Boat Cruises, Puerto Vallarta

It sounds cheesy but it was a really great experience. If you want to have a "real" drink on the boatride there just ask for it. They have some snacks on the boat to tide you over. Don't buy the bugspray at the Marina, bring your own or don't worry about it. Be hungry for dinner, the food is really great. It is a very romantic trip. After the boatride back, just walk out to the street to get a cheaper taxi ride.

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We all have been approached to attend a 90minute (never) time share in interest in recieving some type of gift in return. The pressure to buy can be amazing especially when you are on the wonderful trip and want to take another. Our time share excursion became complicated when we made THE MISTAKE of PREpaying for our 3 discounted excursion packages.

i truly do not believe we were initially "scammed" with intenion. Things got complicated when we took the time to go that morning and did not "qualify" by the property sales staff within 5minutes before listening to the pitch (they did not want customer that said we had to leave in 90minutes-understood). yet we decided to continue to listen for 90 min after we were told we would take care of us as promised whether we stayed or not (that did not happen...pancho and joe gave us the run around on $100 we put out on 1 of the 3 packages)

Taking the excursion of attending a time share can give you more bang for your buck for other excusion days. we were given 4 $25 pirate ship tickets-valued at $75 each. We also recieved $44 zip line tickets- $80 value and $25 all day boat with lunch tickets- $40 value each.

You can learn alot from attending time shares and you can also waist alot of time. We spent most of three days chasing our PREPAID (mistake) discount excursion packages

*Forando (seen in second photo posted) with Bahia Travel took the time to make good and refunded our $100 (pirate ship tickets) he can be reached at JoshGuerrerox@hotmail.com he is located one block from puerto vallarta down town beach and shopping area

things to remember:
*you can learn a lot at time shares
*time share do not take 90 minutes "O)
*only put a small deposit down when promising to attend a time share
*write down everyone name and get business cards
*before you buy, check out resale prices on ebay
*before you buy take contract home adn make sure all that is promised is IN contract.

*any trouble with tourism is best handled with tourist regulation poilce "reglamentos" if you are not able to resolve on your own.

enjoy!!

The beauty of Mexico is along the Mexican Riviera with the Roca Los Arcos in Banderas Bay being snorkel heaven. The rocks drop down into the sea and the water is clear with many varieties of fish swimming around you. Many of the dive boats from the Puerto Vallarta Marina come to this spot for scuba and snorkelers, alike.

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The trip to Marietas Islands was increadible. This is a bird sanctuary that you travel an hour or more to get to. You snorkel or scuba dive in this increadible untouched ecological conservatory. We were told this was the best tour because of the beauty & in the winter months, whale watching suppose to be out of this world.

We took another boat trip and they drop you off for a few hours at islands where you can explore. It was pretty cool. We didn't like this very much because we didn't have much money because since we had to buy an additional tickets to get there we didn't have much money left. We just tanned that after noon. But the funny picture i am putting on here is of my friend this guy put this big iguana on her and she was mad. They try to make money and a photo with an iguana will coat you about $5. What a rip off.

At the hotel we booked this day boat cruise. The hotel gave us a ride to the port. It was really fun. The view of the town from the water was really nice. We choose this particular boat because they stop by Los Arcos so that you can snorkle. I had never snokeled in the Pacific Ocean and it was great! I dont' know if it was the time of year we were there but my friend kept telling me that she was being bit. Of course I told her that she was crazy because i wasn't, but i was being stung. We didn't see anything until it became a little cloudy, then we saw hundreds of baby jelly fish. You couldn't help to avoid them, they were everywhere. We were stung so many times trying to get back to the boat away from the jellies. When we got out we were covered with red welts! That part was bad but it was still a cool experience. The boat provided the snorkle gear. And on the way back to the port they played games with all of the passengers.

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We rented a 48' sailboat for six hours and split the day between snorkeling and sailing around Banderas Bay. The professional crew of two (Javier and Jorge) prepared a nice light lunch and snacks, and were also very good in guiding our party during the snorkeling trip. Also adding to the enjoyment were the two bottles of tequila, two bottles of Dom Peringon, and several cases of ice-cold Pacifico cerveza.

The trip was booked through Vallarta Adventures, and was probably the most fun of any activity during our stay. They offer a variety of excursions such as sailing with dolphins, whales and sea lions. They are very professional and come highly recommended. Check out their website below.

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No, lol, your not going to jump off a cliff, but you will be reved up enough to yell Geronimo with the crew of this boat full. This is a fantastic tour & I highly recommend anyone visiting Puerto Vallarta between the months of January through April to do this. The first main event and as far as I'm concerned the most exciting was watching the whales in the bay. We would find one coming out of the water, then we would find 2. Then over there would be 2 males trying to court a female. Boats were flying everywhere trying to get closer to the whales and believe me if you have never seen whales during mating season, this is a site to behold. The next leg of our tour consisted of going to the Marietta Islands to snorkel. This is where I discovered that my underwater camera was busted. Darn! Cause here, I saw some of the most beautiful yellow angel type fish that I had never seen before in the Carribean and they were big! We got to snorkel through caverns coming into little enclosed ponds, going into caves & tunnels. This was quite an experience as well. After snorkeling for about an hour we headed off to a very beautiful beach area where we could swim, boogie board or just relax. Most of us opted to swim, some of us opted to go seashelling hunting (I found tons!) and my hubby fell asleep, lol. All in all this was a terrific tour to go on and I have a wonderful time. Only regret is that my underwater camera was busted & I didn't get any pictures of the underwater world snorkeling.