Heads up if you layover in CUN
04-27-2012 | 05:29 AM
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Crime is almost non existent in the hotel zone. Cancun is very dependent on tourism and there are extreme punishments for even petty crimes. The local thugs know it and it's a huge deterrent that very effectively minimizes and prevents crime. Are there isolated incidents? Of course, but overall I find CUN to be an extremely safe layover and I have adventured all over that place at all hours of the night including downtown. Never a worry or nervous moment.
04-27-2012 | 05:30 AM
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04-27-2012 | 05:47 AM
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Crime is almost non existent in the hotel zone. Cancun is very dependent on tourism and there are extreme punishments for even petty crimes. The local thugs know it and it's a huge deterrent that very effectively minimizes and prevents crime. Are there isolated incidents? Of course, but overall I find CUN to be an extremely safe layover and I have adventured all over that place at all hours of the night including downtown. Never a worry or nervous moment.
04-27-2012 | 07:35 AM
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Streetsmarts are important. But walking around in a major tourist area that is supposed to be locked down and secure by the federales should not be an issue. However, it appears that CUN is no longer the safe(ish) tourist haven it was touted as being.
04-27-2012 | 07:36 AM
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All the fun touristy towns there have been rapidly degrading and even if CUN is as safe as anywhere else right now, its still in Mexico and Mexico is collapsing big time. Its not if but when. As an added bonus, if anything does happen, you get to deal with Mexican police and justice system as an outsider that in most cases doesn't speak the language and stands out like a strobe in the clouds, even if you don't wear a watch.
To me its just a beach, and really its not even that cheap anymore. High risk, low reward. Oh and bonus: violent diarrhea if you drink the water. I'm glad someone wants to go there though.
04-27-2012 | 08:01 AM
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On my last CUN layover the van driver warned us of escalating violence. He said it was really bad outside of the tourist zone. The narco guys were moving in and some of it was starting to spill over to the tourist zone.
It's too bad. There are a lot of very nice people in Mexico. I'll fly in. But, all Mexico layovers are on my avoid list.
It's too bad. There are a lot of very nice people in Mexico. I'll fly in. But, all Mexico layovers are on my avoid list.
04-27-2012 | 09:15 AM
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Thanks for sharing I knew there was a reason I haven't been a Mexico in about 10 years. And don't plan on going there to spend my money. I'll sit in coach for 17 hours and go some place 'safe'.
Tourist's should be boycotting Mexico until they get their drug/cartel problem under-control. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening as its so close and so cheap.
Tourist's should be boycotting Mexico until they get their drug/cartel problem under-control. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening as its so close and so cheap.
04-27-2012 | 10:30 AM
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http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_p...70.html#safety
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