Wednesday was our day off in port, thankfully in Cabos. I ended up going out with several of the women I work with in the Spa: Amanda, Cristina, Aisha, Henisha, and Kelly. Since they knew their way around it seemed like a rather good idea. We departed the ship by tender boat - these are little boats that ferry passengers from the ship to the dock as its too shallow for the ship to dock properly. After landing at the dock, we boarded a glass bottom water taxi. All of the boat drivers subcribe to the "bat out of theory" of boat piloting. Having hung on for dear life, we landed on the beaches of Cobos.
The beaches are lined with beach front cantinas, tourist, and beach hawkers peddling typical touristy knicknacks. Our destination was a beach front restaurant called The Office, I had a Steak Fajita plate which as very good. During our meal we somehow got into a bargaining frenzy with this woman who was selling temporary henna tattoos. She was asking $20 per tattoo!! These are the same ones that you get at stores for $5.00 for a package of 10. After bargaining down to 2 dollars each, we all got a henna tattoo, the Chinese character (supposedly) for Friendship. Personally, I think it was the character for "Sucker", but I
kept that opinion to myself.
After our meal we wandered to this resort hotel, called The Resort Hotel. What it lacked in imagination it made up for in splendor. Hotel rooms start at $500.00 USD per night. We stayed in the pool area which is open to everyone (who buys a drink or something). After relaxing on the large canopy covered beds (15' x 15' easy), we decided parasailing the sport of choice for the day. After bargaining down the vendor we got the price down to $27 per person, they wanted $40 in the beginning.
This event required another water taxi ride from hell, to the parasailing boat. How this works is the parasail is attached to a rope that is slowly fed out as the boat drives at high speeds. The only problem with this process being that those who are either waiting
their turn or having gone end up getting soaked. Normally, on a hot day that's fine, but on this day it was cooler and the ocean was cold!!
Everyone one went up in doubles. I went with Amanda, a message therapist from England (Northern I suspect based on her accent). The parasailing is really quite nice, very peaceful, certainly a great view as well.
The beaches are lined with beach front cantinas, tourist, and beach hawkers peddling typical touristy knicknacks. Our destination was a beach front restaurant called The Office, I had a Steak Fajita plate which as very good. During our meal we somehow got into a bargaining frenzy with this woman who was selling temporary henna tattoos. She was asking $20 per tattoo!! These are the same ones that you get at stores for $5.00 for a package of 10. After bargaining down to 2 dollars each, we all got a henna tattoo, the Chinese character (supposedly) for Friendship. Personally, I think it was the character for "Sucker", but I
kept that opinion to myself.
After our meal we wandered to this resort hotel, called The Resort Hotel. What it lacked in imagination it made up for in splendor. Hotel rooms start at $500.00 USD per night. We stayed in the pool area which is open to everyone (who buys a drink or something). After relaxing on the large canopy covered beds (15' x 15' easy), we decided parasailing the sport of choice for the day. After bargaining down the vendor we got the price down to $27 per person, they wanted $40 in the beginning.
This event required another water taxi ride from hell, to the parasailing boat. How this works is the parasail is attached to a rope that is slowly fed out as the boat drives at high speeds. The only problem with this process being that those who are either waiting
their turn or having gone end up getting soaked. Normally, on a hot day that's fine, but on this day it was cooler and the ocean was cold!!
Everyone one went up in doubles. I went with Amanda, a message therapist from England (Northern I suspect based on her accent). The parasailing is really quite nice, very peaceful, certainly a great view as well.
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