King David Stone Island

Has anyone taken this excursion recently? Details on your experience would be great!

We've only done SI on our own. Truly a great place!

(If you want on-your-own suggestions, just ask.)

I would love suggestions. I will be with my family (husband, 17 year old son and 15 year old daughter). We were looking for a place with things to do on beach and drinks.

Sure.

We've been to SI 4 or 5 times, always on our own; last time was this last February. Here's what we did:

When you get off the boat in Mazatlan you'll take a tram thru the port to the terminal. Walk thru it and go out the main gate. From there we walked across the street and followed the "Blue-line" to the square (maybe 10 minute walk GOOGLE Blue Line Mazatlan and you can read about it). We then walked over to the Cathedral (about 5 minutes), then walked over to the Mercado (another 5 minutes). The Mercado is a huge 2 story shopping venue, very interesting. Then we took a pulmonia ($8) back to the water taxi. Except for the pulmonia this is all free.

If you don't want to walk into town:

When you walk out the terminal turn left and walk down the sidewalk about 2 blocks. You'll see a gravel road to your left that leads to the water taxi. I think it was $3 pp round trip over to SI, hang on to your ticket. When you get off the water taxi walk up the dock and over the little berm and you'll pop out on the beach. We really like Lety's, it's a 15 minute walk down the beach but well worth it. Huge coconut shrimp and ice cold beverages with your toes in the sand. Horse rides, ATV's, etc are all available, just ask your server. When time to leave walk back to where the water taxi dropped you off. If there's not a boat there wait a few minutes and they'll come get you.

This is all real easy to do. All along the blue line there are expats in blue shirts to answer any questions and help you get to where your going. The water taxi runs all day taking folks across and back. Takes a little effort and a little adventurous, but a great day for not a lot of $$.

Go past this post a few to Mazatlan Stone Beach Tour and you can read a little more about it.

We did the guided stuff the first time or two we went to the Mex Riviera. Found it's a lot more fun, less crowded/herded, and cheaper just to do it on your own.

Another idea if you have time, you can grab a pulmonia (golf cart on steroids) right outside the terminal for about $20-$25 an hour, agree on a price before you get in. They'll take you all around town to see the sights. There's about 18 million of these running around town so if you don't see one right in front of you wait about 4 seconds.

Everyone accepts US dollars. If you want to use pesos there is a currency exchange window in the terminal with a very fair exchange rate.

If you have any specific questions just ask.