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A Mexican Mega-Resort Experience, Part 3: Even More Vidanta

Want to feel like you’re rich and famous? Come with us on Part 3 of our tour of a Mexican mega-resort, the luxurious Vidanta Nayarit on the west coast of Mexico.

We’ll tour more of enormous Vidanta, including La Cantina, Gong, and other restaurants; the Grand Bliss; the Mayan Palace; walking on the boardwalk pathways that connect the resort; the Plaza marketplace that carries everything you need (groceries, bakery, froyo, flip flops, sunglasses), and everything you don’t ( gourmet chocolate, jewelry); the Sanctuario entertainment hub; and many other parts of this breathtaking resort.

Want to see what you missed? Part 1 took us from arrival at Puerto Vallarta Airport, through transit to the resort, and the check-in experience. 

In Part 2, we took an early morning tour of Vidanta’s Grand Mayan Hotel and beyond, including breakfast, restaurants, beach, pools, fitness center, a lazy river, and the sky dream gondola. Soak up the lifestyle of the rich and famous! 

Thanks for joining us on this three-part tour of this Mexican mega-resort!

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Vidanta Resort
Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta

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A Mexican Mega-Resort Experience, Part 2: More Vidanta

When we bought a fractional ownership at Vidanta Resort in Mexico, we had no idea the world of luxury we would soon encounter. We’re a middle-class family, not accustomed to the perks of the super-rich that we find at Vidanta. If you’re like us, you’ll enjoy taking me take a three-part tour of this Mexican mega-resort, and spend a few minutes feeling like one of the rich and famous.

In this Part 2 of our Mexican Mega-Resort Experience series on the Messy Suitcase travel channel, we’ll take an early morning tour of Vidanta’s Grand Mayan Hotel and beyond, including breakfast, restaurants, beach, pools, fitness center, a lazy river, and the sky dream gondola. Soak up the lifestyle of the rich and famous!

Part 1 took us from arrival at Puerto Vallarta Airport, through transit to the resort, and the check-in experience. 

Part 3 – coming soon! – will feature a tour of more of the enormous Vidanta, including La Cantina, Gong, and other restaurants; the Grand Bliss; the Mayan Palace; walking on the boardwalk pathways that connect the resort; the Plaza marketplace that carries everything you need (groceries, bakery, froyo, flip flops, sunglasses), and everything you don’t ( gourmet chocolate, jewelry); the Sanctuario entertainment hub; and many other parts of this breathtaking resort.

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Vidanta Resort
Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta

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A Mexican Mega-Resort Experience, Part 1: Arrival at Vidanta

When we bought a fractional ownership at Vidanta Resort, we had no idea about the world of luxury we would soon find ourselves wrapped in. Two ordinary, middle-class people who allowed ourselves to get sucked into the timeshare game, we are not accustomed to valets transporting our luggage to our room, or giant soaking bathtubs in our bathrooms, or massive fitness centers, or luxury spas, incredible swimming pools, a lazy river outside the door, or countless other perks of the super-rich that we find at Vidanta.

Come take a three-part tour of a Mexican mega-resort, and spend a few minutes feeling like one of the rich and famous.

Part 1 takes us from arrival at Puerto Vallarta Airport, through transit to the resort, and the check-in experience.

Part 2 takes us on an early morning tour of the Grand Mayan and beyond, including breakfast, restaurants, beach, pools, fitness center, a lazy river, and the sky dream gondola

Part 3 takes us on a tour of more parts of enormous Vidanta, including La Cantina, Gong, and other restaurants: the Grand Bliss, the Mayan Palace, walking on the pathways, the Plaza marketplace that carries everything you need (groceries, bakery, froyo, flip flops, sunglasses),and everything you don’t ( gourmet chocolate, jewelry), the Sanctuario entertainment hub, and many other parts of the resort.

Watch for Parts 2 and 3, coming soon. Enjoy!

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Vidanta Resort
Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta

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Vidanta Resort’s Heart of the House Tour

We donned dorky paper chef hats when Christan from the Joy Squad took us on a 90-minute tour behind the scenes of the massive Vidanta Resort in Nuevo Nayarit/Vallarta, Mexico. From housekeeping, to food service, to wine, to excruciatingly delicious gourmet chocolates, we had a chance to see how a large luxury resort is run.

Vidanta has six resorts in Mexico, and Nuevo Vallarta, just north of Puerto Vallarta, is the flagship, with 5,000 employees trained to serve guests with an amazing attention to detail to make their experiences at Vidanta extraordinary.

We traveled through 1.7 kilometers of tunnels in an open-air van escorted by a staff member on a segway. In the huge bowels of the complex, we found administrative offices, carpentry, laundry, vehicle repair, electrical repair, spare parts, supplies management, bakery, ice cream factory, homemade jams, grocery store, trash and recycling (11 tons of recycling per day!). We saw one of the employee cafeterias, the staff gym, shuttle buses for employees, a hospitality training classroom, and a simulator in which staffers learn to serve meals, clean and prepare bedrooms, and more. We were treated to bread, jams, charcuterie, chocolate, and – the best surprise of all – discovered a wine cave for tasting!

This is all chocolate, from plates to shoes

The Heart of the House Tour runs once a week, on Wednesdays, and is limited to ten people. It’s worth a few hours in the morning if you’re curious about how Vidanta is run. And it’s worth it to see chocolate high-heeled shoes!

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Vidanta Nuevo Nayarit/Vallarta
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Sneak Preview of VidantaWorld Park

Vidanta Nueva Vallarta is giving tours as it soft opens its long-promised “VidantaWorld Park” — for a fee. Is it worth $100? Come along and see! Vidanta describes this theme park as “a space that defies all the rules of time, gravity, and even reality. A vacation taken to the limits of your imagination.” I don’t know if it’s all that, but we paid $100 for the opportunity to find out, which we could put toward food and drinks in the park.

We boarded the “SkyDream Parks Gondola” from Vidanta, which gave us a nice aerial view of the complex, including its new pickleball courts in the middle of nowhere. We were also treated to lovely views of Banderas Bay on the Pacific coast of Mexico, and the mountains beyond. Vidanta says the SkyDream is the first cable car system in the world in a beach development.

The park is opulent and lovely, with spectacular fountains, beautifully designed restaurants, shaded spaces for relaxation, fountain light-and-fire shows, music, and more. However, the park is not yet not fully operating, and was still in “tour” mode as opposed to “use” mode. There is not a lot of THERE there.

We rode the Vista Wheel (the only other ride was not working) – slow and a little boring, with literally no view — checked out the carnival games and enjoyed our pick of fantastic food.

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In the future, Vidanta is promising a jungle park, “ruins” to explore, a water park, and all kinds of “thrilling attractions.” But this is Vidanta, so who knows when or if this will happen? As of now, there is no firm opening date, and a lot of staff members on hand to serve very few guests. But it looks good! Always a priority at Vidanta.

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Vidanta Resort
Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta
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