{"id":98881035,"date":"2011-07-07T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/travel-shot-surf-and-sand-in-puerto-vallarta-mexico\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T03:40:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:40:43","slug":"travel-shot-surf-and-sand-in-puerto-vallarta-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/travel-shot-surf-and-sand-in-puerto-vallarta-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Shot: Surf and Sand in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Vallarta is a major Mexican resort town located on the Pacific Ocean&#8217;s Bah\u00eda de Banderas (Bay of Flags). It is often referred to as PV or simply Vallarta.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The town became a major destination for American travelers during the 1960s and 70s and currently has a permanent population of about 225,000. Vallarta is especially popular among travelers from the United States&#8217;<br \/>\nWest Coast due to the ease of travel and frequent number of flights<br \/>\noffered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With nearly 50% of Purto Vallarta&#8217;s economy relying on the hospitality industry, it has been dubbed &#8220;The Friendliest City in the World.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Looking to shake things up on your next holiday? Check out OneTravel&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/cheap-flights\/puerto-vallarta-pvr-mexico-deals\" target=\"_blank\">cheap flights to Puerto Vallarta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Flickr:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8510057@N02\/5399487664\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Moosealope<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Vallarta is a major Mexican resort town located on the Pacific Ocean&#8217;s Bah\u00eda de Banderas (Bay of Flags). It is often referred to as PV or simply Vallarta. &nbsp; The town became a major destination for American travelers during the 1960s and 70s and currently has a permanent population of about 225,000. Vallarta is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-tips-intel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98898321,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881035\/revisions\/98898321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}