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Mexican Riviera
Includes: Acapulco, Cabo San Lucas, Loreto, Manzanillo, Mazatlan, Pichilingue/La Paz, Puerto Vallarta, Topolobampo , & Zihuatanejo/Ixtapa, Mexico

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Old October 13th, 2009, 10:21 PM
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Default Mazatlan Frank

Has anyone taken the spa tour with Mazatlan Frank?
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Default City tour

If not the spa tour, has anyone done his city tour?
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We did Franks tour a few years back and had a great time. He is among the best tour operators out there. If you do a search in this forum with his name you will see pages and pages of glowing reviews.
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Old October 29th, 2009, 05:42 PM
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Highly recommend his city tour! Had a great time...

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We did the city and beach with lunch all very nice. The hotel was right on the beach and the lunch was great and had use of the pools.

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Frank is very accomodating. Just e-mail him and tell him what you're interested in. He will customize a tour for you.
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WE are using him for our Feb. cruise and he's VERY accomdating. We're doing the City Tour then he's taking us to Aroma Spa, then back to the ship. He's wonderful to work with.
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Old October 30th, 2009, 11:05 PM
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Thumbs up Mazatlan Frank

Last December, I took the city tour with Frank, then lunch at "Tony's on the beach" and then an hour massage (I must admit, I went whole hog and had two women for the entire hour) - I thought I had died and went to heaven - I had not felt that good in a long time. I was so relaxed. I am doing it again this December.
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Can you please provide Mazatlan Frank's email address?
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We have used him on two different occasions; his tours are excellent. Can't give you contact info here, but you can Google him. He responds to emails promptly.
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We signed up to use him early next month. His prices are very expensive compared to discount places or those you catch near the dock. He has such a good reputation we decided to pay his high prices since we only have several hours there.
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We just returned from Mexico and did the City tour in Mazatlan with Frank. Frank is a great guy he loves his city and he loves showing it off. We really enjoyed Frank he is super nice and a very funny guy. We can't say we really enjoyed Mazatlan though. It was our first trip to Mexico and we went to Cabo, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta. Mazatlan seemed very dirty there was a lot of graffiti every where. The Harbor was full of garbage floating around. After the tour Frank took us to Tony's on the Beach where we had lunch. Everyone with us seemed to enjoy their food. I would defintely tour with Frank again just because he is such a likeable guy and a great tour guide I just wasn't very impressed with Mazatlan itself.
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We just returned from Mexico and did the City tour in Mazatlan with Frank. Frank is a great guy he loves his city and he loves showing it off. We really enjoyed Frank he is super nice and a very funny guy. We can't say we really enjoyed Mazatlan though. It was our first trip to Mexico and we went to Cabo, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta. Mazatlan seemed very dirty there was a lot of graffiti every where. The Harbor was full of garbage floating around. After the tour Frank took us to Tony's on the Beach where we had lunch. Everyone with us seemed to enjoy their food. I would defintely tour with Frank again just because he is such a likeable guy and a great tour guide I just wasn't very impressed with Mazatlan itself.
Can anyone who has been to Mazatlan tell if the harbor is usually like that or if the garbage was due to Hurricane Rick? Someone else had posted that the beach restaurants on Stone Island got hit pretty badly as well.
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