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Summary: An accurate + comprehensive survey of Mexican RV campgrounds
Review: A book review by John Plaxton
author of the travelogue "RVing in Mexico and Central America" Buy this book. There are three reasons why you should buy this book. First. Use it to compare with other guide books. This is the way an RV guide book should be written. Second. Buy this book if you are going to marvellous Mexico, including beautiful Baja California, or merely dreaming about going there. Third. Buy this book if you've been to Mexico dozens of times because there are probably some RV parks and campgrounds, old and new, that you don't even know about. The only thing wrong with this book, it is that it should have been published at least four years ago. If this book had been available when Liz and I spent almost nine months travelling through Mexico, we would definitely have stayed in more RV campgrounds if we had known where they were and how to get to them. This couple knows their stuff, which isn't surprising because they've been to every campground they write about during the several months of several years spent touring Mexico. And Mike and Terri know what to look for and discuss because they are avid researchers, love to talk to people, and they've travelled in both a large motorhome and a camperized van. Not only does this book describe so many campgrounds accurately (at least the dozens we visited), it gives good advice on preparing for this trip, and a very realistic introduction to the any wonders and few problems that an RVer is likely to encounter in Mexico. It even briefly suggests four self-guided tours to take, and how they can be easily modified to meet your particular requirements and desires. Each section or area of Mexico has a brief introduction and tourist highlights, as does each major city. Each description of a campground displays its price range, a really useful description of facilities in addition to icons, its GPS latitude and longitude, altitude, how to get there info, distance in miles and kilometres, possible side trips, and its name (written and phonetic) with address and telephone and fax numbers. If you want other books, they suggest a few that complement their work. But with 404 pages plus Table of Contents and Index, a few pictures, a pleasant but factual writing style, dozens of maps, and hundreds of campgrounds accompanied by a small chart showing you where it is, you shouldn't need another RV guide book.
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Summary: signage
Review: A great book. Gives you most of the information you could need. Accurate in the directions. Since I don't have Spanish, I would have liked to have had a translation of the various road signs. Many of the signs don't translate from a dictionary or electronic translator. One could spend an hour or so studying the signs before you went in.
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Summary: signage
Review: A great book. Gives you most of the information you could need. Accurate in the directions. Since I don't have Spanish, I would have liked to have had a translation of the various road signs. Many of the signs don't translate from a dictionary or electronic translator. One could spend an hour or so studying the signs before you went in.
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Summary: Don't leave home without it!
Review: Over the course of two winters, 1997-98 and 1998-99, my wife and I traveled over 6500 miles in Mexico.We have found this book to be an invaluable resource. We traveled most of the East and West coasts, much of the Yucatan peninsula, and from Cancun to Puerto Vallarta. We traveled alone and we do not speak Spanish. The remarkable amount and accuracy of information in this book allowed us to consistently answer the two most vital questions before us: where is the next campground with suitable security and services and, can we find it easily and promptly once we are in the area? There is a wealth of other useful information in this book and it has been well summarized by the Plaxton review elsewhere on this web-site. We will only confirm the accuracy of his assesment. We also have talked to over a dozen other travelers who agree that this is clearly the best RV camping guide for Mexico that is available at this time.
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Summary: "Indispensible"
Review: The remarkable thing about the Church's and their excellent book is that they actually nosed into hundreds of side streets, obscure frontage roads, and bouncy cobblestone alleyways ferreting out most of the RV parks in this vast country. I have stayed at (an uncounted) number of the parks listed and can verify that their comments about the facilities and overall condition is right-on-the-money. Maps, are key to exploring and finding new things and places and each campground is served in the book with both an explanation and a sketch map that specifically describes "Large Rig" access from the nearest highway. I can't tell you how much this means at 5:00 PM when the sun is setting and the holding tank is threatening to burst. As a thirty-six year veteran of RV travel in Mexico, I can say with some degree of authority that The Traveler's Guide to Mexican Camping is the milepost by which other's will have to reckon if they wish to write their own guide.
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Summary: Toll Road Fees Update
Review: We wouldn't dream of going anywhere in Mexico without the Churches' "bible". It's accurate down to the tiniest detail. However, as nothing stays static some info needs to be updated, i.e. As of February 2000 we discovered the toll road fees in Mexico seem to have increased by at least 50% since last year. We drive a 3/4 ton supercab truck and pull a 29' 5th wheel and in February 1999 we paid 310 pesos from Guadalajara to Tepic. In February 2000 tolls on the same road were 451P. Our friends were driving the same length unit except their truck has dual wheels and they paid 2/3's of what we paid at every toll booth between Tepic to Guadalajara to Morelia and back and then from Guadalajara to Laredo, Texas. We could never figure that one out! I complained at the second toll booth about the increase and was told that as of January 2000 the tolls had been increased 50%.
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Summary: Toll Road Fees Update
Review: We wouldn't dream of going anywhere in Mexico without the Churches' "bible". It's accurate down to the tiniest detail. However, as nothing stays static some info needs to be updated, i.e. As of February 2000 we discovered the toll road fees in Mexico seem to have increased by at least 50% since last year. We drive a 3/4 ton supercab truck and pull a 29' 5th wheel and in February 1999 we paid 310 pesos from Guadalajara to Tepic. In February 2000 tolls on the same road were 451P. Our friends were driving the same length unit except their truck has dual wheels and they paid 2/3's of what we paid at every toll booth between Tepic to Guadalajara to Morelia and back and then from Guadalajara to Laredo, Texas. We could never figure that one out! I complained at the second toll booth about the increase and was told that as of January 2000 the tolls had been increased 50%.
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Summary: Toll Road Fees Update
Review: We wouldn't dream of going anywhere in Mexico without the Churches' "bible". It's accurate down to the tiniest detail. However, as nothing stays static some info needs to be updated, i.e. As of February 2000 we discovered the toll road fees in Mexico seem to have increased by at least 50% since last year. We drive a 3/4 ton supercab truck and pull a 29' 5th wheel and in February 1999 we paid 310 pesos from Guadalajara to Tepic. In February 2000 tolls on the same road were 451P. Our friends were driving the same length unit except their truck has dual wheels and they paid 2/3's of what we paid at every toll booth between Tepic to Guadalajara to Morelia and back and then from Guadalajara to Laredo, Texas. We could never figure that one out! I complained at the second toll booth about the increase and was told that as of January 2000 the tolls had been increased 50%.
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