There is a slim amount of new content there – mostly news stories that the TripAdvisor board won’t allow because it flies counter to the “Everything in PV is perfect” fantasy they like to project. If you want to learn about PV or get info, TripAdvisor is your place. But if you want to learn everything about PV, warts and all, check out Vallarta Scene every month or three (new posts accumulate very slowly).

Fortunately, I searched Google again for Riviera Nayarit Blog, and the site he wanted writers came up on the first page of results. I see the site is only 10 weeks old, so he must know what he is doing to rank so well in Google so fast, especially this post for forums, when there isn’t even a forum here.

So the best news is that I have dicovered a whole new side of Mexico on the riviera nayarit and am now planning on going to Sayulita. Thanks all for this little adventure.

Too many lies will spoil any effort to trash a valuable and sometimes controversial public resource like our forum. We run it as a public service to provide a meeting place for expats and tourists and to point out the good and warn of the bad in our location.

Some of us do react strongly to any con man or woman, such as this self proclaimed “guru” who wrote this hit piece. Cons are easy to spot in a tourist town. There are not many and they certainly do stand out. One indication of the lack of integrity of the writer of this post, besides the large number of lies, is his threat to steal all of the writing on the forum. That this person is afraid to post this on our forum and have it addressed first hand and chooses, instead, to run a distant smear campaign: is another indication.

I’m a little surprised that this website, Mexico Vacations, would allow blatant libel like this. This does not add to its credibility or value.

I too have been going to Mazatlan for almost 20 years, and I now live in Mexico full time. I was there a couple weeks ago and was saddened to see all the small businesses that are failing since the cruise ships and tourist are in too much fear to travel.

But it really about the money! The US Press is beating up Mexico so that the $9B in tourist dollars are kept inside the USA.

When I lived in Colorado, 8 people were gunned down less than 3 blocks from my house, at a Chuckie Cheese we went into all the time. Would I call Colorado a safe place to visit? Absolutely. In fact, in the time I lived in that house (almost 12 years) over 40 people were killed within 2 miles of my house. Wee lived within two miles of a large mall and a major highway.

It is all about perspective. The US media reports on ALL KILLINGS and violence in Mexico, yet rarely talks about the huge number of murders, rapes and other crimes going on in big cities and small towns across America.

If you do the math, you will find that Mexico (with the exception of border towns) is MUCH SAFER then almost anywhere in Canada or America.