Now retired, my husband wants us to travel - I will miss Grandchildren!

This is all getting a bit personal and off the point but could that be because all there is to be said, has been said ?

Probably!

But, as DH says I always like the last word may I have

The Last Word

No.

If Mexico is so dangerous, why do so many people holiday there?

If you look at the crime statistics for certain areas of the USA, I expect you would find some that are equally alarming - and that is in a country that is supposed to be one of the richest and most powerful in the world.

willsmadam I think you comments to Jane10 are rude and insensitive, as are your comments re singles holidays. What you believe is a sense of humour is just nastiness.

If Mexico is so dangerous, why do so many people holiday there?
Because the vast majority stick to the very safe, sanitised tourist areas, which are extremely well protected by the Mexican government.

If you look at the crime statistics for certain areas of the USA, I expect you would find some that are equally alarming - and that is in a country that is supposed to be one of the richest and most powerful in the world.
Well, of course there are dangerous areas everywhere. But a few seconds googling will show you that Mexico has many more than most. Just check out the advice given to tourists going to the US against that given to those heading for Mexico.

www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/mexico/safety-and-security

www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/usa/safety-and-security

People holiday in Mexico because it's reasonable, warm, pretty, with good food, and the resorts are nice and safe.

Of course they do. My niece, the most neurotic safety conscious person I know, holidays there (and nowhere else) every year. But she doesn't set foot outside her 5* hotel compound in Cancun. I was assuming that if the OP and her husband have had a long-standing dream of going to Mexico for 4 months, they'd be travelling round. Perhaps I'm wrong. Which is why I'd be interested to know.

It would get very boring just staying inside a hotel compound for four months.

I like to explore.

Perhaps the OP may come back and let us know what she has decided to do.

I don't find hotels boring. Eat, drink, charter a deep-sea fish journey, swim, exercise, hotel tours into safe areas. It's a wonderful holiday away from chilly drizzle.

Oh it would be so nice to get away from chilly drizzle. Such a miserable day today.

I enjoy hotels too but I'm not sure whether, on the grounds of it being unsafe outside the compound, I'd like to spend more than three weeks (at the most) stuck in the hotel and its grounds.

I think Mawbroon is right- all we need now is Minalta back to update.

It was drizzling here and misty, now it is pelting down with rain.

I wouldn't mind a week or two stuck in a hotel compound (sounds quite nice for that long) but after that I would have itchy feet.

My ideal is a couple of weeks travelling round, then a week - at most - chilling out in a good hotel. Which is what we would have been doing in Mexico last Autumn, if our agent hadn't made a proper pig's ear of the flight arrangements and had to cancel us . We were doing the Inca trail in a small accompanied group, then going to Cancun.

I think this thread has made me want to try again Though maybe with a different company.

That sounds very adventurous and exciting Maggiemb - try again, hope you got your money back

DH likes to chill for a week then go off and do something, although walking distances is off for both of us at the moment.

So - what just popped up at the top of the page?

Newcastle to Lanzarote - flight offers.
It would be a trek for us to get to Newcastle in the first instance!

OP outlined a rather extreme scenario, 3-4 months in Mexico of all places ( unless maybe her DH is a retired brickie and sees a careeer opportunity ) and it has certainly aroused some strong feelings and comments.
When an OP doesn't come back after setting the proverbial cat among the pigeons I do sometimes wonder........
Cynical, moi?

Es una estafa?

I have just wasted spent the whole evening googling blooming holidays and daydreaming - I blame this thread. I have upgraded my idea of the ideal holiday and would like to go on the Trans-Siberian Railway, first class all the way (definitely not in the third class compartment with the sour-faced babushka presiding over the toilets and samovar and the dire warnings about sniffing the food carefully before you taste it). All I need now are the winning 6 numbers for Wednesday's lotto draw

We did get our money back, Jalima, plus a £150 voucher towards a holiday this year, but I think I'm still some way short of my train fare.

You may find Moscow to Lemingrad more interesting from a train window.

Sorry St Petersberg

I was wondering about a train journey but DH is not so keen
Nor is my back

Maybe, Izabella, and it may be more affordable! We spent a month in Leningrad way back in 1973, so it would be interesting to see how it has changed. And I'd like to see Moscow.

I can recommend Via Rail across Canada, Jamila. We travelled from Toronto to Vancouver in a sleeper. I think we were on it three nights. Very comfortable, and really atmospheric lying in your little bunk and hearing the clunkety clunk and the train whistles from far across the lonely prairie (not sure that they are prairies actually, but it sounds right!). You do need a bit of dexterity to climb along the side of the beds and swing into your little toilet area at night though....

Best not to drink too much before turning in