Puerto Vallarta shopping represents an opportunity to discover almost all the wares made in different places of Mexico, including Oaxaca black earthenware pottery, Taxco silver jewelry, Coahuila sarapes, local blown glass items, typical clothing, masks and other artistic pieces like the Huichol people handicrafts.

The cobblestone streets of Puerto Vallarta along Morelos and Juarez invites you to walk through the colorful stands and stores and find what you have on mind in your lookout for souvenirs.

However, Puerto Vallarta prominent malls like Plaza Marina, Plaza Neptuno, Plaza Caracol, Plaza Genovesa and Villa Vallarta with department store merchandise mostly, give you the sense of having entered a cosmopolitan city. They are all relatively easy to access from the hotel zone and offer you from restaurants, shops for beach essentials, bars and cyber cafes to spinning facilities.

In addition, the innovative art of painters and nationally and internationally renowned. sculptors, as well as apprentice artists working on the floors of the Pueblito del Sol Cultural Center is offered at accessible prices all over the village.

Nuevo Vallarta can also fulfill your shopping needs, with its combination of modern mall stores and traditional handicraft shops, mainly located inside the hotels but you can also count on running across street vendors once in a while.

There are several shopping malls in Nuevo Vallarta too. Paradise Plaza Mall, where you can buy from a T-shirt to a yacht is the largest. It houses clothing stores, a supermarket, a disco and it has the exquisite comfort of a world-class mall.

When talking about Puerto Vallarta and Nuevo Vallarta shopping it is important to mention that purchases here can be shipped anywhere if required. And most stores accept credit cards, but paying with the local currency (pesos) sometimes is necessary with taxi drivers or street marketers.