{"id":10062,"date":"2011-10-25T01:42:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T08:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=10062"},"modified":"2011-10-25T01:42:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T08:42:11","slug":"cruise-ships-say-si-to-mexico-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=10062","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Lines say 'Si' to Mexico Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We just have one question about cruises to the Mexican Riviera:<\/p>\n

Why is everybody going back?<\/p>\n

Holland America…Princess…Carnival…Disney…all of them pulled their ships or modified their itineraries on Mexico cruises leaving Southern California, at the height of the reports of theft and violence in Mazatlan<\/a> and Puerto Vallarta<\/a>. They all said they were abandoning one or both of the long-time Mexican ports because of (real or imagined) concerns about safety and security.<\/p>\n

But they were leaving because their customers lost interest, perhaps part of a domino effect that started with the fear of being mugged, or worse.<\/p>\n

As the Chief Operating Officer of the Mexico Tourism Board told cruise writer Fran Golden<\/a> this week, it was a business decision.<\/p>\n

In 2012, Princess<\/a> is going back to Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan. Disney<\/a> has its Wonder<\/a> sailing weekly cruises now and is committed to 2012. Holland America<\/a> goes back next month, through 2013. Carnival has quickie cruises to Ensenada and back, ramping it up to ports like Manzanillo<\/a> and Cabo San Lucas<\/a> next month, but hasn’t committed to returning to Mazatlan.<\/p>\n

So, if avoiding Mexico was all about business, wouldn’t it stand to reason that returning is all about business, too. It’s possible that customers have been influenced by a $30 million advertising campaign from the tourism people.<\/p>\n

Or maybe they just missed Mexico.<\/p>\n

DAILY DEAL:<\/span><\/strong>
\nCarnival Glory<\/a>
\n7 nights
\nNovember 27, 2011
\nCaribbean (Miami<\/a> return)
\nInside $399
\nwww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We just have one question about cruises to the Mexican Riviera: Why is everybody going back? Holland America…Princess…Carnival…Disney…all of them pulled their ships or modified their itineraries on Mexico cruises leaving Southern California, at the height of the reports of theft and violence in Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta. They all said they were abandoning one… Continue reading Cruise Lines say 'Si' to Mexico Again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,31,19,15],"tags":[109,154,72,28,501,312,23,756,496,102,64,641],"class_list":["post-10062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cabo-san-lucas","tag-carnival","tag-cruise-deals","tag-disney","tag-disney-wonder","tag-finding-bargains","tag-holland-america","tag-manzanillo","tag-mazatlan","tag-mexico","tag-princess-cruise","tag-puerto-vallarta","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}