Icacos beach
Icacos Beach is the 2-kilometer beach surrounded with a tropical forest, colonial architecture, and endless sea. It is famous for golden sand, cozy cafes, restaurants with authentic Mexican cuisine. Beside it, a casino, the city history museum, an aquapark, and recreational facilities are open. Shortly speaking, everyone will be pleased with local entertainment.
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Beach description
Ikakos beach is covered with soft golden sand. It is characterized by crystal clear and warm water (25 degrees and more). This place is characterized by smooth depth increase, good waves, and absence of underwater currents. Its length exceeds 2 km, and width reaches 70 meters.
Ikakos offers the following activities for its guests:
- ballooning;
- roulette, baccarat, blackjack, poker, and other casino games;
- parasailing, surfing and windsurfing;
- sea tours on rented boats and yachts;
- visiting museums;
- recreational facilities and slides in the local aquapark.
Moreover, the beach is perfect for swimming, sunbathing, and walking along the shore. When the weather is calm, you can let your children play by the sea (under the supervision), or learn how to swim.
Most visitors of the beach are family couples, young people and the retired from rich countries. The crime activity is almost zero here. But you should look after your belongings because unattentive tourists often have their things stolen.
When is the best time to go?
From May to October, heavy rains and tornadoes are usually played off the Mexican coasts. So the best time to visit the country is from November to March. However, it should be mindful of that prices in the high season are higher than usual.
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Infrastructure
On the beach territory, there is a 5 star hotel Grand Hotel Acapulco. It consists of several fashionable buildings surrounded with water and thick tropical forest. The hotel has furnished terraces overlooking the sea, swimming pools with bars and sling chairs, artificial channels with picturesque bridges. Its guests are offered the following facilities:
- sunbathing terrace with convenient furniture and tropical cocktails;
- children's playground;
- gulf course (3 km away from the hotel);
- exquisite restaurant and a few cafes on the complex territory;
- public and guarded parking lots;
- several outdoor pools, fitness center, sun lounge;
- conference hall, business center, banquet hall.
The hotel staff speaks Spanish and English. He can be entrusted with baby-sitting, luggage transportation, food and drinks delivery to a room, transfer from the airport and back. The hotel rooms are cleaned daily. They are characterized by wonderful repair, modern bathroom fittings, and exclusive furniture. Room windows have a wonderful view of the inner territory, or the sea.
Toilets, rubbish bins, changing cabins are installed on Ikakos beach. There are sling chairs with sun umbrellas, cozy bars and cafes, food points with Mexican fastfood.
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Ikakos is a free beach open 24 hours a day. It is recommended to come here at day due to the absence of guards and poor illumination. You can get here by bus, private car, taxi, or water transport.
A little tip: don't buy food or other tings from street vendors. They overprice the goods and sell low quality products. You can buy everything you need on the market which is situated nearby.
Jellyfish are common in local waters. Don't touch them in order to avoid burns.