{"id":20225,"date":"2014-03-11T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=20225"},"modified":"2014-03-11T01:00:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T08:00:10","slug":"tuesday-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=20225","title":{"rendered":"Amigos Return A Comeback for Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em;\">The Mexican Riviera is cruising&#39;s enigma.So beautiful and so accessible. So dangerous and so unpredictable. At various times, it has been a hotspot for cruise ships and part of a country that scares away tourists with crimes ranging from pick-pocketing to murders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Right now, for now&hellip;Mexico&#39;s back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">This was a line item in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruiseindustrynews.com\">Cruise Industry News<\/a> Annual Report this month. After falling off a tourist cliff faster than the divers of Acapulco, the Mexican Riviera <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Acapulco-2-625-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Acapulco\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20251\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Acapulco-2-625-copy.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">welcomed back ships from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/\">Carnival<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\/index.html\">Princess<\/a>, to the point that it&#39;s possible for three-quarters of a million cruisers to visit this year, up from 447,452 last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">That&#39;s a whopping increase of 67 per cent!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">At this point, it is only an opportunity. However, cruise lines wouldn&#39;t go there if the ships were going to be empty, relatively speaking. It&#39;s a simple supply-and-demand calculation, and this year cruise lines are calculating there will be a demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">The high point for the Mexican Riviera was five years ago, when 39 ships and almost 1.2 million passengers were visitors. Coincidentally, it wasn&#39;t just a dive caused by the threat of being robbed or injured. It was also 2008, the beginning of the financial crisis that hurt tourism everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Evidently, both safety and economy are better&hellip;at least on the Mexican Riviera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12028\" height=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" title=\"DailyDeal-2\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/ship\/pearl\/overview\" style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: center;\">Norwegian Pearl<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">7 nights<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">April 4, 2014<\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Miami<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;(return):&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roatanonline.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Roatan<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belize.com\/belize-city.html\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Belize<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.islacozumel.com.mx\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Cozumel<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keywest.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Key West<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;\">Inside: $349<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>Cost per day: $49<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">www.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Mexican Riviera is cruising&#39;s enigma.So beautiful and so accessible. So dangerous and so unpredictable. At various times, it has been a hotspot for cruise ships and part of a country that scares away tourists with crimes ranging from pick-pocketing to murders. Right now, for now&hellip;Mexico&#39;s back. This was a line item in the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=20225\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amigos Return A Comeback for Mexico<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,31,15],"tags":[137,154,912,1569,72,1492,1568,819,35,542,102,126,425,957],"class_list":["post-20225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ports","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-capacity","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-figures","tag-cruise-industry-news-2","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-mexican-riviera","tag-mexico","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-pearl","tag-princess-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20225","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=20225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}