Our checkout was at 1 so we went upstairs to shower and pack up, and grabbed a cab to Zihua.
Zihuantanejo is where we were moving to for our second week there alone, Zihuantanejo is a city of about 80,000 people, it’s in a gorgeous bay that has five beaches in all.
It is where we preferred to stay, but our friends were looking for a more luxurious and ‘fancy’ place so we opted for the first week with the group in Ixtapa. But both places were nice and one week at each was perfect!
We stayed on Playa Madera which is the first beach to the south from the Playa Principal which has Fisherman’s Walk (the most touristy area, with shopping and restaurants) and the main fishing pier.
There is no marina in Zihua really, the pangas just park in the bay next to the pier....and the pelicans. Both of these beaches aren’t the prettiest, more rocky and darker sand, but lots of people were swimming at Madera, it was clean.
This is our hotel in the background, the orange one- the Irma. We did a lot more walking than the week before and up and down the hills was quite a workout!
I managed to not put on a single pound, although I sure ate like a pig and drank a lot more than I normally do.
Our room was very basic but clean and the A/C worked great. And the view was spectacular!
The one thing we felt was missing was a fridge in the room, but we had a cooler and they would give you a bucket with hielo at the pool to keep your own drinks cold.
I would never tire of this view.
We had a hot tub outside our room that we never saw anyone use. Too hot!
The two pools were nice and I especially liked the infinity pool.
It was never a fight to find a chair at any time of day. BIG plus.
The average age at this hotel was younger, maybe in the 40s. We met lots of nice people, most heard us talk and thought we were from Minnesota
- that happens a lot to us. Most people were from Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Oregon or Wisconsin, and many western Canadians. One couple from Montreal too, NOT Quebecois, they actually were friendly.
(DOH!)