Re:Female traveling solo - safety concerns
Just use the same common sense you always would. I think PV is safer than most US cities. I’ve never had a single incident
Female traveling solo - safety concerns
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Re:Female traveling solo - safety concerns
I too am staying at the wtin and I also read the same review. More than likely the guest had a first floor room and neverbthered to check the balcony door. You also do not leave something valuable like a digital camera laying out. A few things to remember:
1. If there is something wrong with your room and is in need of repair, either be there when they come to repair it or take your valuables with you.
2. Never stay on the first floor. Always ask for a room higher up in the hotel.
3. Leave a tip out for the maid service, with a little note saying tips in spanish. They will see it and they will take care of you.
4. Only take with you (to PV) those items that you could afford to loose. Take a disposable camera instead of a $500.00 digital camera. Will you be mad if you loose ? Of course, but it only costs $20.00 USD to replace.
5. Never give out your room number and never let anyone know where you are staying (unless you want them to know).
By the way these tips go for the entire world and not just PV. As a former hotel employee in the Disneyland area, we encouraged our guests to practice these tips and ours was a 5 star hotel.
1. If there is something wrong with your room and is in need of repair, either be there when they come to repair it or take your valuables with you.
2. Never stay on the first floor. Always ask for a room higher up in the hotel.
3. Leave a tip out for the maid service, with a little note saying tips in spanish. They will see it and they will take care of you.
4. Only take with you (to PV) those items that you could afford to loose. Take a disposable camera instead of a $500.00 digital camera. Will you be mad if you loose ? Of course, but it only costs $20.00 USD to replace.
5. Never give out your room number and never let anyone know where you are staying (unless you want them to know).
By the way these tips go for the entire world and not just PV. As a former hotel employee in the Disneyland area, we encouraged our guests to practice these tips and ours was a 5 star hotel.
Re:Female traveling solo - safety concerns
Just use the same commom sense traveling in Mexico as you would if you were traveling in the US.
Re:Female traveling solo - safety concerns
Great info. Will follow. Thanks.nj (Aug 15, 2004 01:03 p.m.):
Just use the same commom sense traveling in Mexico as you would if you were traveling in the US.
Re:Female traveling solo - safety concerns
I agree with the last poster, I live here and carry around a $1000 camera and have left in restasurants and other places countless times, only to have it returned:) I swear I need to velcro it to my body!
Seriously, I am a five foot 110 pound woman, I have travelled to Vallarta 13 times (mostly solo) before moving here. I have wandered almost every street in town, from daylight to wayyyy past sundown and have never encountered anything remotely unsafe...except for a big hole in a sidewalk that I almost fell into. I do carry myself with confidence, and I use common sense....but I can attest I feel much safer here than I did in my own neighborhood in a mid-western city I called home for 30 years.
I am sure you will feel completely safe and you will really enjoy the Westin. The Marina boardwalk is a great place to stroll early in the morning- walk around it and check out all the tropical fish by the shoreline, then have breakfast at Mister Cream.
You should also check out the Malecon and downtown- once again, very safe!
I am sure you will meet plenty of people to hang out with as well.
Have a wonderful time and do not worry!
Seriously, I am a five foot 110 pound woman, I have travelled to Vallarta 13 times (mostly solo) before moving here. I have wandered almost every street in town, from daylight to wayyyy past sundown and have never encountered anything remotely unsafe...except for a big hole in a sidewalk that I almost fell into. I do carry myself with confidence, and I use common sense....but I can attest I feel much safer here than I did in my own neighborhood in a mid-western city I called home for 30 years.
I am sure you will feel completely safe and you will really enjoy the Westin. The Marina boardwalk is a great place to stroll early in the morning- walk around it and check out all the tropical fish by the shoreline, then have breakfast at Mister Cream.
You should also check out the Malecon and downtown- once again, very safe!
I am sure you will meet plenty of people to hang out with as well.
Have a wonderful time and do not worry!
Re:Female traveling solo - safety concerns
Do you live in PV because I am in need of trying to contact someone that lives there that you may know, I just need to get a message to them. The phone # that they gave me seems to have changed.
bzy1inpv (Aug 16, 2004 11:23 p.m.):
I agree with the last poster, I live here and carry around a $1000 camera and have left in restasurants and other places countless times, only to have it returned:) I swear I need to velcro it to my body!
Seriously, I am a five foot 110 pound woman, I have travelled to Vallarta 13 times (mostly solo) before moving here. I have wandered almost every street in town, from daylight to wayyyy past sundown and have never encountered anything remotely unsafe...except for a big hole in a sidewalk that I almost fell into. I do carry myself with confidence, and I use common sense....but I can attest I feel much safer here than I did in my own neighborhood in a mid-western city I called home for 30 years.
I am sure you will feel completely safe and you will really enjoy the Westin. The Marina boardwalk is a great place to stroll early in the morning- walk around it and check out all the tropical fish by the shoreline, then have breakfast at Mister Cream.
You should also check out the Malecon and downtown- once again, very safe!
I am sure you will meet plenty of people to hang out with as well.
Have a wonderful time and do not worry!
Re:Female traveling solo - safety concerns
what room are you staying in?
Re:Female traveling solo - safety concerns
It is my understanding that the maids view money left on the pillow as their tip.
Re:Female traveling solo - safety concerns
Gotta agree with Teduardo if you own a nice camera take it just remember to use the in room safe , I had some items stolen from my room that would not fit in the safe (too damn small) and they were stolen but overall I alaways feel safer in Pvr than any large American city .