Nice article about Zihuatanejo!

Good job, Gail Fisher! Thanks!

http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-d-zihuatanejo-main-20150913-story.html

Really enjoyed this article! Thanks, Rob
Yes, everyone leaves with regret---anticipating a return as soon as possible!

Mahi Mahi abound, nary a Dorado in sight.

Overall, a lovely article on Zihuatanejo and environs. However, the curt description of Ixtapa as "a government-developed tourist resort full of high-rises and chain restaurants" is a unfair and inaccurate.

Could not agree with you more the person who wrote the article miss the boat to Ixtapa.

I support anything that promotes Zihuatanejo but even the title is not correct. They never made it to Zihuatanejo; the beach filming was in the US Virgin Islands. Alwyas thought it had to be on La Ropa and was dissapointed that it was not. On another subject have to pretty much agree on Ixtapa. We come twice a year and almost never go to Ixtapa.

The article is on a whole a positive for the area. My dissatisfaction with the curt description of Ixtapa is focused on the word "full".

Ixtapa is not full!!! The original Master Plan (circa 1972) for Ixtapa called for up to 10.000 hotel rooms. The whole Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo area has less than 6,500 hotel rooms.

Ixtapa is not full of chain restaurants; 2 international franchises does not rate as over populating an area.

We all know what each part of the IZ confab is and is not and that's why we love it here.

I support anything that promotes Zihuatanejo.....

Sunday Sept. 13 2015

@Walt

Me too.
The article was fine, as far as the generally favorable portrait it painted for Zihuatanejo.

For most vacationers who are here on a relatively short visit, and stay in the more touristy areas, they probably aren't affected, or, take much notice of, the myriad of problems that are present.

I just hope they don't cross the pedestrian bridge over la laguna de Las Salinas, and wander into this colonia where I am, as they would NOT have the same impression.
Steet dogs, & their excrement on the streets, trash, noise and drunks dominate the scenery in this part of the colonia.
Sad to say, the locals seem to be accustomed to it, and are not bothered by any of those things.

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jaui

Jaui, I think they are probably bothered by lots of what you do not think they are but sometimes when you know something will be ignored by whoever is in charge you just get tired of getting no good response. Many people clean up in their area in front of their house every day. Education in schools are the #one thing so you can see things change. I know there are some days trash seems to be everywhere, but it does not stay that way all the time. Just another perspective on this issue.

Tim, sorry you feel that way but in reality she hit the essence of what Ixtapa is right on the nose. She also got the Yellow fin thing wrong, and was a little condescending by staying at the Intrawest and them taking a shot a the Ixtapa high rises.

All in all I think she was very fair and objective and probably made some people look harder at spending some time and dollars in Zihua.

Rob,to a degree perhaps you are right about planning or infrastructure but Zihua is Zihua and Ixtapa is Ixtapa and hopefullythey never ever meet. Actually I wish they were further away. Then Zihua would be what it was years ago with dirt streets and wooden bridges....it's not a perfect world but I'll take Zihua everytime.

Ixtapa is Miami beach south....too tall buildings, to many people starving to make a living, too many taxis, may be pretty for people who come from the hinterlands but not me. I have been to Zihua more times than I have fingers and toes and probably a few more than that.......been to Ixtapa a hand full of times over the years and still not impressed.

So inconclusion, you may have your Ixtapa, enjoy it. For me I'll take my shanksmare trips through the Zihuataneho streets and fonda's and tienda's and restaurants and I'll sit on my beach with feet in the water and my ass in the sand.

Each to his own and each to his means. Is it Novemeber yet?

PS: Whats with the text changing???

Jaui, I think they are probably bothered by lots of what you do not think they are but sometimes when you know something will be ignored by whoever is in charge you just get tired of getting no good response. Many people clean up in their area in front of their house every day. Education in schools are the #one thing so you can see things change. I know there are some days trash seems to be everywhere, but it does not stay that way all the time. Just another perspective on this issue.

13 IX 2015
Hi LadyM in Z!
I think, in my post, disturbed would of been a better choice of words, instead of, (or, in addition to) bothered.

You hit the nail right on the head, in that if one goes to complain to the supposed corresponding local "authority", a good effective response to solve the problem is an uphill battle at best.
Seldom will an effective solution be obtained.
So, the people, probably think, why complain, it is useless, waste of time, etc.

Over 7 years back, I used to complain more frequently to the H.Ayuntamiento about different things.
Only one time did they really do something.
I had to insist repeatedly, it wasn't a pleasant thing to do, but my perseverance paid off, after around 4 months.

Yes, correct, there are many who clean up their home area, or storefront.
Though it only takes a small percentage of people who don't, to make a bad impression, that an area has trash, is unkempt, etc.

The example I give is:
If there is 2000 people on la playa de La Ropa on a busy day, and, let's say 10% of the people, around 200 or so, leave trash, the beach will look thrashed. So, it only takes a few black grains in the rice to spoil the batch (however that saying goes.)

And, U r right, trash certainly does get picked up, just for the litter bugs to leave more afterwards. Oh well.

I would like it if more of the local population would take pride in their port city, and realize they have what could be a real gold mine here, which requires proper continuous care and maintenance, and for the population to participate with that.

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jaui

I thought it was a good enough article. Since it was an LA article, it might generate interest in a three hour non-stop destination. Good for Zihuatanejo.

If I were writing the article, I probably would not have mentioned Ixtapa at all. That could be someone else's article. Different article. Zihuatanejo does not always have to be portrayed as the, how shall we say it, more "authentic" sister to Ixtapa, the more "Miami resort-y" purpose built resort shallow AI whatever sister. It's not an authentic argument, in my mind. They aren't equivalences.

The thing is, everybody should have the vacation they want. Everybody should love where they are. This is a choice about where you stay and how you spend your precious, all too short vacation days. Not a contest about who holds a moral high ground.

And, Labrat. About those dirt streets. I would still love Zihuatanejo if it still had the kind of dirty streets it had when we first came those many, many years ago. Things change. We all change with them.

Let's just hope that with time things will get better, as people get more educated.

Gee guys, did you ever think that maybe the locals, you know, the ones who were born there, want and deserve paved roads?

> Gee guys, did you ever think that maybe the locals, you know, the ones who were born there, want and deserve paved roads?

Of course they do. No town is a museum devoted to visitor nostalgia for "how things used to be". I only said that roads as they were fine with me. Zihuatanejo has always been fine with me.