There weren’t that many vendors at the beach in Ixtapa (more in Zihua and on the island), but there was parasailing for $200 pesos, and every afternoon the parachuting club would do a drop on the beach.
The only negative about this hotel was the chair saving game was played in full force...grrrr.....too many old fogies (average age was about 65, lots of older people go to Ixtapa, people who have been going there for 20 years, from what I gathered) who don’t sleep much and go to be bed at nine so they got up at 5 and would save chairs by the pool.
The hotel put a sign up to discourage it, stating chairs should be ‘first come first served’, and can only be saved for 2 hours, but how could they possibly enforce it? Some couple would even selfishly save FOUR chairs, two in the shade- the nerve!
No wonder there aren’t enough.
But...life’s too short..... if we wanted chairs we had to play, so we took turns getting up at 6 to go save them, not that big of a deal really, we had 8 people after all and two days away from the hotel that first week.
All in all that first week was tons of fun with the 8 of us.
We usually travel alone and this trip with the group the first week and then alone the second, and changing locations for the second week, was the perfect balance. Week number was party time and the second was chill time.
The boys went fishing that first week and Jack caught a 225 pound blue marlin...
Jason caught a sailfish....
Mark caught a dorado that we ate for supper at Daniels on the beach in Zihua that night....prepared three ways, garlic and butter, sweet chili sauce, and Veracruz style....yummy....
and enjoying the fruits of his labour at Daniel's at the beach...
And Don caught a 300 pound marlin the next week too....a one and a half hour fight. He was pretty pumped about that.
