combi and car rental

Any places to rent scooters or motorbike around ixtapa?

There is a small shop on the alley way Hermenegildo Galeana right downtown. I only rented there once many years ago. The price was way too high and the scooter was of very low quality. In addition, the proprietor is surly and unfriendly. Pass by the place often. Won't ever do business with him again.

I have often thought of seeing how much it cost to rent a storage location for a Honda scooter. There is a Honda dealership on Avenida Jose Maria Morelos Y Pavon downtown close to the Mercardo Municipal. However, the combis will take you pretty much wherever you want to go so it just doesn't make sense.

Good luck!

That surly guy is one of my wife's oldest friends, Prieto Rodríguez. I don't believe he's still renting scooters. But he sells some good spirits and has some great stories to tell.

will definitely check that out as its pretty close to where we are staying. We like the combis but we also like the challenge and adventure of just going out on a scooter anyplace anytime anywhere (with limits of course).
(we did columbia on a scooter, that was a challenge esp the round-bouts)

took a few combis already to playa linda with the dog, very packed on the way back as the workers get off work. And, to playa larga with the dog catching connections in Zihua. The bus driver at playa larga wasn't going to let us on with the dog though until we showed him it could sit. Everyone ended up calling our dog a mexican perro cause it just slept the whole bus ride. Other than that we love the combis. Cost us around 15 peso to get to play linda and around 40 to get to play larga.
We're pondering taking the dog to Troncones as I'm not sure if dogs are allowed on the beach there?

we want to rent a scooter just to head out anywhere and check out some random places. Scooters are a blast. When in columbia we went everywhere on a scooter.

No problem on the beaches of Troncones with your furry family member. They only ask that you be respectful of others and that you clean up after him.

I take my dog for walks on beaches in Troncones every day.

Differentiate between combis and micros. Combis are usually a van or a VW minibus. They usually have seating around the perimeter with an open space in the centre.

A micro is like a small bus. The seats are typically in 6 to 8 rows and are very tight. They make coach class airplane seats look like first class seats. I am 5’9” and my knees are jammed. I am 170 pounds and the seats are tight. Typically the single aisle is packed with people who are standing, sometimes for 30 minutes or more, hunched over due to the low ceiling. Sometimes one of those people is me.

I would take my 11 kilogram dog on a combi. I would consider myself disrespectful if I took my dog on a crowded micro as goes between Zihuatanejo and La Union.

I was amazed at the low prices for scooters and small motorcycles on sale at Soriana. 150 - 250 cc ranging in price from 20,000 to 24,000 pesos, or ballpark $1100 - $1300 US or $1400 - $1700 Canadian. They are likely all manufactured in Mexico. Quality may be a question mark, but their low price explains the proliferation of these vehicles on Zihua's roads, which increasingly look like Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City.
Back home I ride a 2007 "super scooter" 650 cc Suzuki Burgman, but a new one there runs $13,000 or more, Canadian.....and a small 50-150 cc Honda or Yamaha scooter would likely be three or four times as expensive as one of these Mexican models. We're apparently getting ripped off.