Spent 19th to 26th April. It's rated a 2-star, so don't expect 4* luxury. Rooms are large and comfortable, yet dated. Our room was a studio kitchenette. Bring your own hairdryer. Bathtub needed repair but shower and water worked fine. We liked the in-room safe. Room provided 2 bottles of water daily. We got extra water at the large super market about a 10 minute walk toward Pto Vallarta. We had a deck facing the Cantos del Sol across the street, very quiet at night. We had access to everything at The Cantos. It is situated right on the beach. The pool at the Villas was very quiet most days, and Luis the bartender was great. There were two days where over 200 teen agers were booked in, and the hotel was very noisy. The pool and activities at the Cantos are fun, with a good variety of things to do. Lots of lounge chairs at the pools. The activities staff are very friendly and helpful. We talked to a number of younger people who had a blast. The buffet was excellent, with good selection. Mexican cooking is featured most meals, and well prepared. Breakfast offered eggs made to order. Lunch and snack bar also good. We had two ala carte dinners. Italian was fine, steak was tough. Beach was rocky but good to watch sunset. Entertainment at night was fun. You can always get a drink at the bar, but they don't make martinis. Dollar for dollar this is good vacation in a convenient location. Taxi's are only 60 pesos to town and most other places. Bull fights are Wednesday and tickets are 350 pesos at the door.

We stayed at Villas Vallarta from April 9-16, 2008. The rooms were clean and staff was great. We had two minor issues with noise. First one was our room was right above the Gold's Gym. Music comes on at 0700 on weekdays. We quickly changed rooms after day two. Secondly, we had a very large group of young teenagers there for our last few days. The first night was horrible. I do not think they slept at all nor let anyone else sleep. The next and remaining nights were not an issue as the hotel was able to control their behavior (tough to do with so many kids but they did). We ate all of our meals and spend most days at Cantos. If they call tht across the road OK but it really like walking down one set of stairs and up another and then you were in the hotel. The food was very average to say the least but we were able to eat at the buffet or the pool lounge pretty well any time we wished. Would not eat at the Steakhouse again. Tough when our beef is so much better but the Italian Restaurant was alright with more food than we could eat. The omelettes every morning were our favorite! Drinks were plentiful and could get them whenever we wanted them. We loved the pool and spent more days lounging under the beach umbrellas. Our trip was very moderately priced and would do it again in a heartbeat at this hotel if the price was right. On a side note we took the city buses to some beaches further away (about an hour) and would recommend doing that to anyone. For the $2.00 each it was worth it to see other beaches.

Just returned from a week at Villas Vallarta in PV... first time visitors to PV so wasnt sure what to expect, have lots have friends that have been numerous times so there help in getting thru customs was a blessing... Villas Vallarta was marvelous the rooms were very clean, the bed was so comfortable had heard stories about hard beds and this was far from it, we stayed in room 818., food was average, i am a fussy eater and found something to eat everyday... waiters, front desk and cleaning staff were very helpful. very quiet at nite slept like a baby the whole time there... because we had access to Canto del sol we had double the fun ... beach was rocky some days but that was to be expected.... drinks kept coming and the food was everywhere...didn't do any excursions thought for the first time just going to check the town out we were busy every nite on the malecon.. did lots of walking and rode the bus numerous times truily enjoyed that venture...can't wait to go back only 11 more months to go....this time thinking of taking teenage children.. oh and we were there during spring break and never had any problems with any of the kids taht were there.. there were all ages there from teenagers to families with young children to the seniors

This was our third trip to P.V. and our second time at this resort.Of course,your first trip will always be remembered as the best ever.Although I can`t really say anything to negative about this resort as it is kept very clean,the staff are aweson,trying to help as much as they can,the food was o,k but was not hot enough and you can always go across the road for better things.We tried for months to book the room we wanted but was not allowed,even talked to the hotel directly but had no luck.Got stuck in the very last room at the hotel which was miles away from everything,took three days to get moved and still didn`t get the room we wanted but it was much closer to the pool.They no longer have any kind of entertainment or activities,you have to go across the road for this.It is very laid back and quiet which is great if you want this.We found it was cartered only for the seniors which it was mostly booked by.The beach is across the street but you have full acess to everything at Canta del Sol,the beach is full of rocks so just to go relax is great but to play in the waves,watch out,you will get hurt or cut in some way.We will always remember our first time here,it was aweson but will not go back as we know there are better resorts in P.V. with more to offer.