05/11/2023
Every couple of months we get a surge of already booked clients asking us if it’s safe to go to Mexico. We feel it’s time to make one official statement about it. Here we go. We believe Mexico is no more or less safe than any other country you might travel to for vacation. Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas and the 14th largest in the world. If something happens in Mexico, it does not deem the entire country unsafe any more than if something happening in Chicago, IL making Charleston, SC unsafe. Use your judgment. Don’t leave your resort at midnight dripping in diamonds. Don’t buy drugs from anyone. Don’t assume because you’re on vacation, that bad things can’t happen. Bad things happen everywhere. At home and in paradise. If you truly don’t feel comfortable traveling to Mexico (or anywhere), please just stay home. We won’t force you to travel! But if you book a vacation and the media has a slow news day and decides to try to scare you into not exploring the world, consider the source. The US State Department website issues travel alerts and warnings about every country in the world. In October 2022, (the last official State Department advisory for Mexico) they listed Mexico at a level 3 but a lot of that is due to areas of Mexico thousands of miles from where you might go on vacation. Per the State Department website: There are no restrictions on travel in Quintana Roo state, which include tourist areas in: Cancun, Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, and the Riviera Maya. Keep in mind that some other counties with the same level of advisory are Jamaica, Peru, Hong Kong, China and Egypt, to name a few.
According to data from the U.S. State Department, between January 2022 and June 2022, there were 115 deaths of U.S. citizens in Mexico. The largest number of deaths in the time period was as a result of vehicle accidents. To put that in perspective, over 20M people traveled to Mexico last year. That makes the odds pretty good you’ll have an amazing vacation without issue.
Again, we won’t force you to go anywhere you don’t feel comfortable, but it would be real shame to miss out on a well deserved vacation because of the media.