Hotel Villa del Mar

It was a relaxing oasis away from the busy beach area. It was quiet and clean. The staff was very friendly as well. I loved that they had coffee and conchas available for us in the morning. It was a nice addition to the stay.

Avoid

Closed the gate at night and didn’t tell us so was locked out. No ac in the room

The staff are amazing - super great vibes- and the property is beautiful. It was a lovely place to stay with a charming pool. Great place to be if you want to be a little removed from town center. The coffee in the morning was good and they have cold drinking water available all the time. They allowed us to arrive early on our first day and also leave our luggage in the office so we could enjoy our last day.

No real complaints, but for the price, it would have been nice to receive extra towels and toilet paper without having to ask. Our room didn’t have a hammock outside like the other rooms.

Lovely place that’s great value. The location is not clear so took a whole to find the hotel there is no sign on the road. You need to walk up immediately before Oregano Restaurant. On Maps it sends you too far along the main road.

The location was great, close to everything & beautiful views from the windows. We really wanted to like this place..

On the second night, we noticed a huge blood stain under the sheets that we hadn’t seen the first night. We then checked the whole bed and found blood stains on the back of the pillowcase as well. It was disgusting. The place looks cleaner than it seems at first glance, but there are many things that make you think no attention was given, even to the construction of the place. For example, the soap dish (on the wall) in the shower is upside down, making it completely useless. As soon as we complained about the bedsheets, they cleaned the room and changed the sheets, or so it seemed. They actually just re-used the sheets that didn’t have stains, which was fine with us, but still quite odd not to change everything. For the bath mat, they just reversed it, so the dirty side was facing down, which also seemed quite odd to us, especially when they could’ve just changed it for a new one. When I showed the housekeeper the stains, she acted like she knew it would be there and apologized a few times.Another downside to the property, if you stay in the same room we did, is that we could hear everything our upstairs neighbors were doing all night, as if they were in the same room. They were playing music and singing until 3 a.m. I complained through messages on Booking at midnight to ask them to keep it quiet, but they didn’t do anything. They said they would, but the music didn’t stop.

The hotel staff was very friendly, the hotel was clean and the location was a close walk to the beach!

The room was sparse but clean. Sitting area in the room made for a comfortable space to share with a group. The shower area was neat with an oversized tiled area and private window looking out on the backyard. The shower was cold water only but perfectly fine. The room was cool enough with the windows open and fan on. The location was great with a short walk to the main roads and beach. The night was quiet and beds comfortable.

Would have liked more hooks around the room to keep items off the ground. Perhaps a couple more tables or surfaces too. Only stayed one night so don't know much about their room maintenance over multiple days.

Nice pool area

We did not get the room category we booked. On the upper floors there are the described deluxe rooms with balcony. On the first floor, however, rooms are also offered as deluxe rooms, which do not have the advertised facilities such as private entrance, safe deposit box and balcony. In addition, the doors in this room were defective, so we had to fear for our safety. Our room could be entered from outside at any time. Some homeless people were sleeping outside the open door. I had my work laptop with me and felt very unsafe. We were refused a room swap even though we had booked a room with a balcony and the hotel was mostly empty! The hotel was also not willing to offer a solution in this case as part of the booking complaint.

The pool area is nice and cozy, Jamie and the staff are great, and the room was clean and the bed is very comfortable..Good excerise walking to and from the beach a few blocks away. Quiet at night ??

Nice pool area and room was a great size.

Location listed on booking was incorrect, so got dropped off in the wrong location. Was a long and hot walk getting to the actual location once we eventually found the correct address.

The location was great. Had a beautiful view and the air conditioning was a real treat.

Wifi did not work inside the room and I was very annoyed that I was not able to easily connect. Wifi is very important to me when traveling in remote locations.

Clean, comfortable large room. Nice little pool and friendly staff. Located in quiet location.

There was nothing I didn’t like about the property. As others have noted, there is no hot water at the property. It is located away from the main area in Zipolite and there is a slight hill when walking to the hotel.

The location was up a short hill from the main road, and it was VERY quiet at night. The location also offers easy access to the main street in town, a nice, short walk away. My room had a variable speed ceiling fan and an air conditioner so it was a very comfortable temperature for sleeping, plus the bed and pillows were very comfortable. The pool was very clean and beautiful. The staff was wonderful! We used What's App to communicate, which was very good as my flight was late so I was able to let them know, so there would be someone to let me into my room. They also used What's App to ask if and when I wanted my room cleaned.

The tile floor in the bathroom was slippery when wet, so I had to be extra careful!

Location was good close to everything you need very clean room coffee and bun were nice touch in the morning pool was welcoming wifi pretty good We enjoyed would recommend

Our only problem was there was no hot water at least not for our stay

The little pool outside was ok. The staff was friendly.

The room was suuuuuper noisy, there were animals outside making lot of noise and building works. The mosquito nets in the windows don't work. There were not only mosquitos everywhere but cockroach in the bed and little salamanders in the room.

Really clean, nice big room with great AC.

About a 5 minute walk from the centre of town and the pathway up to the property isn’t very well illuminated at night or signposted. Pillows were hard but bed was big and comfy.

The swimming pool, the bed, Da bed? balcony, cleaning

Ruidos de mantención durante el día

The staff were nice and the location was great.

1. There were several blood stains on the bed when we arrived. We were given new sheets to change the bed ourselves because the cleaners had already left and the receptionist was a young boy who didn’t know what to do.2. The biggest design flaw of all. All the doors and windows have reflective stickers on but have all been stuck on the wrong way. This resulted in people being able to see into our room at night, but we couldn’t see them. Also people could see directly into our shower (it had the same stickers on it) from the outside! You could see people showering, we had to get to get a sheet to cover the door. I have no idea why it has been designed like this? (Photos taken from outside the bathroom and outside the room)3. Due to the ceiling material, there were always tiny bugs in our top floor room and on the bed.4. The shower has an ants nest, so every time the shower turned on, red ants filled the bathroom floor and walls. Very uncomfortable, as the shower pressure is very low and takes a longer time to shower.5. The shower is a wet room and built on a slant, so every shower resulted in a mini flood in the main room. We were given towels for this on the second night.

Location is good. Close to Playa Zipolite

I chose the property because of the pool, since I was traveling with my elderly father and it is quite hot. The pool was not functioning which was the sole purpose for choosing the property, as it was considerably higher priced than other properties. I did ask for discount after telling them that was sole purpose of choosing the property but was refused.

The bed was really comfortable and the room beautiful. The pool was clean and the area surrounding it is in a good shape and exudes a warm and cozy atmosphere.

The first thing I had to do upon entering my room was to spend 1,5 hours killing ca. 40–50 moskitos (no joke!)—at approximately 35° C, as of course I couldn’t open the windows, and there is no AC. After a while, I developed strategies for spotting them like laying on the floor in order to use the white walls as a background which would allow me to see them better. It was an adventure, especially considering the boiling heat and that the moskitos seemed to multiply out of nowhere and often hid very well, which required patience and creativity. I became ambitious, jumping to the ceiling, howering to the ground and blowing to different areas in the room, which would make them reveal their position. I was very proud of myself once the battle was won. I thereafter never opened the window during my whole stay without a moskito net and discovered maybe 3–5 new moskitos each time i re-entered either the room or the bathroom, but after the initial massacre, I felt like a veteran and killing those few individuals was easy. In the future, I will definitely check a hotel room for moskitos before accepting it.Apart from that, an AC would be really valuable, because the heat in Zipolite is completely crazy. After two days in Zipolite, i had to travel to a location in the mountains to cool off for a couple of days.