"I'm thinking of booking my family at one of those all-inclusive resorts in Cancun. Somewhere right on the beach. Can you help us?"
Well, that might be a problem right now. It seems that sand has been disappearing from Cancun beaches in the dead of night. Let me check a few places and I'll get back to you later.
"Hello, yes I'm a travel agent with a client interested in staying in Cancun, right on the beach. Can you give me a list of hotels who have not been the target of the sand banditos please?"
You may laugh but the police in Cancun are very serious about this.
In 2005 Hurricane Wilma ripped through the area causing considerable damage. Mexico spent $19 million to replace the beaches washed away, but it seems that most of the replacement sand didn't stick around. In the hopes of keeping the sand that remained, many resorts place sandbags at the ocean's edge such as the Gran Porto Real in Playa del Carmen.
It seems that one resort, if the reports are to be believed, has taken to stealing sand from their neighbors in the dead of night. Environmental enforcement officers swooped in on the offenders and closed off hundreds of feet of coastline. Apparently, this particular resort was telling tourists, "Come here, I have sand...the other hotels don't because I have stole it."
My advice to anyone thinking of taking a vacation anywhere, not just Cancun, is to call your travel professional. While we may not have been able to predict an incident such as this occurring, there are so many other potholes on the travel road that we can steer you away from.
Until next time,
luvs2travel
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