One of Mexico's newest and fastest growing areas, hotel occupancy in the planned resort and residential community of "New Vallarta" is amongst the highest in the country. This is where you find the really big deluxe hotels on sprawling oceanfront properties and residential developments in diverse settings: on golf courses, along canals that evoke Florida, beach front, and on flat smooth roads with very little traffic. In contrast to bustling PV proper, this area is super quiet and peaceful, offering luxurious privacy. Recently coming into its own after a rather slow start about 20 years ago, nicely complementing its wide sandy beach stretching as far as the eye can see are a wealth of services and amenities. Lots of good restaurants and bars, three world-class golf courses, a water park, yacht club, marinas, and an air-conditioned mall with over a hundred businesses, a supermarket, health center, cyber cafés and banks among them.

• Reached by public bus, private car or taxi
• Although the roads are conducive to easy walking the distances between venues can be considerable, the Nuevo Vallarta bus stopping at every hotel and place of interest
• The facilities of a few of the all-inclusive hotels are for the use of their guests only
• Don't miss checking out Vallarta Adventure's state-of-the-art dolphin facility