Thanks but I really wanted to see Old Acapulco and stay at the Las Brisas, visit the Boca Chica and all those mid century hotels that were the vacationland for 1940s-50s Hollywood. I've always wanted to visit and the appeal is the well preserved '50s architecture; sort of the Palm Springs of Mexico!

I may do the Yuccatan Peninsula instead, or somewhere in Southern California. It's not so much the prices that are shocking, but the overall trouble. The fact that there are no direct flights from LA says a lot. I was under the impression that Acapulco's international tourism was getting battered by the safety warnings; perhaps I put too much weight to that. The fact that there are no reasonable flight times is baffling. I could fly to Canada just as quick as I could fly to Acapulco, which is scary! It just seems like a very inaccessible destination from what should arguably be (and historically has been) a very popular point of departure - California!