I was so impressed by Xplor.  We showed up early to beat the lines and barely had to wait for the ziplines.  Wear watershoes for the ziplines, because there are water landings.  I didn’t realize this and had planned to change into my watershoes for the river, so I got my tennis shoes soaked.

They say it opens at 9, but I think they will let you in at 8:30.  I think we arrived about 8:45.

The ziplines were very nice, with double lines to make you feel safer.  The stops were very gentle. 

There was a lot of thought in making people comfortable.  As soon as you finish ziplining, there is a juice bar.  The lockers, clean bathrooms, and other amenities make for such a comfortable trip.

The lunch buffet was great.  The food was delicious and the open air restaurant was relaxing.

I loved the photo stations.  They recognize a chip in your helmet and take a photo as you pass by.  Then you can purchase them all when you leave at $45 for one person’s photos, $75 for two and then further discounts for more.  I was impressed by the quality of the photos.  They picked cool backdrops and used flash nicely to make the caves light up.  I also appreciated the group photo stations where you push a button and it takes your photo. I wish they were not all watermarked with their logo, even if you purchase them.

I enjoyed the ziplining and river swim the most, but all activities were nice. 

We paid for transportation, but ended up taking a cab back at 2:00.  Since we didn’t have lines, we were done with everything and ready to get back to our hotel.  We would have just taken a cab there, but we got a deal buying it as a package, since we did the hotel’s timeshare salespitch. I’d recommend just taking a cab or collectivo though and skipping the Xplor transportation.  It’s cheaper to only buy the ticket to get in and we’d prefer to come & go as we want.  The other family riding with us was really late, so we had to wait on them to go.  Finally we convinced the driver to take us & come back from them.  Otherwise we would have missed our advantage of getting there before the long lines.

I didn’t realize that there were 2 circuits of river rafting & driving the vehicles until the day after when I was looking at the brochure.  It also wasn’t clear there were 2 zipline circuits, but we did do both of those.  I’m not sure if the double circuits are more about crowd control so they don’t emphasize doing both.  1 round of rafting and driving was plenty though.