Villa la Estancia Beach Resort & Spa Riviera Nayarit

First time at a Villa la Estancia. The Riviera Nayarit property was spotless as are all villa group resorts. The ambiance is laid back and stress free. Our concierge Karen was very helpful in getting us settled in and handling our travel and dinner and spa reservations. Around the pool Daniel and Jesus provided assistance in getting comfortably situated with chairs and towels and chasing away the errant iguana that ventured by. All in all a very enjoyable week.

What an incredible experience! Villa La Estancia is perfect! The views, the wonderful staff that treats you like family, the food, the spa, and the gorgeous beach made this an epic vacation. Ivan, Isasti, and Jair were incredible! They helped us create a very special birthday celebration and didn’t hesitate to help us with anything we needed. We can’t wait to come back and spend time with our La Estancia family once more!

10/10 experience and everything was so beautiful and great service, amazing service by Paola and the pool service by the restaurant near the pool

Very Clean and Very Well kept resort room...staff are all very nice...Little Lady turned our beds down every evening, leaves towels and a few sweets for us. Very Sweet Lady...Pillows and beds are Great...

Although there was a language barrier, Petra was able to accommodate us with our living quarters needs. She was very pleasant and always had a smile on her face.

This review will contain a shout-out to some of the people that served us, a list of things that I thought were great, as well as some suggestions to the hotel for areas of improvement in case they look at these reviews. We had a wonderful experience and thought the place and the staff were fantastic. I suspect that most hotels in the area have exceptional staff as this is just the nature of Mexican people (caring and hard working), but I would like to mention some of the staff that stood out while we stayed at the hotel. Not any of the staff were sub-par, but these staff mentioned below were exceptional. For those that helped us around the pool, Jesus and Daniel were so fun and helpful. They really understand service and how to maximize the vacation experience for the guests. Ernesto was our pool waiter for a day or two and was very attentive and he deserves our praise. For waiters at the restaurant, the tippy- top waiter goes to Angel at La Casona. He should be working at a top Michelin restaurant in New York. His staff around him were also exceptional (Jose Jaun, Eduardo who sings wonderfully, Benjamin, Hugo Capitan). The hostess Ada was just lovely and good at her job. Regarding the hotel (we were at La Estancia), it was very clean and put together everywhere. The grounds were perfect. It was obvious that the attention to detail is of concern of the management. It was a huge pleasure to stay in a place where things looked so nice and cared for. The house staff cleaning the rooms deserve a shout-out. I don't know their names, but they did a phenomenal job. The pool was unbelievably clean and well cared for. Also, we really appreciated that the music was down low and not obnoxious (loud constant Mariachi music) that is so prevalent in other Mexican resorts. We came to relax and the environment was so conducive to relaxing. Well done! We loved that the pool stayed open until 8pm. This is unusual for a lot of resorts in the area and we have NEVER understood why they close so early - so it was a pleasant surprise and we enjoyed a swim in the dark many of our nights. The design of the place is great - with plentiful hot-tubs that were at the perfect temperature (99-101) that sit on the edge looking out at the sunset over the ocean. The workout gym was so clean and in excellent condition. In fact, it may be the best gym for a hotel I have seen. They have tons of equipment and machines - as good as a regular gym. The food was so so so good. I can't say enough about how excellent the food and food prep was. The beach was well cared for and excellent. Okay, so here are some suggestions - and these are only being listed because I think no matter how great you are, you can always have places of improvement. Pool Chair management - I assume this is a chronic problem at most resorts like this one. But the places we have stayed at that manage it the best have some policy about unused chairs over a certain amount of ti