A Palace in the Zephyr Breeze

Over an enormous mountain that dominates the Pacific Ocean, covered with tropical nature, the refined Hotel Villa Caletas offered in November an extraordinary show to present the Zephyr Palace, the most recent realization by this prestigious hotel owner, Denis Roy. More than three years were needed to erect this sumptuous 3,500 m2 mansion that takes guests to the mystic world of the west wind god, Zephyr. According to Greek mythology, Zephyr and his gentle and temperate blow always opposed Borée and his northern wind, cold and whimsical, Notos and his southern wind that carries rain and storms, and Euros with his eastern wind, hot and dry. With a blow, Zephyr took the most beautiful women to seduce them. He kidnapped Psyche to offer her to Cupid, god of love, who was in love with this gorgeous mortal.
Costa Rican artists, some of them part of “El Circo Vivo” and others independent, presented a show in total harmony with the palace magic during Un palacio en la brisa de Zephyr A Palace in the Zephyr Breeze sunset. With rhythms and chants that seemed to come from the ocean, they danced suspended on the air, with fire and even stars at the end of the show.
With bright eyes after so much magic and after seeing the juggler and his crystal balls, the guests visited the palace interior that overflows with a surprising diversity of masterpieces. It was Denis Roy, with his great artistic sensitivity, who selected all the pieces decorating the palace.The guests started the visit in the enormous horoscope room and its zodiac sign frescoes painted in the ceiling, an exceptional place to organize corporate events, incentives, anniversaries or weddings. On the lower floor, the guests discovered the seven suites and luxury rooms, each with a different decoration theme: the “Royal” suite, the “Imperial” suite, “Nuevo Mundo”, “Africa”, “Egypt”, “Oriental” and “The 20’s” rooms.
The bathrooms are decorated on each room’s style. Every room has a large jacuzzi; one has a sauna, and another one a gym. From the “Imperial” suite, through a secret corridor, it is possible to enter the art gallery, another place totally created by Denis Roy. One floor down, there is a beautiful swimming pool with Greek columns, and its waters seem to fall on the ocean. Close to the pool, the guests have a beautiful discotheque available.
A few days after its opening, the palace received its first guests. It is possible to reserve a hotel room (between $800 and $1200 a night), and for those who want to take advantage of the palace’s privacy, which has a different access from the hotel, prices range from $7,000 a night to $45,000 a week.
More than ten employees work at the Zephyr Palace to give service to the guests. They can also enjoy the gastronomical food of French Chef Vincent Boutinaud, who creatively leads the Mirador Restaurant, located on the top of the hill, where the hotel rooms are hidden in the middle of nature. After 12 years of existence, Villa Caletas has 100 employees,
who are at the disposal of its guests in its 37 rooms, suites and villas. Many Costa Ricans come to the classical music concerts organized each month in the spectacular amphitheater that protrudes from the ocean. Every Saturday in August, the hotel offers a concert in the framework of the Credomatic International Music Festival.