The Upside: The property is really quite nice. It is a secure compound, located conveniently just north of town, easy walking distance. Several very good restaurants right at and around the corner. An uncrowded part of the beach north of the main (and busy) town beach is just a couple blocks from the house. The main house has 3 large bedrooms, two bathrooms, one is en suite. Each bedroom has an individual air conditioner with remote control, which we appreciated, even in December. Well equipped kitchen but we ate all our meals out. Sayulita is no longer the sleepy little village it was years ago. It is a wonderful beehive of activity but retains its charm and lacks the high rise hotels of typical beach resorts. The cuisine has become wonderfully diverse and is still inexpensive. The separate casita, above the storage “garage” is a very nice space. Great pool and landscaped grounds, hammock, outside dining and lounge area under the huge palapa is perfect for your vacation getaway.
The Downside: IMPORTANT! Do stay here - it’s a fine property but PLAN YOUR DATES accordingly! The Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe (Día de la Virgin de Guadalupe) is a popular Catholic feast that occurs throughout Mexico during the first 12 days of December, It is a loud celebration with constant concussive blasts from cherry bomb/M80 firecrackers early in the morning and in the evening. It particularly builds in boisterousness from 12/9 to its culmination on 12/12. Blaring music from loudspeakers from a nearby church played ALL NIGHT UNTIL 4:30 AM on the final night, followed by more firecrackers. In addition, there was construction at the property immediately adjacent, and there were power tools going from 7::30 am until 7 or 8 pm. Our stay was during 12/3 - 12/12. We were not aware of the occurrence of the celebration or the construction and wondered why the owners failed to alert us about it. We would certainly have scheduled our stay before or after those dates, as I strongly recommend to any potential renters. It sullied an otherwise wonderful vacation. Dennis offered a reduced rate and a couple comped nights during our NEXT stay but we believed a refund for a couple nights of THIS stay would have been far more appropriate, especially in light of his perhaps unintentional, yet hugely consequential failure to warn us. We will certainly return to Sayulita or perhaps San Pancho (San Francisco’s), a smaller, less busy village just 3 miles up the coast.