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As a gay vacation hot spot and international destination, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico has plenty of gay excursions and activities for you to choose from. The gay-owned and gay-operated cruises and gay vacation tours in Puerto Vallarta are generally scheduled weekly during the "high season" winter months from November through March or April, with Diana's gay cruise running once a week year-round. There are also a number of lovely getaways that might be fun to visit for a day trip and which are listed below the gay tours section. Note: You may also want to check out the Puerto Vallarta Activities II page for other vacation activities and things to do such as biking, bird watching, ecological tours, scuba diving, whale watching, and tennis that are not gay or lesbian owned or operated but may nonetheless be enjoyable and of interest to you.

gay vacation cruise - Pride Sisters show on the Amadeus cruise years ago, now defunctPuerto Vallarta Gay Cruises and Gay Tours

Boana Hot Springs  4:45pm-Midnight every Tues and Friday
Enjoy the beauty of Nature, charming ambience of lighting by candles only, natural hot spring waters. Men only. Includes transportation in a/c bus, open bar, BBQ chicken dinner, salad and potatoes. Now back after years. Departs from Boana Torre Malibu, 325 Amapas street at 4:45pm. Nov-April. Visit here for a few Boana gay hot spring photos. $75.00  Call Suzanne or Denis, Tel: 222-6695, 222-0999. 

Boana Horseback Riding   9:15am or 2:30pm   any Day except Sunday
From a ranch east of town you take a leisurely ride up the Cuale River, among the tropical deciduous forest and a river where you can stop for a dip at the cascade. Further on you stop a little ranch provides some lunch and refreshments. Gay groups of two or more people, with a gay friendly guide or mixed gay/straight, with a english speaking guide. Includes lunch and transportation to and from the ranch. $45 USD.  Contact Suzanne or Denis, Tel: 222-6695 or 222-0999.

Boana Gay Cruise   any Day of the Week
Private charters available for any day of the week, sunset cruise or overnight. Contact Denis for prices and availability.  Tel: 222-0999 or 222-6695.

Diana's Gay Vallarta Cruise   9:30am-5pm every Thurs
On a 48 ft. katamaran for a good time on Banderas Bay with swimming and sunbathing. Cruise includes continental breakfast, open national bar, snacks, lunch at Las Animas beach, swimming and snorkeling. During the winter includes some whale and dolphin watching. Goes to a South Shore beach, Colomitos. This Puerto Vallarta gay cruise is quite popular and often sold out. Diana DeCoste is noted for her good service. Advance reservations required-recommended and tickets available at the Hotel Abbey, Blue Chairs Resort and Hotel Mercurio. Boarding at the Puerto Vallarta Los Muertos pier. This well-established cruise in her 10th year, is the longest running Puerto Vallarta gay tour-excursion and runs every Thurs year round (except off mid July to mid August) and goes out every Thurs and Fri in February. Listed as #4 out of 154 best Puerto Vallarta attractions/things to do. Diana also offers private charters on Tues, Weds, Sat and Sun only. $80 USD or 1000 pesos. Contact Diana DeCoste at Diana Tours or local Tel: 222-1510. (Diana's Tours and Discovery Vallarta also recommend this gay-friendly VIP transportation service from the airport to your hotel, condo or villa in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Be sure to read the instructions and information on the webpage completely.)
 

Gay ATV Tours - 429-B Basilio Badillo.  Tel: 223-351
Gay ATV tour every Tuesday at 1:45pm going up the Cuale River. Gay friendly tours every day at 9:45am and 1:45pm. Custom tours to the remote villages located in Cabo Corrientes as well as in Puerto Vallarta such as to the PV Botanical Gardens.  uniqueatvtours.com

Jungle Secret Oasis   12:30pm-6pm Thurs, Fri and Sat
The clothing-optional jungle resort-excursion. River white beach, nude swimming, cascades, waterfalls, hiking, nude sunbathing, open bar and a light meal included, 25 minutes from Puerto Vallarta up the Cuale River. Bus departs Thurs, Fri and Sat from 388 Lazaro Cardenas street. No reservations needed. $40 USD. Note: Jan-Apr only. website: secret-oasis.com or Cell: 044-322-168-9377

gay cruise puerto vallarta party boysPV Sunset Party Cruise   4:30pm-9pm  every Weds  (Dec thru Apr 28)
Party party!! This sexy gay sailing cruise (photo at left) includes open national bar and snacks, the latest dance music, hot go-go boys and strippers (& sometimes swimming & snorkeling depending on weather). Leaves from Los Muertos beach pier cruising south and north to see a good deal of Puerto Vallarta from the Bay for $65 USD. Pre-sale tickets for the Puerto Vallarta Sunset Party Cruise are available at La Noche martini lounge, Colors store, Club Manana box office or on-line. Some of the very attractive go-go boys from the gay cruise are also out on the Vallarta gay beach in red speedos promoting their excursion from Sat-Weds. Note: Continues through the winter tourist season until the end of April. Be at the Puerto Vallarta Los Muertos pier not later than 4:30pm when boarding begins - ship sails at 5pm sharp. Private charter party cruises on alternate dates are available for groups of 10 or more.  Tel: 222-3495 or Cellular: 044-322-150-4755

