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Hello fellow travelers, welcome this episode of the Puerto Vallarta Travel show. I am your host Barry Kessler, and I am just so happy to be introducing you to my favorite vacation destination, and maybe even yours, Puerto Vallarta Mexico.
That music you were just listening to is performed by Alberto Perez, the owner of the La Palapa Group of Restaurants. Those are La Palapa, Puerto Vallarta’s Oldest Restaurant on the famous Los Muertos Beach, and The El Dorado Restaurant and Beach Club right next door so you can enjoy that fantastic view of the Los Muertos Pier all lit up at night in beautiful colors, or during the day in its grand splendor for breakfast, lunch or dinner, seated with our toes in the sand right at the water’s edge. It’s so romantic, it’s so, Puerto Vallarta my friends.
This week we are going to talk about what you do when you drop your cell phone in paradise and bust a screen. Or when your computer takes a dive and you need help
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getting that report out of that old laptop of yours, to your boss back home at work, even though you aren’t supposed to be working during vacation…right? We’re gonna talk tech. We are going to
talk connections. We are going to meet Cheyenne Quesenberry. Cheyenne runs a company called PV Technology Solutions and he will tell you about helping travelers keep connected in paradise as well as locals hooking up with everyday technology that is just a
little different in Mexico…Cheyenne will be talking about that as well as some of his hobbies…like jumping out of perfectly good aircraft, but before we get to Cheyenne, let’s see what’s happening this week in Puerto Vallarta, the 5th day of October, 2021.
Vallarta Waiting For Money From The Government Post Hurricane Nora
Work is very slow on the insurgents bridge as suspected, and one month after Nora, it’s still not clear where the money is coming from to fix things up…
Click the link to take you to the story…
A un mes de Nora aún no se sabe con cuánto apoyará el Gobierno a Vallarta
And I have a link to that article from Notiespacopv in the shownotes.
Some Shops are Opening up at The Municipal Market in Vallarta
That sounds kinda sketchie, but there is some good news from along the Rio Cuale,
From Tribuna De La Bahia
45 tenants will return to the Río Cuale Municipal Market
September 29, 2021
Josefina Ibarría , Head of Municipal Markets of Puerto Vallarta , informed that there will be 45 merchants from the Río Cuale Market who will be able to return to work at their premises and who are currently in Hidalgo Park.
However, the municipal official stressed that it will only be those that are on the outside of the market since the interior will not yet be enabled and a corridor on Agustín Rodríguez Street has also been released.
“There are approximately 45 tenants who have to return to their premises so that those who are there in Hidalgo Park, give space to those who are still who are not going to open since there are still a few days to continue the authorization. that will be opened by partialities authorizing Civil Protection “.
Likewise, four and a half premises on the upper floor were authorized:
“Those who are in Parque Hidalgo who have their premises that are already released are returning so that those spaces that they are occupying are made easier for those who still cannot open.”
He indicated that the information has already been made known to the market tenants, they have to go with their merchandise and start placing it in order to offer it to both locals and tourists.
And send the message that in Puerto Vallarta the Mercado del Río Cuale is still alive, there will be stores open for clothing, crafts, food and drinks as well as silver.
So slowly but surely, they will get businesses open again…we hope…I have a link to that article from Tribuna de Bahia, in the shownotes.
Jorge’s Hideaway is Celebrating their 10th Anniversary
Jorge reopened after a short vacation break on the 1st of October, and they are waiting with open arms to welcome you back to enjoy their mouthwatering food and drink. Jorge and his family are waiting for you at Pilitas 206, Zona Romántica , Amapas. Make reservations I have links in the shownotes.
JR Has Another Successful Eye Surgery
JR Had His Second Eye Surgery last week and it was a success. His eye surgeon as you may remember went in for surgery on his hand right after he did JR’s first eye, then evidently recovered at well enough to finish the other side. JR thanks all of you who helped him out with the expenses. I’ll be seeing you soon amigo.
