My wife and I just returned from an 8 day cruise to Mexico. After reading the many postings about all the canopy
tours in PV, I booked us on the internet with the Los Veranos Canopy Tour. I am the adventurous one in the family. My wife is afraid of heights. I did manage to get her on the Viper at Magic Mountain once. As we ascended the first grade she turned whiter and whiter! She will not go near the edge of a scenic overlook if there is much of a drop off. Needless to say, she was not happy about the canopy tour. After a lot of talking, she agreed to try the first couple of lines. The first line is more for training and photo op. Needless to say, she finished all the lines. Her comment on the way back to the ship was, “We need to come back and do that again,”!!!
I was very impressed with the whole tour. Most of the take off and landing platforms are really at ground level, but you are zipping through the forest canopy or above it! The tour allows you to carry a camera so I got a lot of great pictures of my wife having a ball zipping through the canopy. They ask you not to take pictures while zipping for safety reasons. This was no problem since they have their own video man that video tapes all the scenery on each zip line segment along with all the participants of your tour. He doesn’t follow the rules! He hangs upside down and doesn’t hang onto the pulley unit!
I know some people on this forum were concern about safety helmets not being used – they are not needed. My wife and I felt completely safe during the entire tour. At the end of the tour we were provided with a free soft drink. The video was completed in about a half hour. We did not take advantage of the on site restaurant, so I can’t comment on it. We had our bathing suits with us, but didn’t use them. It was an overcast day and a bit cool. The river was inviting though. The tour was an the highlight of or trip.
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