PVR Gay Cruise   10am-4pm   every Friday
Aboard a comfortable classic sailboat this gay cruise cruises across and around the Bay for a day of fun, good music, sun and drink. Includes continental breakfast, lunch, beer and full open bar, snorkeling equipment, dolphin watching and sailing (if conditions permit). Good reports. Leaving from Los Muertos beach pier. $70 USD.  Tel: 222-0638

Whale Watching with Ocean Friendly Tours   8:45am-3pm (Dec. 15-Mar. 31 only)
Oscar Frey is an Oceanologist and whale photographer and started whale watching tours in Banderas Bay in 1994, while also running a research program involving humpback whale distribution, numbers and behavior in this area of the Mexican Pacific. Oscar is a consultant to the Department of Oceanography and Eco-Tourism. The whale watching tour includes lunch (subs, fruit and snacks), refreshments (non-alcoholic) and hydrophone system (underwater microphone to listen the whales songs and dolphins while aboard). Oscar is gay but the tours are open to all, for 4-8 persons. Advance reservation required. I have received excellent reports of the Ocean Friendly tours, one of the most highly rated and regarded of any Puerto Vallarta tours-excursions. Highly recommended. Note: Dec 15-Mar 31 only. $90 US. Office at Paseo del Marlin 510-103, Colonia Aralias, Puerto Vallarta.  Tel: 225-3774

Ecology Note: We ask our friends and clients to boycott the jet skis which pollute the air and water, endanger wildlife and diminish natural quiet. Reports show that at least 25% of their fuel goes directly into the water and we'd like to help with the current efforts to clean up Puerto Vallarta waters and Banderas Bay.

Puerto Vallarta Getaways - Excursions
If you want to get away, there are cruises and tours that will take you out of Puerto Vallarta, some of which are listed above in Activities. Here below are a few of the lovely places you can visit to further enjoy your stay in Vallarta and the Banderas Bay area. Go here for further information and photos of the beaches of Banderas Bay.

puerto vallarta botanical gardens - photos thank to jesus reyesPuerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens
With agaves and other native plants, orchids, restaurant, river swimming - the Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens (photo left) are located approximately 12-14 miles (at km 24 Highway to Barra de Navidad) south of Puerto Vallarta in the Sierra Madre mountains. Located on 20 acres of land, the botanical collections feature over three thousand different species of plants. At 1,300 feet above sea level their gardens are in a unique tropical dry forest ecosystem. Against this lovely backdrop of soaring mountain peaks, there is much to experience: palm and agave gardens, rose garden, tree fern grotto, tropical bid watching, orchid house, jungle trails, displays of Mexican wildflowers and the carnivorous plant collection. You can bring your swimsuit and enjoy a refreshing dip in the crystal clear Rio Los Horcones." The Hacienda de Oro restaurant on the premises also offers refreshments and food at reasonable prices. For more Puerto Vallarta Botanical Garden photos. Established in 2005, admission is 50 pesos, about $4.20 US. www.vallartabotanicalgardensac.org  Tues-Sun, 9am-6pm

Mismaloya
It was here in the village of Mismaloya, approximately 10 miles south of Puerto Vallarta, that the movie "The Night of the Iguana" was filmed by John Huston in 1963. A part of the original set is still in existence, and if one knows the movie, walking onto the set can be an experience. Nearby is a restaurant named in its honor, with food, drink and views of the bay. The small beach at Mismaloya has several restaurants and there are boats for rent for a trip to the rock formations at Los Arcos. The movie Predator was also filmed in Mismaloya in the 1980s. Horses are available for jungle rides, and a trip up the Mismaloya River to the restaurant Chino's Paradise is popular.

Paco's Paradise
Closed for several years now, alas; taken over by Vallarta Adventures and their Rhythms of the Night adventure.

