Guayabitos

We just returned, last last night, from our favorite beach town, Rincon de Guayabitos, a warm-water beach located on a small bay about an hour north of Puerto Vallarta on Mexico's Pacific coast.  It has been a beach getaway since 1971 when the government of Mexico decided to promote some of the beach towns north of Vallarta as tourism resorts.  Interestingly, Guayabitos gets many Mexican nationals visiting it, but also many Canadians. There are apparently very few US tourists.  Most people thought we must be Canadian.  


The all-inclusive cost, which includes food, drinks, room, use of all the pools, beach towels, and nightly shows, is about $90US per day per couple Sunday through Thursday and about $110US on Saturdays and Sunday.  We took a bus this year instead of driving. 


We go to the beach each year to help celebrate Pixie's birthday on November 10th. This year we tried a different hotel and were very pleased.  The other all inclusive hotel we had used two previous years was good, except the food was not.  The hotel we stayed in this year, Delcameron Coco's, is one of a chain of Delcameron all inclusive resorts located throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.  We were very pleased with its organization.  And the food was excellent.  We were easily able to get good-quality vegan choices at every meal.  We mostly hung around on the beach but they had lovely pools and shows nightly which were very good.  The only sour note was that Pixie picked up a virus and was not feeling well, particularly on her birthday.  But overall, we were very pleased.  Here are some photos.  


We were greeted each afternoon with different swans made out of bath towels on our bed...

We ate our meals in one of three spacious restaurants.  This is the one we chose because of the wonderful vegan choices and the ocean view...

 Pixie went for a before-breakfast swim on her birthday...

 The islands in the Guayabitos Bay resemble a large whale...

 The gardens around Coco's were very well kept-- these lilies were near our room...

 These mariachi musicians serenaded us on "Mexican Night." Notice the little guy...

 We were able to give some business to the vendors.   This guy tattooed my arm (see below) and wove a cute name bracelet for our grand daughter, Isabelle...

 They start young.  This little guy was selling woven bracelets and wallets...

 Luis, shown here with his wife, Carla, and his son, Jeshua, sold jewelry and Havana cigars (legal here, duh!)...

 Our final night we saw an excellent international dance show...

Pixie couldn't resist having her hair braided...

 And I got this tattoo in honor of Pixie's birthday (She's a scorpio)...

So now we're back home.  Our car has an electric problem and won't start.  Our mechanic came to our house and picked up the car this morning (only in Mexico!)  Hopefully, we'll have it back soon.  In the meantime, we can walk!  


Before we left we met our new friend from Maine, Angela, for dinner at her house.  Check out her blog: http://angelakeith.com/