Westin Resort & Spa Puerto Vallarta

Dinining

• Nikki Beach Restaurant & Bar Branch of international chain of casual resort restaurants/beach clubs. Expansive indoor/outdoor design featuring natural woods, white muslin curtains, canvascovered chairs, director’s chairs, stools, platform beds, banquettes, and lounging banquettes. Private sand section with sunbathing beds and umbrellas. Multilevel seating/lounging under enormous thatchedroof palapa containing sushi bar, dance areas. Shaded oceanview terrace seating. Three bars. New Age music, DJ for latenight dancing. Underseating lighting, tiki touches, oil lamps after dark. Lunch choices such as sushi, shrimp, ceviche, fish, sandwiches, salads. Dinner choices include salmon tartar, shrimp wontons, platters for two (cheese, seafood, shrimp), shellfish platter for four, grilled lobster, lobster thermidor, pasta, fish. Bar open to after midnight.
• El Palmar Airconditioned restaurant with terrace seating, also. Pool/garden views. Open for buffet and à la carte breakfasts, lunches, dinners. Theme dinner buffets. À la carte dinner choices such as burgers, sandwiches, salads, soups, pizza, pasta, seafood, steak, lamb tacos, salmontuna carpaccio, beef carpaccio, duck with cassis sauce.
• Tlaquepaque and Tenampa Pool bars with swimup sides open midmorning to early evening for tropical drinks, beer, cocktails, ceviche, burgers, tacos, salads, sandwiches, other snack foods.
• La Cascada Lobby Lounge Openair spot with bigscreen TV, pool table. Open midday to late night for tropical drinks, beer, cocktails, burgers, sandwiches, quesadillas, and nachos. Live music for dancing nightly.

Property amenities

A health spa offers massage, body wraps and scrubs, and reflexology and contains women's and men's saunas, steam rooms, and Swiss showers. The spa includes a couples-massage room and also offers oceanside, open-air massage. A children’s club open during the day for ages 3-12 provides three hours daily of complimentary, supervised activities in an air-conditioned clubhouse and outdoors. (Additional hours available for surcharges.) A business center includes six computers with high-speed Internet connections (surcharges). Wireless Internet service (surcharge) is available in public and pool areas.
Ground transportation:
Shuttle vans and private cars of varying prices are available. They can be reserved during the process of booking a reservation for this hotel, via this Web site, and added to the total trip cost.

• Swimming pool - outdoor
• Poolside bar
• Swim-up bar
• Swimming pool - children's
• Spa tub
• Steam room
• Sauna
• Full-service health spa
• Technology helpdesk
• Concierge desk
• Complimentary newspapers in lobby
• Health club
• Fitness equipment
• Restaurant(s) in hotel
• Bar/lounge
• Room service (24 hours)
• Parking (free)
• Self parking

• Exhibit space
• Conference room(s)
• Event catering
• Banquet facilities
• Business center
• Ballroom(s)
• Meeting rooms (small groups)
• Internet access in public areas - high speed
• Internet access - wireless
• Audio-visual equipment
• Business services
• Internet access in public areas - surcharge
• Safe-deposit box - front desk
• Number of rooms: 280
• Express check- in
• Porter/bellhop
• Express check-out
• Doorman/doorwoman

• Security guard
• Multilingual staff
• 24-hour front desk
• Number of floors: 8-13
• Hair salon
• Gift shops or newsstand
• Shopping on site
• Currency exchange
• Tour assistance
• Medical assistance available
• Beauty services
• Dry cleaning service
• Shoe shine
• Air-conditioned public areas
• Elevator/lift
• Wedding services
• Supervised child care/activities

Recreation

Featuring palm-tree and garden islands and surrounded by sundecks furnished with cushioned teak lounge chairs, four lagoon-style pools ranging from 68.5 to 50 meters long (225 to 165 ft) offer a variety of swimming opportunities. The largest pool contains a swim-up bar, a jetted section, and tile lounges, as does an adults' pool. Another pool caters to children, with tubes and floats available for rent, and the fourth is for families.

