Yelapa, Jalisco, August 25, 2026 – Two websites are giving travelers opposite instructions about the same oceanfront guesthouse in Yelapa, with one suspending reservations and the other advertising nightly rates under a new name.
The Casa Pericos website says the property is not accepting reservations. A separate Casa de Las Olas website invites booking requests at what appears to be the same guesthouse.
The pages use the same names on two units, Cielo Tranquilo and The Penthouse, and both describe Indonesian-inspired lodging near Playa Isabel. The Casa de Las Olas Penthouse page lists rates of US $185 a night in low season and US $299 in high season. It also provides a booking form and names Romero Tovar as the manager.
The Casa Pericos page names Romeo Tovar Chavarin and says he lacks authority to rent the property or market it as Casa de Las Olas. The name is spelled Romeo on one site and Romero on the other. The claim about rental authority has not been established independently by PVDN, and the Casa de Las Olas pages reviewed by PVDN do not disclose a legal entity or explain the authority behind the booking offer.
That conflict creates a direct payment risk. A reservation made through one operation may not be recognized by the group controlling the other.
Older public records establish the lodging’s operating history, though they do not settle current control. The Cabo Corrientes business license registry published in February 2020 listed permit 522 at Huachinango 51 in La Puntilla under Blair Tyler Shurtleff. The entry classified the activity as residential property rental and listed the permit as indefinite, subject to compliance with municipal requirements.
A 2018 account of a stay at Casa Pericos identified Shurtleff and Shane Hayward as the owners and said they had spent several years planning and building the guesthouse. Neither that article nor the 2020 license determines who has legal control in August 2026.
A Vallarta Uno report published Tuesday links the competing rental claims to commercial litigation over a 2010 association-in-participation agreement and a separate lease with an 80-year term. It identified Jalisco commercial case 163/2021, originally filed as 541/2019, and federal direct amparo 579/2023.
The outlet reported that the commercial court rescinded the association agreement, a Jalisco appellate court upheld the result, and the federal tribunal denied constitutional protection on April 19, 2024. It also reported that a court enforcement action was carried out at the property in February 2026. The lawyer identified as counsel to the plaintiffs pointed to the judgments instead of giving a separate account, the report said.
PVDN did not obtain independently verifiable copies of those rulings before publication, so the case numbers and chronology remain attributed to Vallarta Uno. The court result described by the outlet also does not establish the broader accusations of fraud and official misconduct made in its report.
The original report argues that the enforcement action was improper because the guesthouse stands in the federal maritime terrestrial zone, known as ZOFEMAT. It cites a Semarnat concession that it says names Shurtleff. PVDN was unable to retrieve the cited title independently from the agency’s public archive.
Federal law draws an important line between coastal land and a right to use it. The General Law of National Assets classifies ZOFEMAT as federal public-domain property and says such property cannot be sold, acquired through the passage of time, or seized. The same law says a concession does not create ownership of that land. It grants only the uses specified in the concession, without displacing third-party rights.
That distinction leaves several questions outside the concession itself, including ownership of improvements, rights created by private contracts, possession, and the authority to operate the lodging. The public record reviewed by PVDN does not show which assets the state enforcement order reached. Similar ZOFEMAT permit disputes around Banderas Bay have also involved separate federal, environmental, and local approvals.
The immediate conflict is visible online. Casa Pericos says it has stopped reservations, while Casa de Las Olas displays rates and accepts booking requests. Until the contracting party’s authority is documented, a nonrefundable deposit carries a clear risk of being disputed.
