Hotel Descalzo

The property is nice. If you need AC this is not the place, it gets humid and warm at nights. The restaurant service is poor. No breakfast option and if it rains they shut down completely. Their WiFi is terrible if you need to keep up with work. None of their networks work.

I was really excited when I walked in to the beautiful room/cabaña... exquisitely designed and styled it looked really high-end and attractive. The location at the dreamy beach of Zipolite was also heavenly. We adored being able to step out onto the sand. However, sadly all changed the very first night when the heavy bass thumping beat from the nearby bar made sleep an impossibility until it stopped at 2am!! And this was with earplugs. Then the rooster started at 4am and a very noisy water truck delivery at 8am... the hotel only has shuttered windows (no glass) so there was no escape. The second night was no better, but (oh bliss) the music stopped at midnight on night 3 and we could finally sleep before my crankiness took over completely. Had we not paid in full in advance and been able to find an alternative, I would have been out of there after night #2. We decided to come back to Zipolite the following week and stayed elsewhere which was a very good idea.

Look, this place is beautiful and you do feel like you are in your very own tree house, beds are comfy and it’s directly across from The beach with a great pool area. However the clubs across the rd pump music until 3am every night and when I say pump I mean it! It’s extremely hard to sleep with it going, we also had the unfortunate experience of having no running water for a whole night and day, leaving us with no bathroom facilities including a toilet across the whole hotel, In saying that they have said they would refund us a night, had this not happened I would have given another star.