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A little about Playa Zipolite, The Beach of the Dead . . .

Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. A little bit about my favorite little get-away on this small world of ours.

Zipolite, a sweaty 30-minute walk west from Puerto Angel, brings you to Playa Zipolite and another world. The feeling here is 1970's - Led Zep, Marley, and scruffy gringos.

A long, long time ago, Zipolite beach was usually visited by the Zapotecans...who made it a magical place. They came to visit Zipolite to meditate, or just to rest.

Recently, this beach has begun to receive day-trippers from Puerto Angel and Puerto Escondido, giving it a more TOURISTY feel than before.

Most people come here for the novelty of the nude beach, yoga, turtles, seafood, surf, meditation, vegetarians, discos, party, to get burnt by the sun, or to see how long they can stretch their skinny budget.

I post WWW Oaxaca, Mexico, Zipolite and areas nearby information. Also general budget, backpacker, surfer, off the beaten path, Mexico and beyond, information.

REMEMBER: Everyone is welcome at Zipolite.

ivan

Monday, December 6, 2021

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If you’ve never heard of the 24-hour rule, I suppose you’re forgiven. Browsing through the Federal Register isn’t your idea of a good time? But if you know just one Department of Transportation regulation, make it the 24-hour rule. It’s saved me thousands of dollars in airfare, and it can for you too.

SCOTT'S CHEAP FLIGHTS
 
Issue 74: The 24 Hour Rule.
 
 
If you’ve never heard of the 24-hour rule, I suppose you’re forgiven. Browsing through the Federal Register isn’t your idea of a good time?

But if you know just one Department of Transportation regulation, make it the 24-hour rule. It’s saved me thousands of dollars in airfare, and it can for you too.
The 24-hour rule is a federal regulation that automatically entitles you to a 24-hour grace period from the moment you purchase a flight during which you can cancel and get a full cash refund.

It covers all flights to or from a US airport, even on a foreign airline, so long as:
  • The flight is at least 7 days away
  • It was booked directly with the airline, rather than an online travel agency
(For pedants, the rule technically allows airlines to choose between offering a 24-hour hold or a 24-hour refund window, but en masse U.S. airlines have opted to offer the latter.)

In addition to giving you clemency for any regrettable drunken flight bookings (not me I would never), the 24-hour rule can be especially helpful in two scenarios.
Let’s say we all get lucky and tomorrow morning a Mistake Fare—$169 roundtrip to Paris—pops up.

You go to call your partner and coordinate the best date, but then you remember they’re in a meeting all day. Shoot! You could wait until they get home, but fares this good don’t tend to last long. Six hours if we’re lucky.

Instead, the 24-hour rule comes in handy. Rather than risk the deal disappearing, you take your best guess about which week works best for their schedule and book it. If it turns out they’re busy that week, the 24-hour rule lets you cancel for a full cash refund.

Plus if you want to be really extra, you could book two or three different weeks—one in April, one in May, one in June—and keep the one (or more?) that works best.
Every so often, airlines will get in fare wars, undercutting one another on certain routes tit-for-tat. These skirmishes can sometimes go on for days, and cheap flight lovers are always the real winners.

Let’s walk through an example. Say you live in Atlanta and you’ve been really hoping to visit Barcelona. You get an email one morning that Delta flights from Charlotte to Barcelona are on sale for $380 roundtrip. Score! A fare like that is worth the four-hour drive to Charlotte, so you pull the trigger.

Not three hours later, you get another email: American has responded by offering flights from Atlanta to Barcelona (with one stop) for $350 roundtrip. Even better! With the 24-hour rule protecting you, you swap out for the Atlanta-departing flight, save yourself the drive, and pocket the $30 difference.

But then that evening, Delta ups the battle by offering nonstop flights to Barcelona for the same $350 price. Direct! You take advantage of the 24-hour rule again and wind up with the best of all worlds, a cheap nonstop flight from Atlanta to Barcelona.
Let’s say Trae Young snagged that one-stop Atlanta-Barcelona flight on American. Even NBA superstars know a great deal when they see one.

Hours after booking, though, he got an alert about the nonstop Delta flight. Young, a cheap flight aficionado, knows that the 24-hour rule lets him cancel the original booking and take advantage of the new fare.

But right after he cancels his American flight, the nonstop Delta fare disappears. (This is a prime example of the Hotcakes Principle: the better a fare, the shorter it tends to last.) He tries to reinstate the American flight, only to be told that once you cancel, there are no takebacks. In the end, Young is left with zero cheap Barcelona flights.

One simple trick could have prevented this: booking the Delta flight before canceling the American one. That way, if the Delta deal disappears as he goes to book, he’d still have the original American flight.
The 24-hour rule federal rule only applies when you book directly with an airline, but a handful of major OTAs like Orbitz and Priceline offer their own 24-hour cancellation policies as well. With some OTAs, if the 24-hour window falls on a weekend or holiday, you may get an even longer refund period.

While these OTA offerings can be useful and are generally reliable, it’s important to recognize that they lack the same legal protection as the federal 24-hour rule. And if an OTA doesn’t have a self-service cancellation option (as virtually all US airlines do), then a long customer service hold could push you outside the 24-hour refund window by the time an agent picks up.

Love,
Scott

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Hi Mexico-loving friends! I hope you are all having a wonderful start to the holiday season and looking at some warmer places south of the border to enjoy your time off. There are a few changes in the Mexico traffic-light system leading up to Christmas and I have a feeling we'll be seeing a few more changes as we head into 2022.

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Muere turista en Huatulco; suman 13 ahogados en la Costa de Oaxaca en 2021 | Oaxaca El Universal de Oaxaca Los decesos se registraron en los destinos de playa como: Zipolite, Mazunte, Puerto Ángel, Santa María Huatulco, Puerto Escondido y Pinotepa ...

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Los decesos se registraron en los destinos de playa como: Zipolite, Mazunte, Puerto Ángel, Santa María Huatulco, Puerto Escondido y Pinotepa ...