Robert and Torie have just returned from hosting a focus group of club owners, online community owners, and frequent lifestyle travellers to Fantasy Resort and Spa – Puerto Vallarta, Nayarit, Mexico. Here is their report.
This past week we had the pleasure of visiting and hosting a lifestyle focus group at a new, all-inclusive lifestyle resort named Fantasy Resort and Spa, located in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico. Having just returned, we would like to share some of the things that make this tropical haven such an amazing destination.
The resort is located about 15 minutes north of the Puerto Vallarta International Airport in an area called Nuevo Vallarta. As you enter through the gates of a luxurious, country club-style gated resort community, and drive past two gorgeous Jaguars (and we’re not talking cars here!), you will pull up to the front of this breathtaking resort.
Upon entering the lobby, you are greeted by hotel management staff and their welcoming beverages. Check-in is a breeze. All the paperwork for check-in is processed prior to your arrival so all you have to do is sign in and leave a credit card for any incidentals. The lobby is extremely eco-friendly with many relaxing places to sit and relax.
This resort is less than two years old and between the beautiful fresh water lagoon that encompasses two infinity pools (each of which are over 200 feet in length) and the well-landscaped grounds and buildings, the initial impression is luxury from the start. The pool areas are open, inviting, and so relaxing. Both of the two pool areas have built in Jacuzzis. Chairs, lounges and poolside tables are all readily available and pool towels are also on hand.
All 133 rooms are suites. They have one bedroom, two bedrooms, and a three bedroom penthouse. The resort allows multiple couples to share the two and three bedrooms suites – which is unlike any other resort out there. These suites all have full kitchens, should you want to cook any meals, living room, dining area, and even a washer/dryer right in the suite. The main living room area (as well as the bedrooms) have flat screen televisions and a wide selection of channels to view, including movies. The suite we had was one of the first floor two bedroom suites, and offered a back patio with a wonderfully warm, private plunge pool overlooking the lagoon.
Each of the suites is very well appointed and more than accommodating. The three bedroom penthouse even has its own very large rooftop patio, complete with its own Jacuzzi and bar! Fantasy is unlike any other lifestyle resort out there; this is a completely luxurious entry in the lifestyle vacation world.
The restaurants at Fantasy are gourmet in every way. Their executive chef, who was trained at the world-renowned Le Cordon Bleu Paris, offers a wide selection of dishes that will tantalize your taste buds! The three restaurants at the resort are: Maria’s Café, which is a casual bistro; Silhouette, a more upscale restaurant; and the Chef’s Kitchen, which offered a wonderful breakfast buffet and omelette station. The resort is in the process of offering buffet meals for lunch and dinner as well.
As if these culinary offerings weren’t enough, you can also order late night snacks right in the entry area to your suite complex. Or call room service and have your food delivered to your room, or even out to you at the pool. As was mentioned earlier, this is an all-inclusive resort, so all your meals are included, as are all your beverages and liquor. Speaking of liquor… in between Silhouette and the Chef’s Kitchen, is a full service, wonderfully well-stocked bar, and the resort is in the process of adding a piano bar to this area as well.
Fantasy also has a great tequila bar, the Agave Bar, upstairs overlooking the pools and freshwater lagoon. You can sit out on the patio, sit inside to watch the big screen TV, or even sit up at the bar. Even though this bar offers the full range of spirits, we highly suggest trying the wide variety of tequilas they have to offer.
The focus group that joined us at Fantasy was a good cross-section of lifestylers – frequent travellers, club owners from across the country, and the owners and managers of the on-line community, Kasidie.com. The group all seemed to be quite amazed and really wowed by the resort. They came up with some incredibly insightful and creative suggestions on ways to ensure that this resort would be one that they and their clientele would want to return to time after time.
One of the changes currently underway is the addition of a palm tree shaded, temperature controlled sand beach that includes a 40-person Jacuzzi and nude beach volleyball area. Also, a special roof-top Jacuzzi and lounge is being built overlooking the resort for those couples who want a romantic play area during the day or evening.
For those lifestylers who want to dip their toes (or their entire body) in the ocean, Fantasy has a private beach club with shuttles going throughout the day between the resort and the club (about 4 blocks away). All meals and non-alcoholic beverages are included as part of your all-inclusive resort package at the beach club. When we went there, they had chairs, tables and umbrellas already awaiting us. But you want to lay out on a beach au naturel, you say? No problem! Fantasy offers a catamaran or water shuttle boats out to Crusoe Beach, a private nude beach. The catamaran will even make a stop for some snorkelling along the way.
A new state-of-the-art disco and nightclub is in the process of being built, but we had an amazing time dancing the night away in the current nightclub area, and the atmosphere in the disco was high energy! Everyone was dressed in theme for the evening events (one of the best evenings was the “Fantasy” theme night – come dressed as your favourite fantasy!) and lifestyle friskiness was indeed enjoyed by all!
Fantasy Resort and Spa has an amazing concierge manager named Elina. Elina can take care of any off-resort excursions you may want to do (canopy tours, zip line tours, scuba diving, swimming with the dolphins, and so much more).
Everyone loved the spa at the resort. Although the spa treatments are extra, we found the prices to be very much in line with other resort spas, and we have heard rumours of discounted and even free spa treatments being offered in upcoming marketing promotions. A new, very large spa area is currently under construction up on the roof of one of the suite complexes.
As we were the very first guests to utilize the resort as the new Fantasy Resort and Spa, we have to say how totally impressed we were. Even with the changeover modifications being done for their soft opening in May (official grand opening is slated for late October), we found every member of the staff to be warm, helpful and accommodating. Fantasy Resort and Spa is absolutely off the charts and has raised the bar considerably for all other lifestyle resorts.
We will be returning to the resort May 19-26 for their soft grand opening week, and would love to have you join us! Fantasy Resort and Spa has given Dream Pleasure Tours special rates on all the suites for this week! So whether you want a one bedroom, two bedrooms or even the three bedroom penthouse suite, be sure to contact us for more information and be one of the first to enjoy this new, luxury lifestyle resort!
To see more on Fantasy Resort click on Fantasy Resort and Spa.
Also, Matt and Bianco, one of the couples in the focus group, produced a nine minute video on their trip to Fantasy. You can watch their video by clicking on Matt and Bianca's Video Report.
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