Car Rentals Cybercafe Comments Property Management Vallarta has a broad assortment of smaller hotels and casas that offer a more personal and relaxed atmosphere than you will find at the big hotels. Although these smaller hotels are usually not on the beach, they often offer spectacular views of the city and the Bay from hillside locations. They are also usually much less costly and tend to provide their guests with more of the flavor of Puerto Vallarta. A number of these smaller hotels also have kitchenettes so that you can do some of your own cooking, if you choose. Some of the smaller hotels in and around Puerto Vallarta are on the beach.
Air conditioning is also less often found in smaller hotels.
Relatively speaking, electricity is quite expensive here in Mexico, and air conditioning can be prohibitively expensive, especially in some of the smaller hotels which were designed with a lot of open space to optimize the natural breezes from the ocean or the hillside. In places like these, ceiling fans give nature a helping hand during the hot season and can be quite adequate.