We’re in our room waiting for our private transport to the airport. We had a wonderful time in Puerto Vallarta but are ready to go home. It’s beautiful and the resort is amazing but we’re not “pool sitters” even if someone is bringing us delicious, fruity drinks whenever we want. We prefer to be out and about. There were other day trips we could have done but the ones that don’t involve “adventure” activities are basically the same trip we did last week but to different destinations.
Yesterday was a repeat of Sunday….hang by the pool, swim and try as many different drinks as possible. Well, I was the one who did the latter; Peter stayed with his Pina Colada. After doing quite a bit of testing, my favorites were the Blue Hawaii and the Miami Vice (I wonder what time the bar opens. Maybe I can squeeze in just one more before the car comes to get us at 10:30.) Over the last week we’ve met many nice people including quite a few Canadians. The ones here were from Vancouver and Calgary as Canadians from the middle and east of the country go to Florida.
We had a delicious dinner last night at the French restaurant…Bordeaux. Peter didn’t bring long pants and this restaurant has a dress code. But, luckily, they have loaner pants so we were able to enjoy a romantic dinner on our last night. I had duck confit and Peter had beef bourguignon and both were delicious.
Last night was casino night in the lobby but it didn’t start until 9pm and we were ready to head back to the room to pack by 8 so we didn’t hang around for it.
We had a lovely time here and highly recommend the resort to anyone considering a vacation in PV. The accommodations were very nice, the resort is lovely and the staff is amazing. The food in the buffet style restaurants was good but the food in the specialty restaurants was delicious. All in all, a wonderful way to spend a week away from home.
We thought about checking out Tulum Mexico in the spring but decided to save all our travel dollars for our next trip to Europe, which we’re calling our Epic European Adventure. The plan is to leave for London (the only place we can get to Europe from Phoenix nonstop) on July 23. We will spend 8 weeks in the UK before flying to Paris. We’ll spend 7-8 weeks in France, Belgium and the Netherlands before flying to Bologna Italy for 2 1/2 weeks. After spending a few days in Rome, we’ll head to Civitavecchia where we’ll pick up a 16-day repositioning cruise on 11/27. We loved the one we did in 2016 so we’re looking forward to this one. Here’s a link to the cruise on the NCL website. Hopefully it will be in English as most websites are translating everything into Spanish…very irritating. If it does come up in Spanish, the price is probably Mexican Peso. We are not spending $49,000 pp for this cruise. :0
https://www.ncl.com.mx/vacations?cruise-destination=transatlantic&date=nov-2022
The cruise ends on 12/13 in NYC. We’ll spend one night there and fly home on the 14th. This will be our longest trip ever but we have plenty of time built in to rest so it should be a leisurely trip. We’ve already started making reservations (so far just the trip to London and the Airbnb for our 9 nights in London) so we can spread the cost over the next 9 months. It’s going to be an amazing trip.
But that’s a trip for another blog so I’ll sign off for now. Thanks again for taking the time to follow us on our Mexican adventure. We’ll talk with you again in July. Have a great holiday season. Love from us to you. Lynn and Peter