I'm coming to you live from Acapulco, Mexico!! I am so excited to be able to share my adventurous vacation with you. I will be in Acapulco for the next two weeks and I'm going to be sharing experiences I've had here; along with pictures and of course coffee reviews! So get ready to have a great time!
Acapulco is literally my second home, I have been coming here ever since I was literally 1 years old. In total, I've missed three years since then, so this trip marks my 18th time here in this beautiful city. Honestly, when I was much younger, I would come to Acapulco only because I was being forced to come with my family, but now I come because I have really fallen in love with Acapulco. It really is paradise.
On Wednesday February 18th, 2015, (aka my mom's birthday) my whole family took a flight out from Toronto to Acapulco (along with a stop over in Mexico City).
The flight from Toronto to Mexico City was delayed for about an hour, due to a panel being loose. Other then that, the flight went perfectly.
Once we finally arrived in Mexico City (5 and a bit starving hours later) we waited for the wheels chair assistant to direct us on our way (my uncle needed the wheel chair). We figured that we had 2 hours to go through Mexican customs, get our baggage, drop off our baggage to the connecting flight, go to terminal 1 of the Mexico City airport, go to the AeroMexico booth (to get our boarding passes) and then run onto the plane... it seems like a lot for a two-hour lay-over but since we've been coming to Acapulco our entire lives, and have done this exact thing over 18 times, we thought it would be a breeze. WE WERE WRONG!!!!
Once we got off the airplane and went through customs and dropped off our baggage (which took us 30 minutes of time) we had to TAKE A BUS (the terminal train was broken) from terminal 2 (international terminal) to terminal 1 (national terminal). Not only did we need to take a bus, but we needed to take a wheel chair accessible bus. There is only one of those in the entire airport. We waited 30 minutes for the bus to finally arrive (then be squished in there like a pile of sardines). We then were stuck in Mexican traffic for 45 minutes!!!
Finally, we made it to terminal 1. Now, keep in mind, at this point my feet are swollen from wearing fashionable, but not sensible shoes; the wheel chair assistant told us we literally had 2 minutes to get to the AeroMexico terminal to get our boarding passes... we ran. No, we BOLTED to the terminal. We ran so quickly through this airport I promise you it was like in the movies. People literally thought we were insane. Not to mention, my uncle in the wheel chair was being pushed so quickly he said he felt like he was getting car sick. With that being said, we got to the AeroMexico booth and were told that they gave our tickets away, because we were TWO MINUTES LATE. Infuriated is an understatement people. I was beyond mad, I was so mad that my anger had anger. They then directed us TO A LINE UP longer then Macy's cash line on Black Friday, and told us to find the next outgoing flight for Acapulco. The customer service was ZERO.
We get into this line up and when we were finally spoken to we were told that every single flight going to Acapulco for the day was completely taken. They put all 6 of us on "standby" which was the extent of the help they gave us.
They told us to go back to terminal 2 and talk to Air Canada about the situation because that's who brought us to Mexico City. We did as we were told, and also PAYED the terminal bus to take us back to terminal 2. Air Canada did nothing, but tell us our luggages would be waiting for us in the Acapulco airport.
We then thought that we would rent a car and drive to Acapulco, its a 5 and bit car ride but its completely manageable. We asked every single car rental booth the entire Mexico City airport had this is what all of them told us "its $200 to go to Acapulco, $600 for not bringing it back to us and $200 for a navigation". UM EXCUSE ME?! Non comprende..... BYE. Like come on, thats the most ridiculous thing I've heard in my life. We decided to keep our money and take it elsewhere.
Taxi. A taxi would be cheap, it would be safe and it would know where to go. Right? Wronnnngggg! The taxi drivers told us we would have to pay them $700 for them to drive us to Acapulco.
We literally didn't know what else to do. We thought maybe we could take a bus? We thankfully found a bus ticket station (aka a booth where they sold bus tickets). They had a bus that would leave in 2 hours that would take us to Acapulco, it was only $50 per person. Deal.
What's the catch, right? We had to take a taxi from the Mexico City airport to the Mexico City bus terminal. The bus taking us to Acapulco left at 6:15, it was 4:00 at this point and the traffic was insane, but this was are last and only option to be able to make it to Acapulco today.
We took the taxi from the Mexico City airport and drove for an hour until we finally reached the bus terminal.
We were an hour and 15 minutes early (finally something was working in our favour) but we were STARVING. We hadn't eaten since dinner the day before, so starving was an understatement. We found the absolute sketchiest sandwich shop in the bus terminal (funny enough, it was the least sketchiest food place in the entire terminal, we were starving and decided that anything would be better then nothing). I bought a pre-made veggie sandwich (which was probably sitting in the window the entire day, if not week). It was soggy and wet. It was gross! but I was starving and ate it... but then it made me sick (yuck).
We get on the bus from Mexico City taking us to Acapulco
*** 6 hours later ***
Its 12:15am. We made it to Acapulco's bus station!!! We then took a taxi from the bus terminal to the Acapulco airport to pick up our suit cases..... THEY WERE THERE! Safe and sound. This day was turning into a more positive day (finally).
we arrived at our hotel, exhausted and hungry at 2:00am.
Although this was a pretty gnarly day, Acapulco is worth every single second of it. Acapulco is literally paradise.
I'll be back soon to blog all about the coffee and food!!
Adios!!
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