Your first contact will be at the Diaz Ordaz Airport, recently refurbished and now featuring state-of-theart facilities, stores and cafeterias. The air terminal is only a 15-minute drive from the downtown area and the marina where most hotels stand just five minutes from there. There you’ll find cabs and buses that will shuttle us to your hotel for just 5 pesos. The first feeling you get upon arriving in Vallarta and walking on the streets is its balmy and humid weather, rainy from June through October. The high-peak season stretches from October to May, yet any month will be perfect to get to know this piece of the Mexican Pacific. Puerto Vallarta and the bay are dotted with lodging facilities of all stripes and for all budgets, ranging from fancy resorts where you could rub elbows with the glamorous rich and famous, all the way to small downtown hotels outfitted with everything it takes to make you enjoy your stay there. In recent years, all-inclusive hotels and boutique establishment have been on the rise.