We summer over here in Nuevo Vallarta, Paradise Village Marina.- 2012

Mid December 2012 - Currently in Paradise Village Marina in Banderas Bay Mexico

The decision has been made; we summer over here in Paradise Village Marina versus La Cruz Marina or Marina Vallarta (downtown).

 It is or they cannot beat this place for us. Paradise Village Marina offers just too much for us. It is gringo-vil though. There are major hotels and condos and time shares etc full of gringos. No Mexican fishing village here. However there are all the marine services you could want and 5 miles away is PV with the rest, boat yard etc.
Mall with plenty of tables and chairs and benches. Some with 110 power outlets.
Here there is a two story mall and free WiFi throughout the mall and AC.

 
Pool early morning.
Pool early morning, water slides etc.
 
Pool early morning, you can see Banderas Bay and the beach papalas with tables and chairs for free. 
 There is the huge Paradise Village hotels with 4 pools some with water slides and jacuzzi’s and beach papilla’s where you can spend all day then watch the sunset, free.  Also, the hotel lobbies have living room type settings all with free WiFi and of course AC. We as marina tenants get to use it all for free. There are many many other things also. Lots of comfy air conditioned places to hang out for free and that is important in the summer months. There are also plenty of days sailing places to go. For instance we can day sail to La Cruz and anchor out for free and visit the town over night during the summer months if we want. There are movie theaters near here that have English-speaking movies, in fact most everyone here in gringo- vil speaks English.

In the mall there is ice cream by the cone or a super market where we can buy it and simply walk a short way back to the boat. There is a laundry facility in the mall, we can do laundry in AC and have free WiFi to boot and clean bath rooms throughout! We can sit around and play board games and there is other orgs here also like a yacht club. Not to say the other places are not nice. We do have four pools here, the other places offer none. This is a five star resort after all. So for our first hurricane season this will be the place. Then we can simply jump off again and continue cruising the Mexican Rivera from here. Possibly the next hurricane season we will go to the Sea of Cortez but that is too far away to know.

 As for now we are finishing up our Garmin GHC 10 class A under deck autopilot repair project and some other items to be taken care of.

Yesterday we took a bus to Home Depot and the big marine store in PV. It is kind of a cross between Marine Exchange and West Marine in San Diego with WM prices. They do offer most things for the common projects. Here in Paradise Village Marina there are two small marine stores that offer items for boats, not sail boats specific like rigging stuff but zincs and cleaning items, through hulls etc.

In other words there are plenty of places to hang out for free with AC and WiFi and creature comforts on the long hot, humid summer days without having to stay on the boat in the AC. They are a short walk from the boat and with easy access.

Possibly a movie tonight.

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