Name: Posada Las Flores Vacation Villas
Address: Calle Jaibas 7, 63724 Los Ayala, Mexico, Los Ayala, Los Ayala, Los Ayala, 63724, Mexico
Rating: 5

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We are really looking forward to our next trip to Los Ayala in February, 2019.  We have stayed at the Posada Las Flores for the last 5 years and look forward to staying there again.  The staff is helpful, the hotel is clean and the coffee is great. The hotel is very Mexican with lots of tile - which we really feel is part of its charm.  We have looked at other hotels in the area, but feel that for the price and location, Posada Las 
Flores is the place for us!!  Plus you are within a block of the most beautiful beach!   PS.  I have read the review by Glen and Tina and agree totally - if you are looking for a true Mexican experience (not a "tourist" experience) then Los Ayala and the Posada Las Flores are for you!!

Great Mexican Hotel

I enjoyed my stay at the Los Flores.Wonderful staff excellent coffee there isn’t a poolside bar I had to ask to have a blender snd coffee pot put in
My room.It could be a bit better supplied.I had large pots no use what so ever except to heat my dish water.Its a wading pool not a swimming pool as advertised.i left a brand new Tommy Bahama chair and umbrella an agreement with Anna the owner to purchase $1500 pesos I’ve been home since March 8 I would be very surprised if I get my money.

I enjoyed my stay the staff are great I won’t be back because of the owner.

We stayed the last week of February for a short 10 day visit.  We have been to Penita and Los Ayala a half dozen times over the last ten years and love the area.  But fair warning it's not for everyone.  Neither place are as developd as Guayabitos, so if you don't like dirt roads or having to use your Spanish or walk to the beach a couple of blocks Posada Los Flores may not be for you.  We want the more fully Mexican experience and love how the local folks are so friendly when you try your broken Spanish.  Los Ayala is a town many local Mexicans from Guadalajara come for weekend beach fun as opposed to Gringo-land in Guayabitos, so it expands a bit on weekends but remains very quite during the week.

The hotel was what we needed, we were greeted by the lovely and friendly Anna on arrival.  Great Canadian gal with perfect Spanish and English and very accommodating for your needs.  She can organize tours, taxis, find good places to eat and local attractions. The hotel staff are very friendly, Victor at the desk and Jessie in the cafe particularly.  But be prepared their English is limited and if you are coming here get with the program, this is a Spanish speaking country, give your Spanish a try you'll be pleasantly surprised.  

We had a two bedroom suite, nicely roomy and clean.  Limited storage space but kitchen fully furnished with dishes and utensils.  We did need to get some dish soap, and a borrow broom for daily sweeping of sand from the beach.  The chairs are the typical Mexican tub chairs, not real comfortable but OK. Beds were two doubles in one room and one in the other, firm with rathe thin pillows.  Gas stove and a fridge that was a bit noisy.  Flat screen TV with two or three English channels but mostly Spanish.  So comfortable but not palatial, remember this is $70US per night.

The decor is truly Mexican and colorful and quaint.  A comfortable lobby with a dip pool and fountain, not often used by patrons.  They have a hose setup outside the lobby to help wash your feet off on your return from the beach.  Beach is a short two block walk. Downtown is 4-5 blocks long and also about two blocks away.  Taquerias and rotisserie chicken is great. Early morning buns arrive about 7:30am, hot and fresh. Add to that fresh squeezed fruit liquado from Santiago's stand near the Picnic Store and some fresh tomatoes and avacado and maybe a boiled egg along with a double espresso( large double Americano is $20 pesos and better than any Starbucks) from Jessie at the las Flores cafe and you are good to go for a trail hike or a lazy beach day.

Super coffee and Internet cafe beside the lobby.  Fair warning the wifi is erratically slow.  It's TelMex not the hotel routers and is true throughout the Region from what I could tell.  Best mornings and later in the evening but no streaming videos.  Supposed to improve with digital service in a year or so.

Last thing is no VISA so bring pesos or be prepared to use the ATMs.  Best to pay your hotel on-line before you arrive.  There are two ATMs  in Los Ayala on the Main Street that are not always working and limit their debit card withdrawals to $3000 pesos per day.  A couple more at the Bancomer in La Penita, similar limits it seems.  I was using ScotiaBank so it may be a bank thing as well.  We found no restaurants that took Visa so be prepared.

