20 Mar 2023
We found and communicated with Old Town online before we left on our trip to Gautemala. They were offering a Pacaya hiking trip that we really wanted to do. Their price was variable on the number of people going up – starting at $165US each for the three of us; but we understood it could drop as low as $80US if a bigger crowd joined us. When we arrived in Antigua, there wasn’t anyone else signed up for the trip, so we checked with a few other travel agencies and discovered everyone else was offering a significantly lower price. We ended up paying about $24US/each (plus $16/each for park entrance) with a different operator (American Travel) for virtually the same trip with five other people, the only difference the lack of a picnic lunch.