Can someone tell me where Tikal Jets is??

How hard could it be to find this?
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From Panajachel we took a bus back to Guatemala City so that we could take Tikal Jets to Tikal.  We had originally planned on staying in Zone 1 of the City but as we took the bus through the City we decided it was not an area we wanted to stay in.  Since we were leaving first thing in the morning we changed our mind and called a budget hotel near the airport (we had bought sim cards for our phones -- which is a big time saver when rearranging hotels etc) 

We arrived at the budget hotel, dropped our bags and went to the airport - which was walking distance - to see if we could get a flight out that day.  This should have been straight forward but it turns out that Tikal Jets is no longer in the main airport.  There was a Tikal Jet booth at the main airport but there was no one there and no signs indicating that the airline had moved.  We asked the taxi attendant if we could take a taxi to Tikal Jets but they told us that the office was in the airport we were at - so we went back in to see if somehow there was an office that we had missed.  There wasn't.  We asked several people and eventually figured out that Tikal Jets was not at the airport and was somewhere between 2 and 10 blocks away.  To make a long story short we eventually found Tikal Jets.  It is a seperate hanger beside the DHL hanger a couple of blocks away from the main hanger (an easy 5 minute walk).  From the outside it looks like it is closed and a commercial hanger but once they open the gate there is a small terminal.

Just passing through

Since there were no flights that evening we stayed with our existing booking.

We then went back to the hotel.  It was ok for a budget place (and for people flying in an out the location couldn't be better) but faced with the idea of staying there for an afternoon and evening we decided that we would rather up grade to a nicer hotel, relax and get cleaned up.   After a few calls we found a good rate at the Westin.  The Westin is in a very westernized area of Guatemala

We made the move and enjoyed the rest of the afternoon and evening.  The next morning we were up early and off to Tikal