Pretty much everyone knows that when you go to a popular resort area in Mexico, you will be subject to any number of creative and persistent sales pitches. For everything. From beach vendors selling clothing, toys, trinkets, etc. (often made in the very Mexican location of CHINA...) to the onslaught of real estate moguls hiding in every taxicab line at the airport...one needs to practice the finer art of the words "NO GRACIAS" before you depart the plane.
We're pretty committed to riding to the hotel in a sales-pitch-free taxi, after we fell for the ride-along timeshare salesperson deal in Mazatlan. However we keep hearing from various sources, both known to us and online, that listening to the pitch at the resort is worth the pain and torture of having to repeatedly refuse to cough up thousands of dollars on the spot. We've heard and read you can invest anywhere from 1-3 hours getting pitched to and in exchange you get a few hundred dollars off your beer bill (yes, our beer bill will likely be in the hundreds), or tickets to a surfing class, or some other such loot.
So what's the real story? Do we give up a precious few hours of our deck chair dozing time to endure this? I happen to suck at being aggressive about "no" but I am counting on the fact that if we do decide to succumb, Dan will pull out his grouchy Irishman.
Timeshare sales experienced people, do tell....what's the real deal?
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