After a very quiet time in october, november is finally picking up a bit. And although there were very few tourists in Mahahual, we have been busy with all kinds of new plans. One of them was a website for all businesses south of Mahahual, Mahahual South Beach. Together with Theo, our neighbour and owner of Casa Bougainvilla we realized this website, he made the photos, I did the webdesign and build the website. Have a look and see for yourself how beautiful and quiet the area is where we are located...Of course we also published a page on facebook please click like if you like what you see.
I also created a page on Facebook named "Amigos de Mahahual" With this community page for and by all business owners in Mahahual we first want to create a big group of friends of Mahahual, and then publish in the near future attractive offers, maybe even a lottery where you can win a free holiday in Mahahual...Check this page out, give it a like, and you will automaticly be informed when we start our campaign. In the meantime days are getting shorter and soon we will find ourselves preparing for Christmas... We are already quite booked for those days, but I still have a bungalow available for Christmas, checking out december 26...
La Bodeguita has been completely renovated, painted with new colors, we are still busy on the finishing touch. We will also be preparing food until late in the evening, to have a nice bite during your favourite sports game...
Hope to see you soon in Mahahual !
martes, 22 de noviembre de 2011
domingo, 25 de septiembre de 2011
Tripadvisor rewards Maya Luna
Yesterday a friend of us dropped in at our restaurant and brought us some real mail...(yes it still exists :-) ) a letter send to us by Tripadvisor and guess what...they rewarded as well as hotel Maya Luna as restaurant Maya Luna with a "Certificado de Excelencia" for the year 2011...a very welcome compliment of course ! I want to thank everybody who stayed with us for their contribution...and invite everybody to keep posting their reviews...and of course...come visit us !
sábado, 2 de abril de 2011
Maya Luna accessible for people in a wheelchair
Last month a big wish of mine was fulfilled. For the first time my mother visited our hotel. Due to health problems she had not yet been able to visit Maya Luna, since we constructed it 8 years ago. She is now 79 years old, and depends for 90 % of the time on a wheel chair, so this was one big adventure, as well as for her as for us! Eugenie Verschragen, head of animation at the house for elderly people in Holland where my mom is living, agreed to accompany her on the long flight (some 11 hours from Amsterdam to Cancun) as well as during the holiday. Cancun Airport is quite accessible for people in wheel chairs. Most of it is all on 1 floor, and there are elevators as well as restrooms accessible for wheel chairs.
To bypass the sandy beach part, we made a “path” of wood leading from the patio to bungalow “La Toza”, our family bungalow where my mother would be staying for the next 2 weeks. It proofed excellent to stay there for handicapped people. We took out one bed out and there was enough space to move with a wheel chair and a rollator. Inside the spacious bathroom there is
a toilet some 8 centimet
ers higher than usual in Mexico, so handicapped people can get up much easier. You can take the shower off the hook, very comfortable if you need help from another person to shower. To add more comfort and support for people in wheelchairs we put handles beside the shower and beside the toilet.
During the next 10 days we visited Boardwalk of Mahahual, the Mayan temples of Chacchoben, the Laguna of Bacalar, Cenote Azul and watched the Carnaval Parade from the windows of La Bodeguita, where they first passed by before turning to the Malecon. Last but not least we had a lunch with 16 Dutch guests; as a coincidence the mother of Justa, and the parents of Selma, 2 Dutch friends of mine living in Mahahual were also visiting at the same moment.
The next plan was to visit Chitzen Itza and the Convent of Izamal but we had to change plans because of problems with the car. So the last day we stayed at Playa del Carmen, the fifth avenue is a very easy to walk shopping street.
At the end, my mother told me that she had a fantastic holiday, and she recommended me to make more publicity to get handicapped people to vacation at Maya Luna, because as she put it “ it’s a very comfortable place, fitted with all modern conveniences for disabled people.
So if you have plans to come and visit and you are in a wheel chair, please contact me and I will happily provide you with tips as where to stay and what to bring.
The first 2 nights we stayed in Cancun, to get used to the warm weather and to do some shopping like buying a hat and sunglasses for my mom. Getting my mother from her wheelchair into our Ford Windstar was in the beginning a whole adventure, but luckily Eugenie knew some tricks to make it easier. After the 5 hour drive from Cancun we finally arrived at Maya
Luna, a very special moment to see my mother sitting on our porch and getting to know our staff, the dog and the cat of course.
Luna, a very special moment to see my mother sitting on our porch and getting to know our staff, the dog and the cat of course.To bypass the sandy beach part, we made a “path” of wood leading from the patio to bungalow “La Toza”, our family bungalow where my mother would be staying for the next 2 weeks. It proofed excellent to stay there for handicapped people. We took out one bed out and there was enough space to move with a wheel chair and a rollator. Inside the spacious bathroom there is
a toilet some 8 centimet
ers higher than usual in Mexico, so handicapped people can get up much easier. You can take the shower off the hook, very comfortable if you need help from another person to shower. To add more comfort and support for people in wheelchairs we put handles beside the shower and beside the toilet.During the next 10 days we visited Boardwalk of Mahahual, the Mayan temples of Chacchoben, the Laguna of Bacalar, Cenote Azul and watched the Carnaval Parade from the windows of La Bodeguita, where they first passed by before turning to the Malecon. Last but not least we had a lunch with 16 Dutch guests; as a coincidence the mother of Justa, and the parents of Selma, 2 Dutch friends of mine living in Mahahual were also visiting at the same moment.
The next plan was to visit Chitzen Itza and the Convent of Izamal but we had to change plans because of problems with the car. So the last day we stayed at Playa del Carmen, the fifth avenue is a very easy to walk shopping street.
