An Indagare member who lives in Boston rented a villa in Sayulita, Mexico, through Indagare. Here, she shares her thoughts on her family’s experience:
We had, I think, the most restful vacation ever. Usually we are go, go, go and seeing sights, but this trip was totally different. Plane travel there is easy, and the guaranteed excellent weather is well worth not simply opting to hop on a quick flight to Florida. I had a car reserved at Europecar, but they were out of cars when I arrived…I thought we were off to a bad start, but Katya, the concierge, solved it with a Suburban/car service pick up within the half hour. The drive to the villa was just over an hour. The house is spectacular! The staff was gracious, sweet, had their routine of caring for the guests and property down perfectly. We did not want for a thing. (Only one of the staff, and it is a family of five, speaks a bit of English, but that wasn’t a stumbling block.) Katya was only a cell phone call away, 24/7. It was most relaxing for me to not be cooking and provisioning constantly. I didn’t do either once! We saw whales right off the house almost every day. The pelicans were a constant. The surf was large and almost unswimmable our first two days but then it quieted down and we walked right in. The rooms are simple, whitewashed and ample. The property has sixteen beds in I think seven separate sleeping “houses.” It felt very much like being at a safari camp—pathways to each room, accessing nature to and from your room to the main area, and nature all around you, and doors that you locked yourself into the room for the night and kept out whatever night crawlers there would be…
We did drive into Sayulita for lunch on the beach. It was more out of curiosity than need for a break from the house, but the town is actually dusty, crowded with a very rag-tag bunch of tourists—they are hard to describe—lots of backpackers, aging hippie types—not really a destination worth seeking out again, but an experience to have none the less. We did have lunch at the Four Seasons Punta Mita. It was a nice change and opportunity to get off the property, but it was absolutely overrun with families, and it would never be my choice for a place to stay for other than a non-peak time. Service and food was predictably slow and mediocre, but we enjoyed getting out, seeing the contrast, making up our minds that “our house” and location was so much better! Downside: there is no workout facility at the house and I know it would be more appealing to renters if it did. The pool, lounge area is truly cliff-side with no protective barriers so it would be a nightmare for small children—plus the surf is rough. The staff set up the Internet so we were happy to have that as an option if needed. Our cells did not work at the house but outgoing calls on the house phone are free. My husband felt the need for exercise and hiked up and down the jungle “driveway” for an hour. The ride to the house is for about ten minutes past Punta Mita a bit rough and makes one think of being kidnapped, and the ten-minute ride down the driveway is really, really jungle-like and if you were not prepared, or approached it in the dark, you would be certain you were being abducted! The girls LOVED the house and property. The four of them, all teens, played for hours in the pool like they were ten-year-olds. The architecture of the house is fabulously modern. The rental fee included breakfast and lunch but we opted to have the staff stay two hours extra each night and make dinner. The beaches are accessible by steep steps that would be best walked in in shoes. Depending upon the tide there may or may not be walkable beach. Each one of us read at least three books!”
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