Dollars) for two hours of intense deep-tissue work that will leave your muscles worked out completely and having you feeling limp as a noodle. Typical prices are 400 to 500 pesos for a 'relaxing' one hour (50 minute) massage, and can go as high as a couple thousand pesos (still just a little more than a hundred U.S. Head down to 'old town' (the South side of the Cuale river, and you'll find about a dozen or more on Basilo Badilio street, in-between the restaurants and shops, all along the 5 blocks between the beach and the highway that heads South out of town. You'll find massage theraists everywhere.on the beach in breezy curtained cabanas, in your hotel and nearby, and just aboout anyplace a tourist might wander by. That's nearly DOUBLE what it was just a couple years ago, and means that a 'basic' relaxing massage here can only cost you about 20 lousy bucks! Compare that to back home, where a professional massage can START at over 50 dollars, and in some places cost you $100 minimum. It's probably an indulgence you normally don't make time for back home, but here it's darn near a requirement to take advantage of such a great deal! As of his writing (April 2016), the exchange rate has been giving about 17 pesos to the U.S. Nothing could make a relaxing Puerto Vallarta vacation MORE relaxing than a great massage.
