Fodor's Puerto Vallarta 2009: With Guadalajara, San Blas, and Inland Mountain Towns (Fodor's Gold Guides) (Paperback)

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Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.

Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Puerto Vallarta!

•Updated annually, Fodor’s Puerto Vallarta provides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook.

•Fodor’s Puerto Vallarta features options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, so you make the choices to plan your trip of a lifetime.

•If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Puerto Vallarta.

•Experience Puerto Vallarta like a local! Fodor’s Puerto Vallarta includes unique photo features that impart the resort’s culture, covering its sophisticated culinary scene, chic spas, and renowned traditions---from mariachi to fine tequila.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Fodor's; Revised edition (October 7, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400019591
• ISBN-13: 978-1400019595
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #82,959 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helped us plan great places to go! Insider tips., April 12, 2009

By	Aisha Mizaur-Pickett "west side book lover" (Chicago) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fodors Puerto Vallarta was a great book for our weeklong trip to PV. We used it to get tips ahead of time about things like taxis, air ports, time share sharks, and basic information about the culture. When we arrived, we went to many of the restaurants and beaches suggested, like Andriengo for Mexican fare, Fedensio's on the end of the beach for breakfast, and a great Cuban place, La Boguedita, where we ordered "off" of the menu, and ate the best sandwiches ever. We shopped at the Rio Cuale flea market and found great finds. We appreciated the side trips suggested, and visited the quaint beach town of Buseria. The book also had chapters on art and tequilla, so the reader could get a more in-depth look at things that make PV important. Lots of good advice was given (avoid time share people at the airport, taxis have one fare) so that made us feel like we had an "edge" while vacationing. Puerto Vallarta is not that large and this book was all we needed to spend a great 7 days in Mexico. We used it everyday to plan our activities.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEST CHOICE, March 25, 2009

By	Linda (Sonora, CA) - See all my reviews

Fodor's Puerto Vallarta is definatly the best guide to this city! Unlike it's competition, Fodors is extremely organized and actually a fun guide to read through. The organzation in this book is set up by area and then within that section the subsections are hotels, restaurants, spas, beaches, activities, ect. This highly detailed form of organization makes it easy to find what you are looking for and discover new facts and trip ideas while you are at it. Maps and photos within the book are all very up to date and easy to navigate. Fodors gives you an excellent guide filled with interesting facts about the Puerto Vallarta area as well. Such facts include to annual festivals and competitions that take place in Puerto Vallarta year round and histories regarding certain places of interest. If you are looking for a guidebook that is fun, factual, and entertaining look no far and purchase this book for all of your vacation questions and needs.