LGBT Family & Friends Hard Rock Vallarta Resort 2016

July 9 – 16, 2016
Hard Rock Hotel, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Thinking about a lesbian or gay vacation where everyone is welcome? Wondering what to do with the spouse and kids for the summer? Wondering if you can bring your parents, siblings, and friends with you? Looking for a gay-friendly beach destination to have a family reunion? We have exciting news for you!

Olivia and R Family Vacations have teamed up to produce their LGBT Family & Friends Hard Rock Vallarta Resort in Mexico's most LGBT-friendly city, Puerto Vallarta! Everyone is welcome – lesbian moms, gay dads, kids, grandparents, aunts and uncles at this ALL-INCLUSIVE gay family resort. All-inclusive means your accommodations, food, beverages (including alcohol), games, most activities, special programming and entertainment are included in the price. Parents, drop your kids off at the amazing Kid's Club, where they'll enjoy pool games and other fun activities, like water polo, volleyball, snorkeling, boogie boarding and beach soccer. Imagine an entire resort with families just like yours!

You can then enjoy a drink at the swim-up bar with your new friends or even pamper yourself with a spa treatment at the Rock Spa®. You'll even be able to take the whole family on optional excursions, such as the Ultimate Dolphin Swim, using your $1,800 At-Resort Credit! You'll also be treated to the best in LGBT musical and comedic entertainment throughout the week, as well as top DJs who will rock your socks off.

Your Resort - Hard Rock Hotel Vallarta

This beautiful, ALL-INCLUSIVE, family-friendly hotel is the ultimate playground for fun in paradise! All your accommodations, meals, beverages, most activities and entertainment are included. This resort features six restaurants offering a wide range of cuisines – including international, Italian, Brazilian, Mexican, Asian and a make-your-own pizza stand. There are four bars featuring top-shelf liquor, beer, wine, soft drinks, juices and personalized beach and pool service.

The Kid's Club offers a wide variety of activities for children ages 3-17 including various sports and games all day and in the evenings. Kids will enjoy arts and crafts, soccer, pool games, and beach volleyball, and much more! All this while making so many new friends! We will also offer additional programming including R Family's theater camp where kids learn and perform musical numbers from Broadway. You can also enjoy our activities designed for the entire family to enjoy together.

With two expansive, centrally located swimming pools (the kid's pool has a waterslide!) and luxurious room accommodations including in-room double Jacuzzis and liquor dispensers, bathrobes/slippers, 24-hour room service, turn-down service, a mini-bar and included wireless internet, you'll be sure you have everything you need for an incredibly fun week.

What's Included?

• Accommodations for 8 days/7 nights at the all-inclusive oceanfront Hard Rock Hotel Vallarta

• All meals at six restaurants (The Market, Ipanema, Frida, Ciao, Zen and Pizzeto)

• All beverages at four bars featuring top-shelf drinks, beer, wine, soft drinks, juices and personalized beach and pool service

• Luxurious room accommodations featuring plush "Sleep Like a Rock" bedding, 24-hour room service, turn-down service, liquor dispensers, mini-bar (stocked with sodas, bottled water, juices and domestic beers), flat-screen HDTV, ceiling fan, Rock Spa® bath amenities, bathrobes, slippers, digital safe, individually controlled A/C, coffee maker, hair dryer, direct dial telephone, alarm clock, iron/ironing board and complimentary streaming music channels

• Wireless internet and long distance telephone calls to the U.S. and Canada

• Daily Kids & Teens Program for children ages 3-17

• Access to an expansive, centrally located swimming pool featuring a swim-up bar

• Access to a wide menu of exciting land sports including beach volleyball, beach soccer, tennis, basketball, miniature golf, bicycles, billiards and access to the Body Rock fitness center

• Access to the Rock Spa and Beauty Salon, featuring 7 indoor treatment rooms, plus two outdoor areas for treatments (extra charge)

• Must-do optional excursions such as Swimming with the Dolphins, Outdoor Adventure, Zip Line, ATV, Catamaran Tours and more (extra charge)

• Round-trip airport transfers from the Puerto Vallarta International airport (PVR)

• Gratuities and taxes, which are covered in NDA fees

• Olivia & R Family's signature programming, entertainment and team throughout

What's not included?

