Mexican Resort Hotel is located within Los Tules right in the hotel zone in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. An oceanfront condominium-style resort located two miles from the airport and one mile from downtown Vallarta.

Los Tules Mexican Resort hotel is nestled on a twenty-acre plantation of coconut palms fronting a half-mile of beautiful sandy Banderas Bay beach. Stroll along the brick-tile footpaths, through lush tropical gardens to your private colonial Mediterranean style condo.

PUERTO VALLARTA — If you find yourself strolling through Puerto Vallarta’s Old Town on Mexico’s Pacific coast, keep an eye peeled for the Playa Los Arcos. When you spot this traditional Mexican hotel, peek inside the courtyard. Within is the spirit of Old Mexico.

Two youthful bellboys sport charro shirts, with matching striped pants and red sashes. Smiling desk

clerks wear white mariachi dresses adorned with gold-tone horse-head buckles.

Hand-painted furniture made in the Mexican state of Michoacan sets off the lobby, and woven straw decorations — also from Michoacan — announce one of Mexico’s many fiesta weeks. Red bougainvillea spills over the porticoes, and the glossy leaves of a breadfruit tree shade the courtyard.

Hola, amigos. I’m back from a 12-day family vacation in Guadalajara, Mexico, where I spent some time visiting relatives, reacquainting myself with contacts in our sister city of Zapopan, Jalisco, and hanging out with iguanas in the Pacific Ocean-side resort village of Sayulita, in the state of Nayarit.

Yes, I’m tired. But we had a fabulous time. I’ll get to the iguanas in a second, but let me tell you that I’m so glad to be back in West Michigan — Home Sweet Home.

TEPOZTLAN, Mexico — Ricardo Ampudia cradles the bottle of tequila like a baby. It is, after all, a rare “presidential” tequila – a bottle commissioned by former Mexican leader Jose Lopez Portillo when he was elected in 1976.

“It’s exceptional,” Ampudia tells a gathering of friends touring his collection. “It’s what he would serve at the presidential dinner table.”

Nuevo Vallarta Marina was originally constructed in 1984 by a Texas company that dredged the mouth of an estuary one-half mile north of Rio Ameca. After development, the estuary was named Nuevo Vallarta Inlet, in honor of the marina on its south shores. Eventually, the much larger Paradise Village Resort and Marina was built along the inlet’s north shore, and the smaller marina fell into disrepair.

Weakening dollar losing buying power in Mexico

The plunging U.S. dollar already has forced many Americans to give up vacations in Europe. Now, the dollar has lost a tenth of its value against the Mexican peso since January, meaning that beach trips to Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta and other sunny points south of the border are quickly becoming more expensive, too.