Puerto Vallarta Blog

Puerto Vallarta has a new weather website ! This new website features all relevant information regarding the climate in Puerto Vallarta. The visitor will see various tables and graphs on a yearly or monthly base, where he finds exact information on sun and rain, dry period and wet period, visibility as well as average and high sustained wind speed, air pressure, thunder storms, atmospheric humidity and more. Just try it and bookmark this great Puerto Vallarta weather resource.

Puerto Vallarta, situated in the Banderas Bay, the second largest bay of the world, has about 26 miles or 42 km of different beaches. Some of the beaches are different in kind of sand, the visitors quantity, accessability and also regarding the wind and ocean activity. To find the romantic beach, the family beach, the party beach, the surfers beach and each kind the traveler could be looking for, we listed the most interesting beach areas around Puerto Vallarta below, including information about the different options offered at each beach and a short “How to get there” guide.

Puerto Vallarta Beach Map

 

1) San Francisco Beach
San Francisco is a small village at the northern end of Banderas Bay visited by just a few US tourists. The village is still an authentic mexican one, no mayor hotels are build there until now. With about 1 mile of golden sand, the beach is a quite place, where the traveler may relax a day at the palms. Restaurants at the beach offer a variety of food. On one hand of the beach is a small natural lagune, with many bird species. The ATM bus needs from Wal Mart bus stop in Puerto Vallarta to this beach about 1 hour. No water sport options.  

2) Sayulita Beach
Just ten minutes from San Francisco Beach to the south lays another small village, Sayulita. As it is very well known by families and surfers, Sayulitas beach is visited by many people. Nearly all services are available, including surf schools. 50 minutes with the ATM bus.  

3) Burros Beach
A secret beach for surfers. As Sayulita is crowded by beginners and tourism, the experienced surfers visit the Burros beach. Services are not available. To get there ask for the Flamingos Hotel in the ATM bus. Once arrived, enter the small street which leads down to the hotel, first street to the left You see some parked cars. There walk along the small path through the trees, You cant miss the beach, 5 minutes walking and You are at the surfers secret home.  

4) Manzanilla Beach
Investigations made by the Universities ecologic department say, that the water quality of La Manzanilla beach  arround Puerto Vallarta. In 40 Minutes with the ATM bus to the small village La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, a very nice, small and authentic fishers village with some tourism and beachfront properties. This year, 2007, the village receives its own marina, so properties will raise in price. Just walk down the small street passing for the village and You will find the beach easily, there walk to the right to get to the Manzanilla area. Some services as restaurants are available. Mostly mexican tourism there. (more…)

Nuevo Vallarta isn’t a city or a village, Nuevo Vallarta about 10 miles north to Puerto Vallarta, is a planned vacation resort area, featuring the most sophisticated and modernst hotels in Mexico. A special feature is the spacious hotel area at the 3 mile long beach together with the big marina, with about 7 miles shippable water channels. The Paradise Village hotel for example ownes 400 acres and offers all a traveler can imagine. The three 18 hole golf  courses in Nuevo Vallarta and about 20 hotels are all of upper or high class.

In Nuevo Vallarta the tourist finds everything from a unique nature to extraordinary things to do. He has the choice between relaxed beach vacations, health and spa vacations and activ sport vacations. A must see for any Puerto Vallarta traveler.

Ok, nobody wants to use them, but if they are necessary its good to know where to find them for Puerto Vallarta.

Here I have some important phone numbers for the community:

Emergencies  060
Red Cross  065
Fire Department  (322) 293 17 12
Police  (322) 290 05 07 or ..12 or ..13 
   
Hospitals  
Amerimed Hospital  (322) 221 00 23
San Javier Hospital  (322) 226 10 10
CMQ Hospital  (322) 223 08 78
Medcare Ambulancia, Air and Land  (322) 222 33 55
Medasist Hospital  (322) 223 04 44
Cornerstone Hospital  (322) 224 94 00
Ambulancia Global  (322) 226 10 14
Servicio Medico de la Bahia  (322) 222 26 27
Clinica Intermedica  (322) 223 19 91 
   
Consulates  
U.S. Consulate   (322) 222 00 69 Fax:(322) 332 33 01
Local 4 - Int 17  or in Guadalajara 24 hrs: (333) 268 21 45
2nd floor Paradise Plaza  
Nuevo Vallarta 
   
Canadian Consulate  (322) 293 00 98 Fax: (322) 293 28 94
Blvd. Francisco M. Ascensio 1951  or 24 hrs: 01 (800) 796 29 00
Puerto Vallarta   
   
Immigration Office Puerto Vallarta (322) 224 76 53 
  
Tourism Office Puerto Vallarta (322) 221 26 76 or ..77 or ..79 or ..80 
   
Credit Cards  
American Express   (322) 223 29 55
Mastercard  01 (800) 366 31 00
Visa  01 (800) 706 6600