Blogs from Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, North America - page 20

After our first week at the school we decided to use our (first) long bank-holiday weekend to head to the beach and my first Mexican sea-side experience at the small town, now BIG tourist attraction, Puerto Vallarta. It is the first time I´ve been back to the Pacific since I left it at Tierra del Fuego in January, and it was sort of reassuring that it was still there, just as big as ever. The weather was perfect and Anne and I spent lots of time topping up our tans, swimming in the perfect-temperature water, and fending off the literally hundreds of beach hawkers selling hairbrades, henna tattoos, dresses, shirts, sarongs, necklaces, earings, personalised bracelets, cheap sunglasses, fruit, stolen watches, wooden animals, hammocks, rugs, and my own personal favourite - and the cause of my failure ... read more

I have visited Puerto Vallarta twice in the past ten years....If you just want to relax on the beach or take a tour of the city ..this is a nice place. In town there are several old churches and my last visit was over christmas. The town had put up decorations more lovely than I had seen here in the states. I stayed the first time at Paradise village resort which is actually in Neuvo Vallarta...they have a huge hotel and their own zoo ! I would recommend staying here anytime. They also have three restaurants on the premises if you dont want to venture in to town. ... read more

a tad over-rated, very overpriced, all about the money and not about the service........... and if it were is NZ im pretty sure the beach would be labelled polluted, none the less, anywheres good with good company :)... read more

Went on a great tour today, yet at the same time we felt it was a horrid tour. Allow me to explain. I had stated in another entry that PV relies a lot on tourism. As a part of our tour we went to two small towns that were believed to be founded is 17 A.D. These town were lovely and yet they were very ……how do I say……poor. I was torn to exactly how I felt. One half of me was feeling that this place is simple and beautiful and the other half felt like our tour guide was saying “here look how poor these people are”. As we walked from location to location someone always approached us wanting to sell us something. Paul and I were glad the tour was free because if we ... read more

Our butts sat by the pool for at least 4 hours today, did I tell you, and you can SWIM up to the bar! We had several drinks. I have found a new love, the Pina Colada it is YUMMY. Normally back home I love have a Blue Margarita (Margarita Azule) and I like it on the rocks. Everything here comes frozen, you can request on the rocks but I am not sure they completely understand me. I got a blue margarita and it was blue and it was the best darn blue margarita I had in a long time. Out of all our friends who said have a drink for me I think we have one or two to go we have had, Bloody Marry for Kenny, a Chocolate Martini for Dana, a Blue Margarita ... read more