Pretty bothered by our experience the weekend of 7/14/2016 at Las Canadas, highly considering not visiting this place again. Which is pretty disappointing because we had a future trip planned here for next month also.
This past weekend we camped at las Canada in celebration of someone's birthday. It was a group of 50+ relatives and friends of all ages. My review is mainly towards the camp grounds personal and security. Also note that this issue was attempted to be resolved at the camp ground office on 7/17 prior to us leaving the camp ground and we were unsuccessful in doing so. (We were asked to stay till 7pm Sunday to attend their employee meeting so that we can point out the employees that we were complaining about. No one has time to wait till 7pm when they have 3+ hours to travel back home.)
Overall we spent in admission to the campground at least $27,280 pesos (Approximately $1515 US dollars) to be stalked and some can possibly refer to it as HUNTED.
Our stay there Friday was awesome. The kids spend time in the pool, some went zip-lining, some played volleyball. We also stayed up talking and playing games such as jenga. Totally enjoying our stay.
Saturday night comes around and we were up late doing the same- playing Jenga and conversing. Come midnight 2 security guards approached our camp and stood there, said nothing, just stood there. So of course we figured they maybe wanted us to turn OFF our music, so we did and they left. We continued to play and converse. Within the hour we were approached by an "officer" and 5 security guards, they stated that our uncle had to leave the campground and if he didn't he would be arrested and taken. Is that intimidation much? Is conversing not allowed either?
Anyhow long story short the night security there was super rude, "intimidating", made our experience uncomfortable and made many of us feel defensive and unsafe. Lets just say that for a good 4-5 hours they were surrounding our camp ground and surveillancing us (stalking). Once during the night/early morning 2-3 of us walked to the road where our vehicle was and turns and sees at least 5 security guards rushing towards them. We all watched them come out of everywhere like army men. Some of them would hid behind our cars/trucks watching us and listening to what we conversed about throughout the night (we know this because during one of their intimidating approaches they mentioned what we were speaking of). Oh and in the am some of the other families that were camping around us told us they saw them as well hiding behind cars watching us like snipers with flashlights and walkie-talkies instead of guns.
Had there not been little toddlers and children asleep in our tents I honestly think we would had picked up all our belongings and camping gear and left. We are very familiar with the laws of Mexico and honestly them threatening us was more of a disrespectful joke, but I feel for anyone else that is truly a TOURIST because that incident could definitely be intimidating to someone that isn't familiar with things in Mexico. Would hate for something like this to happen to anyone else. Just to make a point that their night security is rude and ...... I don't even know how to describe them or what their point of bothering us was.
I will give them credit for cleanliness because the restrooms and showers are well maintained and cleaned. There are several activities that you can take place in like live music, zip-lining, quad riding etc. They conveniently have general stores on the premises where you can purchase ice and pretty much anything you may need or forgot to bring along.Their security just really sucks and can make you feel uncomfortable and maybe even unsafe. Visit at your own risk. read more