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.
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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