Lodge Purchases

All bar charges and purchases at the lodge will be placed on your personal account which you is payable on the day of departure. We accept Dollars or Pesos (no credit cards or checks).

Valuables

If you have anything you do not wish to leave in your room while you are at the lodge, you can place it in the lodge's safe.

Water

All drinking water and water for ice is purified using the "reverse osmosis" process. You will find drinking water in your room in a cooler which is filled daily. The water from the tap is from a natural well, or "cenote" The locals drink it, but we recommend that you do not drink it. Also, please help us by conserving the water when possible.

Electricity

All electricity at Casa Blanca is provided by the lodge's generators. It is I I OV AC. The generators operate daily from approximately 3:30 P.M. until 8:00 A.M. This schedule will vary seasonally. In the spring and summer, the generators are operated all night to power the fans and air conditioning.

Fans and Ventilation

All the rooms on Isla Punta Pajaros are well ventilated. Since the guest rooms are on the beach, most of the year, they can be cooled by opening the shutters and allowing the sea breeze to blow through. On especially cool nights, you can adjust the shutters to limit the breeze. Casa Blanca has air conditioning in all 11 rooms.  Playa Blanca has air conditioning in 2 of it's rooms.  Casa Redonda is quite comfortable without air conditioning.

Tipping

In Mexico, it is the custom to tip the staff and guides for the services they provide. This can sometimes become a confusing proposition, so we would like to suggest the following general guidelines. We recommend tipping your guide $20 per day, per fisherman. If you are fishing as a single, we recommend...

 If your guide provides you with exceptional service, such as putting you on a grand slam, you might consider a larger tip. You may wish to tip your guide directly each day, but most guests tip at the end of the week.

We suggest a tip for the staff of $75 per week, per guest. This should be given to the clerk on the day of departure, when you clear your lodge account for distribution to the staff. If any of the lodge staff provides you with service you consider exceptional, you may wish to tip them individually, a bit more.

Refreshments On The Water

Each morning your guide will stock a cooler with complimentary soft drinks, beer and water. If you would like more or less of either, tell the fishing coordinator the evening before. Feel free to offer your guide a soft drink, but lodge policy precludes guides drinking alcoholic beverages.

Tackle At The Lodge

The Lodge stocks a limited selection of flies and lures which have proven effective in the area. The lodge also has a few loaner rods in case you break all of your equipment. Rod storage racks are located outside each room.