One of the first casualties of Hurricane Odile was the Annual
Cabo Comedy Festival. Scheduled to take place originally in early October, the
festival was postponed and early in December dates were announced that festival
was re-set for February 4-8th with the support of the Los Cabos
Tourism Board. At that time the expectation was that most, if not all, of the
region's hotels would be operating at full capacity by now.
Yesterday, the festival's producers spoke with the Hotel
Association and confirmed that, unfortunately, an unexpected number of resorts remain
under renovation while quite a few more (Hilton, Palmilla, etc.) are now expected
to remain closed for at least the first half of 2015.
“Of course many hotels are open and Cabo as a whole is
running at over 90% occupancy with most businesses are all back to normal.
However, with everyone so busy, this also means that there will not be enough
rooms available to host the 100+ performers plus industry VIPs, comedy fans and
production staff who flood Cabo for the festival. So, it is with a heavy heart
that we must report that we will not be able to execute the delayed 2014
festival in February as hoped, and will instead stage the 2nd edition of the
festival during our original annual slot in the Fall” said a spokesman for the organizers
yesterday.
“The exact dates will be set once we meet with tourism
officials and can determine together what the most viable weekend will be. So
for now, please accept our most sincere apologies and also this promise: NO
hurricane will wash away what has already become the most talked about comedy
festival in our business!” he concluded.