Residencial Casa Linda

We rented a villa in the Casa Linda community through a 3rd party, Casa Coco Tropical Villas, as Casa Linda doesn't rent villas directly. We rented the Perla villa (#862). The villa was very nice; clean and well-maintained. While smaller than I expected from the pictures, it was perfect for our needs - two couples for a week. The location, near a road, sometimes caused distractions, but the road is NOT busy so those distractions were few and far between. It is within walking distance of the Casa Linda Welcome Center, which made it convenient and easy for us as we got together with several sets of people during our time there and we’d just tell them to meet outside the Welcome Center. Again, convenient and easy for all of us. The villa itself is well laid out, with bedrooms on either side of the main living room / kitchen area. One bedroom had an ensuite, while the other used the ‘common’ bathroom with a door just outside the bedroom. Since there were two couples, we just treated the ‘common’ bathroom as if it was an ensuite for the 2nd bedroom. Both bedrooms have sliding doors out to the pool area but, honestly, we never used them. We kept the two sets of sliding doors in the main living area open almost all the time, but tried to keep the bedrooms a bit cooler by keeping them closed up. Both bedrooms also had in-room safes which we liked. The pool was cleaned every day, in the morning. There was also a pool net which we used ourselves periodically just to get the bugs and leaves out that tended to randomly drop in during the day. At night the place was very nice, with lights above the bar, above the outdoor dining table, as well as in the pool. The pool has a shallow area, which is apparently supposed to be used for lounge chairs. We weren’t comfortable putting the wicker-like chairs in there and instead used it to walk around while enjoying a drink or a cigar (or both) in the evenings. The pool area also had a half bath to use while enjoying the pool area. We did have one fairly significant maintenance issue during our stay. The refrigerator stopped cooling one day, resulting in the loss of quite a bit of food. Strangely, the freezer continued to work fine. We moved as much food as we could out to the outside bar refrigerator, but that unit is quite small and we weren’t able to get it all in. The Casa Coco people got there pretty quickly (within an hour or two of contacting them) but they weren’t able to repair it. It took until late in the day before they were able to get a refrigerator repair person in to affect the repair. This resulted in us tossing $50 or $60 worth of food, including some that had been prepared by Chef Rocio’s team (more on that below), which didn’t make us happy, but we survived. Since I mentioned Chef Rocio, I’ll offer this one last suggestion: I highly recommend you connect with Chef Rocio and have her or her team make you a meal. They will make you way more food than you can possibly eat, but it is so darn good t

Villa was dated with dirty furniture, windows and doors that didn’t lock, toilet in one bath didn’t work and we needed to fix, shower head in master bath was a trickle, no hot water for three days, kept being told to run it longer but propane tank was actually empty, lights around pool step missing with wires hanging out, linens old, bedspread with holes. Housekeeping was good but kept missing one room. Ground and landscaping was beautiful and well maintained

We celebrated my cousins bachelorette party here, we had the most amazing time. The staff was so accommodating, the property was beautiful. Overall we had the best experience here, and it was because of the most amazing staff so kind and generous.