We are off for another long weekend trip - this time to Punta Mita (or, as I would come to learn, not actually Punta Mita, which is where the ultra-exclusive luxury hotels are -- we would be staying at the Conrad, located on Punta de Mita, so not so exclusive. I saw a deal in my inbox from Travelzoo, which claimed that the normally $$$$ hotel room would now only be $$1/2-ish, I was looking for an excuse to use our Alaska Airlines Companion ticket...so impulse travel trip planned! (impulse for me = less than 3 months in advance).
When I booked the flight and hotel, I was thinking that mid-October in California would be getting kind of cold, maybe starting to pull out the sweaters even for afternoons/evenings, and that an escape to Mexico would be a welcome respite. Little did I realize that we'd have literally WEEKS of 90+ plus weather in Northern California -- making the 80-90 weather forecast for Puerto Vallarta basically "feeling like home."
As soon as we landed, I was reminded that the climate in Puerto Vallarta was not like the Bay Area, temperature similarities aside, for a very important feature...SO MUCH HUMIDITY. As Liya put it, it makes your hair sticky!
We'd organized a car to pick us up - the process was fairly easy, the only downside is that we had to walk in the 100-degree feeling weather over an overpass pedestrian bridge so we were a bit sweaty when we got to the car. But I think it was still worth it, I really dislike the throngs of people trying to pick up folks at airports - you never know who is telling the truth and who is trying to take advantage of you.
Our take on the room? Biggest complaint -- very humid, the A/C is certainly strong enough, but everything ends up feeling a bit damp. Other complaints: beds a bit small -- there was some fighting over blankets, the TV didn't seem to have a "sync up with your own Netflex/YouTube" options. Upsides - nice shower, they provided wine glasses in the fridges, and the porch looked very comfortable (the weather was just always too humid for it to be enticing).
Figured we had no activities booked for the day, so we'd just acquaint ourselves with the pool. The water temperature was pretty ideal and there were lots of empty loungers with shade -- nice way to ease into the vacation. (The twins thought the following picture was necessary because the water looked so cool.)
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