The V.I.P.s
. The VIP’s Named for one of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s first films together (in which their characters’ 13-year marriage is threatened by the attentions of an engaging bon vivant), the...
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Sandpiper Suite In 1965’s The Sandpiper, Elizabeth Taylor’s character falls for a married man—played by her real life husband, Richard Burton. One can imagine the two escaping to spend time together in...
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Richard’s Retreat Set in the top floor of Richard Burton’s former casita, Richard’s Retreat is the actor’s former sitting room. With its exposed rafters, elegantly carved king-size bed, Oriental rug...
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Flora Suite Named for Elizabeth Taylor’s excessively wealthy character In Boom!, the film version of a Tennessee Williams play, the Flora Suite is on the ground level of Casa Kimberly and opens onto...
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Velvet Suite It was the movie that introduced a charismatic violet-eyed girl who loves her wild-mannered horse: With the debut of National Velvet in 1944, Elizabeth Taylor’s career was off and running....
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Virginia Suite One of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s best known movies, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, debuted just two years after Burton gave his wife Casa Kimberly as a 32nd birthday...
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Katharina Suite Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor brought one of Shakespeare’s best-known plays to the screen in The Taming of the Shrew, which finds Burton’s Petruccio trying to unleash the softer...
View ArticleCleopatra Suite
Cleopatra Suite Named for Elizabeth Taylor’s iconic role as the Queen of the Nile, the movie classic that sparked her romance with costar Richard Burton, the Cleopatra suite is designed with royal...
View ArticleElizabeth Taylor Suite
Elizabeth Taylor Suite The Elizabeth Taylor suite, accessed via a private elevator or hand-painted tile steps leading from the central courtyard, is a more than 2500 square-foot sanctuary of tranquil...
View ArticleJanice Chatterton
Casa Kimberly has been a love story from the start; at first a love nest for a pair of star-crossed lovers and now a labor of love for me. I look forward to introducing guests from around the world to...
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Cheers to the Burton-Taylors!
Tomorrow we’ll be raising a frosty margarita—or maybe a smoky mezcal—in the Iguana Tequila Bar to toast the anniversary of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton’s first marriage. The passionate lovebirds, who...
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Pride Vallarta on the March
Ready. Set. Party. Or March. Or Watch. Or do it all! The Vallarta Pride festival is an annual PV highlight, and this year there’s even more to celebrate—in January same-sex marriage became legal in...
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Ace of Diamonds
Well, we hate to toot our own horn (too much), but we can’t keep something like this to ourselves: Casa Kimberly, former home to Dame Liz Taylor, has just been awarded a Four-Diamond rating from AAA, a...
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Island Hop
John Huston, the Oscar-winning director behind classics like The Maltese Falcon and The Night of the Iguana (filmed here in PV in 1962 and starring Richard Burton), is, in a sense, the godfather of...
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Hidden Archaeological Gem
If you’re one of those types who takes a while to relax on vacation, who has to step down with a few intermediary activities before feeling good about sipping a cool bit of courage on a beach towel...
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Hot Nights, Cool Savings
Granted, not everyone thinks Puerto Vallarta when it comes to a summer getaway. Which is exactly why summer in Puerto Vallarta has a distinct charm. It’s hot, no question, but there’s no end to the...
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Lo Mejor Margarita or The Casa Margarita Revealed
It’s heating up in PV, and on days like these there’s really only one answer: The Margarita. More to the point: Our Margarita, because it is, quite simply, perfect. A classic at heart, with a brash...
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Day Trip: Sayulita
beach scene in sayulita, mexico We can go on for days about the beauty and charm of PV and the myriad things to do here, from shopping to dining to lazing. But we hate to hog all the spotlight all the...
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Love Immortalized
A bronze sculpture of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton captures the romance of this star-crossed couple. As anyone who’s visited can attest, Casa Kimberly is filled with striking furniture, from ornate...
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Election Detox
Is it all getting to be too much? The blustering, the back-and-forthing, the competitive tallies of military brass in their respective corners? If it seems you’re feeling the wear and tear of the...
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