blame their wretching on the hotel chain.

Cancun: (1) A place of (former) great natural beauty desolated by heartless greedy foreign entrepreneurs for the sake of foreign tourists’ ability to claim they were “in Mexico.” (2) A place operated solely for the tax revenues provided to the national government, without regard to the citizens’ need for services from same government.

By: michael minihan

michael minihan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:44:19 +0000

My wife and I stayed in the PARADOR hotel, across the street from MAYAB, in late January 2010. Same comments, same price. I couldn’t believe there’d be such decent lodging for that price in CANCUN … and TWO such -located conveniently places!

By: Barbara Bode

Barbara Bode — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:11:52 +0000

Never gave Cancun a thought until shortly before moving to Merida from Puerto Vallarta. Peaceful Pacific villages was what I was researching and writing about until the drums announcing “Riviera Nayarit” became too loud to ignore. Not knowing the history of Cancun or the Riviera Maya, it didn’t strike me that I was in on the beginning of the end.

Beryl’s good eye and incisive reportage made me first fully understand, that while I stood there in San Pancho, a new kind of government land re-distribution was happening and a new kind of suffering had begun.

By: Soňa Králová

Soňa Králová — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:01:31 +0000

Sadly, Cancún was never different from what you saw nor ever will be. It is what it is: a nest of vipers( from Latin vipera=snake). Nomen Omen.

By: Alinde

Alinde — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:47:06 +0000

Thanks for another interesting article, Beryl. It confirms my heretofore decision–not to go ever go there.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:21:48 +0000

Hmmm, been in Cancun (the city, not the hotel zone) recently and it wasn’t THAT bad. But in general, I agree with you… always makes me happy to be in Merida. Except for that Caribbean, of course.

By the way, the one photo you did manage to get is fabulous. A smiling LG makes my day!

By: jillian

jillian — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:04:58 +0000

“There was a great view of the Caribbean, which almost made up for everything else” – about sums it up.