If you can gather a few friends so that everyone can chip in, Acapulco offers a number of spectacular villas which turn out to be much more reasonable than everyone getting hotel rooms. Our villa, the Villa del Arbol, or casa del arbol, was nothing short of spectacular. It was our first rental, done through the vacation rental site at Acapulco.com, so we were a bit leary at first. We shouldn't have been concerned. The rental agent was great, and the villa exceeded our expectations, even after two days in a suite at Las Brisas beforehand. Our villa was staffed with a houseman, cook, maid, and gardner/pool boy who offered the finest service and served up some of the best Mexican food I have ever had. We paid for the food, but asked virtually for anything we wanted. The houseman did the shopping and simply presented the receipts for the money we paid. By the end of the week, the food cost per person was an incredible $20 per person per day. (We bought our own liquor). The villa... more