Vidanta Nuevo Nayarit-Vallarta

Nayar is a good combination of old and new 9’s

Both are very testing to your skills and very playable for all in the family to enjoy

One of yhe ones to play while in PV

I wasn't planning on bringing my clubs to Mexico, but when I booked a $79 hot deal for a noon time, I couldn't resist.

After reading all the complaints about getting to the pro shop I arrived early, and it only took me 10 minutes. I think this was because the shuttles seem to run on the top and bottom of the hour, and I had caught one right away. With the check-in at the pro shop completed, I was instructed to follow another group to the practice area where I would wait an hour and a half till my tee time. The driving range and short game area were very nice, along with the very large practice green. I noticed the greens had been punched (3 weeks earlier according to our caddy) and were very slow.

I met my other playing partners and we were assigned a caddy. This seems to be the other complaint I read a lot about, but they are only 400 pesos (make sure to bring cash to pay them) and I have never had a caddy before. We were assigned David, he was friendly and fantastic, knowledgeable, had great stories about pros at the course, and was always right about the greens. Easily worth the money.

The weather was around 30°C but it was the humidity that got to me as a Canadian, a light wind off the ocean definitely made the round bearable.

Course conditions were decent, as mentioned the worst part were probably the punched greens but the fairways were great, bunkers soft, and the rough was...interesting. I've never played off paspalum before and man that stuff can be tricky especially in the thicker rough where your ball could be lying on top a fluffy layer teed up 3 inches or it could be buried deep into a tangle of grass and you'd be lucky to get out. That doesn't even count how the shorter cut paspalum around the green reacts to chips and approaches. A very fun experience.

The course layout was nice, I only wished they would have made the par 3's a little longer, they were using the forward tee boxes, and with the pins mostly at the front, they all played around 80-100. The par 5's were also playing very short that day, although I didn't take advantage of that.

Overall, as a budget golfer, I would definitely come back for another Hot Deal. It was fun playing at the home of the Mexico Open trying to imagine how I'd fair with tournament conditions and tee boxes, however at full price it's too rich for my blood and perhaps that's where some of the the negative reviews are coming from.

Good value on golfnow. Martine was our caddie, speaks great English and was great.

Greens were aerated a few weeks back: are a little slow, but quite playable.

It was long weekend in México so couple of very slow groups in front. Previous days were much smoother and I was able to overtake bigger groups very smoothly. Professional golf club, very friendly people so highly recommended.

Enjoyed the day. The caddie was very friendly and helpful.

Our caddy Juan was great. The course was backed up, and there were some very slow foursomes And given that we were just a twosome Juan was able to To pop around the course and catch empty holes and we still ended up playing all 18 in just over 2 1/2 hours!!

El lugar donde se ubica es maravilloso, el campo muy bien, menos complicado que el otro de Vidanta, el caddy Martin genial y todo el stsff

El complejo de primer mundo

Had alot if fun and played this ciurse twice in the last werk. Very player friendly and knoledgable staff. Caddy totally worth the money.

I have played twice this week and both the caddies were fantastic. Daniel Was both really knowledgable about the golf swing and incredibly helpful as well we were playing as a single and he navigated the course and we charged all over the place and avoided back up and played in just over 2 hours!!

My girlfriend and I stayed at Vidanta and had planned to golf while here. We are both mid/high handicappers. This course offered the best value for us. Nothing special about the course. Fairways are very forgiving. Bunker sand was kind of gritty. Greens were sandy or furry. We had to use a forecaddy who was a great guy (ask for Gabriel). He offered putting reads and was a huge help just navigating the cart path which was not always obvious. Not sure the forecaddy was worth the expense but that is a part of the deal. We live in Oregon so we were just appreciative of dry warm golf. If you want Pebble Beach not your course, but if you want to enjoy some weather and hack it up like me…it was pretty darn good.

Played this course after shorter easier Nayar. Good idea to use Nayar as warmup for this longer more difficult course. Loved having excellent caddie. 1st day played Nayar, here 2nd, and 3rd day played Marina. Lucky choices and sequences as each one became more challenging.

Btw, if you buy from refreshment cart, do get something for your caddie.

Forward ladies tees provide good way to ease into playing in PV's hot humid weather. Fun to see iguana. Always enjoy having a caddie. PV caddies are very reasonable and good. Mosquitoes!

BTW, I am 84 yrs young, health handicapped woman who loves to golf (solo or "new friends") and traveling around the world to play amazing beautiful golf parks.