Three semi-circular, artificial coves distinguish the resort's 300-meter (328-yard) beach frontage, which is furnished with padded lounge chairs and umbrellas. A private sand section adjoining the beach features curtained, wood-platform rental cabanas with cushioned teak lounges for 3-6 people. The beachfront, indoor/outdoor Nikki Beach Restaurant & Bar also includes a private sand section, this one furnished with sunbathing beds reserved for customers.

A water-sports center rents boogie boards, kayaks, sailboats, and snorkeling gear and also offers fishing trips and scuba-diving instruction/excursions. Independent operators on a beach adjacent to the resort offer parasail, personal watercraft and banana-boat rentals/services.

An expansive, air-conditioned, mirrored-wall fitness center (daily surcharge) contains cardio machines, weight machines, free weights, and a workout studio offering spinning and Pilates classes (surcharges). Oceanfront yoga classes are also available (surcharges).

The resort includes three lights artificial-grass tennis courts (surcharges). The clubhouse for the 18-hole championship Marina golf course lies 600 meters (656 yds) from the resort.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.

• Golf - driving range nearby
• Scuba diving on site
• Swimming on site
• Boat launch nearby
• Aerobics on site
• Fishing nearby

• Golfing nearby
• Horse riding/rental nearby
• Tennis on site
• Pilates classes/instruction on site
• Yoga classes/instruction on site
• Jet skiing nearby

• Parasailing nearby
• Sailing on site
• Snorkeling on site
• Surfing/boogie boarding on site
• Volleyball on site
• Whale-watching nearby

• Playground on site

Room amenities

• Internet access - high speed
• Internet access - wireless
• Premium TV channel(s)
• Cable/satellite TV
• Pay movies
• Premium bedding
• Climate control
• Ceiling fan
• Air conditioning
• Blackout drapes
• Internet access - surcharge

• Multi-line phone
• Voice mail
• Minibar
• Coffee/tea maker
• Wake-up calls
• Housekeeping (daily)
• Bathrobes
• Hair dryer
• Makeup mirror
• Separate bathtub and shower
• Child care (in room, surcharge)

• Electronic check-out
• Electronic/magnetic keys
• Television
• Iron/ironing board
• In-room safe (accommodates laptop)
• Window opens
• Clock radio
• Desk
• Smoking rooms
• Rollaway beds
• Cribs (infant beds) available

Rooms

The resort offers 280 guestrooms and suites in a three-section building of 8-13 stories. Balconies or patios furnished with two-chair dining sets provide garden/partial-ocean or full ocean views. Westin's signature all-white Heavenly Beds comprise foot-thick pillowtop mattresses, triple sheeting, down-filled blankets, polished-cotton down comforters, and multiple pillows including neck-rolls. (Heavenly Cribs and Heavenly Dog Beds are available on request.) Rose-and-tan-marble bathrooms feature Heavenly Showers with dual heads and separate tubs. Decor and furnishings include floors of terra-cotta tiles and faux stone, white walls, bright pastel ceilings, contemporary prints on walls, upholstered headboards, and honey-colored-and-wrought-iron furniture including a desk/dining table with cushioned, fabric-draped chairs. Ceiling fans and air conditioning provide cooling alternatives. Terry-cloth bathrobes supply lounging comfort. High-speed and wireless Internet access is available for surcharges. Each room and suite contains two dual-line telephones, one cordless. Guests of Royal Beach Club rooms on the top two floors (12, 13) enjoy access to an exclusive 12th-floor, panoramic-view lounge with a television and dining terraces where a complimentary breakfast buffet and complimentary evening hot/cold appetizers and self-serve cocktails are offered daily.

Policies

Extra person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Rollaway beds and cribs (infant beds) may be available and should be requested at the time of booking; fees may apply.
Photo identification and credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in. Special requests made via this Web site cannot be guaranteed and may incur additional charges.

• Pets accepted
• Check-in time is 3 PM
• Check-out time is Noon