Cruise Ships Return To Puerto Vallarta
Cruise ships continue to arrive in Vallarta, in fact this month they are expecting 14 ships….From ReporteDiario.com…
More Cruises Return To Vallarta 01 – October – 2021 October is a month where more cruises are reactivated, which is totally positive for Puerto Vallarta During October you can see the arrival of more cruise ships to Puerto Vallarta, many of them with tourists and others just to receive service. Approximately 14 cruise ship arrivals to Puerto Vallarta throughout the month of October This coming October 4 will have the arrival of the cruises Serenade of the Seas, from Los Angeles California and Noordam, from San Pedro, California. While the Noordam will be in port for several days to receive services.
And I have a link to that good news in the shownotes from our friends at Reportediario.com.
US Remittances to Mexico Hit Record Amounts
Have you been sending money to your friends in Mexico. I know I have. So here’s some not so shocking news….From Mexico News Daily…
August remittances set a new record at US $4.74 billion
Total for the first eight months was $32.9 billion, up 24.8%
Published on Friday, October 1, 2021
Remittances from Mexicans working abroad continued their steady upward trend in August and set a new monthly record, according to the Bank of México.
Total for the month was US $4.74 billion, up 32.7% over August 2020. It lifted the total for the year to $32.9 billion, an increase of 24.8% over the same period last year.
Remittances sent during the 12 months ending August 31 came to $47.1 billion, up from $45.9 billion in the previous 12-month period.
The August figure, up 4.5% over July’s total, was well above the $4.4-billion median estimate by economists in a Bloomberg survey.
Mexico News Daily
How Do You Send Money to Friends in Puerto Vallarta
Do you know how to send money to friends in Puerto Vallarta? Here’s what I’ve learned…
If you are sending pesos to your buddies in Vallarta, unless you have expat boots on the ground to help you out with a PayPal transfer, it’s going to cost you money to send money. In other words, your friend Fred, who is an expat has a PayPal account, you can send Fred money, then Fred can get pesos from his ATM and give the money to your Mexican recipient. No extra charges.
If you don’t have that expat friend willing to do all that footwork for you out of the goodness of their heart, the easiest way to send your Mexican friends money is to go to your local Walmart, go to their return desk, that’s usually where they do money transfers. They have Western Union, Money Gram, Walmart to Walmart money transfers…all that stuff.
You will need to show your driver’s license every time you send money, and the first time you send money you will need to fill out some information. They will help you at the Walmart. Make sure if you are sending money like this, you need to make sure the recipient has given you their full name as it appears on their ID so you can give the proper spelling to the person at the MoneyGram counter, and so when they go to claim their pesos, they have no issues with the person on the other side of the counter.
The person will ask you to verify all the information including the spelling of the mile long Mexican name, the state of Jalisco, then they will ask you how you want to send it. Just say MoneyGram. That way, the recipient can pick up their pesos at a number of locations.
You take a picture of the number on the MoneyGram receipt and send it, then you take a close-up picture of the name of your recipient and send it via messenger to your friend and last, take a picture of the amount they will be picking up. Send all three of these to the recipient and you and they should be good to go. Sending via MoneyGram $50 or less US costs about $4, and amounts over $100 up to $1,000 is like $9 or $10 US.
Some of your friends will give you their bank card number so you can give them money via OXXO or Guadalajara Farmacia. You can’t load pesos from the US. This has to be done in Mexico, from an OXXO or Farmacia Guadalajara. At the OXXO it’s an OXXO to OXXO transfer, from a FG…it’s a FG to FG transfer. Again, that has to be done in Mexico and there is a small fee for you to send or load money onto a friend’s card.
Puerto Vallarta Letters Are Unveiled
Moving off of the Money issue, low and behold, Finally the Puerto Vallarta Letters are here….From Puerto Vallarta Reporter….
New Vallarta Letters Embed Video
How Do I Get To My Hotel From The Puerto Vallarta Airport?
I got an email I wanted to share with you. I get lots of emails and thank you so much for your emails. They mean so much to me. Well, at least the nice ones. The crazy I wonder how many people you have killed by pretending you are a doctor ones not so much.