• Airfare to and from Puerto Vallarta, travel insurance, optional excursions, spa services, boutique purchases, medical attention, laundry services, other incidentals.

Your Entertainment

Vickie Shaw
Vickie Shaw is the funniest comedian EVER! She said so herself! Vickie has been making people laugh until their faces hurt and ribs cracked! She has traveled the entire US and many overseas locations making people laugh. She gets her comedy from her life, with her partner Sargent Patch, their three children and now three grandchildren. She has been in movies, "Laughing Matters More", television, Comedy Central, four comedy specials on the LOGO Channel, Late In Life Lesbians, Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen, just to name a few. She headlines on Olivia Cruises, HRC events, Lambda Legal, GLAAD, and the list just gets bigger. If you have a chance to see her you absolutely must. Don't miss her.

Elvira Kurt
When Elvira Kurt is not writing about herself in the third person, she's a Canadian Comedy Award winning, three-time Gemini Award nominated stand-up comic and Second City veteran, who's starred, hosted or appeared in too many TV shows and comedy specials to mention. Except for these: Popcultured with Elvira Kurt on The Comedy Network, the first late night talk show hosted by a woman that she also created and produced; The Gayest Show Ever, co-created, co-produced and hosted by Elvira which won Best Pilot at the Banff World Television Festival, Queer as Jokes, with Elvira as host and headliner of CBC's first ever all gay comedy special and Big Girl Now!, Elvira's award winning one-hour CTV comedy special.

With appearances on everything from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, CBC's The Debaters, CBC comedy specials from Just For Laughs in Montreal and the comedy festivals in Halifax and Winnipeg to her own comedy specials airing on Comedy Central, HBO, Showtime, E!, and Bravo, there's definitely something for everyone.

Alec Mapa
Alec Mapa is an award winning actor, comedian, playwright, and journalist whose career on Broadway, television, and in movies spans more than 20 years. If you think that's a long time, just imagine how Alec feels. Luckily, he's Filipino, which means he'll look thirty when he's fifty, fifty when he's seventy and by the time he's eighty, he'll be too pooped to care. But enough with the Asian Math!

As an out gay actor of Filipino descent, Mapa has long been a worker for causes benefiting AIDS and the gay, lesbian and Asian-American communities, including The Human Rights Campaign, The Matthew Shepard Foundation, Gay and Lesbian Adolescent Social Services (GLASS), Project Angel Food, AIDS Project Los Angeles and Lambda Legal, among others. For his dedication, Mapa was recently honored with the East West Visionary Award, the Rand Schraeder Distinguished Achievement Award from the Gay and Lesbian Center of Los Angeles and the Davidson/Valentini Award from GLADD. He was also nominated for a Maggie Award for his editorial columns for The Advocate Magazine. Mapa was selected as the 2005 Grand Marshal of the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade and was one of Out Magazine's "Top Out One Hundred" in 2004. Is it any wonder he's "America's Gay Asian Sweetheart"? Of course not, it's no wonder at all.

DJ Rockaway
Born and raised in Queens, NY, DJ Rockaway has been bringing her passion and love for music to dance floors for over a decade performing for audiences in the U.S. and internationally. From nightclubs on both the east and west coasts, to private weddings and events, she is a regular DJ on Olivia cruise and resort vacations and DJ's for national non-profit events such as NCLR, HRC and Equality California, to name a few. She is the founder of PLAY San Francisco and PLAY San Jose, which are monthly events for women who love to dance. A true New Yorker (just listen to her talk), DJ Rockaway's unique mix of music styles – dance, hip-hop, R&B, house, club, retro – allows her to play to all who love to dance and feel the music. For DJ Rockaway, music is more than a blend of sounds, music is an experience – she wants you to feel it, live it, escape into it.