Welcome to Puerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta is one of Mexico's most popular tourist destinations - equally popular with both national and international visitors. Puerto Vallarta has been consistently voted by Conde Nast readers as one their top ten favorite international destinations for years. VirtualVallarta.com is your guide to this wonderful city and the surrounding regions and communities nearby - some within the Bay of Banderas and others a little farther away along Costa Vallarta. Puerto Vallarta really is the destination where Mexico comes to life, and there's a little something here for everyone!
Local News
AARP The Magazine disclosed that Puerto Vallarta is the number one of the Top 5 Best Places to Retire Abroad in its September/October issue, already available in homes and online.
Three of Puerto Vallarta’s most well-known companies; Botanical Gardens of Puerto Vallarta, Canopy Las Juntas y Los Veranos and Vallarta Adventures, are teaming to remove garbage from a well-traveled highway to beautify the area, improve environmental conditions and boost tourism in a one-day volunteer driven event
Summer camp has been a U.S. tradition for over 150 years and continues to create childhood memories for over ten million American children and youth who attend summer camp annually.
To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Outback Steakhouse has begun its festivities with a monthly dinner for each of the three associations that the popular restaurant will benefit this year: Becas Vallarta, Casa Hogar Maximo Cornejo and Pasitos de Luz.
Teatro Vallarta unveiled its second sidewalk “Sol” at the small plaza located in front of its entrance, this time for renowned Mexican film, television and stage actress, Angelica Aragón.
The results for this year's annual poll on Puerto Vallarta's favorite restaurants were made available online to the public on Thursday, July 15, 2010.
Puerto Vallarta’s government has just begun offering free wireless Internet service in Plaza Lázaro Cárdenas and El Pitillal square.
Starting on July 9, Interjet began operating a new, low-cost route from Mexico City's International Airport to Puerto Vallarta's Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport.
The Ocean Dream cruise ship arrived in Puerto Vallarta for the first time, translating into the arrival of a thousand and 300 domestic tourists and the start of its operation in our city as a home port.
Laura Quiroz was only 18 years old when she came to Puerto Vallarta for Easter Vacation. When she saw the fishing village from the air, she was delighted and thought “here is where I want to live and die someday.”
