going loco

Flights to Cuba turned out to be too expensive. cheaper to fly via Canada than mexico by a lot, it seems. so instead I have hooked up with a group of other backpackers and find myself now in Acapulco. I felt a bit bad because I´d told one of them that it was around Spring Break time and that he´d have plenty to look at, yet when we got here, there appeared to be no drunk college girls around at all.
However today we walked down the beach to the resort area where we found loads, including two who got the five of us free beers on the beach (their USD100 per night resort package included unmetered alcohol - hurrah). only tiddly little cups though. was funny to see their jaws drop when we mentioned in conversation that our hotel in the non-tourist part of town near the Zocalo was only costing us USD40 for all five of us. was funny to see our jaws drop when they mentioned in conversation that USD15 for a 20 minute cab ride (we´d paid USD4 yesterday for about the same) was Good Value. They told us about a club thats only MXN400 to get into with unmetered alcohol, but at MXN15 for a beer by the Zocalo thats would be challengingly high drink:admission ratio to achieve.