Holland America Skips Acapulco Calls
by Daniel McCarthy
Holland America Line ships will no longer stop in Acapulco, Mexico during scheduled Panama Canal and South American sailings because of security concerns.
The cruise line was scheduled to make eight calls to Acapulco through 2018, but will instead stop at other Mexican ports.
The U.S. State Department included Acapulco in a travel warning from December, writing that Guerrero, the state that includes Acapulco, “was the most violent state in Mexico in 2015 for the third year in a row.”
Global Affairs Canada advised its citizens against non-essential travel to Guerrero earlier this month, as well, “due to the high levels of violence and organized crime.”