MEX-DEV Casa Anita / Corona del Mar 30 units all suite Hotel - Villa Suites Exclusively in Puerto Vallarta

Where else can you get an inexpensive Villa suite with your own kitchen and bar and.... Enjoy a 24 hour total view of the Bay by day and the city lights by night? Savour a leisurely breakfast from your private balcony or socialize with your neighbours on the pool deck at cocktail hour with your own blender made "margaritas or pina-colados"? Relax in the constant sun while lounging by one of the THREE pools? Shop at both traditional and super-markets close by which abound with fresh fruit, vegetables, and giant shrimp which are available year round?

At Mex-Dev's Casa Anita, hibiscus and buganvilla surround the properties making room for the odd palm tree. Come and join your North American Hosts in "PARAISO" and find out what captivated them along with Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, and Richard Burton. Nobody has a better view than MEX-DEV. The reason is simple, the owner builders had "first choice" of properties 31 years ago. All MEX-DEV units (save for C-4) have the best unchallenged view of the entire Bay as well as the town. If you choose Vallarta as your vacation destination then make sure you're "in town" and enjoy the "real Mexican flavour". Why would anyone settle for just a hotel room; when for the same amount or less, you can have a luxury suite all with hand painted sinks, with the convenience of your own bar, and the ability to cook the fish you catch, or have your own fiesta. One can live like a King at native prices... in two words... experience MEXICO.

      PUERTO VALLARTA- Yesterday & Today.

The history of Puerto Vallarta is amazing. In a land of Indian cultures dating back thousands of years, this fishing-village-turned-resort has almost NO history. In 1541 it was discovered by Don Pedro de Alvarado and soon forgotten. More than three hundred years later, in 1851, Guadalupe Sanchez and his family settled along the Rio Cuale river to farm. During this time, the area was known as "Puerto Las Peñas". It was not until 1918 that the town had its first mayor, who renamed the area in honour of Jalisco Governor Don Ignacio Luis VALLARTA. Still, nothing more exciting than that was happening there.

About thirty-five years ago MEXICANA Airlines saw potential in the area. At that time AEROMEXICO monopolized the flights between Mexico City and Acapulco. Hoping to convert Puerto Vallarta into Guadalajara's week-end resort, MEXICANA received the franchise in 1954 and began promoting Vallarta. A few travel writers did articles on it, but it remained an out-of-the-way, quiet spot for relaxation. All that changed in 1963. John HOUSTON decided to shoot the film "Night of the Iguana" in Puerto Vallarta. Along with him came Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, (who wasn't in the movie) and the gossip hungry Hollywood reporters. By the time that the movie was finished, the romance between Liz and Dick had been celebrated universally and Puerto Vallarta had become a landmark. Droves of people came just to see where this famous couple had fallen in love, but were soon charmed by the quaint, delightful resort. The droves kept coming, but now because they heard what a lovely spot Puerto Vallarta was, and what a unique climate it enjoyed.

      Geography & Climate

Welcome to the land of enchantment the beautiful "Bay of Flags" or "Bahia de Banderas" as it is known in Spanish. Geographically it is the largest Bay on the West Coast from San Francisco to Panama. It is forty miles on its circumference, and twenty between it's two points, as well as twenty miles deep. The open end of the horseshoe faces West. This fact makes it a barrier for hurricanes and it was a sweet water stop for Spanish galleons on their quests northward. Indeed many local legends and rumours have it, where certain merchants in digging their storage cellars unearthed doubloon treasures from pirates ships. Certainly the area was desirous as the climate here is unique to all of North America.

The backdrop to the Bay, is a wide valley whose AMECA river divides the state of Nayarit and Jalisco as well as delineates the transition from Mountain to Central time zones. The North and especially the South of the perimeter of the Bay is ringed with mountains which soar to six thousand feet within a kilometer of the shoreline. This feature distorts the traditional subtropical climate so that while daytime temperatures reach into the high eighties, the offshore night breeze descends cool air, which is further cooled, through "adiabatic effect" (the expansion of air as it flows out of the widening valleys). What all this means is that Puerto Vallarta enjoys high daytime temperatures but pleasant, cool, night time. However the mountain influence belies these signposts, as in effect a climatological fault exists here which renders this area temperate but with sub-tropical vegetation. These facts will not be found in any tourist publications nor Government papers. Most of these agencies are selling the "country" whereas our bias is with the "pirates" who knew a good thing and settled on this particular spot in this Bay. The effect is very local to the extent that the larger Hotels (Buenaventura Hotel) in the North, which extend out into the valley are not influenced by this phenomena. The zone affected is really from the city limits in the North to Boca de Tomatlan.