Zih Transporte Acuática a la Alza

https://youtu.be/C8j2wRJaPcE

Zihuatanejo currently registers 203 total cases of Covid-19, with 36 active cases and 30 deaths.

While we are seeing more locals using masks, we are seeing an alarming number of tourists not using them. I haven't hit any with rocks yet, but I'm getting closer.

Water taxi prices for Las Gatas and Isla Ixtapa have jumped to 100 pesos round trip ticket. Poor people like us will be visiting less by water taxi and walking if we go there at all. A shame to see this happen at the worst possible time when there is less demand and a greater need for folks to come and spend their money here. Of course the cooperativos don't see it that way, and they have lots of excuses and reasons and rationalizations, but the bottom line is people see the rate and turn around and walk away. Their next vacation will likely be someplace else because we're pricing ourselves out of a market that we used to enjoy being a niche in. If transportation eats up too much of our visitors' budgets as it's doing, restaurants and shops stand to lose. Our occupancy rates are already so low that they rarely get above 50% in Zihuatanejo. Making Zihuatanejo more expensive only hurts the region more. Visitors want to think they're getting a bargain, but first they have to be able to get here and to get around affordably with enough money left over to enjoy spending here. Now by overbuilding, banning pets on beaches and hiking up transportation prices, we are doing more to run off tourists we desperately need than to attract them. I wouldn't be surprised if our over 600 taxis hiked up their rates using the same excuse. For most of you this may be no big deal, but for locals and most Mexicans it is.

Please respect others by wearing a facemask when you out around other people.