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Originally Posted by zwyszomi
I don't agree withe the post above.
There are a few basics before you agree for any kind of "trip". You have to ask for costs before Your trip not after that.
I used the local boat option last year and everything was agreed. I rent a local boat and there was no need to load\unload many times. You have to load once your boat when started the trip and unload when arrived to Panama.
Everything was included and I hadn't to take care of anything.
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I'm glad it worked out for you, but I think you are giving other riders bad advice. You barely described anything about your trip. What was the route that you took? What nationality are you? I think you are naive to expect to get an honest answer from one of these smuggling captains about the overall cost of the trip or the timeline. Did you feel that Turbo, Colombia was a safe town?
For every success story there are about 5 horror stories. Most of these local captains who run smuggled goods up and down a known drug smuggling route do not have great ethics.
Note: You may have lucked out and got a local boat that was making a direct trip. The schedules of the local boats varies and is not very regular. I think I had to wait 2 weeks for the boat I took. It was a bad decision to not go with my 2 other motorcycle friends who paid the $1200 to do the trip with a reputable sailboat captain. In that 2 weeks of waiting I'm sure I blew through a sizable sum of money.
I just remember another bad thing about the trip:
1. My passport got soaked in Sapzurro. I can't remember exactly why I had to wade through waist deep water. It must have been something about the dock being out.
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