January and February ’07 Newsletter

I am writing this like a politician, explaining that we didn’t fall behind in our production of newsletters while, in reality, we did fall behind. 

Winter and early spring is “show season” and we’ve been back and forth all over the map telling our Buena Vista Beach Resort story to fishermen and other potential guests from Long Beach to Minneapolis. 

Because we’ve been traveling, it doesn’t mean that hotel has not been busy. As you can tell, we have been a little behind in our website updating, but this will also change and if you take a look at http://www.hotelbuenavista.com/ you’ll see all the information for the past two months.

Sorry for the delay . . . but this newsletter is so long I hope it was worth the wait.  Gracias.

It’s All Good News!

Our 2007 season is underway!   

This coming week the hotel is completely sold out thanks to the Easter break and the official un-official start of our season.  On February 25, we had our Start of the Season Mass. All the hotel family united to pray for a safe and prosperous year; as well as to pray for longtime guests and friends recovering from illness or surgery. Padre Jose offered mass at the hotel chapel. Everyone is excited and looking forward to see what this year will bring us.  We pray it be a blessed one!

Even though this winter was a windy one, we still had many wonderful days. It was on these days that everyone at the hotel went fishing, diving and other water activities. We have some recommendations when visiting us during the winter:

Don’t try to do it over a weekend.  Make it a mini-vacation, a week, 10 days or two weeks, we have the free night’s specials; and if you stay more than a week you will get a free upgrade. Yes, there is going to be wind, but the days continue to be nice and you can still enjoy the pool and other activities. And you will have some non-windy days.  It is on this days that you go and enjoy our ocean as it comes back to be the beautiful and peaceful Sea of Cortés we all have come to love and admire.

And if what you need is a short trip to get a way from bad weather and work stress, we are a great option too, since the hotel is not too busy, winter is the time when you will have the most peace here. I am sure you can imagine this, so it makes for a great winter getaway . . . so keep us in mind for winter 2007-’08.

New Rental Car at the Resort 

If you want a little adventure and drive all over, this year the hotel will have a compact rental car at the resort. This is the brand new vehicle we won at the Los Mochis Tournament.  You can reserve it prior to your visit with our reservations office. You may rent it for your whole stay or on a daily basis, but since it is our only vehicle, make arrangements for it in advance as we think it will be very busy.

Report From Our Maintenance Room

There was an enormous amount of maintenance done during the winter months – hotel interiors, exteriors and boats.

Interiors. The rooms were equipped with brand new air conditioning units.  They are a little bigger, and are more efficient and will work a lot better.  Many of you stayed in our newly re-furnished rooms, but to finish the entire hotel we divided the task into two years and this year we will finish this project. To our friends that like to stay close to the pool and swim-up bar, those rooms should be finished later this month. These are the most requested rooms; therefore we have a little more problem finding vacant time to finish them.

Exterior.  The very much-needed lighting project was undertaken by Felipe and he is getting very close to having all the patios well lighted. It will look beautiful.  Some of the roof tile that was blown away by our friend Hurricane John last September has been replaced with new roofing material. Now, we only have the most popular rooms to finish up with the new roofing and Felipe is programming this for the end of this year.

Boats.  There were numerous repairs and upgrades – new motors, tanks and decks – but we’re almost finished.  Major boat projects included:

Nueva Era was completely taken apart and re-constructed to Chayo’s liking. His boat is not yet finished, but it will be ready in April.  Mauricio’s Eclipse and Jose’s Vagabundo had new 270 Cummings engines installed.  If you thought those boats were fast before, man you should see them with these new and bigger engines.  Marco’s Liliana, Chuy’s Hakuna, and Carlos’ Careleste were all were re-fitted with new fuel tanks and pumps.  Ramon’s 3 Hermanos’ deck was refurbished by Jose’s talented handcraft work. Felipe’s and Reggie’s Yanet as always was meticulously maintained and with a new propeller it will make a more efficient boat.  And, finally, My compadre Cirilo received a new panga with brand new motor.

And all of the boats are getting new fishing tackle!!  So, all-in-all, it’s like a brand new fleet. 

Condominium Project

Since our last communication went out, we have had a lot of e-mails, calls and visits (while we’ve been on our show circuit) regarding this condominium project adjacent to the hotel. Esaul has been organizing the entire construction project. He attended the Fred Hall in Long Beach and had already some of the floor plans and overall designs. And he continues working on a few other things that need to be taken care of before we get going.

Most of our longtime friends already know about this condo development, but in order to avoid leaving anybody out, we are going to be doing a different mailing list.  This will open a communications channel in order to update you in the latest developments and timetable. It is absolutely necessary for you to e-mail me at axel@hotelbuenavista.com to make sure we don’t leave you out.

New affordable airline to Cabo from Tijuana

There is a new airline with brand new airplanes that started traveling to Los Cabos from Tijuana. You may want to consider it as they offer great fares, I seen them as low as $130 RT including taxes and they offer shuttle services from downtown San Diego to Tijuana’s airport. Hotel Buena Vista Beach Resort is about to become a representative. It is a great option if you have to go last minute or as an alternative to other airlines.

Winter Visitors

We had a lot of friends coming to visit us during this winter, many have already been with us for many years and others that was their first visit.

Among them in January were: Robin Lampkin good friends of our great friends Mary and Buzz Fedorka. Dana Cooper and Monica Penney visited us from Canada once again. Kristen Winder from Utah, our old friend Bruce Rifkin, Lorrin Gilman, William Holloway, Esther & Roland Reeves, Mr. and Mrs. Falavolito and Bowie who visited us from British Columbia Canada, and our good friends from the Dzogchen Community Carol Fields, John Janka and John Lafrance.