Mazatlan Vacation Questions?

  • marmike
    Posts: 118
    March 18, 2013 at 4:15 pm #1281270

    I’m going on vacation soon to Mazatlan.Staying at Pueblo Bonito Emerald Bay.Will be traveling with another couple and 4 young adults.
    Any tips on fishing,tourist ideas,general would be appreciated.
    We are staying on an all inclusive package. What do you tip them for services given?
    Any info you like to share would be great.

    Thanks,
    Marmike

    TheFamousGrouse
    St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 11842
    March 18, 2013 at 5:08 pm #1153330

    Fishing is going to be charter boat action. I always like to talk to guys at the resort that I see coming back from trips and ask how they did, costs, etc.

    Tipping. I always bring down about $200 in small bills, mainly $1 and $5.

    While you don’t HAVE to, the thing is that the resort staff learns who’s a tipper and who’s not about 3 minutes after you arrive. What I’ve found is that everthing is a whole lot easier and whatever I ask for tends to happen if I just throw a few tips down in the first few days.

    Case in point, one all inclusive we were at on the Riveria Maya served some kind of low rent skunk water tap beer in the pool side bars. So after throwing down a few tips to the bar tenders, I asked my man Miguel if there was any other beer a guy could get… He smiled and from then on they had a little private stash of bottled Dos Eq that they kept hidden on ice under the bar just for me.

    At another place we were there with friends in the DR and it was one of those all incs where you have to make dinner reservations at the restrauants on premises. They couldn’t get a reservation for the seafood place and they were grumbling about it, so I talked one of the head waiters and asked him what we could do about it.

    Well what do you know? A table just opened up for 7.30! What luck! And wouldn’t you know it, the next day I checked in with the same head waiter and a reservation opened up for the really nice steak place! No buffet for us then, gosh that was lucky.

    I figure it this way, considering what we spend for a family of 4 to go on these things, what’s a few bills extra to have a REALLY good and hassle-free time?

    Grouse

    Ralph Wiggum
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 11764
    March 18, 2013 at 5:28 pm #1153345

    Agreed with everything TFG said.

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