Here’s one from Randy…
I know you’ve covered this before but looking for just a bit more info. Now that Uber is available do you feel it’s better than a TAXI?
We are coming to Puerto Vallarta in November for 9 days then in March of 2022 for the month of March. This is our first time that we didn’t stay someplace that included transportation to and from the airport. Navigating the area between baggage claim and the outside has always been an adventure I could do without. Just wondered if you maybe had some recommendations.
Thanks, Randy
Well Randy, I thought this would be a good review for anyone who hasn’t been to Vallarta for a while to go over the current transportation situation at the airport.
First, to be perfectly clear, the only taxis allowed to pick up at the airport are the federal taxis, as always. Even with the Ubers coming on line, they can’t pick up at the airport.
Now because you have up till now always had transportation waiting for you to take you to your resort, it may seem a little weird, but it’s actually easy.
First, if you possible can, bring pesos with you. Buy a few hundred dollars’ worth of pesos
at home through your bank or a forging currency exchange at home, or be prepared use your ATM card to buy some at the airport, in the airport lobby. Remember to make sure your bank knows ahead of time that you are going to be using your ATM card in Mexico. Call them before you leave and give them the dates you will be traveling.
Now you will be deplaning and lining up at the immigration area where you will wind your way till you get to the immigration officer who will ask you to drop your mask and take off your hat just long enough to match up your mug with your passport. Stamp your passport and tourist card, tear off the bottom of that card, and shove it into your passport and wave you through.
By the way, the last time down I couldn’t find the stub and it cost me 600 pesos to replace it at the airport on the way out. $30 US. I couldn’t believe I lost it. Don’t loose it…just saying.
Then from the immigration counter you will walk through a corridor, and walk, and walk till you get to the first area where they try to rip you off. In this area they have liquor and cigarette places, and currency exchange booths. You need to avoid these places. You will be doing your money exchange, your ATM transactions later, after you get into the airport lobby.
So now you are in the place where the baggage carousels are. If you have checked baggage you will pick it up now and proceed to the next line where food and drug sniffing dogs will be checking out your bags while waiting in this line to get to the customs counter. Here they will ask you if you have any food with you. Cigarettes, anything to declare. Then they will ask you to push a button. If you get a green light, you proceed to the next step. If you get a red light, you will be asked to move to a table where they will
open your bags. Either way, from there you will then proceed through some sliding glass doors into the famous Shark Tank. Remember to be polite but firm, and proceed past these lovely people, past the rental car booths and into the lobby of the airport. On your right, you will see a bank of ATM machines. Like 6 or seven of them. If you haven’t gotten your pesos yet, now is the time to get some.
If you already have pesos, you are ready to purchase your taxi voucher. Remember, you are outside of the Shark Tank. And when you are in the Lobby you will be approached by people with Taxi signs asking if you need a taxi. You can say yes to these people if you want. They just represent a particular taxi company, but the price will be the same as if you just walk right up to one of the booths right up against the far wall at the exit side of the lobby where they sell taxi vouchers.
Now I emailed Randy back to find out where he will be staying and Randy, your ride will be around 300 pesos or around $15 US. The rates for the taxi’s are posted on a map, divided into zones, so there’s no hanky-panky going on.
Then, someone will step up, once you have paid for your voucher, and they will guide you to your taxi, or if not, walk outside and you will be swamped by people trying to help you. They will look at your voucher to determine which taxi company you have a voucher for, direct you to the proper taxi. Have 20 pesos, a dollar US ready for this guy for a tip. And have 50 pesos or $2.50 US ready for a tip for your taxi driver. Make sure to get all your luggage.
Now Randy, if you wanted to cheap out and avoid the federal taxis by taking an Uber or crossing the pedestrian bridge and catching a yellow cab on the opposite side of the 200, you can.
If you want to summon an Uber you need to get off airport property for a pick-up. You can catch one at the bus stop area, under the pedestrian bridge on the same side of the highway as the airport. So, if you want to Uber, that’s where you would catch it. You will need to wait a bit because they have to go about a mile and a half out of their way and do a u turn to pick you up there under the bridge.
