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MEXICOWANDERER
May 30, 2019Explorer
In Mexico in my RV Park I had two spaces remote from the hookup sites. I called then Park N Go. Single night only. They cost a fraction of the full hookup sites and many folks especially Quebecois loved them.
During Easter, I did not jack up the prices. My occupancy zoomed the rest of the year. Flay out: "I am tired of never knowing what I am going to pay. When Semana Santa comes or Navidad the cost is the same -- something important to me". A 30% rise in years 3-4-5 means I was correct.
The MOTEL 6 in San Ysidro CA went from $48 night including taxes to $78. Annual inflation rate of 3.2%. Nothing upgraded except 2-bar Wi-fi for $5.50 night. So I stayed in Tijuana, at a prettier hotel for $27.00 night and the only negative was facing the border traffic in the morning.
Supermarkets and three-fo-the-price-of-five gimmicks, membership cards, coupons, and other sucker plays turn me off as well. In store non advertised sales attract me. I guess different strokes... etc is the keyword.
To park button hole to tea kettle in a trailer park for a hundred bucks a night turns some people on. I have lived in resort areas for most of my life. But quiet and privacy to me is worth more than putting green landscaping and "activity rooms" and other nonsense. The one exception I really enjoyed was a pricey stay at The Ghost Ranch in Tucson AZ. A huge place. The desk clerk if I preferred privacy. Areas landscaped were filled with desert landscaping and signs marking fauna like owls living in cardon cactus and one cup coffeemakers with walking tour suggestions in the morning coffee cup in hand, on the way to breakfast. Leave the cup at the restaurant. I could not afford to stay there but I enjoyed the heck out of it when I did. The city was plugged midwinter with a jewelry exhibition. Sort of near Eureka CA is a luxury RV park. From highway 101 it looks exactly like what it is -- a trailer park. My place had something absolutely uniquw -- a huge covered patio that had a plunge of 66' straight and I mean STRAIGHT down onto the breakers. Open air dining with seafood. Lobster caught by Jesus and available broiled or something unheard of STEAMED.
Oh well to each their own -- can't please everyone.
During Easter, I did not jack up the prices. My occupancy zoomed the rest of the year. Flay out: "I am tired of never knowing what I am going to pay. When Semana Santa comes or Navidad the cost is the same -- something important to me". A 30% rise in years 3-4-5 means I was correct.
The MOTEL 6 in San Ysidro CA went from $48 night including taxes to $78. Annual inflation rate of 3.2%. Nothing upgraded except 2-bar Wi-fi for $5.50 night. So I stayed in Tijuana, at a prettier hotel for $27.00 night and the only negative was facing the border traffic in the morning.
Supermarkets and three-fo-the-price-of-five gimmicks, membership cards, coupons, and other sucker plays turn me off as well. In store non advertised sales attract me. I guess different strokes... etc is the keyword.
To park button hole to tea kettle in a trailer park for a hundred bucks a night turns some people on. I have lived in resort areas for most of my life. But quiet and privacy to me is worth more than putting green landscaping and "activity rooms" and other nonsense. The one exception I really enjoyed was a pricey stay at The Ghost Ranch in Tucson AZ. A huge place. The desk clerk if I preferred privacy. Areas landscaped were filled with desert landscaping and signs marking fauna like owls living in cardon cactus and one cup coffeemakers with walking tour suggestions in the morning coffee cup in hand, on the way to breakfast. Leave the cup at the restaurant. I could not afford to stay there but I enjoyed the heck out of it when I did. The city was plugged midwinter with a jewelry exhibition. Sort of near Eureka CA is a luxury RV park. From highway 101 it looks exactly like what it is -- a trailer park. My place had something absolutely uniquw -- a huge covered patio that had a plunge of 66' straight and I mean STRAIGHT down onto the breakers. Open air dining with seafood. Lobster caught by Jesus and available broiled or something unheard of STEAMED.
Oh well to each their own -- can't please everyone.
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