Hey friends…..Look at all the beach chairs with your name on them. If you call me at 707-280-6366 and book a week in the month of May I will give you the family pricing. If you want or need a week to chill this is the place! http://robertosbungalows.com

Perfect weather and over a mile of beach almost to yourself.

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We are rated number 1!

Roberto’s Bungalows is rated Excellent on Trip Advisor and we thank you for helping us get there!

If you’re considering a stay, read our reviews. And if you’re a part of the Roberto’s Bungalows family already, we would love for you to tell others about your stay with us here in San Pancho.

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We have been the (family) owners of Roberto’s Bungalows for the past 7 years. Each year we talk about going to the La Patrona Polo Club and never had gone. Well we finally decided to go, because one of our guests mentioned that he was going with all the folks staying at the Bungalows. What a shame it took so long to get there, as we went one Saturday eve. This was one of the best experiences we have had in San Pancho. There is an excellent restaurant and tables right at field level. The excitement of the evening was overwhelming. Great food, great polo matches, great sunset, great fun. We are located just about 35 minutes from Puerto Vallarta and the trip from the big city into paradise is worth it’s weight in gold.  We highly reccomend if you are coming to San Pancho stay at Roberto’s Bungalows (rated number one in San Pancho) and go to a polo match.

Oh what a night!

Polo Players

 Polo players use a mallet made of bamboo, which is also called “stick”. The mallet’s head is made of rosewood and is beveled on one end to allow for a full swing at ground level. The mallet varies in length between 49 and 54 inches and it is very flexible. The ball is made of plastic, measuring 3 ¼ inches in diameter and weighing approximately 3.5 oz.  Originally, the ball used to be made of bamboo root, but for the sake of consistency, the choice of material changed to plastic. All players use English saddles, as opposed to western saddles.

The field
A full-size polo field measures 300 by 160 yards. Such ample space is necessary for eight horses to have enough room to gallop, stop and turn. Depending on a player’s ability, the ball can travel up to 150 yards.

THE NEW POLO FIELD IS NOW BEING BUILT AND IS GOING TO BE AN INTERNATIONAL POLO FIELD. Come and visit and I will take you out to look at what is coming….They are making way for something that will be known around the world in the polo world.

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A day of great Whale watching

At Roberto’s Bungalows the guests are always looking for some adventure to do. Here in San Pancho we have many things to do. We have the polo club, surfing, fishing, bird watching trips, golf on a beautiful course, soccer games and the list goes on. Some guests last week went whale watching in los ayala. When they came back they said it was one of the best things they ever did.

 Got me to thinking……Hey how about us? Los Ayalais just within 20 minutes from San Pancho Village. Jane, Earl, Billie Ball (really her name no connection to the movie) who I called Bobby all day by mistake and had fun with it all day…and Drew and Sheri Hunt. (Billie if you read this ….sorry about the Bobby, but I just want to say….You and I were born from the same egg…..Love you very much)…We jumped in the car and headed up to see the whales put on by Lopez tours. Fernando Lopez is a real fun and happy man who makes what ever you do a blast. We got there around 10 in the morning and within a half hour we were basking in the sun with the whales…..they were everywhere and beautiful. The warm sun was beating down on us and life couldn’t have been any better. Our friend Drew was taking pictures and OMG I was so happy he brought his camera. Jane and I had our iphones and a little point and shoot, but Drew brought out the real deal. Drew dropped by yesterday to show me a slide show of the day and it was like we were back in the boat. Come enjoy the wonders of the world in San Pancho, Mexico and villages surounding us. We are looking forward to meeting you and becoming family.

