Full-Day Puerto Vallarta City Hoogtepunten Tour

They should’ve paid us to go on this tour. It’s under the guise of tequila tasting and city tour and coffee tasting. Picked us up at 9 or 930. Can’t remember. They start off nice with some jokes and some interesting info about the city. Mentions of tequila tasting. You get off and walk along downtown for a guided information for about 15 minutes. Then you’re allowed to shop in a couple shops for 15 more minutes. Then the real fun.. these guys have some sort of deal with shops where they drop you off and essentially force you into specific stores. So after being allowed to shop Where you want. They drag you to a jewelry store. All of a sudden we have more than enough time to shop. Our whole group and the rest of the tour were just sitting there waiting to leave for what felt like hours. Then you get dragged to this souvenir/candy shop. Again we get there, cool and all. But you can only look at stuff for so long. So again we are just waiting to leave. Back on the bus. Probably about noon at this point. We take this long bus ride, while the words ‘tequila tasting’ keeps getting mentioned to keep people from shooting themselves. Up the mountain and guess what. Stop at some more shops… we’ve looked at basically the same stuff as we’re looking at now. Again just waiting to leave. And by this point I didn’t even care about tequila tasting. I just wanted it to be over. Finally. Back on the bus again. Up the mountain some more. Slow and long ride again. This time to the coffee place. It’s literally a store where you’re being haggled to buy the same crap you’ve seen a thousand times. And there’s this little tiny window you have 5 different coffee options to choose from. That’s their coffee tasting I guess. Okay so we’re at the coffee place for a good hour almost at least. There’s not enough things to look at or enough things to even do or walk to for an hour. You’re actually in the middle of nowhere so you couldn’t even walk to anywhere but a house.No I don’t want a picture with the horse. No I don’t want to look at this or look at that. Me, and my whole group (9 other people) want to go get this thing over with. Finally, bus again. Long slow trip. Finally, Get to the tequila tasting place. The carrot on the stick if you will. It’s been about 5 hours of nothing but being held hostage at this point. It’s been a long grueling day and everyone is starving. They Have ONE food place to choose from. You’re out in the middle of nowhere so you don’t have a choice and they must know this. It’s over priced food and you don’t have a choice (like the rest of this excursion, you feel like a hostage) so you get to do the tequila tasting. I’m surprised they didn’t make you purchase the tequila they were letting you sample, that’s how shady this whole thing felt. But free tequila or not, it would never make up for the 6 hours of nothing everyone was dragged through. We all ate and had a little alcohol in us which felt nice. And FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY. Back on the bus home. 1 hour drive back to the hotel. Total was an EIGHT HOUR ordeal. In eight hours we went to 3-4 trinket shops. One crazy expensive jewelry shop. The “coffee tasting” (which was just another ruse to have people go into a place to buy stuff knowing they can’t leave without you and your driver)And then tequila place/ restaurant. I could’ve done all that myself in an hour or two. But they won’t leave until they are certain everyone is done buying stuff from their pre meditated stores. I’m so upset because this is my first vacation in a year and I wasted an entire day here. Absolutely WASTED my day. I have never felt so taken advantage of as a tourist before. If you’re into excruciating boredom and lack of free will and also love souvenir trinkets. Then go for it.

More to do with getting you to buy then a city tour . Could do this on your own without having to spend money to be rush while viewing the city ???? but not rushed when you are ask to so call view there factory stores to spend money ...no rush there.

Una experiencia inolvidable gracias a nuestro guía Jorge y el conductor José! Sin duda por el precio, calidad del servicio merece la pena contratar este tour