At the end, my mother told me that she had a fantastic holiday, and she recommended me to make more publicity to get handicapped people to vacation at Maya Luna, because as she put it “ it’s a very comfortable place, fitted with all modern conveniences for disabled people.
So if you have plans to come and visit and you are in a wheel chair, please contact me and I will happily provide you with tips as where to stay and what to bring.
sábado, 29 de enero de 2011
Safety and Mexico
Finally some good news on Mexico: Tripadvisor published their Travelers Choice 2011 and in their world top 25 you will find 2 hotels in Mexico, the Banyan Tree Mayakoba in Playa del Carmen and the Welk Resorts Sirena Del Mar in Cabo San Lucas. Congratulations to our colleagues!.
Besides that, Merida and Cozumel have been chosen by the The International Committee for the Banner of Peace of the United Nations within the top 100 of safest places-towns in the whole world. Read the whole article in Spanish on:
http://www.yucatan.com.mx/20110105/nota-9/58272-merida-oficialmente-nombrada-una-de-las-100-ciudades-de-la-paz-a-nivel-mundial.htm
With all the ongoing bad news on the drugs war, the country can use positive publicity like that !. I know Merida quite well, half of the construction materials we built Maya Luna with had been purchased in Merida, and last week we were there again for a short holiday, visit some friends and do some shopping. We always stay in the Dolores Alba, a colonial hotel in the center of town. There is busy traffic outside, but as soon as you enter the building, you will find an oasis of tranquility. With a small pool and a lot of shops and the main plaza within 10 minutes walk, a perfect place to spend some days in this beautiful, old colonial town.
Merida indeed is a very safe city, I have never felt uncomfortable there, and even after dark I would walk around alone and not be afraid. That said, I would say that I feel absolutely safe in so many places, cities and towns in Mexico…Especially in the Yucatan Peninsula.
Lately the drugs war going on in Mexico has been in the news a lot, as well as in Europe as in The United States and Canada. Most of this war on drugs takes place near the border, and that’s more than 3000 km from where we are living. So here at Costa Maya you don’t notice anything at all from it. Friends who have visited us in the past 8 years, know how tranquil, quiet and safe it is where we live. And safety has never been a subject of conversation when I was visiting family and friends in Holland. But this time when I was back in Holland a few months ago, all of a sudden everybody started to ask me if it was safe to live in Mexico. Emails with reservation requests more and more contain questions about safety.
Apparently the media have done their "work" thoroughly; those who never have visited Mexico, have nowadays the impression that behind every corner in Mexico there is a drugs lord hiding and you risk to get caught in a cross fire. They have no clue how big Mexico is, and that a big part of the country is still safe to visit, especially the Yucatan Peninsula.
Personally I think as a tourist, the chance is bigger that your airplane is going down while flying into Mexico than that you will be involved in or notice something form the drugs war.
So lets hope for more positive news on Mexico...so that we can share our beach, the sun, the warmth, the Caribbean sea, the little breeze, the blue sky, the million stars at night and of course our spacious bungalows and excellent food with a lot of people who decide to visit this beautiful country
Hope to see you soon in Mahahual…
Besides that, Merida and Cozumel have been chosen by the The International Committee for the Banner of Peace of the United Nations within the top 100 of safest places-towns in the whole world. Read the whole article in Spanish on:
http://www.yucatan.com.mx/20110105/nota-9/58272-merida-oficialmente-nombrada-una-de-las-100-ciudades-de-la-paz-a-nivel-mundial.htm
With all the ongoing bad news on the drugs war, the country can use positive publicity like that !. I know Merida quite well, half of the construction materials we built Maya Luna with had been purchased in Merida, and last week we were there again for a short holiday, visit some friends and do some shopping. We always stay in the Dolores Alba, a colonial hotel in the center of town. There is busy traffic outside, but as soon as you enter the building, you will find an oasis of tranquility. With a small pool and a lot of shops and the main plaza within 10 minutes walk, a perfect place to spend some days in this beautiful, old colonial town.
Merida indeed is a very safe city, I have never felt uncomfortable there, and even after dark I would walk around alone and not be afraid. That said, I would say that I feel absolutely safe in so many places, cities and towns in Mexico…Especially in the Yucatan Peninsula.
Lately the drugs war going on in Mexico has been in the news a lot, as well as in Europe as in The United States and Canada. Most of this war on drugs takes place near the border, and that’s more than 3000 km from where we are living. So here at Costa Maya you don’t notice anything at all from it. Friends who have visited us in the past 8 years, know how tranquil, quiet and safe it is where we live. And safety has never been a subject of conversation when I was visiting family and friends in Holland. But this time when I was back in Holland a few months ago, all of a sudden everybody started to ask me if it was safe to live in Mexico. Emails with reservation requests more and more contain questions about safety.
Apparently the media have done their "work" thoroughly; those who never have visited Mexico, have nowadays the impression that behind every corner in Mexico there is a drugs lord hiding and you risk to get caught in a cross fire. They have no clue how big Mexico is, and that a big part of the country is still safe to visit, especially the Yucatan Peninsula.
Personally I think as a tourist, the chance is bigger that your airplane is going down while flying into Mexico than that you will be involved in or notice something form the drugs war.
So lets hope for more positive news on Mexico...so that we can share our beach, the sun, the warmth, the Caribbean sea, the little breeze, the blue sky, the million stars at night and of course our spacious bungalows and excellent food with a lot of people who decide to visit this beautiful country
Hope to see you soon in Mahahual…
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