Playa del Sol in Puerto Vallarta

I have created this website to post about Playa del Sol, located on Los Muertos in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It is intended to give those with an interest in Playa del Sol a place to post their comments about Playa del Sol itself or even Puerto Vallarta if the mood strikes them.

Hopefully this will also give those interested in Playa del Sol a place find information.

Playa del Sol means Beach of the Sun and is also the name of a condominium here in Puerto Vallarta where my wife and I own a four week fraction.

Playa del Sol, the Condominium


Playa del Sol is located on Playa Los Muertos, or Beach of the Dead. Playa Los Muertos is the beach that extend just to the south of the fishing pier. The beach on the north side of the pier is Playa Olas Altas.

Playa Los Muertos


Supposedly it was named for a battle fought a century ago between gold and silver smugglers from the mines of the Rio Cuale and the natives who tried take their stolen bounty from them. At the end of the conflict, the beach was strewn with bodies - hence the name. Periodically a half-hearted attempt is made to rename the beach to the more user friendly Playa del Sol. This effort has never really gotten anywhere and the only indication of the attempted change is one forlorn sign that points in the wrong direction.

Not The Way To The Beach


If you follow the sign you will, however, find Hotel Eloisa.

The Lovely Hotel Eloisa


This blog will deal primarily with Playa del Sol but, given my propensity to digress, it may touch upon anything here in Mexico.

I hope you find it enjoyable and of some interest. By all means feel free to post your comments or send me an email to express your opinions. I will certainly try to incorporate them in future posts.

Blue Seas - A Gay And Lesbian Resort

Does this place look familiar?

Blue Seas??? Since When???


Here is the description of Blue Seas, which can be found at:

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-hotel-6604018-playa_del_sol-i

The all-suite Blue Seas a Gay and Lesbian Resort is located on Los Muertos Beach, approximately five miles from Puerto Vallarta International Airport. Nuevo Vallarta is eight miles away.

Hotel amenities include the swimming pool (overlooking Banderas Bay), restaurant and bar, room service, and palapas and lounge chairs on the beach.

Blue Seas includes three linked buildings that descend from mountain to ocean with mountain/city views to partial or full ocean views.

All suites feature kitchen facilities (with stoves, ovens, refrigerators, dishwashers, garbage disposals, and microwaves), cable TV, VCRs, washers and dryers, and safes.

Needless to say, those of us who have purchased time at Playa del Sol are a bit perplexed as to when it became Blue Seas and when it became a Gay and Lesbian Resort. Interestingly It appears that the owner of Playa del Sol, in a rather shameless, grab for additional clientele is trying to capitalize on the proximity to Blue Chairs, a Gay and Lesbian Resort just down the beach from us.

There is also some question as to whether this is even legal. It seems as though no timeshare or other commercial activities are actually allowed at Playa del Sol. When most of us bought our fractions (four weeks in a specific unit at a specific time each year) we were assured that no timeshares would ever be allowed. Subsequently the Home Owner By-Laws were amended by the owners of Playa del Sol and timeshare sales began. The legality of this amendment is now being questioned.

What is almost certainly suspect is the owners being able to change the name of Playa del Sol to Blue Seas turn it into a resort with daily rentals. Of course a cursory glance at those of us who own here, mostly middle-aged or older and hetrosexual, should dispell any possible buyers of the notion that this is anything like the Blue Chairs. Certainly the kiddie toys floating in the pool should be a clue.

Blue Seas or Bue Seas

I have the feeling that someone complained about the use of Blue Seas for the name of the new "Gay and Lesbian Resort." I see there is a Blue Seas Resort in Broome, Australia and they may have filed a complaint about someone using their name. What to do, what to do. Hey, I got an idea, let's drop the "L" and call it "Bue Seas." I mean, how lame is that?

Now, for those of you interested, Bue, in Gilbertese mythology, is the son of a woman magically impregnated by the sun.

Bue


Bue travelled to the east by canoe, seeking his father and his inheritance of cleverness, te rabakau, and knowledge, te ataibai. Like the Polynesian hero Maui, the determined Bue assaulted the sun god and obtained his desire. Although the father tried to hinder Bue's the later exploits, Bue was the cultural founder hero. He taught men how to build canoes and houses, how to raise winds by magic, how to ensure health and prosperity, and how to compose dance chants.
Now what, you might ask, is Gilbertese mythology. Well, Gilbertese is a culture, language, and a set of islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Gilbertese are an isolated outpost some 2000 miles from their Micronesian homeland to the west. They take their name from a British sea captain, Thomas Gilbert, who explored the group of islands in 1788. The Gilbert Islands, 16 tiny atolls and a raised phosphate island, straddle the Equator just west of the International Dateline. For most of the twentieth century they were politically linked with the Polynesian islands just south of them, as the British Gilbert and Ellice Island Colony. In 1979, the Gilberts became the oceanic Republic of Kiribati (the local pronunciation of Gilberts).

Something tells me that none of the above factored into coming up with the name Bue Seas Resort, however.