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JakeJakeJake
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 Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject: Mexico to Playa del Carmen for cheap possible? |
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| Is it? and that doesnt take 7 years. Ive been offered a very cheap Spanish school deal from a director I know. though travel will remove any discount i recieve i think |
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dixie
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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| When I went there in 2007 for Christmas, the best deal I found was flying with Interjet. They fly out of Toluca. I do not remember what the cost was though. |
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Phil_K
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| There is a bus out of TAPO bus station on one of those corrugated iron buses, but yes, it does take about 7 years. Try one of the budget airlines, Aviacsa, Magnicharters, Volaris, Interjet. If they don't actually go to P de C, you can hitch or take a regular bus from Canc�n. |
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dixie
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Phil_K wrote: |
| There is a bus out of TAPO bus station on one of those corrugated iron buses, but yes, it does take about 7 years. Try one of the budget airlines, Aviacsa, Magnicharters, Volaris, Interjet. If they don't actually go to P de C, you can hitch or take a regular bus from Canc�n. |
Sorry, I flew from Toluca to Canc�n. There is no airport in Playa. Regardless of who you go with, you will have to take a bus from the airport, to there. |
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Samantha
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Phil_K
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Oops, you're right dixie, I forgot about that! |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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That's an awesome deal I take advantage of every chance I get. I don't like the idea of having to truck up to beautiful Toluca to catch a Volaris or Interjet flight, so Aviacsa is my go-to airline out of BJ.
Not sure if they still have this deal on, but you used to get your 6th flight free if you registered with them, and fly 5 times prior of course. |
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Phil_K
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't like the idea of having to truck up to beautiful Toluca to catch a Volaris or Interjet flight |
One or other, or both of these airlines have shuttle pick-up points in various locations in D.F. |
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Guy Courchesne
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Yeah, and Volaris will helicopter you out there if you're flying first class, so I hear. I'd lose too much time going to Toluca by bus. If the price difference were enormous then I'd reconsider it. Got down to Tuxtla and back with Aviacsa for 1600 pesos last summer. Neither of the other airlines beat that price at the time.
Then there's AeroCalifornia. They had a good price to GDL but you're flying a cabbage cart with wings. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:09 am Post subject: |
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| Regardless of who you go with, you will have to take a bus from the airport, to there. |
An easy bus trip...I think it took about an hour? Maybe less if you leave from the airport, which is near the highway to Playa. |
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dixie
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:23 am Post subject: |
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
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| Regardless of who you go with, you will have to take a bus from the airport, to there. |
An easy bus trip...I think it took about an hour? Maybe less if you leave from the airport, which is near the highway to Playa. |
45mins to an hour. Not long. And like a lot of buses in this country, there was air conditioning (for once not too cold!), and a movie. Not really much to see (besides the enormous gateways to the all-inclusive resorts), but its not a bad trip, or overly long.
I flew AreoCalifornia once from Torre�n to DF. My then bf (the reason why I was back in Torre�n) kept joking the whole day that I was flying a bus with wings. It got me here. And that is all that mattered! |
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Guy Courchesne
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Last time I flew AeroCalifornia, they were shut down the very next day for safety violations. My flight went fine - obviously I'm still alive to post - but it threw enough of a scare into me to think more about who I fly with.
I think I was on a 60's era Boeing...still had ashtrays built into the seat arms. |
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Phil_K
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You should've seen the Tupolev I once flew on from Sofia to London with Balkan Bulgarian Airlines. It used to belong to Aeroflot, and was the flying equivalent of those buses the campesinos use to go to DF demonstrations.
Sorry, way off topic!  |
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