Quimixto
A small village on the south bay past Mismaloya, accessible only by boat. Many of the day cruises drop anchor here for several hours so that their passengers can horseback ride up to the popular waterfall in the mountains.  Several palapa roofed restaurants line the cove in Quimixto. If you want a quiet and still undeveloped area for relaxing and taking in some of the natural beauty of the Bay, try this getaway for an afternoon. You can get to any of the south bay villages by water taxi from the small village of Boca de Tomatlan. Or hire your own boat in Boca or in the nearby village of Mismaloya, and then you can take a spin to some secluded beach or village!

majahuitas on the South Shores - gay puerto vallarta travel guideMajahuitas
Majahuitas (photo left) is a secluded, picturesque cove surrounded by verdant hills between Quimixto and Yelapa. A quaint beach resort hotel and restaurant can provide accommodations and food. The small beach is one of the loveliest in the south bay and the area is excellent for swimming and snorkeling. Majahuitas is famous among scuba divers for its underwater canyon just outside the cove.

Yelapa
Yelapa is the most remote fishing village on the South Shore of the bay, also accessible only by boat. It is popular because of its beauty and the slow pace of life, and is known as something of an artist retreat and hippie hangout. Several day cruises stop there for a few hours and like Quimixto there is a river and popular waterfall. Yelapa is very laid back and has real charm, with palapas and seafood restaurants on the beach and small bungalows and houses that dot the jungle hillsides. There are few telephones and no cars, gracias a Dios. Electricity has recently made its way to the village, which used to go dark around 10pm after everyone turned off their generators. One of the restaurants becomes something of a night spot/disco in the evening. Lodging is still reasonably priced. There are water taxis from Puerto Vallarta and the village of Mismaloya which go to Yelapa that run in the morning and afternoon. Here's the general schedule, but you should double check these times before making your final plans: Leaving Los Muertos pier to Yelapa: 10am, 11am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 4pm and 5:30pm; leaving Yelapa to Vallarta's Los Muertos pier: 7:30am, 8:30am, 9am, 10:30am, 3pm, 3:30pm and 4:30pm.

Bucerias
Bucerias is a village of several thousand people located about 15 miles north of Puerto Vallarta in the state of Nayarit. Bucerias is more relaxed than Vallarta and has a small expatriate community. Many pleasant accommodations with moderate prices are on or near the water and the town has the longest stretch of beach on Banderas Bay. Now popular with many Canadian tourists because of its more economic prices for food and lodging, Bucerias' architecture is noted for cupolas (domes), and there are hundreds of them on buildings throughout the town. Open air palapa roofed restaurants serve fresh seafood and the uncrowded beaches have gentle surf. Joann Quickstad and Patricia Mendez (photo right), who lived in Vallarta for many years, now reside in Bucerias and manage Casa Tranquila with one bedroom apartments. Joann practices massage with Swedish, reflexology and aromatherapy. Tel: (329)-298-1767

Sayulita
Twenty miles or so beyond Bucerias, but on the Pacific coast, is a favorite gringo getaway, the small picturesque village of Sayulita with its two thousand inhabitants. Surfers like it because the cove there gives good waves pretty much the whole year (the best waves are Nov-Apr), and it is the favorite surf spot in the Banderas Bay area. Several of Mexico's finest (and handsomest) surfers live and surf here - long board and short board are both popular. There are pleasant beach-front restaurants, including the upscale Don Pedro's and the popular Capitan Pablo's, as well as bungalows, villas, guest houses and camp grounds.

The dusty streets of the town all converge on the small town square, which has several restaurants, an ice cream shop and grocery store, a coffee shop, the church and town billiard hall, a row of houses and a bar or two facing it. This is the look of hundreds of small villages in Mexico. As Janelle Brown reported in the NY Times in 2003, the town of Sayulita, Nayarit still "retains its traditional lifestyle: residents buy fish off the beach, chicken from the woman in the square, and everything else (mops, strainers, plastic chairs) from the trucks that occasionally drive around town." The town is being rather rapidly developed, alas,. The Sayulita beach is long and lovely and is one of my favorite getaways.  Go to this page for some Sayulita photos.

following six pictures, from her Puerto Vallarta gay excursions and cruises, thanks to Diana DeCoste

on diana's gay cruise puerto vallarta        hank and conrad on diana's gay cruise

Diana's gay vallarta cruise on the katamaran    Diana on her gay and lesbian cruise    diana gay cruise  - gay vallarta Bay excursion
photos from Diana's year-round gay and lesbian cruise-tour

secret jungle oasis tour - gay puerto vallarta guide    
jungle secret oasis excursion

boana tours    boana party cruise Vallarta - photos by benoit    a great lucky find on the boana cruise
Three photos, from the Boana gay vacation boat cruises bay tours, thanks to Benoit

boana hot spring gay tours-excursion
Boana hot springs gay tour

    
Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens
 

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yelapa mexico restaurant - picture thanks to william clark    surfing in sayulita, nayarit beach resort town    chico's paradise restaurant - pic thanks to ibarra tours
Yelapa restaurant; surfing in Sayulita, Nayarit; Chico's Paradise south of Mismaloya
 

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