Traveler's Guide to Mexican Camping: Explore Mexico and Belize with Your RV or Tent (Traveler's Guides (Rolling Homes)) [Illustrated] (Paperback)

We traveled most of the East and West coasts, much of the Yucatan peninsula, and from Cancun to Puerto Vallarta. We traveled alone and we do not speak Spanish.

The remarkable amount and accuracy of information in this book allowed us to consistently answer the two most vital questions before us: where is the next campground with suitable security and services and, can we find it easily and promptly once we are in the area?

There is a wealth of other useful information in this book and it has been well summarized by the Plaxton review elsewhere on this web-site. We will only confirm the accuracy of his assesment.

We also have talked to over a dozen other travelers who agree that this is clearly the best RV camping guide for Mexico that is available at this time.

Buy this book.

There are three reasons why you should buy this book. First. Use it to compare with other guide books. This is the way an RV guide book should be written. Second. Buy this book if you are going to marvellous Mexico, including beautiful Baja California, or merely dreaming about going there. Third. Buy this book if you've been to Mexico dozens of times because there are probably some RV parks and campgrounds, old and new, that you don't even know about.

The only thing wrong with this book, it is that it should have been published at least four years ago. If this book had been available when Liz and I spent almost nine months travelling through Mexico, we would definitely have stayed in more RV campgrounds if we had known where they were and how to get to them.

This couple knows their stuff, which isn't surprising because they've been to every campground they write about during the several months of several years spent touring Mexico. And Mike and Terri know what to look for and discuss because they are avid researchers, love to talk to people, and they've travelled in both a large motorhome and a camperized van.

Not only does this book describe so many campgrounds accurately (at least the dozens we visited), it gives good advice on preparing for this trip, and a very realistic introduction to the any wonders and few problems that an RVer is likely to encounter in Mexico. It even briefly suggests four self-guided tours to take, and how they can be easily modified to meet your particular requirements and desires.

Each section or area of Mexico has a brief introduction and tourist highlights, as does each major city. Each description of a campground displays its price range, a really useful description of facilities in addition to icons, its GPS latitude and longitude, altitude, how to get there info, distance in miles and kilometres, possible side trips, and its name (written and phonetic) with address and telephone and fax numbers. If you want other books, they suggest a few that complement their work. But with 404 pages plus Table of Contents and Index, a few pictures, a pleasant but factual writing style, dozens of maps, and hundreds of campgrounds accompanied by a small chart showing you where it is, you shouldn't need another RV guide book.