Hotel Casa Velas and Velas Vallarta

Challenging layout and overall pleasant experience.

The course provides a good test of your golfing skills due to the variety of the terrain, the placement of the sand traps & water hazards, appropriate locations of the tee boxes depending on your skill level & the undulating greens allows numerous locations to place the cups to test your putting skills.

It can also test you mental fortitude if you are from an area that doesn’t have large crocodiles swimming or walking around the water hazards.,

Bar and snack hut closed at 5pm before many golfers had not even made the turn! 😔

Not to mention the stank of sewer and the overgrown building waiting to be torn down. Visually awful

Loved this course! We played the Weiskoph couse earlier and even with a Golf Now Hot Deal was expensive...almost $200 with tax. Nicholas was $89 after 2:00. Great facility to practive putting, sand play, chipping and drivers. I would happily play this course again

Fun, challenging, beautiful course on OCEAN. Ranger was very rude...came up to us on 10th tee and said we playing 15 min too slow and had to either skip a hole or play best ball! Never even a warning, as we could easily pick up our pace, wo being so rude. Crazy, as we were not being pushed and it was rainy all day. Then the ranger kind of followed us around for 3 or 4 holes. Ruined a nice round for me.

Greens were in great shape and ran pretty true. Played the front in 2:10. Back was 3:30 and absolute misery. No Marshall in sight. One par 4 there were 3 foursomes waiting on the teebox.

Great layout, great staff, great practice area. My only issue's some of the sand traps need more sanding them,or need to be tilled up, making it difficult to get out because your club bottoms out and bounces into the ball.

Also my group would like a place to get a drink after our round but you close the bar too early. Other than that, we truly enjoy it at Vista.

Very difficult course with lots of water and tons of sand. Not for the feint of heart, but I knew that going in. Staff were very friendly, and even though it rained a bit, we enjoyed ourselves. But the fairways were bare in lots of places and the bunkers had huge rocks in them. Greens were good, and quick. But I was disappointed in the overall maintenance and upkeep. For the money, Vistana is a much better track and better maintained.