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The beach in Ixtapa has actually gained tourists. Many of us want a long, clean walking beach. A walking beach to us is level and does not require your eyes to be constantly downward looking for soft or sharp objects.
The tourists staying in Ixtapa actually love spending their money in Zihua as well.
There are three beach entry points from Ixtapa Blvd.

It amazes me that Zihua folks don't like the beach in Ixtapa, but Ixtapa lovers like both Zihua & Ixtapa.

Also I know that it will be said that Ixtapa lovers have not experienced real Mexico, however many of us have spent a lot of time in places like Rincon de Guayabitos, Barra de Navidad, Sayulita and San Pancho to name a few.

This way we can get the best of both.

I don't know why you would make untrue comments. First, no one was putting down Ixtapa, so you've for some reason made a false dichotomy of one versus the other.

Second, Ixtapa has ALWAYS had "a long clean walking beach" but if you can't watch what you're stepping on then I can certainly recommend an optician. Perhaps YOU don't miss the tourists who now no longer go to Ixtapa and who have been replaced by the all-inclusive crowd trying to drink their "money's worth" by their all-included poolsides, but I and hundreds of Ixtapa's merchants and their workers certainly miss them, and my condo-and home-owning friends are certainly having a harder time finding renters than before the regulations existed. I've got dozens of letters saved from folks who stopped going to Ixtapa because of the regulations, and I believe if you go back to some of the very first posts on this newer version of my Message Board you'll see messages from folks who stopped coming at the time when the new regulations were first implemented.

This isn't about you personally, so I regret if you took it personal as your response indicates. The regulations that you apparently don't mind have indeed caused us to lose important numbers of tourists and visitors from all economic strata. It's a matter I've been keeping track of since the regulations first went into effect and I started receiving letters and started noticing complaints by tourists on public forums and in the social and printed media as well as on local radio talk shows. Perhaps you and a few folks do continue leaving your hotels and condos to make purchases of local goods and services. You are the exception and we all thank you very much, but the overall tendency speaks for itself and I'm surprised you or anyone would even attempt to deny it. It's something most of us paying attention here in Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa are in complete agreement on. The only folks who seem to disagree with us of course are a few Ixtapa hotel managers defending their predatory practices and a minority of public officials looking to protect and boost their career opportunities.

But I sincerely thank you for sharing your thoughts on the matter. I love Ixtapa and Playa El Palmar and I hope we can bring prosperity back to Ixtapa's commercial center and locally-owned lodgings in the residential area.