The week of Spanish immersion was extraordinary. I was doing it for the 2nd time, and even though nearly all the activities were the same as last time, even with some of the same guides, the order was different, the experience was different, and I learned new information. If this review is specifically for airport-to-hotel transfers, however, which I think is the case, I have some feedback on that:
Going from the airport to the hotel, the driver was not in the terminal like many other drivers that day but outside, and his directions to find him did not correspond with the signs I saw inside the terminal. It took quite a while to find each other, and the cost was $94 US, which I consider excessive. This contrasted markedly with my experience in 2023, in which the driver was inside the terminal with a sign, we found each other right away, and she gave me an excellent narrated tour of the city on the way to the hotel. It's really impossible to compare any other driver to that one; her name was Mariela, and that experience was such an incredible introduction to the city that it left an indelible impression on me. I don't recall what I paid then, whatever the cost, it was well worth it.
Returning from the hotel to the airport this week, I shared a taxi with 3 other participants. The cost was $44, which came to $11 per person, far preferable to the amount I paid in the other direction.