Catalina & VIlla Mexicana

Since it is your birthday week, I assume you are willing to "splurge" a little. I would definitely recommend the Catalina. VM is definitely more reasonably priced than Catalina but you get much more for your money at Catalina. Having a refrigerator is very important to us because we are big on using our leftovers (would love to have a microwave also!). We have never stayed in the Linda Vista suites - we actually prefer the rooms closer to the beach, which does make for quite a hike to breakfast and other meals we choose to eat there. We generally eat lunch somewhere on LaRopa but go into town for dinner. To get into town we go down to the beach, head for the street behind Elvira's/Paty's (where the VM entrance is) and pick up a taxi there to take us into town. We used to try to catch the combi, but at our dinner time they are usually full with residents trying to get home from work and we don't want to take up space they need more than we do.