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Top 10 Beaches in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (2022 version)
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Nov 23, 2022
2022 version of the Top 10 Beaches in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. We'll show you the list of the best 10 beaches in PV based on their location from north to south. All the beaches are within the Puerto Vallarta municipality. 00:00 The Top 10 Puerto Vallarta Beaches 00:08 Top beaches in Puerto Vallarta on the map 00:18 Playa de Oro Beach (Puerto Vallarta Hotel Zone) 00:33 Walking along Playa de Oro Beach 00:56 Beach in front of Hilton PV & Krystal 01:06 Drone view of Beach in front of Peninsula 01:15 Pitillal River mouth 01:24 Los Tules Beach (Puerto Vallarta Hotel Zone) 01:40 Walking along Playa Los Tules 02:30 Camarones Beach (Downtown Puerto Vallarta) 02:40 Walking along Playa Camarones 03:33 Olas Altas Beach & Los Muertos Beach (Romantic Zone) 03:53 Los Muertos Pier (Francisca Rodríguez street) 04:14 Playa Los Muertos drone and along the beach 04:40 Conchas China Beach (Puerto Vallarta Romantic Zone) 04:50 Walking along Playa Conchas Chinas and drone view too
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The top 10 beaches in Puerto Vallarta, from north to south
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We're only including the beaches within the Puerto Vallarta municipality. First off, Playa de Oro, Playa de Oro Beach
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It's located in the hotel zone. It's 50 minutes from the main square of Puerto Vallarta, some 3.6 miles away
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It's located between the harbor area and the Pitial River on the south
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It's approximately 3,500 feet long. There are three main entry points. One along the Crown Paradise Club, which is in the harbor area, that's the north side
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And then there's an entry through De Las Aguilas Street, which you'll locate right beside Cristal Hotel
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and you can recognize because of the potato head sculptures as I call them
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The southern edge and you can go through Plaza Peninsula and walk along the
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northern edge of the river Pitellal and you get to the beach. The hotels and
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condos in this area include Crown Paradise Club, Crown Paradise Golden, Icon
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Vallarta, Hilton Puerto Vallarta, Cristal and Peninsula. This video ends right beside the Bidial River. Then we'll go to Los Tules Beach. Los Tules Beach is also in the hotel zone
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it's a some 10 minutes away from downtown Puerto Vallarta, the main square, it's 2.4 miles away
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It's located between the Bidial River on the northern side and an estuary trail on the south
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that goes between Los Tules and Las Palmas by the sea. The beach itself is some 3,400 feet long
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there are two main entry points the northern on the northern edge of the beach
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you can go along the Pitial River there's a path that takes you directly to the beach
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on the south side there's a creek trail that starts right by La Magdalena
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where you walk along the creek and arrive at the beach the hotels and condos in this area include
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Grand Venetian, Sumscape, priorly known as Holiday Inn Villas del Palmar, Friendly Vallarta
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Fiesta Americana and Los Tules. Los Tules Beach is located between Playa de Oro
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Beach on the north and Playa Las Glorias Beach to the south
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Now we're going to Playa Camarones, Camarones Beach. It's the first downtown Puerto Vallarta Beach. It's 50 minutes on foot from the main square
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about a mile away and it's located physically between Villa Premier on the northern side where there's a creek
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and Hotel Rosita or the street called Jesus Langarica on the south It about 2 feet long
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There are entries to this beach along any of the streets from San Salvador down to Jesús Langarica
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Camarones Beach is one of the cleanest beaches in all of Jalisco, and these also include Los Muertos Beach and Las Gemelas Beach
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this is based on the latest study by Cofepris the hotels in this area include
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Puerto Novo, El Pescador, Rosita, Villa Premier and Buenaventura Grand our next beach is Olas Altas
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Los Muertos Beach it's in the romantic zone it's one long beach
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though it's divided in two by the pier these two beaches run from the Kuala River on the north
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all the way down to El Pulpito, the pulpit, on the south which is a rocky outcropping at the end of Los Muertos Beach
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on the southern end the beach itself, or the beaches in this case
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are separated by Los Muertos Pier, Francisca Rodriguez Street so from there north it's Olas Altas
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and from there south is Los Muertos The beach is about 4,000 feet long
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and access points are any of the streets in the romantic zone that go west
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they take you to the beach Hotels along this beach are Gaviota Vallarta, Playa Los Arcos, Mar Sol
