My wife and I had the pleasure to stay at Casa Olivia for two weeks in February 2024. One of our son's and his wife joined us for one of our weeks there.
This house is amazing! It is very well designed, appointed, built and maintained. And CLEAN! It has three large comfortable bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms, plus two more half bathrooms. It has a really lovely swimming pool, one big balcony and a smaller one off one of the bathrooms.
We spent almost all out 'awake time' around the pool. It has nice large living and dining rooms but we didn't spend much time in them. The dining room table is only where we would put our things when we were between adventures at the beaches, communities and attractions in the region. We normally ate casual meals either around the pool or at the kitchen table.
Some of the highlights for activities that we did: the beaches at Distileria, Blanco (near Punta Mita), San Pancho and Bucerias; the Sunday morning market on the La Cruz marina; the whale and dolphin cruise on Monday morning out of La Cruz; live music almost any afternoon or evening at TreeHouse and Lusty's in La Cruz; the food everywhere; the friendly locals; the e-bike food tour in Bucerias; and spending the hot afternoons at the Casa Olivia Pool. We caught public transit very close by.
Olivia and Jose are really wonderful and welcoming hosts and now we are amigos. They are as helpful as you want them to be.
We are planning to return to stay at Casa Olivia again soon.