Moon Puerto Vallarta: Including the Nayarit & Jalisco Coasts (Moon Handbooks) Paperback – August 20, 2013

This is an excellent guide. The coverage is quite detailed, and the listings are authentic and comprehensive. Recommendations illustrate a real working knowledge of the city. The author is dedicated to, and familiar with, his subject.Puerto Vallarta is one of Mexico's prime tourist traps, and travelers know it primarily as an outdoor destination. This book proves that the city and its surrounding communities can be an interesting cultural destination as well.The layout of the book is familiar Moon format, but the overall quality of its construction has improved. There are many different devices that serve the interests of a wide range of travelers. There's a lot of color content. Historical, cultural, and practical contexts are all complete and are excellent. Maps are simple and accurate.There's much more detail here than you're likely to encounter in a Puerto Vallarta chapter in a larger country guide. I always enjoy using a good travel guide to discover things I might not otherwise have found while traveling. This is such a book. I found its coverage of the little mountain towns of San Sebastian, Mascota and Talpa to be particularly useful for further exploration of these fascinating, off-the-beaten-track places.

Great book to travel with while in PV and surrounding. been using it daily in addition to the electronic devises. Good descriptions of sites, nice recommendation and solid advise. I like the small useful dictionary at the end and background about the culture, history, fauna. Also we'll organizedTotal worth the cost and much more

I bought this book for my first trip to Puerto Vallarta. It was a useful reference guide. In the US I am now used to finding all the info I need on my smartphone, but I was glad that I had a reference guide which did not rely on having an internet connection. I found the maps and information very useful.

I haven't been to Puerto Vallarta yet so I cannot compare the guide's recommendations to the reality on the ground, but I certainly was able to build up a vivid picture of the holiday location and its surrounds, sufficient to plan a trip with reasonable confidence, and that was the main reason for buying the book. The authors seem knowledgable and enthusiastic about their subject. Recommended.

Well organized and written. Excellent presentation. The maps are adequate. I can't judge accuracy since I have not visited yet. Good chapters on the coast 100 miles north and south.

A very good companion while traveling through the Puerto Vallarta area in Mexico. We referred to this book several times during our trip.

Not much info and some of it is wrong.

Good book, but very repetitive and a very large portion is dedicated to outlying areas.