Real de Don Juan Hotel (Tepic)

Some friends and I spent a night at the Real de Don Juan Hotel on a weekend visit to Tepic, three hours north of Pto. Vallarta. En route we stopped to help a vehicle that had overturned in a ditch; the elderly driver was still alive, sparring himself the indignity of an Alarma obituary. From bottom to top the Real de Don Juan is top notch.


Reception, befittingly, is the first department guests encounter---the lobby sits off to the right with fat, masculine sofas way too comfortable and a dominant portrait of some apparently important man which your author found creepy in its ugly amatuerism---that and a terribly large bouquet table one has to step around to see the front desk. Two towering angles that look alot like the ones in Hilo Bar welcome entrants. In fact, life-and giant-sized statues abound in the hotel.

The kindly Reception was matched by bell-hops, waiters, and maintenance. The hotel's customer service was as polished as the wood fixtures, as fresh as the flower arrangements, as plush as the furnitures---in a word: exquisite.

From bottom to top the Real de Don Juan is top notch!

I, for one, turned in early---3am---and slept like a prince in the soft, kingly bed. Shams, pillows, duvets, white linen were de riguer. The bedding was so expertly made that half of it remained untucked the following morning!

Atop, is a fashionable sky bar with a cold pool, hot jaguzzi, and poolside bedding for lounging. At night it transforms into a little club complete with DJ and swank lighting. Also on the roof is a gym with state-of-the-art equipment that surpasses what I've seen in other hotels. Real de Don Juan is a splendid luxury hotel. Do visit their website.



Av. Mexico 105 Sur
Tepic, Nayarit
website
realdedonjuan1@hotmail.com