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WHO ARE WE?
We are a Fishing Lodge specialized in Fly and Light Tackle Fishing. It’s located in the Peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico,
in the Biosphere Reserve of Sian Ka’an, between the Ascension Bay and Boca-Paila lagoons, both places are world famous
for its great flats-fishing, the magazine Saltwater Sportsman recommend them as one of the best places in the world for Bonefish,
Permit and Tarpon.
FACILITIES
Lodge:
We can take as many as 26 anglers, sharing rooms; we have 13 air conditioned rooms, a main Palapa, which is the center of
our activities, Restaurant, Bar, Fly-Shop, 15 boats with the best guides in the area, and a beautiful beach where you can
relax while not fishing.
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Rooms:
13 rooms, all with A/C, 10 have oceanview. Located in a solitary white sand beach, turquoise water and a magnificent coral
reef at 90 yards from the beach.
Main Palapa:
This is our activities center; here is where the exquisite meals, cold drinks, flies tying and fishing stories take place.
Meals:
Our meals are home-style with breakfast buffet, box lunch during your fishing and daily dinner menu.
- Breakfast. Fruits of the season, juice, milk, yoghurt, eggs at your choice or pancakes.
- Box Lunch. 2 sandwiches per person, sodas, beers, bottled water, fruits and cookies.
- Mexican Appetizes.
- Dinner. We offer a variety of soups, salads and vegetables. For the main course there is fish, steak, shrimps, fresh lobster
and chicken, alternate through the week.
Beverages and Drinks:
We include purified water, sodas, beer, wine on the table, and national cocktails like margaritas, screw drivers, vodka tonic,
rum and coke, etc. We do not have imported liquors available; if you have one of your preference you can bring the bottle
along at no extra charge.
If you have a special diet condition or restrictions, please let us know and we will take care of it.
Communications:
We have a cell-phone, it works fine, cost per minute is US $3.00 to USA and US $5.00 to Europe We have internet available
with wireless facilities in the main palapa; you can also use our laptop for US $10.00 per hour.
FISHING:
Ascension Bay and Bocapaila are world famous fishing flats for Bonefish, Permit, Tarpon, Snook and Barracuda. Fishing from
the boat or wading are first class.
Guides:
We have very professional native guides with more than 10 years of experience, who know Ascension Bay and Boca-Paila Lagoons
as the back of their hand and will put you on the fish. Some of them speak very good English and others speak “Fishing
English”.
We have a program with 2 guides per boat, one head guide and a young apprentice, both have very good eyes. This helps very
much when wading: each angler has a guide, when learning to cast or to see the fish, one guide poles and the other is with
the angler at the casting platform. This program does not apply for summertime or with special discount rates.
Boats:
We count with 15 Mexican made boats, commonly know as “pangas” with 4 stroke, 40 or 50 HP Yamaha engines, properly
adapted with floor, casting platform, seats, rod holders and fiber glass pushing poles.
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
We have packages for all preferences in the market, one angler can choose to stay with us from one day up to a week. You can
arrive any day you want during the week.
The packages include: transportation from and to the airport, boat and guide, three meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner), national
drinks, beers and sodas. Accommodations with private bath and hot water.
Rates:
- Double. Is for those anglers who are coming to the lodge with another one and they share room and boat.
- Single. This rate is for an angler going out fishing alone with the guide and sleeping without sharing room.
- Couples Rate. This is for husband and wife coming together, they both can fish or just one of them, we give this discount
because we recognize one person is paying for 2 people.
- Non Fishing Companion Double. This rate is used for more than 2 people (like families) staying at the lodge, can stay 1
non fishing companion with one angler in the room, or 2 non fishing companions coming with other 2 anglers.
- Non Fishing Companion Single. This is the same, for more than 2 people staying in the lodge, but this non fishing companion
doesn’t share a room.
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Nights
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4
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5
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6
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7
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Fishing days
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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Double boat & room, pp
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$1230
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$1640
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$2050
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$2460
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$2870
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Single boat & room, pp
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$1544
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$2112
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$2680
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$3248
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$3816
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Couple rate (per couple)
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$2460
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$3280
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$4100
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$4920
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$5740
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REGULAR PACKAGE RATES: (two airport transfers)
All rates are per person except for the couples rate.
All rates are in U.S. dollars.
What is not included in the package:
- Airline ticket
- Tackle
- Phone Calls
- Fishing license is now mandatory in Mexico, price is $118.00 Mexican Pesos per person / per day or $256.00 Mexican Pesos
per person / per week, they are not included in the rate and will have to be paid in cash at the Lodge.
- Gratuities for staff (suggested $40 per boat/per day and $20 per person/per day for the lodge staff. Shuttle driver at your
discretion
Other Rates and Packages:
In addition to the Regular Packages we are able to offer day trips and combination trips (day + regular). Call for details.
Let us put together the trip that you want.
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
Dolphin Tours
We will go by boat searching for wild bottle nose dolphins. There is a group living permanently in Sian Ka’an. Through
six years of operation we have developed a relationship with them, where they come to see us to the same place, almost every
time, not for food, but curiosity. The same day we will look for Caguama and White Turtle. Humans are very spooky to them;
they don’t trust the “ecotour” yet.
In the middle of Ascension Bay we will stop at the frigate nesting mangle. Here we will have the opportunity to observe local
birds in their sexual flirting and nesting, such as the pelican, bobo, comoran and other species. Flamingos, spoon bills,
eagles, parrots and herons are common to see. At the end of the trip we will stop at one of the reefs to look for different
corals, fish and other species.
Manatees and Mayan Ruins Tour
We will go out looking for Manatees; this peaceful and quite lovely animal is in risk of extinction. Hundreds of them used
to swim in Sian Ka’an waters. Today, only few of them survived the human hunting. Since it’s a biosphere reserve
they are strongly protected. No touching is allowed, they are very shy. Encounter possibilities are lower than dolphins, however,
we might find dolphins in that area, too.
Nearby we will stop to visit the ancient Mayan Ruins named Muyil, those buildings used to be a small town of commerce. The
village used to help the canoes travel between Yucatan and Honduras trading different products from the valley with goods
from the mountains.
At the end of the day we will stop to snorkel a beautiful coral reef.
Snorkel from the Lodge
Snorkeling is one of the easiest, safest and most delightful activities to explore the aquatic wilderness. We will give you
a personalized training to make sure you can relax and enjoy. Our program is not only about admiring the life around the reef,
but learning one or two things it. During the week we will be looking for a number of species to get a good photo collection.
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