North of Puerto Vallarta is a Mexican Rivera town called Sayulita with a beautiful beach often good for surfing but equally good for swimming, boogie boards, paddle boards, and massages in tents along the beach. There are no international hotels here, and everything is in pleasant clutter. There are scores of restaurants, often feeding you along the street, and lots of happy people enjoying the tropical warmth especially when their home countries are frozen and bleak. Many live here at least 6 months of the year so it is a very English-friendly town, although your Spanish will serve you well. Don’t come here for plush and posh, come for warm and friendly and “tranquilo”. It is a fairly young town and many families with children. Everything is within walking distance, but you may wish to have an electric cart seating 4 or 6 adults and a few assorted children. It is jungle hot in the summer and sort of closes down during those months, but it is jungle warm in the winter and you won’t need your sweater ever.
Which brings us to Casa Kelmar. You can rent this mansion just 1 minute from the beach and 6 blocks from the city center to handle you when the sand and sun and fun have overcome you. You come to high white walls and a locked gate that opens to your private paradise. There is a garage with an electric cart, beach chairs and umbrella in it. And an outside shower to wash off the sand. But after some green lawn nicely mowed, steps take you up to a small but cool and refreshing pool that magically turns off the heat and humidity the second you jump in. There are tiled patios around the pool, an outside dining room, a breakfast patio, upstairs patios outside bedrooms, a roof-top patio. The house is large and roomy with big kitchen, indoor sitting areas, and 4 large bedrooms: 2 kings, 2 twins, 1 queen. You can sleep 8 easily and more on sofas. 4 bathrooms handle all easily. AND the house has good air-conditioning. Sure you could go natural and sweat and lie about half clothed day and night, but it is very nice to come out of the warm humid air and have a cool bedroom to sleep in, insect free. There is a nice maid who tidies up each morning. There is a local manager who will help you if something needs fixing, and can help you get transportation for trips to San Pancho (San Francisco) and from and to Puerto Vallerta for your airline flights. This is a beautiful home, at a fair price, that will make you feel like Sayulita Royalty.