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Careyes: Jalisco's Exclusive Luxury Destination

It was in 1968 when the Italian Gian Franco Brignone flew over the Jalisco coast aboard a Cessna 172 to realize he had arrived in paradise. Thinking about the future, he decided that he would spend his last days there and he hurried to buy 12 coastline kilometers summoning architects Marco Aldaco, Jean Claude Galibert, Diego Villaseñor, Alberto Mazzoni and Luis Barragán for the great work.

 

Costa Careyes, Jalisco, is luxury and exclusivity synonymous, and also an Eden which highlights for its concerns becoming a responsible destination. Staying in one of its villas, houses, or bungalows has a high cost compensated by the care and dedication put in Costa Careyes every inch. However, the Brignone family has reaiteravaticily emphasized that it isn’t a hotel complex nor a resort, but a community starred by nature.

 

Personalities such as the filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, the German model Heidi Klum, the actress Salma Hayek, the singer Luis Miguel and even the genius Salvador Dalí, enjoyed at some point Costa Careyes peacefulness charm.

 

But Costa Careyes isn’t only a haven for celebrities and intellectuals, but also for beautiful specimens of leatherback, brown, olive ridley and hawksbill turtles (this one from which it takes its name). To these are added hundreds of other bird species, flora and fauna that enjoy their protected areas, far from humans' massive arrival.

 

Costa Careyes is located on Reserva de la Biósfera Chamela-Cuixmala’s heart. You can get there from Manzanillo, in a one hour 50 minutes roadtrip (105 km); Puerto Vallarta, two hours and 50 minutes of travel (170 km). You can even land by private jet—there’s a nearby runway.
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