Hotel Sotavento & Yacht Club

Very special happy atmosphere of a Yacht Club in tropics with marine adventure spirit, and very relaxing and quiet at the same time. All the territory is amazing jungle-looking garden. The pool is surrounded with tropical plants as well as the rest areas. The big palapa - restaurant is next to the pool. Food is inexpensive and tasty. Very cozy and comfortable unique place. We stayed there for 3 nights in the beginning of our trip to Riviera Maya, and came back for 3 nights again at the end of our trip. Rooms are very comfortable and well designed. Shower is big, hot water and water pressure is fine. Special Sotavento brand natural soap bars, high quality toilet paper, shower mats along with towels, free water bottles every day, great working air conditioner, comfortable beds are main details of room comfort. Staff is very friendly and helpful. It is secluded quiet place, and at the same time it is only about 250 m to the closest beach, ferry to the island and other attractions. Bus stop is about 100 m, so you can easily get anywhere in Cancun for 12 pesos. Bike/pedestrian path goes through all Zona Hotelera. We had a rental car, and we were always able to find free parking near public beaches except for Caracol where parking fee was 100 pesos per day.

Everything was great! No any improvement necessary but would be nice to have couple bars or hooks in the shower to hang dripping wet swimsuits. Also, would be nice to have brakes on wheels for beds to fix their positions on the floor better, so they won't slide if someone sits down carelessly.

Small boutique hotel offers good value

We have stayed here several times over the last many years. This is small boutique hotel that provides a clean, safe place to stay for a great value. The property has obviously been improved year over year, showing that the management is interested in maintaining a certain level of quality. Wi-Fi, which was previously so poor as to almost be a deal-breaker for business travelers was accessible and consistent this trip. The front desk staff are very friendly and helpful. The will go out of their way to accommodate every request.

The restaurant is convenient, but the food is merely adequate, not outstanding. The service is exceedingly slow, even by Mexican standards and the servers do not always give you the sense that they care. Breakfast is included in the price of the room, but sometimes leaves much to be desired. Depends on the day. The pool is a bit stressed from the volume of divers who are training daily in preparation to go out of the adjacent marina. There are a few nice quiet hours in the afternoons when the divers are out, and then the pool and gardens are glorious. All in all, it's hard to complain at this price.