Dear tipping_point-ga;
If I were you I?d postpone my trip. At the very least the trip is
expensive and the experience is going to be significantly diluted (no
pun intended) in my opinion by Hurricane Wilma. I found no news
specifically about the Oasis Cancun Resort but there is a lot of
information about the general area. Of note is the statement by city
officials themselves that the area suffered great damage and will not
be normal again for many months to come:
?All along the "Maya Riviera," tourists, miserable after three days in
shelters with no power or running water, descended on the few open
shops and gobbled down potato chips and crackers instead of the
lobster and margaritas they had come here to sample.?
?Cancun Mayor Francisco Alor told reporters it could take six months
for the Mexico's biggest tourism city to recover.?
?An estimated 90 percent of hotels have suffered damage, local public
works director Mario Castro said.?
?The lobbies of hotels along Cancun's famed sandy strip were littered
with glass, chunks of plaster and other debris floating in
floodwaters. Swimming pools were full of sand and ceilings were a mess
of fallen tiles and tangled wires.?
?Hurricane Wilma blew out hundreds of hotel windows, tore through
boutiques and left the Caribbean resort of Cancun under water.?
REUTERS ALERT NET
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N23711831.htm
The Oasis Cancun is prominently located on Kukulkan Boulevard:
?The famed Kukulkan Boulevard, which runs 28 kilometers (17 miles) and
serves Cancun's exclusive hotels and resorts was strewn with toppled
palm trees.?
?Mexican soldiers and police patrolled the area and hotel security
guards make sure no one enters.
"No one gets in, not even to take photographs," said Jonhy Ruiz, 24, a
security guard. "We have our orders."
Ruiz guarded a residential area of time-share apartments.
"Everything, the furniture on the seaside was destroyed.
"The hurricane was ugly. The waves broke as high as the fourth floor
and the whole first floor was flooded," he said.?
TURKISH PRESS
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=76213
?We are told that the storm surge crossed Kukulkan Blvd. in the hotel
zone and met the lagoon; there is no road, the hotels are flooded,
some areas worse than others. All hotels in the hotel zone are flooded
and taking water. 80% of Cancun is flooded with 3 to nearly 5 feet of
water, and in the hotel zone the water has reached the 3rd floor of
some hotels.?
STREET TALK
http://streettalkblog.com/
You may find more information here and additional details in the
coming days as information develops:
CANCUN TRAVEL ONLINE: WILMA
http://www.cancuntravelonline.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=17
I lieu of reports about the Oasis Cancun itself, if this sufficient as an answer?
Regards;
Tutuzdad-ga |