Trip Report Cozumel October 2024 - Presidente / Aldora - Minor Incident

[pauldw]

Are these US dollars or pesos? Pretty interesting taxi price if ninety dollars.

 

[lionfish-eater]

Are these US dollars or pesos? Pretty interesting taxi price if ninety dollars.

I use a shared taxi and it is 15 per person and they try to get 4 people. So 60 would make sense.
I ask how many passengers they have already and compare that to the departure time of the next ADO bus.
I have even helped the taxi driver get some passengers so we could depart quicker.

 

[ggunn]

Are these US dollars or pesos? Pretty interesting taxi price if ninety dollars.

Dollars, I presume, but it's about a 35 mile one way trip. You have some leverage, though, hiring a taxi in Playa del Carmen to get to the CUN airport, since many of the drivers hanging out in PdC have just hauled someone down from CUN and are looking for a paying fare back.

 

[Quicksilver II]

A beer in the afternoon and a small glass or two of wine at dinner are OK for me, but the last time I drank to excess on vacation was 25 years or so ago when I drank so much out fishing that I have no memory of the big white marlin I caught, and I spent the next day in bed in my hotel room. Never again.

I'm a dumb monkey and slow to learn but in the future will def be skipping either the margs or skipping the diving the next day. I think I got a bit complacent, fortunately, it was a cheap lesson.

All the dives had been so easy so far and I got to talking to another DM at the brewery during my one night out in town and overdid it. Not even close to worth it.

That was the first time I've been underwater and really wished I wasn't, which was a feeling that won't be soon forgotten.