The Best Hotels Near Xinalani, by the Record
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One of the villas here was Richard Burton's private residence, which tells you something about the caliber of guests this place has always attracted. A Michelin Key holder, Hacienda San Angel is a cluster of colonial townhouses stitched into a boutique hotel, each suite heavy on old-world atmosphere and light on modern fuss. There's no beach, but the pool views over Puerto Vallarta's rooftops make that trade feel generous.
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Two adjoining villas in the heart of Puerto Vallarta that once belonged to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, connected by a sky bridge that tells you everything about how those two operated. It's a boutique hotel now, holding a Michelin Key, with individually decorated suites, a small spa, and an open-air restaurant and tequila bar overlooking the city and the bay. The whole place leans hard into the romance of it, and somehow gets away with it.
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Seven rooms draped in antique furnishings sit a few blocks uphill from Banderas Bay in the neighborhood Puerto Vallarta locals have long called Gringo Gulch, which tells you everything and nothing about what this boutique hotel actually is. The sun sets straight out to sea from here, and the open-air restaurant serves contemporary Italian when you'd rather stay in. A Michelin Key acknowledges the place as singular, which in a city full of bigger, newer hotels, it is.