Destinations

Warm and sunny with a welcoming tropical feel, Zihuatanejo is a small local town along the West Coast of Mexico about 50 miles north of Acapulco.  September is the end of the rainy times along this coast so the air was full and warm.  The cozy town of Zihuatanejo, originally a fishing village at the outflow of a river valley located at the edge of the Bay, remains local and real in feel.   THE TIDES, a deluxe resort about 30 minutes walk south of town along the large bay, is located on a beautiful beach with sweeping views West towards the sunset.  Each evening we had  a magical light show of cloud-to-cloud lightning, thunder and relatively short but heavy downpours of rain ….  making all the greenery, flowers and plants lush and fresh for the morning. 
 
Quality is the underlying theme of The Tides.  Staff provides excellence of service, welcoming and discrete, and the cuisine in the restaurants along the beach as well as set back under an open air palapa is inventive, delicate and amusing both in presentation and taste.  Top level service all around.  Three bars, one at the beach, one nestled into the resort with table service for light meals and the third,  main restaurant,  with large pool with swim-up  bar alongside provided options to relax and enjoy.   Tennis courts, excellent private gym, water activities and a long beach gave more than enough options to relax or work out — depending on your wishes.     Dining at night provided top quality entreés, served with gracious and gentle subtlty by the local staff , was complimented by excellent wines, and even a ‘ bottled water menu’ which came accompanied by your choice of ginger, cinnamon, as well as lime, grapefruit or orange slices you could have placed in your  individual glass for an extra flavoring.  Very refined. 

The resort is top notch — adobe style two-story buildings with palapa roofs generously spaced amongst large fountained pools, woven between excellent landscaped and lawned areas ; most rooms had views of either gardens, the pools, the grounds or the sea.   Large, spacious rooms were done in muted tones and utilized local art works .  Each category of room had a special atmosphere and comfortable quality while providing  in-room amenities such as flat screen TVs, daily coffee/tea trays brought to your room as a wake-up gesture, in-room safes, minibars and twice-daily room service. 

From the moment you stepped through the main entrance into the reception area to the time you had to say farewell, there was no time that any request or wish was not fulfilled by the willing and warm staff at The Tides.

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