Hello to my three faithful readers! I am finally getting back to a bit of blogging. At the very least, I need to document our trips so far in 2022!
2022 brought another year of the pandemic, however we decided to take a winter trip anyway. Things in Puerto Vallarta seemed pretty well back to normal, although many locals were still masking and taking precautions on transit and inside buildings.
For our flights, we used miles on American Airlines and connected in Dallas on the way there and Chicago on the way home. Surprisingly, all of our flights went fine even though AA had had some issues before we traveled. Maybe we were lucky?
As usual we grabbed a taxi at the airport and headed to Hotel Tropicana. Check in went just fine and we even got all of the safe keys right away.
La Palapa for drink and app
Pancho's tacos for dinner
the exterior of Pancho's Tacos
Twisted Palms for drinks and tiki night
Wednesday Feb 16th, we had breakfast at Coco's Kitchen. Excellent as always.
We spent the day on the beach at the hotel, Many palapas open in late morning even, surprising!
Lunch at Swell on the beach
drinks at Bar La Playa
No Se Nada for dinner
art walk in centro after dinner
drink at Margarita Grill
Thursday Feb 17th, we went to La Palapa for beach day.
La Palapa lunch
Inside of One Six One Bar
Los Muertos Brewing
Multi course dinner at Tintoque
We did the tasting menu, which was very fun, but it turned out to be a LOT of food.
river views
On Friday, the 18th we had breakfast at Johnny's diner, got massages and then sat at the pool at our hotel for the day.
For lunch we walked/used funicular to go up the hill to Maria Baja for fish tacos. They ere excellent and the many salsas were fun and delicious.
Bar La Playa for drinks before dinner
116 Pulpito for dinner. The food and service were great once again.
Bar IK at Hotel Playa Los Arcos for drinks and dessert on the beach.
Bar IK at Hotel Playa Los Arcos
On Saturday, Feb 19th, we had breakfast at Tuna Azul. It was just OK, not sure we'd go back. Maybe a better lunch option.
We visited the Saturday market at Lazaro Cardenas park and did some shopping around town.
Brunch at La Capella
Brunch at La Capella
Broadway show tunes with brunch
lovely views
We took a taxi up to Los Cuentos Cervceria. We also went to trivia at Twisted Palms that afternoon.
dinner at No Way Jose / OK Jose
tableside Sexy Coffee
On Sunday, Feb 20th, we went to Pancake House for breakfast
Joe Jack's Fish Shack for lunch
Mazcal e Sol for drinks
Hisao Sushi and Bar
Mi Cafe for breakfast on Monday, Feb 21st
After we had massages at Filpe's
lunch San Angel Burgers & Tacos good burgers and fries
Di Cantaro
Mexican variety plate, food was just OK, would not return
Coco's Kitchen for breakfast on Tuesday Feb 22nd.
La Palapa for beach day and lunch
We had drinks at one of the condos up the funicular / hill, called Chictini. They had a decent happy hour I think.
Twisted Palms
Pizza for dinner at L'angolo De Napoli
Coco's Kitchen one last breakfast and then time to pack up and head to the airport. Boo.
Couple pics of our room at the Tropicana. We had a room in the Superior Tower, lowest floor again. It is not my favorite room, but perfectly OK.
view from hotel room balcony
view from hotel room balcony
View from the old own pier
This was my 10th trip to Puerto Vallarta and John's ninth trip. Yes, I've started keeping track of this detail.
Our taxi to the airport was uneventful and our flight departed on time. We had an excellent trip overall. We hit all of our old favorites and a couple new places. We were happy to see most of our favorites weathered the pandemic well and were still there.
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