Archive for December, 2005

Mexico: At Don Crispin’s, making tequila is an art form

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

PUERTO VALLARTA, Jalisco — Don’t visit the Don Crispin tequila distillery looking for margarita makings.
The distillery sells 100 percent pure blue agave tequila. The good stuff. Mixing it with a sugary margarita mix would be a sacrilege, said Adrian, who was pouring samples of the product.
“You don’t drink good Scotch with Coca-Cola,” he [...]

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Mexico: Puerto Vallarta: Go beyond the all-inclusive beach resorts and cruise ship terminals

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — The tour bus was empty when it picked me up at the Hotel Los Arcos in Puerto Vallarta’s Old Town.
We rumbled through the skinny streets laid out long ago for donkey carts, past the whitewashed, red-roofed buildings with bougainvillea dripping from wrought-iron balconies, and headed north to the Hotel Zone [...]

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Funjet service stops before it starts

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

ROCKFORD — Funjet Vacations will not provide air service from Chicago/Rockford International Airport to two Mexico leisure destinations in 2006, the Rockford Register Star confirmed Wednesday.
The decision by the Milwaukee-based vacation company comes just three months after Funjet announced it would provide seasonal, weekly service from Rockford to Puerto Vallarta and twice-weekly service from Rockford [...]

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Delta Puts the World on Sale for the Holidays

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Sale airfares plus bonus SkyMiles make the perfect stocking stuffer for last-minute shoppers

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Protecting Mexican tourism

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

The weather outside is frightful, unless of course, you head south of the border. Sun and beautiful beaches are in abundance on Mexico’s coasts, and that is the message the Mexican Tourism Board, the city of Puerto Vallarta and Frontier Airlines want to spread in Kansas City. On Dec. 1, a glass display mounted on [...]

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