The news coverage was confusing back in 2016, when the Sheraton and Westin were being sorted out on the same property, and I posted information that proved to be incorrect in the end, so I wanted to provide a clear explanation.

It's most easily done using a map of the property:


This is the current 2022 layout.

The original Sheraton Hotel, opened in 2008, consisted of the purple guestroom building 2, the blue guestroom building 1, and the lobby building, with the numbers 16-23 on it.

The original plan for the Westin, announced in Dec 2015, was that it would be a small boutique hotel located in two new buildings - 71 guestrooms in building 3 and 36 timeshares in a V-shaped building behind it, not pictured on this map.

In the end, they went a different way, and converted almost the entire existing Sheraton into the Westin, as well as the eastern of the two new buildings. The V-shaped new building was made into part of the surrounding Mar Brisa timeshare resort.

One guestroom wing of the Sheraton, building 2, remained Sheraton-branded. They then built a brand-new second lobby building for the new Sheraton, numbered 6-11 on the map, a brand-new second pool complex for the Sheraton, numbered 12 and 13, and a new second guestroom wing for the Sheraton, 4 on the map.

The two hotels both opened in 2018, each containing portions of the 2008 hotel.

Hope that helps clarify what was the old Sheraton and how most of it ended up as the Westin.

It's made especially confusing because they tried to simplify it in all the press releases, like this one:

https://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/...eb15495950.htm

They all talk about the "brand new" Westin, when most of the Westin is actually the existing 2008 Sheraton structures. The fact that they actually slid the Sheraton business basically 1000 feet to the northwest into a largely new complex was too confusing to explain to people.