All in all a great value stay at Posada las Flores.  Many Canadian visitors. Clean and well run.

Good value, Nicely Mexican and great Coffee

So the photos you see on the website are not accurate at all of the hotel in it's current run down state. 
I first saw this property 15 year ago when it was only 2 floors and it was quite charming. Since then it is now 4 floors and there is a definite lack of care and attention to basic details... The place is becoming very tired and run down looking with broken furniture, tattered bed linens, bed side lamps that have no bulb or lamp shades and the bulbs flop over when there is a bulb in them. The switch for the lamps you could hear sizzling when you turned them on, not very safe from an electrical point of view. Hot water was the issue the first 3 days of our stay. We move to a new room which was a bit better but when you sat out on the deck and looked down there was a pair of under wear on the roof below us as well as some kind of rag or face cloth, they had both been down there a very long time because they were black and moldy looking. When you look around at other roofs you realized that there was that kind of debris on other roofs.  One of the other rooms patio door was missing a pane of glass as you can see in the photo were the curtain was popped thru it. The fourth floor roofed in area was missing half the roof and you could tell it was missing, either fix or take the rest of it off. The Mexican furniture was falling apart... the lower exterior court yard on the website shows a lower courtyard with a palapa, bistro tables all on an interlocking paver patio, lovely. The reality is that palapa doesn't exist it is in a pile of sticks on the patio, the bistro chairs are pretty rusty looking and the pavers look like they need a good power washing it is not accessible for guests. The interior courtyard with the plunge pool looks lovely and inviting in the website photos, the reality is that there is a significant number of tiles missing off the bottom of that pool making it look just really run down... As nice as the staff was and we met the owner she was lovely too but there is a general lack of interest by everyone there to keep the place looking smart and maintained. 
In this day and age and the prices being charged you can't use that adage 'Well it's Mexico!" That doesn't fly anymore, prices have increased significantly down there and probably wages haven't, generally speaking. 
My husabnd popped down to the lobby cafe 1 morning to pick us up a couple of coffee he took down 100 pesos thinking that was plenty of money for 2 coffee, he was wrong. It was 110 pesos/$9cdn for 2 coffee when he asked for milk for them he was told no and some mystery thick blob was plopped into each cup...no idea what that was didn't taste very good and basicially one cup was poured down the drain. The Café had a list of things available but no prices, so was it 1 price for tourist 1 price for locals?? We were going to have breakfast there but at 9 bucks for coffee what would breakfast have cost? The Café was never busy which is too bad because the location was pretty good with nothing else really in the area. 
If you are going to run a hotel it needs to be looked after and maintain to at least the basic standards. We have stayed in other hotels in the area were the owners were not present consistently and you could tell because the place was falling apart (but it was beachfront so at least it had that). I think this is the case with this hotel as well there needs to be more checks and balances put in place. I know my review will not be looked upon favorably but I am being honest in the hopes that changes are made for the better.

A silk purse has become a sow's ear...

Although the rooms are pretty, I had initially booked an air conditioned room for myself and spouse.  Night of our arrival was in a huge family type room with promise to be moved the next day to correct accommodation.  Next day across the courtyard and a small pond type pool we were moved into a similar sized accommodation...no toilet paper, broken door lock.  A deposit was placed in Canadian funds and the price upon our arrival became American funds.  Way too expensive for what it offered!  We left...

Disappointed

After reading the reviews we are even more disappointed in the place.  We booked over 6 months in advance and were never offered free pick up at the hotel.  A month before arriving we sent numerous emails requesting information regarding pick up and finally resorted to telephoning and were told by staff that we could be picked up for $800.00 pesos.  But later received a email from the owner (Anna) a Canadain transplant, that she would have someone pick us up for $100.00 US.
Upon arrival we found no towels, no soap, no water and the furniture was all worn and broken down.  The beds are very hard and as someone else said the towels were of floor cloth standard.
Anna came and spoke with us when she arrived and gave us the impression that we could have maid service as often as we liked to which we said twice a week would be fine.  Well the maid never showed up so after a week we did our own sweeping, floor washing and sheet/towel laundering only to have the maid remove our laundry from the line to use for her own use.  Asking management to ask her not to do this had no effect as it continued.  Some of the guests that were staying there said that they had stayed there often in the past but the place was not being kept up so would not return again.  The front desk staff were to be recommended for their friendliness and attention to matters that pertained to them.  We were on the top floor and could only get wifi on our ipad if you went down to the main floor.  We didn't need a/c as the ocean breezes were nice and there were ceiling fans.  The pool is really only a wading pool for children and is inside a small courtyard with no sun.

