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Originally Posted by curves2000
Has anybody booked any all inclusive vacations to Mexico lately and noticed some massive price increases?
A couple of buddy's are kind of having a really crappy month so we thought we would organize a boys trip to Cancun, somewhere I have traveled a lot to. A bunch of the places I have stayed at very recently are all like a grand or more from what I have paid.
Looking for a young, trendy place of 4.5 or 5 stars. I have stayed at the ME Cancun 4 different times over the last 18 months for $1800 give or take a bit and looking now and its $2700. A few other places I have stayed at are all $800-1000 more than I have paid.
I am just trying to figure out what may have caused the increase in cost as opposed to the usual fuel/currency etc
Thx
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Couple of factors this year. First, depends when you are looking. March is generally expensive due to spring breaks from all over North America happening throughout the month. Additionally there was a huge cut in the number of flights going down this year to all destinations. Less supply with same demand means higher prices.
The crappy CAD is also playing a factor - even though you pay in CAD, everything is priced on the back end as USD.
Finally, we have seen a large push of travel at the end of winter because of the media presence of Zika falling off. No one is talking about it anymore so people forget about it and decide to travel. And there is a small contingent of people who might normally go somewhere in the USA who are choosing other destinations.