If you want to take a yellow taxi, that ride will cost you about 180 pesos instead of 300 or 350 pesos, but how much are you really saving? Like $6 US? Is it worth schlepping your baggage out the door, over the bridge and back down the other side in the tropical heat? What…to save 6 bucks? How cheap are we?
For me, it’s totally worth the extra money to just pay for the federal taxi at the taxi booth, be escorted to an airconditioned new taxi where the driver will most likely speak English, and enjoy a cool ride to your hotel or Airbnb.
You have choices for sure. Hell, you can even take the bus but who wants to do that?
Remember, you can ask any of these drivers, your taxi or Uber driver to stop at an OXXO for you. Just ask them what they would like. Una agua? Una Coka? They will really appreciate it and be more apt to be even more helpful when they drop you off about your luggage.
So Randy, it’s really easy amigo. Don’t get distracted and everything will go just fine. And the airport cabs are nice and clean. Proper Covid protocol is being followed amigo.
Now do I use Uber? I sure do. But I use everything depending on what’s handy for me. If it’s easy to hop on a bus I’m using the bus. If it’s inconvenient to wait around for an Uber or if I need to walk a ways away from where taxis congregate to avoid any Uber vs taxista confrontation, I’m taking a taxi.
But for hygiene, your Ubers seem to me, to be following health protocols closest, although I’m here to tell you as your covid crash dummy, I’ve been back and forth 6 times during the pandemic, taken busses, vans, taxi’s Ubers and pangas collectiveo, and I’ve lived to tell the tale.
Just a hint, make sure you know how much the trip will cost you before you get into a cab, and if you take an Uber, make sure it’s your Uber before you get in, like matching car and plates, and before you get out of the car at the end of the ride, make sure the driver ends the ride on his phone.
I hope that helps Randy. If you have any other questions just send me a note, and thanks for your email and listening amigo.
My Next Trip to Vallarta is October 20th Via TJ
Speaking of traveling to paradise…
I’m taking a quick trip down to Vallarta on the 20th so in a couple of Weeks. Last month there were so many distractions with the Hurricane and then combine that with my being a something of a tour guide for my son who was down for his first trip to Puerto Vallarta. That takes a bunch of time. So, I’m coming down for a week to do some catch-up recording interviews. I’m going to try to start getting out 4 episodes a month again, so I need to step up the interview taping. I missed a number of interviews I had planned to do so gotta get to work man.
https://www.crossborderxpress.com/en/
I’ll be going cheap Tijuana to Vallarta.
I’ll be driving down to the border, parking at the CBX or the Cross Border Express crossing where I will securely park my car, with a daily charge of course, $15 a day. Then I enter the facility where I can take care of my immigration paperwork and cross over a 100 yard bridge from the US side of the border, into the Tijuana Airport, at a charge of $15 US to take the walkway. From there I will catch my direct flight 2 hour and 40 minute flight via Viva Areobus to Licenciado Gustavo Diaz Ordaz International Airport in Puerto Vallarta for a whopping $92 US round trip.
I’m very excited to give this a try thanks to listener Fred for giving me the information about CBX. We talked about it in the episode with JJ Vallarta a couple of weeks ago in case you missed it. I can’t wait to report back to you on how it went. Especially Marty who gave me the idea to do the Tijuana to Puerto Vallarta route again. I have another story about that too if you remember that far back.
Okay, I have more including a couple in my email bag but that will wait for another day, soon, but let’s get to our guest, shall we?
PV Technology Solutions in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
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The cool thing about technology is that it makes our lives so much easier, and the bad things about technology is when it doesn’t work. When you drop your cell phone and crack your screen, that sucks. But it doesn’t have to, because in Puerto Vallarta, you can probably get that phone screen fixed in just hours or less. True. Or your laptop is giving you fits and you have a project you need to finish. How do you get the technical support you need in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico? Well, you go see Cheyenne.
I want to introduce you to my friend Cheyenne Quesenbery who I’ve been trying to get to stand still for me for a couple of years now.
Cheyenne has a company called PV Technology Solutions in the Romantic Zone of Puerto Vallarta.