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Throw Away the Crutches

Let’s address the Hip thing…Got new crutches to go to Mexico with me for my first hip operation and used them quite a bit, but I’m still feeling too much pain to think about it!  Flew into Puerto Vallarta on my San Pancho vacation…yea I know…. I do go on a lot of vacations….My brother in-law Steve set it up without us knowing anything about where we were going……Just told us we were going to have a great time in a real nice place…I had dreams of room service, swim up bars (for my Pepsi) big flat screen TV, and a real nice rent-a-car……NOPE….We ended up in a town with dirt streets and ladies cooking chickens on make-shift grills at the corners.  No room service…no fancy restaurants…no fancy rent-a-car…we had to rent a jeep, why….I’ll tell you why….because the road to the place we rented was up a hill of river rocks…and there was no other way to get up there. It was completely impossible to get there on crutches. The first night we stayed there was a spider in our room the size of a small dog and he was walking all over the walls and believe it or not a crab…not a little crab…a big crab… and we were about a half mile from the water….I still can’t figure that one out. I scooted the crab out of my room with a broom, because I didn’t want to kill it… Jane’s mom and dad were staying downstairs from us and in the morning they told us that there was a crab in their room last night and they smashed it!! I just laughed knowing I swept the crab into their direction. I killed the spider that was in our room that night and the next day I told someone in town and they said it was a scorpion eating spider and they are harmless (Huge but harmless) made me feel a little insecure about what might be lurking around my room the next night and made it almost impossible to get to sleep. The next day I thought I needed a break away from my crutches…So I rented a surf board…crutched out to the water dropped the crutches and got out in the surf….80 degree water and life was all it could be for about 15 minutes and then I caught a wave….jumped up to my knees and my hip and leg felt like they had been ripped off my body…the most intense pain you could imagine….I just cried and stayed put on my knees until I hit the sand and the board came to a screeching halt….then I rolled and fell over and crawled on my knees to my crutches and left the surfing for the younger crowd. Left Mexico and guess what I got to bring back over the border? Montezuma’s Revenge…yes as bad as it could get

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10 Billion Pesos……

It’s been an interesting month so far and it’s not over yet. Tax time is always a wonderful time of the year for us all and this one has been a bit challenging for me and my accountants.  I handed all my paperwork in and I thought everything was going along just fine when I got a call that the numbers seemed a bit over the top.  This year I had to include the money I was spending in Mexico. The numbers are over the top, but you are looking at Pesos not American dollars.  When you are looking at $16,500 Pesos it may look like you are in the money, but it’s really $1,500 dollars. So needless to say it looked like I had about 2 to 3 million dollars to write off…..NOT! I couldn’t figure out why they were having such a hard time, but I helped them figure it out.  I think I told you that I bought a home down in Mexico and I had gotten the loan from a Mexican bank with GE as the lender.  Well here we are with the communication breakdown once again.  I really need to learn Spanish and so do we all if we are going to keep up with living in both Countries.  I send an e-mail down to Mexico asking the bank to send me my statements from Sept. to April for my loan payments.  They can’t find them and it takes a few weeks to get me in touch with the right person who might help me.  Well they could help me, but when I phone them I ask for someone who speaks English to help me and they say they don’t have anyone.  What do I do now? I continue to e-mail until I find someone who I can communicate with.  Finally I connect with someone who speaks a little English and I ask him if I can get my statements.  He says yes and he e-mails me some statements and they are twice as much as the money as I was supposed to pay.  My payment is around $950.00 American dollars and they have me paying about 2 times that amount.  So now I’m really freaked out and I start e-mailing every few hours to try to get this taken care of.  I get nowhere fast…no one can help me.  So I go to my bank and get all the statements from my account and guess what…..they have never taken any money from my account.  OK now I am wondering ….who’s account are they taking it from?  I call the guy who speaks just a little English and every time he tells me…Don’t worry Mr. Miller we have everything in complete control….You are up to date on your account and your credit very great.  Now I am really confused and I go back to my bank and to see if we can find anything….I’m thinking maybe someone is trying to make my house default, so they can take it back.  Now I’m really not sleeping very well and starting to get very disturbed.  I call the bank and ask where they are and they tell me in Mexico City and I really don’t want to fly there.  I ask the one person who is helping me…well kind of helping me…and I ask why are they taking out more money than they should and he replies back “I don’t know, but it looks good for your credit” I ask can you show me where is the extra money going and he says he will get back to me. This has been going on now for 3 weeks and yesterday we found where it was coming out of my bank each month just like he said.  The only problem was the amount and the date when it was to be taken out was totally different than what we were told. So I call Mexico and both the bank and I are relieved that the money was coming out… but the amount is way out of line and almost double than I am suppose to be paying.  He said that the extra money is going into an account.  I tell him I don’t want it going into an account and I don’t want them taking any more than my payment. I ask him where can I get a statement of the extra money going into my savings?  He says he is going to try to find it and find out why they are taking out so much. And he assures me one more time……Your credit is looking real good…..I don’t know, but maybe if I knew Spanish things would be different….I don’t think so.

