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In 1991 Billy and Akaisha Kaderli retired at the age
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Hotel Casa
Chacala
Chacala, Nayarit, Mexico
Billy and Akaisha Kaderli
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Chacala is a
sweet beach
town just north of
Puerto Vallarta about 90 miles. After living in
Chapala,
Mexico off and on since 1993, we were gobsmacked that we had not heard
of this beach sooner.
So now we wanted to go, and since it was
the high season, we wanted to be sure we had a hotel.
I looked and looked online, with nothing
showing up under $110USD per night. As we both appreciate value for money
spent, this wasn't what we were looking for.
I tell Billy of my frustration when he
comes home from his morning coffee with friends, and in about 2 minutes, he
finds Hotel Casa Chacala.
How did he DO that?

Hotel Casa Chacala
Billy and I think differently about a lot
of things - which is good. We cover many bases this way and it makes for a
good team. I was a little frustrated, amazed and a bit jealous that he could
find this GREAT hotel in a manner of minutes when I had already been
searching for easily 20 minutes already.
When I asked him what he did, he said he
went to Google, put in "Map, Chacala, Mexico" and then enlarged that map
several times.
All the rentals, the restaurants, and the hotels showed up, with pricing. If
you click on the little balloon, more information about the business
establishment shows up in a column on the left hand side - phone numbers,
ratings, directions, website, everything.
Well, gee.
And I always thought I was
hot stuff! And,
you know, maybe all of you already knew about this technique, but it was new
to me, so I was impressed.

Our room, air con and fan,
refrigerator and TV (which we never turned on)
So I immediately get on my cell phone and
call the hotel to make reservations.
"No, we have no rooms available for those
dates."
Oh no! Now what?
So the man on the phone and I jiggle
around the calendar a little bit and finally find a window of 5 days that
were open and I grab them.
This friendly, helpful, polite man's name
is Valentin.

The swimming pool at the hotel
I'm thrilled and instantly relaxed since
we now have a place to stay.
I copy down all my numbers to bring with
me when we travel - his telephone number, the address, my confirmation
number - the whole shebang.
Our taxi driver takes up this little
dusty road... it's a tiny town, remember?
And we walk in to meet Valentin, but he's
not there. Instead we speak to Lupita.

Sitting and hammock area looking
towards the community kitchen
Lupita was social, upbeat, engaging...
and she spoke some English. She checked our reservation and we were IN!
Upstairs we go to the 3rd floor and we
have a room that looks out across the town and to the ocean.
Sweet.

Community kitchen
We did not use the community kitchen, but
I did borrow a knife to cut up some fruit to put into the refrigerator in
our room.
Wifi is terrific here in the kitchen
area, and in our room... it was functional. That is very common in beach
towns. If we wanted to Skype, upload or download anything, we came here for
the speed of the internet.
BAM! It was fast.

View of the pool from the kitchen area
Hotel Casa Chacala was very clean and hot
water was good in the shower. Beds were firm, and we had an ocean view and a
small balcony for our room and to dry out our towels and bathing suits from
the beach.
Nightly price at this
time was 650 Pesos (about $35USD) - but since we ended up staying 9 nights,
Billy bargained for a discount, getting the price down to 600P per night
(almost $33USD).
It was well worth the price and Lupita, her sister and the maid were all
wonderful.

The view from our room
We had a great room and a lovely view. We
watched sunrises and sunsets from here, and could hear the birds and
neighboring roosters every day.
The beach itself was about 2 blocks away,
maybe a 7 minute walk by the time we settled into our chairs at
Chico's or
Chac
Mool.

Hotel Casa Chacala
We would certainly recommend this small
family-owned hotel. There are other hotels which are smaller, larger and
those which are more expensive. This is the "Goldilocks" choice, actually.
If you do make a visit here, be sure to
tell Valentin or Lupita hello from us!
Hotel Casa Chacala
1 Golfo de Mexico S/N
Chacala, Nayarit
Tele: 01. 327. 219.
4057 OR 219. 4075
Website:
www.hotelcasachacala.com
Email:
hotelcasachacala@gmail.com
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