Estate Las Palmas

Estate Las Palmas sits under the palms that gave it its name, in Kupuri Estates, the most private of Punta Mita's addresses. The house opens west toward the Pacific, and the view runs uninterrupted to the horizon: water, light, and the slow theatre of weather coming in off the ocean.

Seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms hold fourteen guests without anyone feeling counted. The scale is generous rather than grand, and the interiors are finished to international standards without insisting on it. A gourmet kitchen anchors the house, ready for your own cooking or for the private chef the concierge can arrange, who will have visited the morning market and the day's catch before anyone has thought about lunch.

Outside, the estate unfolds across several pools and open entertaining areas kept cool by the palms. Days here tend to arrange themselves without much planning. Someone swims before the rest are awake. Breakfast lasts until it becomes lunch. The afternoon belongs to whoever wants it: the water, a book in the shade, the six-passenger golf cart carrying a group off toward the beach clubs while everyone else stays exactly where they are.

Premier Golf membership comes with the house. It opens both Jack Nicklaus Signature courses, including the Pacifico's celebrated hole 3B, the only natural island green in the world, reached by boat when the tide allows. The membership also covers the practice facilities, the clubhouse, and access to Punta Mita's private beach clubs.

Air conditioning and high-speed WiFi are here for the moments you need them, which, if the house does its work, will be fewer than you expected.