- Hello from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
And today's video, I'm gonna be showing you
some higher end options as well as some fine dining.
We took about a 25 minute Uber from Puerto Vallarta,
and we're here at this restaurant called Le Kliff.
This beautiful restaurant overlooking this cliff,
the perfect spot to see an awesome Puerto Vallarta sunset.
So I just arrived. (chuckles)
I think it's funny right here, there's a sign that says,
no pets allowed and then four feet away, there's a cat.
When I made this reservation on open table,
I put in the request line that I wanted a table
next to the cliff for the great sunset view.
As it turns out every table here,
it fits that description, I'm pretty sure.
But my first impression coming here is that
this is like the perfect romantic fancy date spot.
To start I got what is possibly
the most expensive margarita I've ever purchased in my life.
And they claim it's the very best one in Puerto Vallarta
because all the ingredients are growing here,
and they use some fancy pants tequila.
So I got the one with cucumber and serrano pepper.
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I mean, it is a very good margarita, 450 peso margarita.
Before coming here, I was more or less expecting this to be
like a restaurant on the side of a cliff
with a bunch of tables, right?
But as it turns out it's much more than that.
They've developed like an extensive array of
different places where you can take pictures,
others is good places you can climb up, there's a swing.
There's a various mirador that are specifically
intended for picture taking.
There says mirrors so you can take like a mirror selfie
with the sunset in the background.
It's pretty interesting.
Yet another mirror.
And the mack daddy of all the picture spots I think
is this swing right here, right on the edge.
The longer I'm here the more I see,
there's so much to this place.
Right in front of the swing here,
you have these awesome views down the waves
crashing on this enormous rounded rocks,
It's really awesome.
They even build this metal platform behind me here
where you can climb way up,
and then take a picture with angel wings at the top.
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Oh that's a long way down.
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I am terrified.
Okay I thought all the other miradores were really cool,
the other places for pictures were really cool,
but I hate this last one.
It's not solid.
There's big old holes in the bottom of this,
and I'm scared of heights, so I don't like this at all.
I'm shaking and I'm hoping I don't drop you into the ocean.
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This place is crazy. It is so elaborate.
There's so many steps and miradors,
and places to take pictures.
This is awesome. I love it.
The rock has grown around the cement slab.
I was trying to do something fancy for this dinner tonight.
So naturally I went with the most expensive thing
on the menu, the lobster tail.
I haven't had a lobster tail in a long time.
It was 850 pesos, and I am excited to dig into this.
My final thoughts on the Le Kliff,
the service was incredible, like awesome service.
The destination is super cool with all the places
you can take pictures and the views and the sunset,
it's totally awesome.
The one downside I have,
and unfortunately it's kind of a big one
is the food really didn't live up to our expectations.
It just wasn't nearly as good as I would expect
a fine dining experience to be.
All in all, I'd recommend this place for the experience.
I just hope they can up their food game a little bit.
Today I'm doing a day pass at this resort
near Puerto Vallarta in this place called Punta Mita.
The resort is Marival Armony.
I wouldn't be able to afford this normally
because it's like 13,000 pesos a night.
However, a day pass is 1800 pesos.
And it's all inclusive for the day.
And this resort is absolutely beautiful.
And one of the most breathtaking parts of the country.
So I am excited for this today.
In my all-inclusive experiences so far,
the food has been like bad to mediocre,
and maybe decent at like a really nice place.
However, breakfast here at Marival Armony was awesome,
I absolutely loved it.
It was not only great presentation,
but it was also really delicious.
I had like this thing that looked like an Eggs Benedict,
but it wasn't Eggs Benedict,
and everything was cooked perfectly.
The flavor profile worked awesome.
And everything's included in this day pass.
I'll be showing you around the resort today,
and seeing if a day pass here is worth it.
The main pool here at Marival has this awesome
infinity edge pool that extends all the way along over here.
All the way over here to the swim up bar
where I will definitely be getting some drinks.
Actually I've already gotten a couple of drinks,
but more I'm trying to pace myself. (laughs)
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Before coming to Marival I emailed them
to make sure I could get a day pass.
And they're like, yeah, come on over.
So to get here from Puerto Vallarta,
it's a little over an hour drive and I just ordered an Uber
and it was, I dunno, something like 480 pesos.
I told the guy I was gonna give him a big tip
since it was so far out of town, and I didn't know
if he was gonna be able to get a ride back.
So I put in a 200 peso tip in the Uber app,
and it's like, nope, the maximum for this trip is 150,
you can't tip any more than 150.
So that's what I did.
I do not know how I'm going to get back
to Puerto Vallarta today because I don't know
if I'm gonna be able to get an Uber from here.
You can order an Uber in the app,
but so far it says no cars available,
so I guess we'll see.
The view and beaches here at Marival are amazing.
I'm definitely, definitely going to be going down
to the beach in a little bit here, wow.
Hanging out by this pool.
This is the life, I can get used this.
From the pool here, I can see this island right there.
It's called Las Marietas, I believe.
And it's like a tourist attraction here.
But it's like a big old hole and a rock
that was artificially created from the Mexican army,
doing some bomb testing or something like that.
So I think it's kind of funny
that some artificially created hole
has become a tourist attraction.
