Monday, January 4, 2010 Mazatlan

We met Dale and Gail at the airport and chatted with them for awhile. They were going to Cabo San Lucas on SkyService. We departed pretty much on time, shortly after 9 AM. Dale and Gail got out a few minutes ahead of us. The announced flight time was 3:44. It was an uneventful flight. We arrived about 1 our time – noon local time. We checked in to the hotel and a lady from information desk offered to brief us on where all the hotel facilities were after we were settled in our room. We didn’t have our guard up, but eventually realized that this was a set up for a time share presentation. We decided to go see her anyway as we wanted the hotel briefing. After the hotel briefing came the pitch for the time share presentation. She offered us tickets for two of the tours we wanted to do anyway, so we decided to check it out. We grabbed a mid afternoon lunch at the buffet, and then set out to explore the place.

We are at the El Cid Castilla, one of four El Cid properties in the area. El Cid is a large Mexican resort and tour company. Our place is in a cluster of three properties grouped together, with the fourth less than a mile north. Our place was probably built in the 70s or 80s, but it is pretty well kept.

After our explorations, we enjoyed a buffet dinner, followed by a live show. There were several dance numbers representing different aspects of Mexico’s and Mazatlan’s history done to recorded music. It was a fairly high quality presentation.