Palapas del Sol

This bright and happy hotel felt like home for us all for our week-long yoga retreat. We felt cared for, safe and protected and delighted by the consistent smiles of all of the hard-working staff. Each room is unique, decorated in refreshing and accomodating ways, and kept quite clean as well. The beaches and the hotel's beach areas are swept clear of sea**** and maintained well and the beach bar was inviting and lots of fun! The meals were fresh, delicious and served with pride and efficiency. Even those in the group with food sentsitivities were quite pleased by the selections! Management was a delight and consistently on top of any question or concern with genuine care. And the yoga studio space was sublime and also kept tidy buy thoughtful staff. We'll return again and again!

I went with two friends on a week-long yoga retreat and had a great time. The staff at this hotel is amazing -- they went above and beyond for us, always ready to help in any way they could: giving us wonderful meals just right for yogis -- filling, healthy and full of good things like ripe tropical fruit, omelettes fill with goodies and for dinner soups and stews and fresh fish. The hotel is beautiful, and the yoga room has banks of windows with beach and lush forest in full view. We also loved the little beach palapas where we swung in the hammocks and lay on the comfy chaises between swims. Will definitely be back.

Good food, great staff, very enjoyable experience. I appreciated the cleanliness of the hotel. The views from the top floors are very nice. I am a birder, and got to see some in the mangrove swamp behind the hotel. We took an island tour, which was very fun and informative.

Beautiful location and hospitality. Very clean. One of nicest hotels on Holbox right on the beach. Their tallest palapa sticks up above everything else so we could always find it. Our “superior suite with sea view” was not large but it was beautiful, and we enjoyed the small deck. The restaurant offers good food. Everything is done through WhatsApp, including ordering food or anything else you need. The staff was very helpful. You can walk to the town in about 20 min in one direction, and when the tide is out you can wade out to the sand bar and walk in the other direction all the way to Mosquito Beach.

This is our second time staying at Palapas del Sol. Our first visit was June 2023 and this one in January 2024. We've visited several hotels throughout the island and this is by far the best. The rooms are immaculate, service impeccable, food & drinks delicious and the grounds are spectacularly beautiful with hands down the best beach club/area on the island. My wife and I agreed the bed and pillows were the most comfortable we've ever experienced outside our home. It can be difficult to get a reservation here but that should tell you something and is a good thing ... they are in high demand.

Lovely hotel with great staff, NInfa and ELoyse, good service. Rooms are very nice. Book the room 1 floor because the others downstairs you don't have much privacy since all guests going to the beach are passing your balcony. The breakfast is á lá Carter, I do prefer a buffet, but it's very complete, and if you ask a bit more, they will get it for you.the beach is beautiful and so is the sand. Clear waters with fish and no waves, loved it. The only problem is if a "storm" passes by coming from the north. Sargaço will evade your beach, and the smell is awful 😖. Also, the other hotels clean the beach better than palapas. It's a protected island, so you can't take the sargaço of the line of water, but you can take it on the qsand. Palapas did not do it. They staff just took a bit for you too put the chairs and it was bad. All other hotels took the sargaço near the line of the water so we just went to spend the days at other places and not at palapas because of the huge quantity of sargaço at that beach and the smell is sooo horrible. You can also go to punta Coco. That beach won't have sargaço. I would return to palapas, loved the spot just 15m walk to the center. I dont like the beach near the center, small and crowded. The palapas is small but perfect for relaxing and for a great service. Also, everything is cleaned perfectly. Just cross fingers for no sargaço. Next year, I'm going to return to holbox, I do like the vibe. Thank you, Ninfa and Eloise!

A very relaxed hotel to stay. Breakfast at our balcony is very relaxed. Every day different kind of fruit, coffee (also available in the room), juice and your choice of eggs, pancakes, etc. Personnel is very friendly and helpful. Palapas at the beach are very good, ample shade for both beds. In the garden also a lot of deck chairs. Best location on the beach, although not in the village itself. That is a 15 minute stroll, and in the evening very dark..... We recommend a room upstairs with beach view. The ground floor rooms do not have much privacy on the balcony, and the rooms at the backside are a bit dark. The restaurant menu is okay. We went to the neighbors (las Hamacas) several times and this was really good. Maybe Palapas del Sol could tie up with them to offer halfboard? A restaurant at the side of the beach is very nice. We do not recommend the restaurant at the other neighbor (Kuka), terrible. Worst dinner in a long time. had to chew on my tuna.....and the very loud music, that is maybe the only complaint we have. Sometimes we could not sit on our own balcony because of the loud music of Kuka. (and being used to dance events we are not complainers). If Palapas del Sol could work something out with Kuka (maybe transferring the loudspeakers further away from the hotel), that would definitely influence the rating.

Big rooms with good airco. A good shower and a lot of space to put your clothes and personal things. Breakfast was okay, but there is no airco in the restaurant. Love the pool and the terrace that comes with the room. The food at the beach bar was very good! We didn't like the cats on the property. The ladies at the front desk could be a little bit more enthousiastic. The hotel is situated on the best part of the island.

We stayed at this hotel for the first part of our trip to Mexico and we absolutely loved it!! I would really really recommend it. Our room was on the ground floor over looking the pool and it was perfect. We didn’t once feel we had no privacy. We actually enjoyed our breakfasts at this hotel the most out of all our destinations (one of the places was a very luxurious hotel on Tulum beach road). The service was great, being able to order over WhatsApp was great. The hotel was really clean, the sand around the hotel was groomed daily. Delicious margaritas!! We were here for our honeymoon and had really nice touches to the room every day. We felt it was a really nice side of the island. Also some delicious restaurants in hotels close by for lunch or evening meals. The sunsets were also the best we’d experienced in Mexico! We hope to return one day in the future!