Casa Cupula just set its fall-to-spring agenda, and it reads like a roadmap for the city’s queer high season. Opening weekend lands Oct 11–12 with the NKD Pool Party and the Big Gay Drag Brunch. A new After Dark dinner show lights up Oct 30, right as Vallarta shifts into Halloween and Día de Muertos. From there the calendar leans into themed weekends and a cheeky holiday spectacular called Snow & Blow. Tickets are already posting fast across Eventbrite and the resort’s site—locals and visitors have plenty to plan for.
Opening weekend and what’s new
Casa Cupula has released its 2025/2026 schedule, and the arc is clear: start strong, then keep the weekends full. The resort’s first Casa Cupula season weekend is Oct 11–12 with Saturday’s NKD Pool Party and Sunday’s Big Gay Drag Brunch, a pairing that’s become a reliable draw in Amapas above the Romantic Zone. An Oct 30 After Dark dinner show—candlelight, live performance, and a regional tasting menu—ushers in the Halloween and Día de Muertos stretch.
By mid-October, Casa Cupula introduces “Thrifty Thursdays,” a weekly, no-cover afternoon at the Pool Club designed to welcome locals and early weekend arrivals. The standing pieces return as well: Friday and Saturday pool parties, the Sunday drag brunch, and a new Sunday T-dance to close out the weekend. Times and ticketing live on Eventbrite and the resort’s events page, which is already populated with fall dates.
Casa Cupula season
Halloween/Día de Muertos will run the weekend beginning Oct 30, opening with the first After Dark dinner show of the season. From there, the calendar stacks up with specialty runs: Leather and Fetish (Nov 20–23), Thanksgiving (Nov 27–30), a Christmas-weekend “Snow & Blow” production in December, and a New Year’s block that pushes into early January. Casa Cupula says production upgrades at the Pool Club stage anchor this year’s programming, with more attention on design and sightlines.
After Dark is pitched as an intimate, four-course evening that blends performance and cuisine—an intentional contrast to the daytime scene around the pool. Guest artist Diego Guerrero is slated for the Oct 30 opener, with additional dates posting as the season advances. If last year’s pilots were any guide, the Thursday dinners will be the ones to reserve early.
Casa Cupula’s team frames the season as an invitation to “discover the joy of belonging,” with a focus on familiar weekend rhythms and a few playful holiday swings—the Snow & Blow title winks at the obvious. Still, the point is festive spectacle in a city where December skies stay blue. The resort, founded in 2002 and expanded over the years to include a hotel, Pool Club, Bistro Gallery, gym, and spa, has long marketed itself as a community hub as much as a place to sleep.
Gay Puerto Vallarta Economy
Event-driven hospitality is now a core part of Puerto Vallarta’s economy, and LGBTQ+ travel is a pillar of that demand. Local tourism officials and media have pointed to a surge in queer visitation—millions of arrivals and billions of pesos in spending in recent years—fueling everything from hotel occupancy to restaurant hiring. That context helps explain why a stacked October-to-January calendar at a longtime LGBTQ+ resort lands as news, not just marketing.
Puerto Vallarta’s standing as one of Latin America’s most LGBTQ-friendly destinations keeps the runway full each winter, with much of the nightlife centered in the Romantic Zone and nearby Amapas. Casa Cupula sits on that hillside, close enough for a leisurely ride down to the beach, far enough to feel like a perch when the music fades. This year’s mix—pool parties, a T-dance, and a serious dinner show—aims to meet travelers wherever they land on the sun-to-midnight spectrum.
Practical note for planners: Casa Cupula’s events page now lists dates and times for Thrifty Thursdays, the NKD Pool Party, Big Gay Drag Brunch, and October’s After Dark opener, with ticket links consolidated on Eventbrite. Opening weekend is Oct 11–12; Halloween weekend starts Oct 30; the holiday productions stack up through New Year’s and into early 2026.
