May 11-18th Western Carribean - Chichen Itza Excursion

[Psiklops]

My wife and I are taking the Western Carribean cruise from May 11th - May 18th. I have contacted a company in Playa del Carmen Mexico called Aerosaab that does the plane tours of Chichen Itza. The normal tour usually begins 8am, but they are willing to start later (10:30 - 11am) since we won't port until 10am.

The catch is that they need at least 4 people for the tour, so we are looking for another couple of people who would also like to go. The tour lasts about 5 hours.

From Aerosaab:
"The cost per person is $160USD plus aiport tax, departing form Playa del Carmen or Cozumel. The trip includes round flight, taxi to/from the ruins, entrance fees, guide and if you still have time visit to Cenote Ik Kil."

You can get more information about the tour at:
http://www.aerosaab.com/tour_chichen.html

Their site does say that that they give discounts (10% off) for groups of 4 or more, so if we all go in together we can get $16 off per person.

Thanks,
Jim

 

[4crusinransiers]

You will love the ruins! Bring plenty of water and a hat to protect you from the sun. We have been 5 times and each time we stayed
near the hotel as to enter the ruins as soon as it opened, then we took a break at the heat of the day and went back to hotel pool. Keep in mind you will be there at the heat of the day.

 

[Psiklops]

Thanks for the info. The hardest part about all of this is trying to keep where we're going a secret from my wife. She has no idea where we're going, let alone it being a cruise!

 

[wdwgoose]

Hi Psiklops,

Why don't you join us on the Inaugral cruise thread? There are several (about 92 adults and children) of us going that have been chatting for months. Come join the fun. Beware of the Boones farm toting old foogies that frequent the site, they some times get carried away!!
Every one is in the excursion planning phase so you might find someone that would like to join you on the trip. DH thinks it sound like something he might like to do. Do you know what size plane they use?

If you would like to join all of the fun we have planned for the trip we hope to start with a meet at the Radison the night before the cruise if you all are staying in the area the night before. (special 64.00 w/tax) Code word - fall

Once on board the Magic we are having a sailaway party on deck 10, terminal side (starboard) mid deck after the lifeboat drill. We will be the group in the lime-green tye-dyed shirts. Hope you can join the fun!!!!!


Vicki

 

[abitjaded]

Just a note, beware of flying !!!! Hopefully time has modernized this trip. Seriously, unless you are taking a jet, if you do this and have any tendency to motion sickness, take something before you go. We did this many years ago from Cancun via the Club Med, landing was pretty wild, the pilot and co left the cockpit door open. As we landed (on what was then, still? a dirt strip) they had to crab back and forth in the wind to keep the plane in line with the strip, we could see the strip, then jungle, then strip, jungle, back and forth till we landed. On the trip back the thermals and heat and smoke from the slash and burn in the jungle did a bunch of us in, greased with cola handed out by the flight attendant (swear she could only have been 16). The GO from the Club Med that led the trip had started our journey humming the theme to Indiana Jones. Little did we realize.... Afterward he said it was a pretty good trip, we only lost about a third of the plane into the air sickness bags. He said that sometimes the whole passenger load was sick. But, taking the plane was great. The planes get there well before all the buses, you have the place to yourselves. The atmosphere is really otherworldly when it is deserted.

Carla