hey Burley!! You will have so much fun on the celebration!! I will be glad to help, I am a planner and Tour Guide Barbie all the way so I understand! OK, to answer your questions- when you get off the ship in Calica, there is a bunch of venders lined up selling stuff, go all the way to the end of them and you can see a bunch of taxis parked there. there is a little booth that has prices listed of the places you can go to, that is where we told her we wanted to go to Playa de Carmen, I tried to ask her if they drop us off downtown near 5th street? but she had no clue what I said-her answer was "Playa del Carmen!" so off we went!! all 4 of us for 10.00 total. He went down this one way street, pulled into a circle drive where other people were being let off too. you can see all the shops right there, on the right side of the street is where everything looks nice and new,go there. We had no idea where to go, so we asked where the beach was and they only pointed! the middle of the shops was 5th ave, we finally saw sign. just keep headed straight through till ya see the beautiful blue water!! there are peopl haggling you about everything, just ignore them and keep going, unless you wanna stop !! at the end of the road is Senor Frogs on the right, we went to the left to the public beach area. we walked down the beach a little bit to a restaraunt area. they had chairs and umbrellas there, somebody just came up not long after we just walked up and we rented the table and chairs and umbrella for 10.00 total. there are more as go down the beach, just ask somebody are they for rent ? or free maybe!! ya never know! I would say there were about 6-7 girls topless total. they weren't all together in a group. there were like 4 over here, then we saw 1 later further down later, etc.. sometimes they were laying on their stomachs so you couldn't see much, but then were times they were sitting up all pretty and sunbathing for the world to see!! The video we shot, ( how embarressing is that to admit, but we were shocked to see that for the first time so my husband had to video her for his single best friend back home to see!) She was walking from the beach into the water. we did notice there were some who were only topless in the water and you can't really tell . but if you had kids you might keep going until you didn't see any, not to say the tops won't come off later after you are already there, but when you have kids you do need to consider these things. Our husbands were definitley ok with it, us girls were kinda irked, it is hard not to stare when they come up right there next to you, then you worry about do you look like you are trying not to stare. we had just never been in that situation before!! Hey who knows, I am still young, 25 and my girls look quite nice if I do say so myself, a few more margaritas,AND if our best friends who I have known all my life had not been there with us, I would have just joined in and let the girls shine!! hey,what happens in mexico stays in mexico,right?
Ya'll have a wonderful cruise, eat lots of pizza for us, it is so good!! Happy Cruisin'!
