Isla Mujeres is a tiny island that floats in the crystal clear Caribbean Sea just a few hundred feet off the shores of Cancun. The pace of life here is slowed, a lot of people get around on golf carts and there are restaurants, hotels and excursion companies lining the powdery white sands. If you’re heading to the extraordinary island, you’re going to want to stay somewhere equally serene and beautiful.
We have just the place for you. hotel Las Palmas somehow encompasses everything that we love about budget travel, and yet uses lots of comforts expected from high-end luxury lodging. If you’re on your way to Mujeres, you can’t beat this hotel!
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Os quartos
We stayed in the King room which is a bit out of the backpacker spectrum at $100 / night, but Las Palmas also has a few budget rooms for just $65 / night, which is a very good deal on this island. The room was spacious, clean and bright with large windows on two of the four walls. The shower room was also a good size and the shower was incredible, with reliable, high pressure hot water all day and all night.
The bed was spectacular as well and you guessed it… king sized! A large mural spanned the rear wall of the room behind the headboard and there were some tasteful decorations on other walls. There was also a TV, fridge, closet and ample dressers and furniture to adequately fill the room and bring it to life.
O pessoal
Safari, the owner’s daughter, gave us a superb welcome to the hotel and told us everything we needed to know about Las Palmas, the neighbourhood and the island while we waited for our room to be readied.
The owner, Kate, was also very sweet and treated us very kindly while we were there, even showing interest in our blog and our lifestyle. The cleaning staff worked hard to keep the place spotless and while some of them didn’t speak English, they were quick to smile and say “hola!” when we returned to the hotel after a day at the beach.
The Las Palmas family (Left to Right: Kate, Safari, Dania)
A localização
Unless you’re set ideal on the sand, you can’t get a much better location than Las Palmas. In fact, I may go as far as to say that the street that the hotel is on is better than the sand because it’s set ideal across from a group of tasty street-food stands and the fruit and veggie market. Playa Norte (the nicest beach on the island) is just a 3 minute walk from the hotel and there are lots of great restaurants within a few hundred meters of the front door.
Just Meters From Sunsets like This!
The Amenities
If you can think of something that you’d expect from a hotel, then Las Palmas probably has it. There’s a small but charming pool, a huge kitchen for guests to use, hammocks, games, wi-fi, massage treatments and more. They even offer guests complimentary coolers and large towels to take to the beach!
When we visited, the wi-fi wasn’t working in the rooms which can be frustrating, but Safari and Kate informed us that their router was down during our stay and usually it works better around the hotel. Wi-fi was, however, still available in the lower common area.
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The common Areas
Hotel Las Palmas had communal areas out the wazoo. There were so lots of great places to hang out, swing in a hammock, eat meals and meet other travellers that it made it hard to leave each day. The rooftop terrace has a beautiful (though heavily chlorinated) pool and a 4-poster bed best for relaxing, or gazing up at the stars at night.
There is also a large kitchen on the roofing with everything you would need to cook a good meal. The hotel also sells chocolate bars, snacks, beers and pops on the roof, some of which are more affordable than you’d ever find in the store. All purchases are based on the honour system which we love as well, when you take a beer, leave the proper pesos in the tin can that’s in the fridge… very cool!
We observed that a new area was being built on an even higher terrace and we’d love to see what it looks like when it’s compleTed. Se você quer um quarto que tenha o conforto de um hotel, com a sensação de família comum de um albergue / casa de família, então Las Palmas é o lugar para você.
O custo
O custo do hotel era de grande valor para Isla Mujeres, pois os albergues do orçamento custam cerca de US $ 50 a US $ 60 / noite para quartos duplos. As taxas abaixo incluem 19% de imposto. Durante a baixa temporada, há um desconto de US $ 10 em muitos quartos.
Altas taxas de temporada – 1 de dezembro de 2013 a 31 de maio de 2014:
Uma cama king size – US $ 100 dólares por noite
Duas camas de casal – US $ 100 dólares por noite
Cama king com beliche-US $ 100 dólares por noite
Rei com sala de varanda de rua-US $ 110 dólares por noite
Sala de orçamento (uma cama de casal) 1 pessoa – US $ 50 dólares por noite
Sala de orçamento (uma cama de casal) 2 pessoas – US $ 65 dólares por noite
Salas de cobertura
Sonho original – US $ 120 dólares por noite
Sonho mexicano – US $ 130 dólares por noite
Quarto com vista – US $ 150 dólares por noite
Nossos pensamentos finais
Sem dúvida, o Hotel Las Palmas é um dos melhores hotéis em que já ficamos (e estamos viajando considerando isso em 2008, o que diz muito). Adoramos as áreas comunitárias, o sensacional terraço na cobertura, a cama confortável e a sensação descolada da casa de hóspedes. Sempre adoramos hotéis boutique por causa do ambiente especial, e esse lugar parece um hotel boutique de ponta e um albergue de bom valor.
Safari e Kate fizeram um excelente trabalho ao criar um oásis que corresponda ao apelo e tranquilidade que Isla Mujeres usa seus visitantes. Analisamos alguns outros hotéis durante a nossa estadia na ilha e Las Palmas foi de longe o melhor. Se você está indo para esta ilha fantástica, seria uma pena sentir falta de ficar neste hotel.
Informações de contato:
Hotel Las Palmas
Endereço: Avenida Guerrero 20, Isla Mujeres, 77400 Isla Mujeres, Q.R., México
Telefone: +52 1 998 236 5803
Site: www.laspalmasonisla.com
Para muito mais informações sobre onde dormir, o que comer e o que fazer na Isla Mujeres, clique aqui!
Um agradecimento especial ao Hotel Las Palmas por nos fazer durante a nossa estadia na ilha. Como sempre, todos os pensamentos e opiniões permanecem nossos, apesar de quaisquer serviços de cortesia recebidos.
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