Sunday, January 21, 2007

IFC Home Tours: Hotel Posada Rio Cuale Aquiles Serdan #246

The now famous Home Tours, the principal money-making project of the IFC (International Friendship Club), are offered twice weekly from November to April. These tours take tourists into homes of the "rich and famous", as well as into typical vacation and year-round homes of the "locals". Tourists gather at the Hotel Posada Rio Cuale on Wednesday and Thursday at 10:30 a.m. to board air conditioned buses, hosted by knowledgeable and genial club members, for 2 hours of delight that Include complete tours of four homes, many shown by the owners themselves. The drive up into Gringo Gulch or Conchas Chinas is an adventure in itself. Vistas of breathtaking beauty, coupled with hairpin curves will electrify each tour group.
The Club was started in 1987 by a small group of ex-patriots, Americans and Canadians, who according to the by-laws, wanted to organize the international community here in Vallarta a place to "provide services, collect and distribute funds in response to the humanitarian and educational needs of the community we have come to love" and to promote friendship among the international community and people of Vallarta.
Beginning Wed. Nov. 16 thru April 17, 2006 Every Wed. & Thurs.
10:00 a.m. tickets sales begin 11:00 tour departs.