Did not end up with the room I booked. Booked a twin two beds and ended up with one bed and a couch. Had warm water shower once in two weeks. Twice our room flooded during a storm and we were on the fourth floor. Room was cleaned once during stay. Moved out two days early.
Would not recommend this hotel.

Review Posada Las Flores

The posad a is beautiful, obvious attention to detail in construction and design.  However, we arrived and were greeted by a young woman who clearly was not interested in answering any questions or giving us instruction to help us enjoy our time there.
We chose a 2 BR suite with AC.  We were not told that one AC unit did not work.  When we returned from the beach, the key that we had been given did not open our door.  We waited 15-ish minutes for the same young woman to talk to her mother, to help her find the key.
We walked into a hot space.  When we asked about the 2nd AC unit, we were told to shut the windows and doors, and eventually the single unit would cool the whole suite.
I asked about another room, but none of the other suites with AC were big enough.  I ended up paying for a second room so that we would all have AC in our sleeping room.
The "pool" is more like a fish pond, without the fish.
They advertise food and coffee in the cafe area next to reception, but the coffee machine is broken, and anything you ask for, they are out of.
Obviously, I would not recommend.

Not as described

we stayed  here from Frb/01/14 to Mar/01/14...... we were  picked up at PV airport by one of the hotel's staff members..... the hotels facebook page advertised free  airport pick up if a booking was made early.... we qualified  for this but still had to ask for it... it was not offered to us... in any event the "fee" pick up cost me 200pesos as the  driver was facing a  fine for commercial pick up within the airport.
Our introduction to our room was bad... it was evident the  beds had not been made up ( the sheets were obviously stale), there were no towels whatsoever and the water cooler was 1/3 empty with  obviously old water.... these issues were addressed  however  the towels when provided were old warn and of little use. The original pillows had a considerable amount of mould on them...... the proprietor, while  not  really apologising  for this made excuses about  us arriving after a very busy period for the hotel and thus  the room was not prepared.
The room was  of a reasonable size  but was not clean.. the curtains had mould on them... there was a constant leak  to the shower... the shower  was not clean ( again mold on the walls) and  the mirror in the bathroom was  dirty ( See photos  attached).... not only was our room not clean the toilet in the lobby was not clean and the toilet ( for guest use ) in the  yard was         disgusting. One day while waiting for a taxi in the lobby, the  cleaning lady was sweeping the floor and then used the same floor broom to clean the coffee table !!
Despite the proprietor only being on the premises for two or three days while we were there, we did bring our concerns to other staff members, notwithstanding the proprietor denying this.
The bed  was  very hard and uncomfortable.. ..we brought this to  staffs attention but nothing was done to resolve  the issue... we did however manage, on our own, to secure a more comfortable mattress from another (vacant)  guest room.. we had learned by now that it was more expedient to be self reliant rather than trying to get  help from staff.
One day we had an issue in our room that required the use of a mop and bucket.... i went to the  fron desk to ask for this and  was advised  that they are over there and essentially look after it yourself..... in all my travels and  hotel stays this is the first time i have  had to  personally clean a floor!!
The facility is run down.... the shower in our room had a constant leak, the window winder in the kitchen area was broken, as was the screen on the screen door.... only 3 of the 4 burners on the stove top worked.. there was a  tap in the lobby with a constant leak ( solution: put a bucket under it and hope to remember to empty it  when full)... one day there was no  water at the facility whatsoever .. a water truck  had to be hired to fill up the water tank.
The proprietor indicated that  the tarrif for the room is in keeping with what is offered in comparison to others... not so.. there are several better facilities ( on the  beach, swimming pool, clean facilities ) offering exactly the same price or simelar price both in  Los Ayala and Guayabitos (El Delfin, villas minerva, villas Iguana in los ayala and  el delfin, villas flores in  Guayabitos to name a few )
In summary  Los Ayala is a  great place to stay and enjoy.. unfortunately  Posada Las Flores is not up to par and given the amount of competition in the area it is in my opinion destined to flounder unless it is substantially improved and competantly managed... there are many many more better facilities in the area.

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