Mexico's Beach Resorts for Dummies

Each Frommer's guide is personally researched and thoroughly updated by a single author or a small team. Our guides have a fun, intensely personal voice and a real person's judgments you can trust. David Baird is a writer, editor, and translator based in Austin, Texas. He spent part of his childhood in Morelia, Mexico, and later lived for 2 years among the Mazatec Indians in Oaxaca, while he was doing graduate fieldwork. Lynne Bairstow has lived in Puerto Vallarta for most of the past 11 years. Her travel articles on Mexico have appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine, and Alaska Airlines Magazine. In 2000, Lynne was awarded the Pluma de Plata, a top honor granted by the Mexican government to foreign writers, for her work in the Frommer's guidebook to Puerto Vallarta. Lynne is also the authors of Frommer's Portable Los Cabos and Baja and Frommer's Portable Acapulco, Ixtapa Zihuatanejo; and Lynne & David are the co-authors of Frommer's Mexico, Frommer's Cancun, Cozumel the Yucatan, Frommer's Portable Cancun, Frommer's Portable Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo and Guadalajara, and Cancun and the Yucatan for Dummies.

Introduction .Part I: Mexico's Beach Resorts.Chapter 1: Discovering the Best of Mexico's Beach Resorts.Chapter 2: Digging Deeper into Mexico.Chapter 3: Choosing Where to Go in Mexico's Beach Resorts.Chapter 4: Deciding When to Go.Part II: Planning Your Trip to Mexico's Beach Resorts.Chapter 5: Managing Your Money.Chapter 6: Getting to Mexico's Beach Resorts.Chapter 7: Booking Your Accommodations.Chapter 8: Tips for Travelers with Special Needs or Interests.Chapter 9: Taking Care of the Remaining Details.Part III: Cancun.Chapter 10: The Lowdown on Cancun's Hotel Scene.Chapter 11: Settling into Cancun.Chapter 12: Dining in Cancun.Chapter 13: Having Fun on and off the Beach in Cancun.Part IV: Cozumel and the Riviera Maya.Chapter 14: Cozumel.Chapter 15: Playa del Carmen and the Riviera Maya.Part V: Puerto Vallarta and the Central Pacific Coast.Chapter 16: The Lowdown on Puerto Vallarta's Hotel Scene.Chapter 17: Settling into Puerto Vallarta.Chapter 18: Dining in Puerto Vallarta.Chapter 19: Having Fun on and off the Beach in Puerto Vallarta.Part VI: Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo.Chapter 20: The Lowdown on the Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo Hotel Scenes.Chapter 21: Settling into Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo.Chapter 22: Dining in Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo.Chapter 23: Having Fun on and off the Beach in Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo.Part VII: Acapulco.Chapter 24: The Lowdown on Acapulco's Hotel Scene.Chapter 25: Settling into Acapulco.Chapter 26: Dining in Acapulco.Chapter 27: Having Fun on and off the Beach in Acapulco.Part VIII: Huatulco and the Southern Pacific Coast.Chapter 28: Bahias de Huatulco.Chapter 29: Puerto Escondido.Part IX: Los Cabos and Southern Baja.Chapter 30: The Lowdown on the Hotel Scene in Los Cabos.Chapter 31: Settling into Los Cabos.Chapter 32: Dining in Los Cabos.Chapter 33: Having Fun on and off the Beach in Los Cabos.Part X: The Part of Tens.Chapter 34: Ten Top Mexican Moments.Chapter 35: Ten Myths and Misconceptions about Mexico.Chapter 36: Ten Most Deliciously Mexican Dishes.Part XI: Appendixes.Appendix A: Quick Concierge.Appendix B: Glossary of Spanish Words and Phrases.Appendix C: Authentic Mexican Cuisine.Index.