Tulum Hotels Shut Down?

[PlayaWithMe]

Originally Posted by redhairgirl1

Sure i like nature, but be forwarned that i may do a bit of screaming Just things that fly that are smaller than a bird freaks me out, and Mel will be screaming at the lizards, and Land animals Plus i wanna see this "secret beach!" I am sure Amy is dying to see it as well

I guess we can figure it out when we get there! Hell, you might hate me when you meet me

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudge.....

[redhairgirl1]

Man! Talk about taking it way off topic! Maybe i should post my banner here

[ami]

Originally Posted by Michele

Probably. Who knows. If everyone had ANY idea how many times things like this and land invasions happen, your heads would spin. I divorced myself from the idea of developing in Tulum a LONG time ago. It's a train wreck down there.

Ditto that......we almost bought some property there about 8 years ago....but the more research I did the more it seemed like courting disaster. So now I have beachfront property in Nicaragua instead.......but with Ortega in power.

[Babaloo]

Originally Posted by ami

So now I have beachfront property in Nicaragua instead.......but with Noriega in power.

Noriega moved from Panama?

[ami]

Originally Posted by Babaloo

Noriega moved from Panama?

Oooooops! I'm getting my dictators whose names end in A all mixed up! I meant Ortega......who actually doesn't live in Nicaragua but somewhere in Venezuela, up Hugo Chavez's *ss

How's it going Rick? Are we going to get to see ya at the end of the month? I hear there's a red-head flash mob gathering of sorts

[redhairgirl1]

Originally Posted by ami

Ditto that......we almost bought some property there about 8 years ago....but the more research I did the more it seemed like courting disaster. So now I have beachfront property in Nicaragua instead.......but with Ortega in power.

For the first time in my life i can say that i have met somebody who has a beachfont property in Nicaragua

[ami]

Originally Posted by redhairgirl1

For the first time in my life i can say that i have met somebody who has a beachfont property in Nicaragua

I'll tell you the story in Playa

[redhairgirl1]

Originally Posted by ami

I'll tell you the story in Playa

You can tell me while we are making our vegatarian mexican lasagna

[AMKRGMOM]

Is this the same Mezzanine that is posted up for sale on Craigslist, June 11?
Just curious....

Becky

[Cosmo]

This is why we stay in Playa...you can walk everywhere

Originally Posted by AMKRGMOM

Is this the same Mezzanine that is posted up for sale on Craigslist, June 11?
Just curious....

Becky

[Ginger]

We went to Tulum today for the day. I can tell you that it looked like some, if not MOST, hotels from the main road to the ruins were CLAUSARADO, or in other words, shut down.

Diamonte K was reopened. El Paraiso, completely shut down with yellow police tape all the way around. No restaurant, no beds, no chairs.....nada.

We pulled down the next driveway after Paraiso, found some shade under a palm tree. Also, the snorkel tour boats are hurting big time from the drop in customers. We got a 2.5 hour snorkel tour of two great spots on the reef (photos will be in my blog) for $30!!!!! We tipped each guy 50 pesos though because we felt bad and it was such a good deal, still all of us got out for $45 US or so. Spectacular deal.

[redhairgirl1]

Originally Posted by Ginger

We went to Tulum today for the day. I can tell you that it looked like some, if not MOST, hotels from the main road to the ruins were CLAUSARADO, or in other words, shut down.

Diamonte K was reopened. El Paraiso, completely shut down with yellow police tape all the way around. No restaurant, no beds, no chairs.....nada.

We pulled down the next driveway after Paraiso, found some shade under a palm tree. Also, the snorkel tour boats are hurting big time from the drop in customers. We got a 2.5 hour snorkel tour of two great spots on the reef (photos will be in my blog) for $30!!!!! We tipped each guy 50 pesos though because we felt bad and it was such a good deal, still all of us got out for $45 US or so. Spectacular deal.

That makes me sad I was so looking forward to going there.

[Streckman]

This freaking blows. Freaking Mexican corrupt govt. crap. What the hell are they gonna do with the land..Hum, let me guess....demolish everything then turn around and sell it to a bigger name resort company. F@ck that!! Freaking bullies having to bring in little GI Joe army men wanna be's!!

[StewartG]

Hey guys...

FWIW, Mezzanine is completely for business. Apparently they have better lawyers with more juice than those for El Paraiso.

If anyone is looking for a very nice alternative to El Paraiso, I would suggest Ana y Jose beach club, a bit further south. (Sorry I couldn't get this info to you before you went to Tulum the other day Ginger!)

To get to Ana y Jose, you simply take the beach access road from the north end of Tulum pueblo (where the super San Francisco is) in toward the beach. Instead of turning left like you would to go to El Paraiso and Mezz, turn right and go down about 2 km or so. Ana y Jose is a pretty nice place. Check it out:

[u2girlie]

Wow. El Paraiso closed. Bummer. We went there in May...well, we parked our butts about 100 yards north of them.

Tulum has the most beautiful beach I have ever been to. I hope they never develop it like they have Playa.

[PlayadelSoul]

According to Por Esto, they shut down La Vita e Bella and La Condesa, yesterday.

[Dan-0]

So does this make it seven properties that have been expropriated? Wow, I wonder if it will end with the latest two acquistions? I've been hearing for years that they want to close the cabañas and run the hippies out of Tulum. I hope that this isn't what this is.