Palma Real G.C.

No need to make tee times anymore. It was very slow today, and tomorrow, almost nobody on the tee sheet. The prices needed to go up a little. But this is the second increase for seniors in the last few months, if you count the discontinuance of annual passes last December as an increase. So, we were charged 1000 mxp. Now, eliminating the senior rate makes it a 600 mxp increase- 60%. People disappearing quickly. I cautioned the new owners several weeks ago about raising the prices too much and too soon. they decided it wasn't good advice. I think they have made a big mistake.

Especially because the All-Included hotels in Zona Hotelera I attract mostly tourists who barely leave their hotels or spend any money outside their hotels. They have cheapened Ixtapa considerably causing the closure of countless shops and restaurants, and the majority of their guests, if any at all, simply won't won't pay those rates, which is why the golf course has sat mostly empty over the past years except during high season when a few mostly foreigners use it. Those of us who try to find customers for rentals in Ixtapa have been having an increasingly difficult time in recent years except for the ultra-cheap rentals in the Casas Geo section behind Ixtapa, which I won't even bother with because those tourists in general do us no favors economically speaking.

A damn shame to see so much shortsightedness on the part of the new golf course operators. Our local government also isn't helping matters with their own counterproductive beach restrictions.