Cheyenne has some interesting hobbies that I asked him to share with us which I’m sure you will enjoy hearing about.
So let’s go right now to one of my favorite places in town to record an interview because I can eat, drink or snack with my interviewee, with the ocean in the background,
sometimes with a little live music I the background, but always attentive wait staff…I really appreciate them, and I really appreciate Cheyenne sitting down with me to tell his story. So let’s go right now to Cuates y Cuetes, with a view of the Los Muertos Pier, and let’s meet Cheyenne Quesenbery of PV Technology Solutions, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico…
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Places Cheyenne Likes to Eat
- Breakfast: Café San Angel Puerto Vallarta, Salud Super Food PV
- Lunch: Salud Super Food
- Dinner: Los Muertos Brewing PV, Date Night Margarita Grill PV
- Steak: De Cantaro PV, Sonora Grill Prime PV
- Italian: La Pizzetta PV
- Favorite Fonda: Taco Stand Across From Café de Olla on Basilio Badillo.
- Coffee: O Croissant Pastry Shop French Bakery Puerto Vallarta
- Places to Eat in El Nogalito: Sandras Breakfast and Lunch, El Nogalito Eco Park
Day Trip: Fishing at Punta Perula, Cruz de Loretto
3 Days: Pascuales in Colima for Big Waves
Spot That Best Represents Vallarta: The Ramadas at Boca de Tomates
Best View of Vallarta: 10,000 feet above jumping from a plane, Cerro de la Cruz
Advice For a First Time Visitor: Get out of your resort and walk, explore the town
Skydiving in Puerto Vallarta
Skydive Vallarta
- Website: https://www.skydivevallarta.mx/en/home/
- Contact Skydive Vallarta: https://www.skydivevallarta.mx/en/contact-us/
- Facebook Page Skydive Vallarta: https://www.facebook.com/SkydiveVallarta
- WhatsApp Skydive Vallarta: +52 322 189 3909
Okay Cheyenne, thank you so much for that very helpful interview. I have links and pictures in the shownotes including that ever famous Google May that will take you to the front door of PV Technology Solutions.
Okay that should do it for this week.
Next week, stay tuned for more on the ground reports from Puerto Vallarta Mexico, with travel tips, great restaurant and excursion ideas and more. Until then, remember, this is
an interactive show where I depend on your questions and suggestions about all things Puerto Vallarta. If you think of something I should be talking about, please reach out to me by clicking on the Contact us tab and sending us your message.
And remember, if you are considering booking any type of tour while you are in Puerto Vallarta, you must go to Vallartainfo.com, JR’s website and reserve your tour through him, right from his website. Remember the value for value proposition. His experience
and on the ground knowledge of everything Puerto Vallarta in exchange for your making a purchase of a tour that you would do anyway, you’re just doing it through him as a way of saying thank you. It costs no more than if you were to use someone else so do it. Really.
And when you do take one of these tours, email me about your experiences. Maybe you can come on-board and share with others what you liked or didn’t like about the tour. Again, contact me by clicking on the Contact us tab and sending off a message. Don’t forget his maps, his DIY tours and his revitalized Happy Hour Board. I have links to all of those in the show notes.
And once again, if you like this podcast, please take the time and subscribe and give me a good review on iTunes if you would. That way we can get the word out to more and more
people about the magic of this place. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Remember I made it easy for you to do just that with each episode I create. But if you haven’t been to my website,
you really need to have a look there. I have the links to the places we talk about, interesting pictures and the more all right there in my blog-posts and show-notes for each episode of the show so check them out for sure if you haven’t already all-right? All right.
Thanks to Cheyenne Quesenberry of PV Technology Solutions. If you have trouble getting your tech on in paradise, contact him and he will hook you up. I have all his contact information in the shownotes at www.puertovallartatravelshow.com.
And thanks to all of you for listening all the way through this episode of the Puerto Vallarta Travel Show. This is Barry Kessler signing off with a wish for you all to slow down, be kind and live the Vallarta lifestyle. Nos Vemos amigos!
