New Mexico RV Resort Responds To Rowdy Guests Complaints From Neighbors

Tico Time River Resort offers ziplining, paddleboarding, as well as an RV park. This year, they added music festivals to their list.

However, in May, one of these celebrations was met with complaints from neighbors, who protested about the noise and the naked guests. Today, the resort’s owner has responded to the complaints, a report said.

“It was kind of a catastrophe,” said Robert Holmes, the owner of Tico Time. “It was way too loud. We had the promoter bring humongous speakers and we had noise complaints from 5 miles away. We completely agreed with all the neighbors it was completely unacceptable.”

Holmes explained that they are taking steps to ensure it does not happen again. They also put up curtains in the front and at the back of the stage to drown out the noise.

“So basically I drive around during the festivals at night, go to the neighbors’ houses and listen and see if you can barely hear it or if it’s too loud, we ask the sound engineers to turn it down,” Holmes said.

“Our official policy is no nudity is allowed,” Holmes said. “We basically had to get stricter and stricter with that policy, as far as enforcing it, so we had to start kicking people out of the resort. Hopefully, once people get the word that, hey, if you take your clothes off you’re gonna be kicked out and not allowed to come back in, that behavior will cease to happen anymore.”

At present, there are no signs at the resort that prohibit nudity. However, Holmes said they will add one in the future. Holmes also mentioned that they had put off the fireworks display due to noise complaints but plan to have them during special occasions.

Holmes stated that he will remain in touch with the county. As the music festivals come to an end, Holmes said they will continue to do what they can to be better neighbors.