The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Jalisco Health Department (SSJ) has admitted that it refused to allow more than 1,000 passengers on board the Holland America Line’s MS Koningsdam cruise ship to disembark in Puerto Vallarta on December 23, after 21 crew members were detected with Covid-19.
Three tragedies at Puerto Vallarta hotels in the space of a week emphasize the importance for parents and guardians to take extra care of small children while on vacation.
Just over two years ago, alarm bells rang when all of a sudden, residents on and near Los Horcones River, south of Puerto Vallarta, saw a dozen or so workers and earth-moving equipment, and then heard dynamite blasts.
The first cruise ship in more than 18 months arrived in Puerto Vallarta on Tuesday.
It is literally an oasis in the middle of the busy city of Puerto Vallarta, the sparkling gem of a tourist town hugging the Bay of Banderas, from the Marina district marking the northern border, curving and stretching south to Conchas Chinas and beyond to the road to Mismaloya.
Anyone 18 years old and over residing in Puerto Vallarta may obtain an anti-Covid vaccination as of July 23, Jalisco health authorities announced Wednesday.
Within three months, tourists could soon be setting foot on the Islas Marías (or Marietas), the group of four islands located 60 miles off the coast of Nayarit, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced on a visit to the archipelago this week.
Puerto Vallarta has been one of the quickest areas to see a recovery from the Covid-19 shutdown that decimated much of Jalisco’s economy last year.
When Bob Price moved to Mexico many years ago, at some point he had a place in Puerto Vallarta with a view of the jungle blanketing the Sierra Madre.
