Word: acapulco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learned even more about perseverance by watching the watchers of the royals. "The Fleet Street reporters and photographers are a breed unto themselves," she reports, "devilishly competitive, clever and professional. The chase and the 'hit' [scoop] get their blood up." Cronin, who journeyed from Buckingham Palace to Acapulco last week in pursuit of the royal family, finds her fellow reporters' zeal, if not their perfervid imaginations, infectious. Says she: "I felt myself wanting a fast car with a two-way radio so that I could join the global game of royal-watching, careening over icy alpine roads...
Package tours, as always, are the best buys. American Express has been offering seven-night stays in economy-class hotels in Acapulco or Cancún for $99, not including airfare. Mexico Travel Advisers (M.T.A.), the largest U.S. wholesaler of package tours to Mexico, can fly the vacationer from Los Angeles or San Diego to Mazatlan and back, put him up at a good hotel for a week and include sightseeing and airport transportation for $236. Los Angeles residents can get away even more cheaply by driving to Tijuana (about 2½ hours) and flying on to their holiday destinations...
...this bed again." Johnny Weissmuller was here, but lucidity began to elude him in the darkest hours, and he took to wandering into other rooms, booming that famous Tarzan yell, and they had to take him away. The ape man is now being attended to in a villa in Acapulco, and his bills are seen to by the Motion Picture and Television Fund. The fund also administers the Country House and Hospital, which is not equipped to accommodate any behavioral explosion since one of the principal missions here is to becalm...
...result of two devaluations of the peso so far this year, Mexico has become a bargain basement of U.S. tourism. An airplane ticket from Mexico City to Acapulco costs $44 this year, compared with $76 in 1981, and a room at the Hyatt Continental at the Pacific resort can be had for $42 a night, compared with $96 last year. At the famous Las Hadas resort, where the movie "10"was filmed, a couple can spend a week lolling on the beach or practicing their skiing for less than $500. The same outing a year ago would have cost Dudley...
...there was no urgent need for the Shah to come here. As I wrote in my diary at the time, "I don't have any feelings that the Shah or we would be better off with him playing tennis several hours a day in California instead of in Acapulco...