Posted on 03/27/2025 12:17:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Lindsey Lemke Hull’s parents had a membership with the Palace Resorts, a company based in Florida that owns a number of resorts and time-shares in Mexico, but Lindsey says the Palace Resorts breached the contract.
It has been an international nightmare for two American citizens who are stuck in a Mexican jail for a dispute over a time-share for 21 days. Lindsey Lemke Hull’s parents had a membership with the Palace Resorts, a company based in Florida that owns a number of resorts and time-shares in Mexico, but Lemke Hull says the Palace Resorts breached the contract.
"They even hired a lawyer previously to help with the situation - to make sure they handle things correctly," Lemke Hall said. That was said to be about $117,000, but it was over a year ago. There was no dispute, or so they thought.
Big picture view:
The parents decided to go to Cancun but were detained and arrested as soon as their airplane landed, Lemke Hull said. Customs officials claimed they had outstanding charges of criminal fraud and sent them straight to jail. That was 21 days ago. She’s very confused. She cries a lot. She is scared she’s unaware of the amount of corruption that is going on with this case. She is upset because she can’t see her husband or speak to her husband about anything," Lemke Hull said. "She’s just there."
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You don’t go to Mexico for any reason. Period.
Agree.
I'll never understand it. It's like buying trouble on the cheap, when there are beaches in Florida that absolutely outshine Cozumel. If you gotta get out of the US, go to USVI or even PR.
Or Aruba
I mean go to Aruba
Too bad about the time share. People got wowed into them foolishly.
I don’t see why anyone goes to Mexico, ever, for any reason. Gringos are their ATMs and just another mark to be mugged or swindled.
I have lived, worked, and even participated in some archeology excavation in Mexico and Central America. I read, write, and speak fluent Spanish.
That said, there is No Way José I am ever visiting again.
Cancun used to be one of the “safe” places to visit. The gangs, thugs, banditos, and cartels just switched to attacking from the ocean.
The Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City is wonderful! As you walk in the entrance, hanging from the ceiling is a fully intact, stone Aztec calendar. I have guided people through the museum, explaining, translating. It was always fun to see others reactions to this Irish Catholic gringo as the tour guide.
I am so glad I was able to experience this, because I would be a fool to go today.
There are plenty of wondrous places in America that we have yet to visit.
PS - We will be visiting these wondrous American places in our wondrous gasoline powered SUV. With new tires and a full tank of gas, it is a really smoooooooth ride. It also “recharges” in about 5 minutes.
Aren't those in the U.S.?
Natalee Holloway?
Who would buy into a time share? In Mexico no less!!
But they were offering a free breakfast!!
I’m surprised a Federal Judge in D.C. has ordered their immediate release since they are being detained by Customs officials for crimes committed within the country.
/s
I lived in Mexico City and Cuernavaca in the mid sixties. Even then our homes had 10 foot walls with broken glass on the top. Windows had iron bars and we never opened the doors for anyone. We had 'drivers' who 'carried' and never went anywhere alone.
I would never, ever go back there.
Should have said get out of the US proper, Continental 48, while retaining your full rights as a US Citizen (and yup, PR is encumbered with respecting all US citizen rights and privileges including calling a PRP speed trapper a "pendejo" although I don't know who would have done that).
“It has been an international nightmare for two American citizens who are stuck in a Mexican jail for a dispute over a time-share for 21 days”
i always knew that “time-shares” were a REALLY bad deal ...
Have a friend whose father was a Mexican citizen. When he died a second will mysteriously appeared leaving all his land to a girlfriend instead of his children. Since kids were all US citizens (mom was a US citizen) the Mexican legal system treated them as marks to be fleeced. The kids fought it for a while but it quickly became apparent they wouldn’t get a fair shake so they gave up.
At the time I mused that, being Mexico, it would likely have been easier to have the gf killed than to beat her in court.
“Aren’t those in the U.S.?”
Yes, they are part of the 57 states.
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