Tourism Observations

Ixtapa is packed. The parking lots are filled with double parkers. Lots of people walking around. I get a sense there are fewer international tourists and more domestic. I've seen fewer of the all-inclusive wrist bands out in the restaurants. It will be interesting to see what it will look like after new years when the crowding subsides.

Apart from the predominantly all-included crowds, many of those tourists stay in rentals in the Casas Geo development behind Ixtapa, rentals owned by people from Morelia and other places. They do much of their "shopping" at Oxxo and complain about the high prices everywhere else.