Wishing everybody a healthy and happy new year!

 I have not updated this blog for a very long time, one of the reasons for lack of news was that I have spend quite some time in Holland this year, remodeling a summerhouse I inhereted. Back in August in Mahahual, we could continue remodeling...Maya Luna, after the incredible had happened Namely exactly 5 years after Dean Hurricane Ernesto took nearly the same path and made landfall 2 km north of Maya Luna. But luckily Ernesto "only" was a category 1, and the damage was mainly our garden and all beach palapas were gone, including 2 of the small palapas on the roof decks of the first 2 bungalows.
Unfortunately we discovered that the people who managed Maya Luna when we were in Holland did not do any maintenance at all... so we found Maya Luna back in a deplorable state. For the past months we have been working very hard, all bungalows have been painted, all wood has been barnished, all palapas have been repaired.  Including the palapa over our restaurant porch has been completely renewed. Maya Luna looks like new now, see the photos. Garden has been re-organized and Don Dolores, our gardener who is already taking care of Maya Lunas plants and trees for 9 years now, has doen a great job. A very pleasant surprise was the mention of Maya Luna in the new edition of the Lonely Planet. The new writer covering the Yucatan Peninsula visited Maya Luna during the summer of 2011 and had dinner in our restaurant. This is what he writes about his dinner:
Try the Stuffed Pineapple, a Mexican/Euro/Indonesian Extravaganza." : Needless to say that we feel very proud about such a comment !
Very happy to read also the mention of Mahahual South Beach in the Mahahual section of this new Mexico Lonely Planet:.
"Quieter, more upscale accommodations are 2km south of the town center – see
www.mahahual-southbeach.com for details."
So we hope to see a lot of Lonely Planet readers the coming year south of Mahahual !

You can follow Maya Luna as well as Mahahual south beach also on Facebook
 Maya Luna: http://www.facebook.com/Hotel.Restaurant.Maya.Luna
 Mahahual south beach : http://www.facebook.com/Mahahual.South.Beach

Thats it for the moment! In a few weeks I will be back with more news, among others introducing Andrea and Tim, German friends of us, who will be managing Maya Luna for the coming year.

For now we want to wish everybody a very happy and healthy New Year !
Carolien and Jan, owners of Maya Luna

Maya Luna, Mahahual and social media

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 !