Old Acapulco

We took a bus from Mexico City to Acapulco which took around 5 hours. The bus itself was quite modern but the road not so with what seemed like millions of speed bumps which our driver had a penchant for hitting way too fast.  We booked into ...

... car take out the rear off a knackered old bus and us finding shade and a very cheap beer she was still sulking. Acapulco was quite a beautiful place. We´d deliberetly avoided the really touristy bits with the big hotels and the more real bit was ...

... cord. My experience this time was much different since I worked on cruise liners. This time I found myself fighting the traffic of Acapulco most of the time. The first day we arrived we checked out the city center, where Christina got to try out her new ...

Accommodation Acapulco has simply two halves: the old town, which is where you will find the budget hotels, and to the east, the resort area, a string of fine hotels lining the Bahia de Acapulco. A simple Google search will list many of these hotels so ...

... south of the city.  If you look very closely at the attached photo you will see our 'home-away-from-home' docked in old Acapulco.  We climbed ever higher and made another photo stop at the Bella Vista Hotel (very posh) in order to see how the ...

... , night clubs, shopping malls and the like. Then we retreated to our cool room to watch movies and drink Corona! Day two in Acapulco was fun and action packed. We got up early and went to the beach before the scorching rays of the sun (and ...

... fortress built in the 16th century to protect the Spanish ships and the bay area from them thar pirates . Quite interesting - Acapulco was a major port during the initial circumnavigation of the globe and in the transferring of retail stuff from Asia ...

... twice before, but we stayed at a nice hillside villa and clubbed at the hilltop hotspots and never had to deal with downtown Acapulco...a pretty gritty inner-city scene...so we chose to stay just 10 miles outside of town, at Pie de la Cuesta (literally, ...

Just accommodation for now........... Accommodation Acapulco has simply two halves: the old town, which is where you will find the budget hotels, and to the east, the resort area, a string of fine hotels lining the Bahia de Acapulco. A simple Google ...

... to be pirates and really enjoyed our time at the fort. After that, it was time for the Cliff Jumping Mexicans! It’s what Acapulco is all about. Shannon and I caught a cab to the Cliff and we arrived super early. The jumping starts at sunset. We ...