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Re: Canadian guy I know needs vacation ideas - UPDATED, CANCUN
« Reply #75 on: November 27, 2012, 10:10:55 AM »
No PV and no Cozumel available for Marriott.  Only Cabo and Cancun.  Cancun it is.

https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/cunjw-jw-marriott-cancun-resort-and-spa/

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/pvrmx-casamagna-marriott-puerto-vallarta-resort-and-spa/

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I want to fist fight the Marriott seach function to the death, now.  OK, this is very helpful.

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Re: Canadian guy I know needs vacation ideas - UPDATED, CANCUN
« Reply #76 on: November 27, 2012, 10:13:23 AM »
Give it another week or two and see if you can nail one of those last minute weekend rates on the side.  Wouldn't use points for $109

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Re: Canadian guy I know needs vacation ideas - UPDATED, CANCUN
« Reply #77 on: November 27, 2012, 10:24:00 AM »
$109? Jesus Christ that's cheap.

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Re: Canadian guy I know needs vacation ideas - UPDATED, CANCUN
« Reply #78 on: November 27, 2012, 10:24:28 AM »
Give it another week or two and see if you can nail one of those last minute weekend rates on the side.  Wouldn't use points for $109

Good idea.  I'll reserve it using points, and then cancel last minute if I can find a better rate at that hotel or another highly rated one.

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Re: Canadian guy I know needs vacation ideas - UPDATED, CANCUN
« Reply #80 on: November 27, 2012, 10:31:59 AM »
the lesson here is I need to stop wasting vacation days visiting family in Kansas and Arizona and start going to mexico. Cheaper flights and almost as close.

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Re: Canadian guy I know needs vacation ideas - UPDATED, CANCUN
« Reply #81 on: November 27, 2012, 10:32:50 AM »
Give it another week or two and see if you can nail one of those last minute weekend rates on the side.  Wouldn't use points for $109

Good idea.  I'll reserve it using points, and then cancel last minute if I can find a better rate at that hotel or another highly rated one.

I ran the price for 1/4-1/11.  If you book by 11/30 you pay $140/nt and get a $150 resort credit.   You should remember that going forward rates will likely be increasing every week until summer.   What may be $109 before Christmas will probably be higher after.

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Re: Canadian guy I know needs vacation ideas - UPDATED, CANCUN
« Reply #82 on: November 27, 2012, 10:34:41 AM »
BTW you might be able to game the system - reserve 3 nights under your name, then 4 nights under your wifes.     

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Re: Canadian guy I know needs vacation ideas - UPDATED, CANCUN
« Reply #83 on: November 27, 2012, 10:41:02 AM »

Pacific side is the true experience.  Cancun was manufactured for American tourists that like Applebee's.



I do not mean this  :opcat: But who goes to Mexico for the "true experience?" I go for the cheap drinks and the warm weather. Kind of like how I go to Applebee's for convenience. For a true South American experience, I recommend Peru, Venazuala or Columbia. Watch out for the drug lords in Columbia, though, and the poors in Venz.

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Re: Canadian guy I know needs vacation ideas - UPDATED, CANCUN
« Reply #84 on: November 27, 2012, 10:41:28 AM »
I just reserved the whole thing using points.  125K Marriott points for 5 nights.  Not too bad. 

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Re: Canadian guy I know needs vacation ideas - UPDATED, CANCUN
« Reply #85 on: November 27, 2012, 11:26:44 AM »
Bro-in law just returned from vacation down there earlier this year.  He mentioned it was real entertaining to watch the soldiers with submachine guns ride around town and the beach all day.
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Canadian guy I know needs vacation ideas - UPDATED, CANCUN
« Reply #86 on: November 27, 2012, 11:34:47 AM »
Bro-in law just returned from vacation down there earlier this year.  He mentioned it was real entertaining to watch the soldiers with submachine guns ride around town and the beach all day.

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Re: Canadian guy I know needs vacation ideas - UPDATED, CANCUN
« Reply #87 on: November 27, 2012, 12:55:23 PM »
Bro-in law just returned from vacation down there earlier this year.  He mentioned it was real entertaining to watch the soldiers with submachine guns ride around town and the beach all day.

I actually felt safer walking around Puerto Vallarta at 11pm than I would in Topeka.    Every block or two were armed Policia, making sure no one fucks with the tourist dollars.