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Lesbian Puerto Vallarta Lesbians are discovering that Puerto Vallarta is not only gay male friendly but woman friendly as well.  Diana DeCoste, who has lived and worked in Vallarta over 5 years, organizes and runs various activities for lesbians in Vallarta.  Here's a list of her current tours and cruise for the current high season, which are sometimes mixed lesbian/gay male. Diana also is an excellent cook and can sometimes prepare meals for you and your group of friends upon request.  Rasika Weinstein, who used to work as a local agent for a number of years, can also be a contact for women planning their time in Vallarta, local Tel: 222-5919 or contact her via email at rasika63@hotmail.com  See also the listing under Bucerias (located in the state of Nayarit) on the Activities page for info on Joann and Patricia and their accommodations at Casa Tranquila. 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 Los Muertos pier. This well-established cruise, now celebrating her 10th year, is the longest running gay tour-excursion in our community and runs every Thurs year round (except mid July-mid August) and goes out every Thurs and Fri in February. Diana also offers private charters on Tues, Weds, Sat and Sun only. $80 USD or 1000 pesos. Contact Diana DeCoste at dianastours.com or local Tel: 222-1510. (She also offers a gay-friendly VIP transportation service from the airport for all the clients of Diana's gay Tours when arriving in Puerto Vallarta.) Coming About - Sailing School for women.  Tel: 222-4119 Sailing school exclusively for women with Pat Henry and Leah Danielson. Introduction to sailing, 9-Day Bareboat Charter Captain program, special clinics and more. Info at coming-about.com Best to give twenty-four hour advance reservations for any lesbian/gay tours.

Women will want to check out the GirlPorts city guide for Vallarta for further info on what's up in town for girls and where to go for lodging, fun and food. Annemarie Shrouder also writes a good article in Xtra from Canada about Women's week in Vallarta

Apaches - South Side/Zona Romantica - 439 Olas Altas.  Tel: 222-4004, 222-5235
Marianne and Andrea own and operate one of Puerto Vallarta's most festive martini and cocktail bars, serving all kinds of delicious drinks. This small and cozy locale has been extremely popular with gay locals and tourists alike for more than ten years. Women are advised to check out this bar as it's a favored socializing place for lesbians in town. Inside and sidewalk seating. Next door is Apaches Bistro restaurant serving steaks, seafood and continental fare from 5pm to midnight daily. Happy hour, 5pm-7pm.  Apaches open Mon-Sat, 5pm-2am.

Gay Guide & Straight Press
There is a pocket size publication that will help the gay visitor to Vallarta get oriented and find her or his way around town. Gayguide Vallarta is put out by Mark Page who used to run the Rainbow Dancer gay cruise (now defunct) a good many years ago. Gayguide Vallarta is released several times a year and is widely distributed in gay and gay-friendly bars, hotels, shops and restaurants in town.
 

Please note that while most of the Puerto Vallarta bars, clubs, bed and breakfasts and hotels that advertise in this publication are nearly all exclusively gay-owned or operated, a good number of the stores, galleries, restaurants, realtors and service providers that advertise in Gayguide are neither gay-owned nor gay-operated, but cater to the general public and conveniently advertise there for business purposes.

Don Pickens who owns the gay bed and breakfast Casa Cupula has some interesting things to say on line about Puerto Vallarta where "great weather, a gay-friendly environment, plenty of gay venues and a lively beach scene is why many people return again and again."

There is hardly ever any mention of the gay community in the local English press, but here they are anyway. The most useful of these is Bay Vallarta a relatively new entertainment guide which has the most complete listings of What to Do in Puerto Vallarta that I've seen. At more than 70 pages just about everything and everybody is listed, from Events, Art Galleries and Home delivery to Bars, Live music and Sports; even the Puerto Vallarta Gay Community gets its own page. Additionally it has articles on a variety of topics such as ecology, culture, movie reviews and cuisine. The P.V. Tribune, a local weekly, is useful and has some informative articles in English and French. Vallarta Today is the only local daily English newspaper and contains a lot of advertising, but also has a dining guide section and some general tourist information. These are all free and widely distributed. The glossy Vallarta Lifestyles is a quarterly magazine for sale, with top quality production value and many photos. It includes info on restaurants, shopping, art galleries, activities, profiles of local people, and of course the ubiquitous and endless promotion of frigging real estate. Ooops!