Our check-in was for Sunday, they said 5 p.m. so we started our Sunday morning. The drive north was uneventful. We went up the coast instead of through Tepic. Other than a missed turn in San Blas the trip was uneventful. It took about 6 ½ hours including a stop for gas. We probably should have planned a lunch stop or something since it seemed like a very long ride.
I had been in touch by email with a lady who lives in Mazatlan. Lee and her husband Ken live in a relatively new neighborhood just off the main highway into town. Lee had sent instructions and we easily found thier home. It is very cute! We were welcomed in and offered a nice cold glass of iced tea. They also had some really delicious cheesecake. After a nice visit we headed to the hotel. Lee had provided us with names of places to try and we made plans to meet later in the week.
Our hotel was the Mayan Sea Garden. I had researched it on Trip Advisor and knew that the hotel was pretty far out of town. Since we drove to Mazatlan, this was no problem. When we checked in, we were offered a 25% disocunt on charges at the hotel if we took a one-bedroom unit instead of the two-bedroom we had reserved. Since only the two of us came, we thought that would be OK. We went to see the unit and it was on the fourth floor, no elevator. I fell in the street going to catch the bus a few days before and really beat up my knee, so that wasn’t going to work. We ended up in the two-bedroom in the building with the elevator. The room was nice, but not really very modern. The master bedroom has barely enough room to walk around the bed. The second bedroom was very strange, a pull out couch and chair, no other furniture. And if you pull out the couch, there is no room at all. We used it as a walk-in closet!
The first evening we drove toward town and ate at a touristy place called Ernie Tomatoes. It was pretty good and not too expensive. A time share “shark” came and talked to us. He really didn’t bother us, and we eventually agreed to go on the tour of the Pueblo Bonito Emrald Bay resort. We scheduled that for Tuesday.
On Monday, we took a dip in the pool and checked out the beach. The waves are much stronger in Mazatlan as it is directly on the Pacific. After swimming, we took a do-it-yourself bus tour. We rode the bus from in front of our hotel to the end of the line. We were quite a ways from the toursit zone and saw lots of things. We took another bus to el centro and walked around some.We saw the Plaza Machada and ate lunch at a place called Beach Burger. The burgers were good. We also walked around the central area of town some more looking for a coffee shop Monika told us about. It was closed for siesta, so we decided to return later in the week. We had seen Waldo’s, a Mexican “dollar store” on our bus tour so later we went there to shop. So much better than the PV “dollar stores.” We ate dinner at Panama Restaurant, a local chain. Very good, reasonable and a pretty place.
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