Reply To: Trip Report – Dublin, Mexico City, Puerto Vallarta

[NorthernLass]

Yes and you can’t blame them – similar to retired Brits and other Northern Europeans in the Canaries and Costas!

Would you be insured, @JDB, if you went to one of these areas and suffered a mishap?

I haven’t done much apart from sit on the beach and swim for the past couple of days. I love watching the pelicans and other birds coming and going and watching the sun sparkle on the sea.

From what I’ve gathered PV is a bit of an LGBT Mecca as well as a retirement community (which IME usually means tolerant, progressive and welcoming to all), and also a magnet for arty types.

OH has been on a dive trip today and said there was a lot of security and drug dogs at the port searching everyone who was getting on a boat so they seem to be making a serious effort to keep out the cartels.

There were 2 insanely huge cruise ships in port yesterday, they had such massive cinema screens on the top decks you could actually see the picture from about half a mile away!

We did a week’s food & alcohol shop for just over £100 and Happy Hour cocktails are about £3 – most things here seem to be tremendous value compared to the Caribbean and (recently) the USA!