Puerto Vallarta "Dreams" - Day 1
We arrived at our hotel "Dreams" last night at about 2am. The flight kept moving back and back until it finally left at about 10pm. The director of the transportation and tour company Teresa had lined up to meet us was there as planned, and was very friendly. She had one of her drivers take us to our hotel.

The hotel though did not have our reservations. I should say that eventually the clerk found the reservations but they had us arriving on Jun 13, when we are actually leaving. That was not fun. We ended up in a room with two double beds, no balcony. Originally we were supposed to get a Junior Suite with a balcony and in-room jacuzzi. Oh well. The room is not bad, just not what was expected. I get the feeling they are not being totally honest with us -- they say there are no suites available but the reservation systems that Teresa uses say there is plenty of availability. The hotel is nowhere near full here, it is off-season.

Anyhow, it was a late night and Teresa got up early to speak to the person who she originally arranged things with. They said they'd move us into a suite on Monday. Honestly, it doesn't matter to Mandy or I, but Teresa is supposed to be evaluating this hotel for a group reservation one of her larger corporate clients are preparing for in December. The hotel knows this and should be putting their best foot forward. If that's their best foot, I'd hate to see the bad one.

So this morning Teresa and Mandy went and got breakfast, and then they went to laze around on the beach. I lazed around in the hotel room until noon. Then Teresa took an afternoon nap and Mandy and I went to the beach and the pools. The grounds are very nice here, pools are nice, hotel is generally well done in my opinion. The food and service have been decent. Its different for everything to be free -- food, drinks, etc. Beach is beautiful. I haven't seen much outside of the resort, so I can't say much about my first "real" trip to Mexico (every other time was just a day trip on a cruise ship). One thing, a lot of reviews I read said the beds were hard. They weren't kidding. But I like the bed firm, so its good for me.

Attached a couple of pictures that I snapped from the 9th floor hotel room window. Haven't been much of a shutterbug today. Maybe I'll get some good scenery pics tomorrow.

I'm trying the new image system at blogger, so I'm not sure how they will look. Hopefully okay.
- posted by Tim Stewart @ 8:35 PM