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Comments: My daughters (ages 21 and 23 years) and I had the opportunity to
take the wild ATV Tour ride. We had a wonderful time!!!! I must admit it
was more than I bargained for, but would I do it again --- absolutely!!!
The weather was a little rough, so we were not able to do the entire
excursion (snorkle and kayake). We went to the beautiful beach and swan.
We also rode to the sites of other ruins. Our guides were great. The group
was small (5 bikes), so we got alot of individual attention. It was the
ultimate journey and I recommend it to everyone. Just make sure you do not
have any back injuries that will possibly slow you down. It is just what it
says "A WILD ATV RIDE".

Comments: The tour was excellent altghough it rained on us it was great, I would recommend it highly!!!!

Comments: We had a blast! Out of all the excusions that we took while on our cruise, the ATV ride was our favorite. The snorkeling was like a beautiful aquarium. You do have to be in good shape to ride, it can get a little crazy! But it's so much fun!

Richard & Ericka Olguin

From: Brigette
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003
Comment....

Hi There,

      My husband and I took a wild tour on May 24th and I wanted to send a comment since we forgot to leave one in the book at the location in Cozumel.

      We have never had so much fun as we did on the tour.  I have recommended it to anyone who will listen since we've gotten back from our trip.  Our guides were Ailene and Adolpho and they made our day a ton of fun and kept it very interseting with the bits of Mayan history at the ruins. 

Keep up the great job and next time we are down,, we are going to do it again!

Sincerely,

      Brigette & Bryan Dougay

Posted by grady on 02/17/03

I took the tour in Jan and really liked it,the guides were great.I dont think that you could have a bunch of people just doing there own thing back on the trails,they would get lost or maybe hurt.If you dont do the kayak part its 69 bucks.

Posted by ljcoz on 10/30/02

starts at 5 and ends about 930. with a full moon, it is so cool flying through the jungle by just that light and seeing the ruins by moonlight is nothing short of spiritual. teh beaches by moonlight is amazing. we stopped to look for crocodiles and i fell in woops. it was a blast. my wife rode the back and did not complain once!!!!! she wants to do it again next time . try it you will like it ljcoz   :)

STAY AWAY from the ATV tour

We took the ATV tour last year... don't remember the name but it is the one that leaves from right next to Mezcalito's. VERY disappointed, would NOT recommend it. Spend the money and do something else.

It was very canned, rushed, and there was ZERO room for anything outside of the packaged tour.

Your ride north through the jungle gives you three or four good looks at the ocean during the 40 minute, very dusty, hot ride. Forget stopping at any time to relax and look at anything that you will inevitably run across. Iguanas, small turtles, and several avian species are everywhere but if you stop for more than 30 seconds, you are 'greeted' by the guide following up the rear who politely asks you to move along and keep up when she discovers that there is nothing wrong with your ATV.

There was a brief stop at on of the Mayan ruins that offered a beautiful view of the carribbean. The one guide along on the trek was educated in Mayan culture and lore and offered some interesting history on the location.

Your destination is a pretty beach flanked on each side by more trash and crap than what you will find on the 'beach' area across from the Bob Marley Bar. You are offered warm soda or water to rinse out the dust.

Your next leg of the 'adventure' is to kayak out to the edge of the reef where you get to look around for 10 to 15 minutes. Amazingly, the "guides" actually got out of their kayak and walked on the reef to point out the few fish that were there. They claimed it was ok because the parts they were walking on were dead. I gave them very brief lesson on the term "reef recovery" and swam off in disgust. There was more to see in front of the Plaza Las Glorias anyway.

Two of us diverted away from the rest of the group to see if we could see anything as most of these people were OBVIOUSLY not scuba divers, let alone experienced snorkelers, and as such were raising all kinds of hell on the surface. We were no more than 15 yards from the group (wearing our waterski-type life vest that we could NOT take off), when we were abruptly corraled by one tour guide who was apparently not too happy about our previous conversation.

We paddled back in, got cleaned up and spent another 40 minutes on the trail back to Mezcalitos. Some kind of lunch was planned, we declined because we were so aghast that they could charge $90 a person for this kind of tour. We opted to head south to find our own lunch at one of the beach restaurants.

Now I'm not an experienced tour taker when it comes to things like this but if the canned, rushed, "no flexibility allowed" is the norm for these, then that will be the last formal tour I ever take.

I would NOT recommend the ATV tour to the north end of the island to anyone unless you want to be told EXACTLY what to do, when do it, and for how long.


Mark in Cali

Posted by Quin on May 1, 2001

Wild Tours were wonderful!!  My wife and I rode an ATV together which I thought was kind of nice because you could talk.  It cost us around $100 total and the trip took about 4 hours of time.  We went at night which my wife loved but I think that I would have liked to see the beach and the ruins in the daylight.  Checking things out by flashlight with our guide "Jungle George" was good but I hadn't seen that side of the island yet.  One positive of the night trip is that the stars were incredible!

Note:  Get on one of the first ATVs.  The further back you are, the more dust you eat.  Wear some real shoes and plan on getting quite dirty.  My wife and I had a ring of dirt around where our goggles were  (good photo opp.).  Last note, make sure you have some idea of how to ride an ATV. We had a guy from Chicago who had never ridden ANYTHING.  The tour lasted about 30-45 minutes longer because he was ...SOOO...SLOW.  I would do it again & recommend the tour to others.

Posted by Chris in DC on 10/04/00

last year and had a blast. Worth the $95US for the two of us (we shared an ATV) by far.

Good fun and one of the highlights of our trip in 99.

Chris

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