Puerto Vallarta Photo Fakeouts: Proof You Shouldn’t Trust Hotel Marketing Photos

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Marketing image from Hotel Las Palmas by the Sea, Puerto Vallarta
Marketing image from Hotel Las Palmas by the Sea, Puerto Vallarta

Chances are you’ve heard of our popular Photo Fakeout series, where we show our honest hotel photos contrasted against the sleek, staged, and misleading images put out by hotel marketers. The results can be shocking, and sometimes humorous (unless you’re the one who got tricked and booked into that misrepresented resort, of course). Our investigator Jennifer Garfinkel headed to Puerto Vallarta with ABC’s The Lookout to get the scoop on some Mexican photo fakeouts, and boy, did she find plenty. Check ’em out.


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