Rainbow Dancer - About Us
Rainbow Dancer Cruises is Mark Page and Carlos
Romero Diaz, partners in business and life, who combine their talents and
experience to create sailing trips in Puerto Vallarta for the discriminating
gay customer.
We don't do the normal booze cruises. We
love yachting and want to help our customers experience the joys of the sea,
of exploring remote coasts, of feeling a heavy yacht under full sail in the
wind, of enjoying a day of first class yachting.
Our corporation that runs the boat was formed
in 1997, and originally we specialized in high-end private charters rather
than gay cruises. We perfected on these private trips the food service
concepts we now use, and discovered how we could scale up the processes to
provide ticketed passengers the same first class treatment.
No one was offering first class style cruises
in the gay market (or in the straight market for that matter), so we took the
plunge. We started our gay cruises in September 1999. Since then
the Rainbow Dancer gay cruises have become the most popular gay cruises ever
offered in Vallarta. If you thought the other cruises were just a bit
too much like a college beer blast at sea, then you'll find our trips to be a
refreshing alternative. We promise you a day of first class yachting!
Carlos
Carlos is our chef aboard and often does extra
duty entertaining our guests with his wonderful sense of humor.
He seems to be a contradiction with his rich
Mexican cultural heritage combined with just the right touch of gringa
stylishness. (maybe he dated too many gringos before marrying
Mark).
Not just another pretty face, Carlos is
trained as an artist and graphic designer at the University in Mexico City,
and he now uses his creative talents for the food service aboard Rainbow
Dancer. He believes in fully using the local herbs, spices and chiles to
make traditional as well as original Mexican dishes that you won't see in your
Taco Bell at home.
Carlos's experience includes years of service
as a host on the Amadeus gay cruises here in Vallarta.
Mark
Mark normally takes care of the yacht and the
things nautical. Although we use a licensed Mexican captain, as required
by law, Mark, as the host, really is acting as the captain for your trip.
Trained as an electrical engineer in Chicago,
he retired 5 years ago from the corporate life to travel around the world in
his sailing yacht Rainbow Dancer.
Sailing since his childhood on Lake Michigan,
Mark has years of large yacht experience on San Francisco Bay. He
sailed Rainbow Dancer from San Francisco to Vallarta in 1995, in search of
something better to do than drive a desk. Mark has thousands of
miles of sea experience and several years experience in managing charter
operations here in Banderas Bay.
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