Top Local Tips for Ixtapa Zihuatanejo

Casa Que Canta Reserve a table at Casa Que Canta half an hour before sunset. The view is magnificent. This restaurant is expensive for Mexico, but the food and service were fantastic.

Instant cultural immersion Taking the bus from Playa Ropa to Z costs 50 cents and gives you a chance to check out the town at a leisurely pace and soak up the way folks live. It's the reason you go to a foreign country in the first place and it's a bargain.

Las Brisas Ixtapa Beach The beach that is accessed via Las Brisas Ixtapa Hotel is absolutely beautiful. We spent the last day of our stay there, and there are great chairs and the usual superb bar servers, along with a fresh shower on concrete and umbrellas. The waves are very big, so I wouldn't recommend this place for young kids - we found ourselves 150 feet apart after one big wave! The cool thing about it is that you can see the small fish in the waves just before they crash over you, which is an experience neither of us will ever forget. There are pelicans that dive to get fish in the early morning, which is kind of cool too. We loved our time spent at this beach and wish we had found it sooner!

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• Address: Playa La Ropa s/n - Ixtapa Zihuatanejo - 40880 - Mexico