Villas Caracol

Amazing boutique resort. Excellent service. Beto, Benjamin and Miguel provided outstanding service in the bar and restaurant. Smaller intimate place, great pool and excellent beach. Loved the free breakfast. Rooms 7-10 have great views

Amazing place with the nicest people! Great service, delicious food and drinks, right in front of the sea and there's also a nice pool! The rooms are big, with A/C and TV, very comfy! Just beware of funny racoons that are smart enough to open the balcony door to your room to steal some snacks!...

Villas Caracol is a lovely property up towards the end of the beach where the sandbar starts and one can begin their walk/ wade up to near mosquito beach where there are uninterrupted views of shallow crystal clear waters, white sand and mangroves. My wife and I loved the hotels position on the beach and preferred it to the part of the beach closer to town where it was often busier. The hotel itself is very well maintained and beautifully set with lots of mature palm trees and planting. It feels intimate, cosy and safe. The room and bathroom was very comfortable and spacious with a big TV with access to Netflix etc if you ever wanted it. The Staff at the hotel are so friendly and attentive and made you feel very at home. The breakfast is included with a wide range of options that we really enjoyed. In general the food at the hotel is great. A highlight being the whole cooked catch of the day fish that we saw the fishermen deliver straight from his boat on the beach. The only thing we had that wasn’t good was a beef taco where the beef was very dry and tough. The cocktails were fantastic and the staff went above and beyond to make them just how you like it. Also it was lovely to be served on the beach in real glassware, rather than plastic like some other beach clubs on the island. The beach club is much smaller than other hotels with the ocean sometimes (depending on tide) coming right up to your sun lounger by the end of the day. Which we actually quite liked. It was a bonus that the facilities were exclusively for the hotel guests, of which there aren’t a huge amount. Now one thing that you should be aware of is that sections of the beach do get quite a lot of seaweed floating up. Villa Caracol and its surrounding hotels do a very good job of maintaining their beach every morning but some hotels further down the beach did seem to let it gather and it wasn’t particularly pleasant. It’s let’s out a slight sulphur smell. It seemed to change daily and their had been a big storm the days before our arrival which might have exacerbated the situation. However within a day you don’t pay too much attention to it. However it is a slightly unfortunate problem because without it the beach/ sand/ water would be absolutely perfect, 10/10. On some days it was. Also if you walk up the sandbar in the direction of mosquito beach (the beach around the headland is actually a nature reserve and off limits) you reach a completely perfect and unspoilt (yet unserviced - so bring drinks etc with you) beach where there is no seaweed to be seen. We had a great boat trip with VIP Holbox. (Just keep an eye on the weather for the duration of the stay as the wind picked up towards the end of our trip and we could only do a limited boat trip as we left it late to book not considering the predicted conditions) We loved Holbox, we thought it had a perfect balance between a laid back and also a refined vibe. You could dress up and have a fancy dinner but also go and sit barefo