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San Marino, Emperador, Tropicana and Blue Chairs The next beach is Conchas Chinas
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It's also located in the Romantic Zone, some 9 minutes from the main square, some 2.3 miles away
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The beach is formed by a series of smaller beaches separated by rocky outcroppings and is around 2,700 feet long
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It's located between Las Amapas Beach and Lindomar Resort on the south
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The main access points are along Amapas Street and Easy Street. You can also walk south from Los Muertos Beach over El Púlpito along Las Amapas Beach and arrive at Conchas Chinas
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The hotels located along Conchas Chinas are Conchas Chinas Hotel Lindomar and further up in the hills Gran Miramar Lenders Palmares Beach in the south zone
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It's approximately 2,800 feet long. You can access it from the highway
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It's very easy. There's good parking space there. And it's 13 minutes, 4 miles south of Puerto Vallarta's main square
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It's found between Punta Negra Beach and Garza Blanca Beach. It was the first beach in Jalisco to be certified blue flag
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There's quite a few services and amenities in the area, including a little restaurant called Canto Palmares
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The hotels in this area are Costa Sur, Hilton Vallarta Riviera and Playa Fiesta
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The next beach going south is Garza Blanca Beach. It's part of the Puerto Vallarta South Zone
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The beach itself is not very big, it's about 800 feet long. it's located 17 minutes south of Puerto Vallarta's main square
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5.2 miles away the beach itself is between Valle Palmares, Palmares Beach to the north
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and Esmeralda Beach to the south the dominating hotel here is Garza Blanca
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there are two public access points one just north of the resort
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one just south of the resort and the beach itself is very nice
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it's a very nice beach now that it has these relatively new breakwaters
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sand has accumulated there and the waves are a little bit softer
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has nice water soft sand looks very nice the next beach is Las Gemelas
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Twin Beach It's also located in the south zone. As the name implies, there are two beaches
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One on the north side, the other on the south side of the Quirasol Condominium
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The north beach has easy access down the staircase. The beach itself is 520 feet long
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As mentioned, the access is right just north of the Quirasol Condominium. Stairs down
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The Southern Beach you have to go over the boulders in front of the Girasol condominium or get a day pass at the Grand Park Royal this beach is 620 feet long
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Las Gemelas is some 90 minutes south of Puerto Vallarta's main square
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that would be some 5.9 miles the hotel of this area is Grand Grand Park Royal
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Another beach in the south zone is Playa Mismaloya, Mismaloya Beach. It's 26 minutes south of the main square, some 8.1 miles away
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The beach itself is some thousand feet long. There's one main access, which is along the northern side of the Mismaloya River
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That would be the south edge of the Barceló Hotel. This beach is well known because of the filming of the Night of the Iguana on the peninsula south of the beach
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There are a lot of restaurants here. You can also get a tour here that will take you to Los Arcos, the arches, the small islands you can see to the northwest of the beach
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Hotels close to this beach or on the beach are Hotel Barceló and Casa Iguana
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If you're a movie history fan, I'm sorry to inform you that the set of The Night of the Iguana is not publicly accessible
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There's a few things left over from the movie. Some walls, a staircase, and what's left of the pier where the actors and actresses would disembark each day
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The last beach south that is in the Puerto Vallarta municipality is Boca de Tomatlan
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some 35 minutes south of Puerto Vallarta's main square, 11.1 miles south
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The beach itself is divided in two by the Orcones River and is some 700 feet long
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You can access the beach along the two main streets in town, which are Pelicanos and Las Garzas
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There's a small malecón, which you can walk along and where most of the activities happen
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There are a number of restaurants with fresh seafood. Boca de Tomatlan is also known as the starting point for water taxis that go further south along the bay
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Hotels and accommodations in the area, there are not many hotels but it's mostly smaller bread and breakfasts like Casa de Piedra or Las Brisas Posada Pacifica
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