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“A Slice of Paradise” Reviewed July 8, 2011 

 My wife and I pride ourselves on finding towns and places to stay that are a bit off the map– where we can feel less like tourists and more like visitors– somewhere where we can experience a place’s culture and get a sense of what it is like to live there. San Pancho is the perfect example of such a place and Roberto’s Bungalows is THE place to stay when visiting! Does strolling down SAFE, QUIET cobblestone streets filled with with roosters, kids, little dogs, fish taco vendors, fallen mangoes, and real homegrown townspeople sound good to you?, How about laying out on a AMAZING white sand beach with no competition for space and NO HASSLE from annoying vendors? If so San Pancho is the place for you! Does being only two blocks from the beach and a half block from the main “road” in town sound good? how about escaping the late day sun to an incredibly peaceful semi-private courtyard with a refreshing pool (its bigger than it seems in the pictures, has a deep end and everything) lined by tropical flowers and plants? What about having all this for a fraction of what you will pay at a mega resort in PV? Then Roberto’s is the place to stay. Oh, and on top of all that Jane and Earl are the BEST hosts– so warm and welcoming, will help you navigate the town and the environs and will provide you with great stories and conversation if you want as well. It was like a home away from home. Thank you Jane and Earl!!!!! P.S. San Pancho is SAFE SAFE SAFE. my wife and i were a bit hesitant to travel to Mexico given all the bad press but were so happy to find that San Pancho is a sleepy little village and we felt extremely safe there- on the beach, walking around at night, etc. it is small enough that after just a few days you will recognize townspeople and vice-versa. Don’t let the bad press that has nothing to do with this area stop you from visiting San Pancho! Room Tip: We checked out all 5 rooms and they are all great and are fully stocked. Roberto’s is the biggest and most private. •Stayed June 2011, traveled as a couple Come and hang out in San Pancho…..it is really Paradise!

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   Summer in San Pancho, Mexico….Oh my, is it hot!  It’s a different kind of hot…than like let’s say Palm Springs…Not a dry heat…..It’s hot and it’s Humid…How Humid you ask?  About once an hour you put on a new shirt and let the other one dry out.  Your hair is constantly wet and it takes on a whole new look like you just jumped out of the pool. The advantages of being here at that time of the year is you have the beach to yourself. 

    During that time I also got to experience a rain and lightning and thunder storm….as you might not know… our  (Roberto’s Bungalow’s) are located in the Rain Forest… by the beach with lots of tall palms waiting to get struck and burst into flames. Haven’t seen it happen, but it just makes sense.

          One beautiful sunny afternoon, as I was walking on the beach and I looked down the coast and noticed a real dark cloud formation heading my way….FAST…the sky turned really black real fast…I also noticed a change in temperature….real fast…then it started to rain….not your regular rain….lots and lots of rain….you could say buckets of rain….enough rain that in no time at all the streets looked like little rushing rivers….and then in the distance you could hear the thunder….

    NOW.. I have been in thunder storms before…and they were really fun.  You know how you see the lightning and then you count one one thousand, two one thousand…that makes it fun and you also realize how safe you are because each one one thousand is suppose to be one mile away from the Zillion volts of electricity pounding down towards you into the earth.  Well the louder the thunder got the closer the lightening got….at one point the lightning would hit and you couldn’t count even to one.  The whole village would light up like a NFL football stadium in the dark……and then the thunder…and over and over and over. it was so loud that it hurt your ears….and it just kept on coming….at one point I saw the lightning bolts so close I thought they were going to hit me…..and then the thunder right behind it…..at one point they were coming together…the thunder was so loud that I was looking at the other bungalows from the balcony of the main house and I thought the building was going to explode into millions of pieces all over me.  I swear to you….I was scared to death….this storm didn’t just go by in a few minutes like most storms….it stayed with us for about 6 to 7 hours. Scary…scary…scary….It knocked out our electricity for a full day…Now it might sound like I am a whoos, but I am not…..just a little sheltered. 

    The wierdest thing about the storm was the town was still doing business as usual…people were walking in the streets with big smiles on their faces and it seemed like nothing was going on to them…Ladies were walking their kids to school and going to the store like it was a regular day in paradise. It’s weird to me when it’s 90 degrees out and it’s raining like cats and dogs…lightning is hitting and thunder is crashing and nobody notices but me!!!  The elictricity was going out around us and when I went down the street with the storm still in full swing and in my panic mode…..I saw a guy from the electric company up on a metal ladder fixing some wires…..OH MY!   

See you in the pool with my plastic umbrella!

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