El Careyes Beach Resort

Small meeting and incentive groups join an elite community known as Costa Careyes at El Careyes Beach Resort. Hidden on Mexico’s Costalegre—the unspoiled Pacific corridor between Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo—the hotel and community of privately owned estates cater to jet-set tastes drawn by the international polo facility, lack of paparazzi, creative laid-back vibe, and seclusion in a tropical paradise.

Some of the resort’s 51 rooms, suites, and casitas furnish private plunge pools. The Master Suites also provide second bedrooms and baths, kitchenettes, and spacious living rooms with balconies or terraces. The three casitas add an extra measure of open space and privacy. Together the accommodations form a U shape behind the pool and beach, affording ocean views for all.

A seaside spa intensifies the focus on rest, relaxation, and sensual pleasure with treatments derived from Mexico, the Far East, and Europe. Equally global in scope, the gourmet restaurant, La Lantana, treats guests to sumptuous menus of international cuisine—with an emphasis on the culinary styles of Mexico’s coastal states.
Groups with banquets or business on the agenda meet in two rooms equipped with the latest audiovisuals or, less formally, around the free-form pool and on the beach. Offshore, they kayak, snorkel, fish, whale watch, and bird-watch on Pajarera Island. On land, they play tennis and explore the surrounding jungle and coast by horseback and mountain bike.

MEETINGS AT EL CAREYES

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View RSS Feed Costa Careyes, an elite community just south of Puerto Vallarta, has alternately sparked and sputtered on the popularity index since it was first developed in 1968. Now the destination is back, and big-time. In the past couple of years, celebs like Heidi Klum and Seal have started building villas in the hills and along the perfect stretch of beach. Back in the '70s, A-listers hung out at the Hotel Bel-Air Costa Careyes, now called El Careyes. The 53 rooms here, a relative steal for the area, are pleasing little oases where the whitewashed walls are offset by lavender and ocher details, Talavera pottery, and sunlight streaming through slatted shutters. Three larger casitas, designed for long-term guests, have kitchens, multiple bedrooms, and private plunge pools. The property has a full spa, a gym, and high-tech amenities such as DVD players and Wi-Fi. But it's the low-tech amusements-horseback riding, snorkeling, napping on palapa-shaded chaises-that are the real draw here.