Guests can book rooms at The Westin Resort & Spa Puerto Vallarta for a rate that is either for the room only or for all-inclusive. All-inclusive rates are higher because they include onsite food and beverages in the room rate (some restrictions may apply).

Gratuities and taxes are included.

Land activities

• Fitness facilities
• Tennis

Set on a private sand beach, the Westin Resort offers beach towels and direct access to the surf. A health spa offers massage, body wraps and scrubs, and reflexology and contains women's and men's saunas, steam rooms, and Swiss showers. The spa includes a couples-massage room and also offers oceanside, open-air massage. A children's club open during the day for ages 3-12 provides three hours daily of complimentary, supervised activities in an air-conditioned clubhouse and outdoors. (Additional hours available for surcharges.) A business center includes six computers with high-speed Internet connections (surcharge) and wireless Internet service (surcharge) is available throughout the hotel.

This hotel offers both all-inclusive room rates and room-only rates. All-inclusive rates include onsite meals and beverages, taxes, and gratuities. Additional charges may apply for meals at some restaurants, special dinners and dishes, certain beverages, and other amenities.

Shuttle vans and private cars of varying prices are available. They can be reserved during the process of booking a reservation for this hotel, via this Web site, and added to the total trip cost.

Nikki Beach Restaurant & Bar - Branch of international chain of casual resort restaurants/beach clubs. Expansive indoor/outdoor design featuring natural woods, white muslin curtains, canvas-covered chairs, director's chairs, stools, platform beds, banquettes, and lounging banquettes. Private sand section with sunbathing beds and umbrellas. Multi-level seating/lounging under enormous thatched-roof palapa containing sushi bar, dance areas. Shaded ocean-view terrace seating. Three bars. New Age music, DJ for late-night dancing. Under-seating lighting, tiki touches, oil lamps after dark. Lunch choices such as sushi, shrimp, ceviche, fish, sandwiches, salads. Dinner choices include salmon tartar, shrimp wontons, platters for two (cheese, seafood, shrimp), shellfish platter for four, grilled lobster, lobster thermidor, pasta, fish. Bar open to after midnight.

El Palmar - Air-conditioned restaurant with terrace seating, also. Pool/garden views. Open for buffet and à la carte breakfasts, lunches, dinners. Theme dinner buffets. À la carte dinner choices such as burgers, sandwiches, salads, soups, pizza, pasta, seafood, steak, lamb tacos, salmon-tuna carpaccio, beef carpaccio, duck with cassis sauce.

Tlaquepaque and Tenampa - Pool bars with swim-up sides open mid-morning to early evening for tropical drinks, beer, cocktails, ceviche, burgers, tacos, salads, sandwiches, other snack foods.

La Cascada Lobby Lounge - Open-air spot with big-screen TV, pool table. Open mid-day to late night for tropical drinks, beer, cocktails, burgers, sandwiches, quesadillas, and nachos. Live music for dancing nightly.

Hours subject to change without notice.

Featuring palm-tree and garden islands and surrounded by sundecks furnished with cushioned teak lounge chairs, four lagoon-style pools ranging from 68.5 to 50 meters long (225 to 165 ft) offer a variety of swimming opportunities. The largest pool contains a swim-up bar, a jetted section, and tile lounges, as does an adults' pool. Another pool caters to children, with tubes and floats available for rent, and the fourth is for families.

Three semi-circular, artificial coves distinguish the resort's 300-meter (328-yard) beach frontage, which is furnished with padded lounge chairs and umbrellas. A private sand section adjoining the beach features curtained, wood-platform rental cabanas with cushioned teak lounges for 3-6 people. The beachfront, indoor/outdoor Nikki Beach Restaurant & Bar also includes a private sand section, this one furnished with sunbathing beds reserved for customers.

A water-sports center rents boogie boards, kayaks, sailboats, and snorkeling gear and also offers fishing trips and scuba-diving instruction/excursions. Independent operators on a beach adjacent to the resort offer parasail, personal watercraft and banana-boat rentals/services.

An expansive, air-conditioned, mirrored-wall fitness center (daily surcharge) contains cardio machines, weight machines, free weights, and a workout studio offering spinning and Pilates classes (surcharges). Oceanfront yoga classes are also available (surcharges).

The resort includes three lights artificial-grass tennis courts (surcharges). The clubhouse for the 18-hole championship Marina golf course lies 600 meters (656 yds) from the resort.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.

Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.

Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.

The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.

• Fee for in-room wireless Internet: MXN 190 per day (rates may vary)
• Fee for in-room high-speed Internet (wired): MXN 190 per day (rates may vary)
• Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: MXN 190 per day (rates may vary)
• Fee for high-speed Internet (wired) in public areas: MXN 190 per day (rates may vary)

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.