General Rental Details About All Santa Fe Rental Houses at Rancho Jacona Garden Oasis

Rancho Jacona Is Not A Hotel

Blooms in May

The main house courtyard in May

Rock garden in April

View into a casita at dusk.

View out of casita to grounds.

The stone fountain with river rock in the back meadow area

Tulip blooms in April

Pool area and pavilion

Pets are welcome at Santa Fe vacation rental houses

Rancho Jacona's vacation casitas and casas near Santa Fe are in a quiet and beautiful place offering a home base for vacationers who enjoy both the ambiance of rural Northern New Mexico and the cultural offerings of the Santa Fe area. 

Rancho Jacona's vacation rental casitas and casas are fully equipped.  You need bring only your groceries and personal needs. Each casita and casa is a pueblo-style adobe home, cheerfully decorated and comfortably furnished, with patio or terrace.

Rancho Jacona does not provide daily maid service.

Jacona guests are provided with very clean, warmly welcoming and comfortable vacation houses – casitas – in which guests look after themselves. Rancho Jacona doesn't wash the dishes or pick up after the pets or children. Rancho Jacona provides no food except the fresh eggs that are usually available, chickens willing.

If guests are not in the mood to cook or to barbecue on the grill provided at each casita, where better than Santa Fe to grab a simple taco or pause for hours over a gourmet dinner created by Santa Fe chefs' exceptional cuisine.

High Speed Internet Now Available

ONLY FOR GUESTS WHO HAVE WIRELESS READY LAPTOPS: Rancho Jacona has installed a wireless room, including a wireless printer, next to the office. There is a cash charge of $10 per house per week for the use of this room and the wireless service. We provide a protocol for using the wireless network, another protocol for accessing the printer. We know the wireless works for anyone who has an appropriately configured laptop--nine out of ten guests have had no trouble with it; we cannot guarantee that every laptop will access the printer as these connections are notoriously iffy; about thirty percent of our wireless users cannot access the printer. If you can't access the network, we give you your money back; access to the printer depends on your laptop configuration and is not part of the deal. The wireless room is open from 8 am until 6 pm, daily. NO ONE WORKING HERE IS A COMPUTER EXPERT. IF THINGS DON'T WORK, WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT EXCEPT REFER YOU TO KINKOS. See below.

FOR THOSE WITH NON-WIRELESS COMPUTERS: On your house phone, you may dial up your server if your server has an 800 number or equivalent. Or, Rancho Jacona has a dial up account which works like a party line, that is, only one person may use that particular phone number at a time.We expect that any guest using this number will use it only briefly, for necessary business. There is a small charge for the password. Call the office if you wish to use it, we'll add the charge to your bill and give you the phone number and the password.

FAXES, PRINTOUTS, ETC. As we often remind people, we are not a hotel and do not provide hotel type business services. The nearest fax is at Nambe Pharmacy in Pojoaque, five minutes away. The nearest full service internet access for printing boarding passes and the like is probably Kinko's, on the north edge of Santa Fe, twenty minutes away. If you're going to need to print boarding passes, leave time within the 24 hours before your flight to stop at Kinkos to print them.

YES, PREVIOUSLY WE TRIED TO PROVIDE A COMPUTER WITH A PRINTER FOR OUR GUESTS: but after it was totally crashed for the fourth time in five weeks, each time requiring a 50$ per hour computer fixer, we got rid of it. No one working here is a computer expert and since there is no foolproof equipment available, we no longer attempt to provide it.

Air Conditioning and Summer and Winter Temperatures at Santa Fe

Each casita and casa has an air conditioning system for the hottest days of the summer. Most guests never turn them on as adobe houses cool down at night and, if closed during the day, stay cool all day long. Nonetheless, the systems are there, waiting for guests' needs.

In the summer, the temperature is warm and dry - averaging between 56º at night and 86º during the day. Shade brings the temperature down and the adobe houses bring it down even further. As Rancho Jacona sits at 5300 ft. elevation, the evenings are almost always cool and frequently downright chilly.

In the winter months, the sun is hard and strong and, while the nights and shoulders of day can be freezing at between 16 and 26 degrees, the mid-day temperature is between 43 and 66 degrees.

What Is In The Rental Casitas and Casas

All houses are centrally heated and, in the summer, with air conditioning. All have dishwashers, garbage disposers, full sized stoves and refrigerators, coffee makers, toasters, washer dryers, hair dryers, barbecue grills, kitchen utensils, all linens, all paper products including coffee filters, toilet paper, paper towels, tissues; all soap products, including dishwasher powder, liquid dish soap, hand soap, bath soap, clothes washer soap; matching sets of dishes, glasses, including wine glasses, etc.; utensils, including cork screws, juicers, cooking spoons, spatulas, etc.; good knives that are regularly sharpened, pot holders, dish towels, stainless steel cookware, Teflon frying pans, stock pot, roaster, etc..

• If it isn't in your house, we can probably provide it from the main house kitchen. 
• All houses have cooling systems for those days that need it.
• All houses have one bathroom except for Frog and Rabbit, which have two, and Butterfly which has four.
• We do not provide charcoal, personal toiletries or groceries, except for freebie fresh eggs, as available, from our own chickens.
• All casitas and casas have the traditional adobe fireplaces. Lighting fires in these fireplaces is a skill that must be acquired. Be sure to read the instructions in the Rancho Jacona information book as the resulting smoke from an ill-laid fire will be an unpleasant and costly experience.
• We provide firewood for evening fires in cold months only. 

All Santa Fe Vacation Rentals -- Three Or More Days

Housekeeping costs are reduced when guests stay longer, and these savings are passed along to guests who do stay longer. In Off-season and Way-off season, the rate structure invites our guests to stay at even less cost.

Closed for The Beginning of December

Except for long term guests, during the first two weeks in December, Rancho Jacona is closed.

• Studio Houses
  Studio rental houses are one large room plus kitchen and bath. 

• Pets Are Accepted
  Many kinds of pets are accepted in rental houses other than Frog, Butterfly, or Rabbit, by prior arrangement.  Please ask for our pet policies as guests bringing pets are presumed to have agreed to them. 
  
  
• Only Non-Shedding or Caged Pets In Certain Casas
  Only non shedding or, alternatively, caged pets are accepted in Frog, Butterfly, or Rabbit.
  
  
• Allotted Parking for Trailers, Campers, or RV's
  Trailers, RV's and Campers may not be parked next to the houses but we can park them elsewhere on the property by prior arrangement.
  
  
• Prices
  Casa and Casita rental prices vary with the season, size of house, and length of stay. Please see Pricing & Services