To keep travelers entrance notwithstanding a mostly frightful crime news filtering out of a country, Mexico’s tourism attention has forsaken prices in new years.

That slip continued in 2012, when hotel rates fell 2.3%, says Hotels.com. And prices are approaching to stay nearby that low turn this year, says Travelzoo’s Christie McConnell: “They don’t wish to expostulate a marketplace away.”

Some of a best — and safest — deals are in a Riviera Maya, such as a $999 package from debate user Apple Vacations: Get 7 nights during a Grand Palladium Colonial Resort Spa and airfare from Los Angeles during 23% off.

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