Quote Originally Posted by Rob View Post
Kikn,

Since you know about the 4 robberies that happened the previous week last February and you see no help in sugar coating things, why are you not mentioning the name of the property in question and offering details of the robberies so that others may benefit from this information?

And if you notice, this is being reported here right now, so to say it is not reported only comes down to the fact that you didnt report it in the first place.

Please present the details about the robberies so others may benefit in the future. If you are certain it happened just as you heard it did, then others can be helped.

But please do not blame us for you not reporting something that you know, that cannot be our fault.
Well, quite frankly, I did not feel the need. We showed up with no reservations in the middle of high season. All of our regular places were booked up. The place we ended up staying at was a small hotel run by a lovely woman. A small place, I have never once heard the hotel name mentioned here or anywhere else online. The owner informed us of the recent robberies, we still booked, and our stay was fine and uneventful. The report of the robbery was secondhand, from the hotel owner and a neighbor, so I felt no need to say anything negative about the place.

But yeah, I probably could have said something so that others could be warned. Like Kahuna, these robberies were simple and preventable. Lock your windows. Problem would have been solved. Thief entered from an unlocked window every time. And, again rumor and heresay, but was told that in at least two of the robberies the window had been unlocked earlier in the evening by a hooker invited in the room earlier.

But, rather than reporting it, when I hear about this and other easily preventable incidents, I will simply give advice for people to avoid the issue. Don't walk the beach at night. Lock your doors and windows at night. And if you bring a hooker home you are only asking for problems. I have heard of several incidents, but pretty much all of them have been easily preventable.

But, sorry Rob, I don't think I hear about a fraction of the incidents involving tourists here or anywhere else. I believe Suzan is absolutely correct.