{"id":111,"date":"2022-07-29T18:29:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T18:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cabosanlucasbeaches.com\/travels\/?p=111"},"modified":"2022-07-29T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T18:38:09","slug":"should-my-wife-and-i-avoid-mexico-for-our-first-vacation-in-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cabosanlucasbeaches.com\/travels\/should-my-wife-and-i-avoid-mexico-for-our-first-vacation-in-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Should my wife and I avoid Mexico for our first vacation in FOREVER?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM\">We planned and bought a trip to Puerto Vallarta, after doing a lot of reading about PV. The state department website made it sound like it&#8217;s very safe for tourists if you&#8217;re boring people like us who just want to sit in the hotel and chill the hell out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM\">Read a bunch of other websites saying its safe for tourists, and while there has been violence in the past few years, there has been a negligible number incidents involving tourists (and nothing appears to happen at the resorts &#8230; tourists get in trouble if they go looking for gambling or drugs or prostitution).<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM\">But in the past 24 hours a fucking WAR between Jalisco New Generation and the police in PV has broken out and it sounds like we shouldn&#8217;t go there at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM\">We have the option to switch this package to Cancun or Cabo. For our first vacation in 14 years (and the first since we have been married), we really need to be able to chill the fuck out. We can also pick an alternate in Jamaica, but the price difference is significant enough that we&#8217;re thinking of calling the whole thing off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM\">Are we stupid to even consider going near Mexico?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We planned and bought a trip to Puerto Vallarta, after doing a lot of reading about PV. The state department website made it sound like it&#8217;s very safe for tourists if you&#8217;re boring people like us who just want to sit in the hotel and chill the hell out. Read a bunch of other websites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cabosanlucasbeaches.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cabosanlucasbeaches.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cabosanlucasbeaches.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabosanlucasbeaches.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabosanlucasbeaches.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabosanlucasbeaches.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabosanlucasbeaches.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cabosanlucasbeaches.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabosanlucasbeaches.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabosanlucasbeaches.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}