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Maui Ocean Club
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HGVC at Sea World
We've just finished our first full day at the Westin Los Cabos Resort on a four-night $299 Vistana VIP Promo package. We've also added a fifth night with a cash reservation. We own Marriott and HGVC, so we are not currently Vistana owners, but this is a beautiful resort, one of the best we've ever visited anywhere. It really combines the best of a top-tier hotel with the amenities you would expect at a timeshare - it is the best of both worlds.
Everyone on the staff has been exceptional, and we were fortunate to be assigned a 7th floor ocean front room (my wife's Platinum Preferred status with SPG may have helped with room assignment). The promo packages are for an Ocean Studio Villa, but for just the two of us, this is the best Studio we've seen anywhere - it has a basically full kitchen with an apartment sized refrigerator, microwave, dishwasher, and 2-burner cooktop. It also has a washer-dryer. We generally prefer 1BR units when it's just the two of us, but I can honestly say this Westin Los Cabos studio is more than adequate for our needs. If I were a Vistana owner, an Ocean Studio would be all we would need at Westin Los Cabos.
The resort also features the pools, services, spa, bell services, and multiple restaurants that you would expect at a Westin hotel, so you really have everything here. We have to do a sales presentation on Monday, which we hope won't be too painful, but this place is causing us to think about possibly adding a resale "mandatory" Vistana Unit like SVV Bella or Key West to get the StarOptions we need to be able to return here in the future. We're brand new HGVC owners and this is also our first trip to Los Cabos, so we haven't stayed at HGVC's Los Cabos affiliate - Fiesta Americana - but it's hard to believe it could top the Westin Los Cabos.
Attached are a couple shots of the view from our balcony - an afternoon shot and a sunrise shot. The black speck in the water just to the right of the sun in the sunrise photo is a young humpback whale tail-slapping and frolicking in the early morning. We have watched numerous humpbacks breaching and swimming, from both our balcony and from the beach/pool areas.
Everyone on the staff has been exceptional, and we were fortunate to be assigned a 7th floor ocean front room (my wife's Platinum Preferred status with SPG may have helped with room assignment). The promo packages are for an Ocean Studio Villa, but for just the two of us, this is the best Studio we've seen anywhere - it has a basically full kitchen with an apartment sized refrigerator, microwave, dishwasher, and 2-burner cooktop. It also has a washer-dryer. We generally prefer 1BR units when it's just the two of us, but I can honestly say this Westin Los Cabos studio is more than adequate for our needs. If I were a Vistana owner, an Ocean Studio would be all we would need at Westin Los Cabos.
The resort also features the pools, services, spa, bell services, and multiple restaurants that you would expect at a Westin hotel, so you really have everything here. We have to do a sales presentation on Monday, which we hope won't be too painful, but this place is causing us to think about possibly adding a resale "mandatory" Vistana Unit like SVV Bella or Key West to get the StarOptions we need to be able to return here in the future. We're brand new HGVC owners and this is also our first trip to Los Cabos, so we haven't stayed at HGVC's Los Cabos affiliate - Fiesta Americana - but it's hard to believe it could top the Westin Los Cabos.
Attached are a couple shots of the view from our balcony - an afternoon shot and a sunrise shot. The black speck in the water just to the right of the sun in the sunrise photo is a young humpback whale tail-slapping and frolicking in the early morning. We have watched numerous humpbacks breaching and swimming, from both our balcony and from the beach/pool areas.
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