The Costalegre with Exclusive Villa Collection: Mexico’s quietest stretch of the Pacific, between Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo, opened through Las Alamandas, a private reserve of four beaches.
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Mexico · Costalegre
The Costalegre is the long, lightly settled coast of Jalisco between Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo, where the Sierra Madre comes down to the Pacific in dry forested hills, river lagoons and beaches that can run for a kilometre or more without a building in sight. There are few towns and fewer roads off the coastal highway, and much of the shore is held in private estates and nature reserves.
We open the Costalegre through Las Alamandas, a private reserve of more than two thousand acres about two and a half hours south of Puerto Vallarta. Eighteen suites and villas in casitas of pink, cobalt and saffron stand among palms and lawns above the sea, with four private beaches, the San Nicolás river lagoon and an organic orchard that supplies the kitchen.
For the wider journey through Mexico, with the seasons, the routes between stays and every house we keep there, see our Mexico country guide.
Why visit
Featured properties
Houses we know by name, the ones we would open for this landscape.
The house
A first reading of the stay: rooms, light, and the quiet between them. Each still is a note, not a catalogue.
When and how
Each season keeps its own calendar. We plan the transfer around it.
Best time to visit
The Costalegre is at its best from December to April, the dry season, with warm days around 27°C and almost no rain. May and November are quiet shoulder months. The rains fall from June to October, heaviest in August and September, turning the hills green, and sea turtles nest from summer into January.
Seasonality
Las Alamandas is open all year. The dry months from December to April are the high season and worth holding early, especially over the holidays. Summer and autumn are greener, warmer and quieter, with the sea turtle nesting season and the hatchlings reaching the sea six to eight weeks later.
Airport / logistics
Puerto Vallarta International Airport is about two and a half hours by road from Las Alamandas, and Manzanillo about an hour and a half. Private flights can land at the Chamela airstrip, fifteen minutes from the resort. Exclusive Villa Collection plans flights, transfers and stays as one itinerary.
Month by month
Seasons follow the notes above. Average daily high and monthly rainfall for 2015 to 2024 from ERA5 reanalysis, via Open-Meteo.
Luxury experiences
Traveler questions
Ways of traveling
Begin with the collection that holds these houses and shores.
Collection
The most romantic stays we know: water villas in the Maldives, honeymoon tents in the Maasai Mara, a hot spring pool below Arenal and a suite that looks onto the Duomo.
Open the collectionCollection
Weddings, vow renewals, milestones, reunions and retreats at the houses we know best: a forest wedding in Phuket, a Tuscan hamlet, a lodge beneath the aurora, or an island with no other guests.
Open the collectionRelated destinations
Landscapes that sit well beside this one.
Destination
Mexico on two Pacific shores: Amanvari on the Sea of Cortez at Costa Palmas, and Las Alamandas, a private reserve of four beaches on the wild Costalegre of Jalisco.
Destination
Costa Rica’s green north, where Amor Arenal keeps thirty-one hardwood casitas on a forest canyon in the foothills of Arenal Volcano.
Destination
Belize’s Ambergris Caye corridor and a true private island: Cayo Espanto, a handful of villas off San Pedro.
Plan My Trip
Tell us the season, the company, and the feeling you want to keep. We will write back with a considered path, not a link to a search.
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