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Golf for between $20-30.00 on lush courses you couldn't get into the parking lots in Canada for less than $50.
Restaurants up the wazzoo with a variety of cuisine to challenge anything anywhere.
Literally thousands of retirement enclaves designed specifically to cater to the over 55 crowd with amenities to suit.
Theater and arts festivals running non-stop. Got tickets to see Jackie Evancho next week.
Custom car cruises every single week.
Nowhere interesting is more than a 3 hr drive. Just returned from 4 days playing the PGA owned courses "King and Bear" and the "Slammer and Squires" at the World of golf complex in St. Augustine. Absolutely beautiful courses and scenery.
A plethora of like minded people interested only in enjoying each other's company without all the drama of "keeping-up-with-the-jones's".
As I think of more I'll get back to you but I'm tired from the drive back from St.Augustine.
Full disclosure: the point of the OP was that my family is heading down in early February, and I'm glad the crowds might be a bit smaller. Plus better hotel deals.
Puerto Vallarta was surprisingly full of Canadians when I visited a month ago. I can't believe that they outnumbered Americans! I thought the dropping loonie and the distance would prevent this from happening. Was it really that cold!?!
Puerto Vallarta was surprisingly full of Canadians when I visited a month ago. I can't believe that they outnumbered Americans! I thought the dropping loonie and the distance would prevent this from happening. Was it really that cold!?!
Perhaps Puerto Vallarta is much cheaper than Florida??
We vacationed in Mexico last winter. There were many Canadians in the resort, but I haven't seen them at the beach at all. Finally realized they were all congregating at some pool far away from the beachfront and all the action and noise. The "Canadian" pool was always dead quiet and full of people laying on their towels reading books and sipping beer whole day long. Why spend all that money to go to the ocean resort and then spend your vacation laying at the pool ? Might as well just rent a room at a hotel somewhere in Arizona desert, probably way cheaper and you skip all that humidity.
We vacationed in Mexico last winter. There were many Canadians in the resort, but I haven't seen them at the beach at all. Finally realized they were all congregating at some pool far away from the beachfront and all the action and noise. The "Canadian" pool was always dead quiet and full of people laying on their towels reading books and sipping beer whole day long. Why spend all that money to go to the ocean resort and then spend your vacation laying at the pool ? Might as well just rent a room at a hotel somewhere in Arizona desert, probably way cheaper and you skip all that humidity.
I'm thinking you didn't give this one a lot of thought?
Mexico is FAR cheaper than some (any) hotel in the Arizona desert.
Most Mexican resorts are situated near the ocean, so in that regard, perhaps the ocean was not the numero-uno priority for everyone but rather simply the climate and amenities?
Canadians deciding to forego the "noise" and "action" of the beach scene is perhaps related to a "maturity" thing........just say'n.
Stay-cation this year, due to the low dollar. We'll see about next year... I have a feeling that if I get to go anyplace warm, it will involve research, strategy, timing, and luck on a last-minute deal.
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