The pool bar no longer had any shade whatsoever.
And I looked over here and oh, there's like some Palm tree
and building up a shade,
with the view of the water, oh yeah.
This day pass is good for eight hours
from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
And right now is four hours into it.
I was thinking that this would feel like a long day,
but it has gone by so fast.
These first four hours have flown by,
but now I'm gonna grab some lunch.
See what's at the lunch restaurant here.
I think it's gonna be a buffet, but we'll see.
All right, I got a table with a gorgeous view
out to the water.
And now I'm gonna go check out the buffet
and see what's around.
By the way so far, the only place at the resort
that the face mask are been required
is coming to the buffet here.
But I looked around,
there's lots of things that look awesome.
So I'm gonna go get a plate full,
and then I'll show you what I got.
Here's a cute little taco station here.
What would I expect?
Of course, there's gonna a taco station.
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From my first plate, I got a couple of tacos,
a fish taco, a shrimp taco, and then a piece of salmon.
And then of course the best view.
For my second plate, I got a jacked up beef wellington.
I take no responsibility for the way it looks.
I did not do that.
And then a lemon chicken and a little dessert here.
There's other area set up here.
It's opened at five,
they call it like their snack area with various ceviche
and some other stuff here.
So that buffet lunch,
hmm, I didn't think it was that great.
I'd give it like three stars, but damn if I could have
another one of those breakfasts, that was so good.
My time is winding down here at Marival, about an hour left.
And I decided to come back to the pool bar
for another drink.
This time they have better liquors than they did earlier.
This time, I was able to get Don Julio Reposado,
and mineral water.
I spent most of my day here at Marival
out by the pool and the beach,
but this resort is really pretty with all the greenery
and that one pool isn't the only pool
there's others as well.
And that's just like the main one,
that infinity edge pool overlooking the beautiful water
and pristine beach, I love it.
And I've really enjoyed this,
getting this day pass here today.
I think it's worth it and like I'd do this again
on a Puerto Vallarta trip where like,
I can't afford to stay at a fancy hotel like this.
So then I just do a day pass here one of the days instead.
Yeah, I think it's worth it.
If you're wanting to come to Marival on a day pass,
make sure you email them first because this weekend
they were too busy and they were like,
"No, the occupancy is too high,
we can't offer you your day pass."
But they're like, "You can come on Monday."
So that's what I did.
Punta Mita is probably the most exclusive,
the most expensive area anywhere around Puerto Vallarta.
And what I was told is that Punta Mita,
before being resorts, like they bought out
all the land of the locals.
So they would have this pristine land
to build these big, beautiful resorts.
I wasn't sure how I was gonna get back
to Puerto Vallarta tonight.
I was assuming I'd probably have to take an expensive cab
all the way there.
Or like if I wanted a little bit cheaper cab to Bucerias
and then grab an Uber in Bucerias to get back.
I was going to attempt to use Uber.
And over the past couple of hours, I was trying to like
see if there were any cars available and there never were.
Well, I requested a ride on Uber, there was no one around,
so it never got accepted.
Before ordering a cab at the hotel,
I switched to the app inDriver,
which I use sometime in Mexico,
because although it's cash only,
it's usually a little bit cheaper than Uber,
and drivers tend to arrive faster.
So I offered 500 pesos on there,
even though it said there were no cars anywhere close.
And within 10 seconds, I had a ride for 500 pesos cash
to Puerto Vallarta.
So yay no cab tonight.
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There is no shortage of fine dining experiences
here in Puerto Vallarta.
And one of those many is La Leche.
This is my first time here.
And I totally did not know what to expect.
Walking up to the building, it's completely white
with some black accents,
and you have the exact same thing inside.
Everything is totally white.
They brought out some water for us.
And the first thing he comes up with a plate of sliced fruit
for us to decide what we want in our water, I love that.
And to start, we have the cocktail cart here,
and there whipping up some specialty cocktails.
For my first drink from the cocktail man,
I got a fancy ass margarita.
It's about 250 pesos.
Big thumbs up from me, hmm very good.
I made a reservation at La Leche for 6:00 PM.
And we walk up and we're the very first ones here.
They're like, "Okay, give us a few minutes."
And now that we're in the restaurant,
it's kind of making me nervous because there's like,
I don't know, 15 employees just standing around
and watching us drink our drinks. (laughs)
So if I had a tip for you, one tip,
it's to get here a little later than six.
For my next drink, I got a different margarita.
This one has basil and ginger and pineapple.
Let me give it a try.
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Wow, oh, that's so good.
There's so many flavors.
It's like the first thing you smell is a pineapple,
but then you drink it and then you taste something else.
I think it's a basil.
And then you taste the pineapple after that.
Oh, that's so good.
It's such a great mixture of flavors .
For dinner I got the seafood ravioli.
This looks amazing.
It was a bit pricey,
but this is like fine dining experience, right?
So it was a 460 pesos.
And I'm going to dig into this.
It has like oysters and shrimp I think clams,
and other seafood as well.
La Leche was a super unique experience.
It was like no restaurant I've ever been to.
My food was awesome.
I loved that seafood ravioli,
and both drinks I got were very tasty as well.
I'd definitely recommend this place
if you're looking for a higher end option in Vallarta.
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