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Subject: Oasis Cancun Resort and Wilma damages
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: tipping_point-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 25 Oct 2005 06:10 PDT
Expires: 26 Oct 2005 05:05 PDT
Question ID: 584629
I'm supposed to arrive at the Oasis Cancun resort (Cancun, Mexico), on
monday, novembre 7th.
I would like as much info, for that particular resort and general
resort area, regarding damages suffered during Hurricane Wilma. I'm
trying to determine if i should go or not
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Subject: Re: Oasis Cancun Resort and Wilma damages
From: kthejoker20-ga on 25 Oct 2005 09:17 PDT
 
I was there back in March, and the beach was small (about 50ft) due to
the last hurricane that went through there.

Not sure how it is now, but my guess would be even smaller.

But, I spent most of my time at the pool bar and doing other stuff.
The ocean down there is always to rough to swim in.

I bet there would be good scuba diving now that the hurricane roughed
some things up.
Its still definately worth the trip just to see the enourmously light blue water.
Subject: Re: Oasis Cancun Resort and Wilma damages
From: research_help-ga on 25 Oct 2005 10:58 PDT
 
We had a trip planned to Cancun on Nov 9.  We have read a number of
reports and spoken to a couple of travel agents.  The clear conclusion
was not to take the trip.  Most of the hotels have been flooded and
have damaged rooves and broken windows.  Even if the hotel was able to
clean itself up, the city's infrastructure has been devastated and
they are not in a position to accomodate tourists this soon.  Most of
the larger hotels are not even currently accepting reservations until
the very end of this year.
Subject: Re: Oasis Cancun Resort and Wilma damages
From: tutuzdad-ga on 25 Oct 2005 12:26 PDT
 
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
Subject: Re: Oasis Cancun Resort and Wilma damages
From: tipping_point-ga on 26 Oct 2005 05:04 PDT
 
Thanks for the info. The trip is already paid for and i'm waiting to
see what the travel agent will say (refund, credit, cancelation or
it's ok you're going. Just wanted to know what to expect

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