After spending one night at a different hotel without AC, we went to the Villa Mexicana for the rest of our stay. The rooms were nice and clean with a phone and a TV. The view was amazing, the Playa Ropa is a gorgeous beach, great for long strolls and delicious restaurants. The only down side was the up hill walk to town, although you could get a cheap cab easily. We would go back again.

Hotel Villa Mexicana was a restful paradise for four stressed American professionals. We stayed a week. Here are the pros and only one con:
Staff was helpful and polite.
Rooms were spotless.
Beachfront area has perfectly white sand and comfortable lounge chairs under palm frond palapas. It is only a few feet from the water. Staff kept the area spotless also.
Three pools reflect the waving palms above. Spotless again!
Many excellent restaurants are close. We walked to a few in bare feet through the sand. Should you choose to go downtown for dinner, a $40 peso cab ride gets you there.
Massages, manicures and pedicures are available on site at a reasonable price. Those ladies are good!
We walked and jogged along beautiful Playa la Ropa beach.
Two of the four members of our party thought the beds were too hard. I slept like a baby!

I could go on and on about this very nice hotel BUT just read the other reviews and you'll get a feeling for this place ! We had three rooms - one for my wife and I, one for my daughter and son-in-law and one for our German foreign exchange student who is living with us for a year. WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME ... pool was great , beach was clean and fun and the hotel restaurant was reasonably priced and the food very good. Staff very helpful. There is a Tour Arranger in the lobby named Rodrigo ... he was extremely helpful and knowledgeable and made reservations for us for two very special tours... you can use his services with complete confidence. Some people in other reviews have complained of the sellers on the beach... that was a minor problem and the hotel staff did a good job of keeping them at bay. Taxis ARE 30 pesos ! - I was surprised that I was never asked for more as some have said. Took a couple of trips into town... for fun, a drink and good food go to 3 Amigos near the Pier. Banditos was ok also but the bar service was slow the night we were there. I've been all over the Caribbean and Central America on "get away" vacations - Zihua and THIS hotel are places that I would good back to in a New York minute ! Henry Higgins, Greeneville, TN

Finally - a place in Mexico that we absolutely said we have to return to! (Of course alot has to do with Zihau itself). Great beach - nice sandy, level beach - walked it every day sometimes twice a day.
Hotel:
We started off in one of the rooms that overlook the courtyard but asked to be put on the list for an oceanview one which took just 2 nights before we were able to move. But to be honest we spent very little time in our room so we felt we really wouldn't have needed to move.

We didn't find the beds to be terribly hard as others have reported - in fact I thought they looked like fairly new mattresses. We brought a small coffeepot so we could make coffee in the morning but they have coffee for free from 7 - 8 each morning at the restaurant so we could have left it at home.

Restaurant:
We found the food in the restaurant to be very good - we ate breakfast there almost every day as well as some afternoon snacks. We only ate there one evening for dinner and thought it was quite expensive for what we got but it was still delicious.

Reception & Staff:
The front desk was very helpful and friendly doing whatever they can to make your stay enjoyable. They arranged our room change, called taxis for us, took care of beach towels etc.

The staff was polite, attentive and friendly. They were more than happy to take care of anything you needed - you just had to ask.

All in all we had a wonderful stay and will definitely come back - probably next year. We LOVED Zihau - we ate mostly on La Ropa beach area although we did get into town a couple of times. Every place we ate at we enjoyed and everything is a very short/inexpensive taxi ride to. We'll be back!!