Kate S.
Yelp
My hubby and I just spent a week at Casa Mexicana and we were overall very happy with our stay. We were in town for a scuba diving, so some of my review is skewed towards dive friendliness of the hotel...
The staff is all very friendly and helpful. We were greeted upon check in with a tasty beverage. Our bags were brought up to our room for us. The employees are kind and helpful. The lobby is very pretty with a pool that overlooks the ocean. There are bikes you can borrow to head into town.
The location is great, and easily walkable to the downtown square and lots of restaurants. We dove with a highly rated dive operator that's located less than a block away, so our pickup location was across the street which was SO convenient.
There is an included breakfast buffet. While this is convenient if diving, the buffet opens at 7am, and our dive boat pickup is 7:30. While this seems like plenty of time given that you just have to walk across the street to the boat, this is not a serve-yourself buffet (at least post-COVID). There are a couple of staff that serve the food. At 6:58am, there is already a line of divers at the buffet. If you're having anything prepared fresh (eggs or pancakes), you have to be one of the first ~5 people in line in order to get your food made, eat, and get to the boat. I wish the buffet opened a bit earlier to accommodate the number of divers who stay here. If you're not diving, this is not an issue at all. The food itself was just okay. I was expecting a lot more from it given the previous reviews. There is so much fantastic food on the island, but the food here was just a little underwhelming.
The hotel rooms are large and cozy, and the beds comfortable. The AC works well in the rooms, which is a must during the summers here! There is a desk area with 2 interior chairs, and a little patio area for each room with 2 exterior chairs. Next time I'll ask for additional exterior chairs, as that is the only place to really hang dry your scuba attire. We often had both chairs covered in swim suits/rash guards/etc as well as the shower curtain rod, hand towel rack (and were were only 2 divers in the room).
We really liked the soap, shampoo, and conditioner that the hotel provided. They all smelled nice.
There was always coffee downstairs in the morning, and fruit infused cold water in the afternoons which was nice to come back to.
I know this is not a "dive hotel", hence only losing 1 star for all of my negatives, as I know they are all specific for the purpose of my trip, but given how many people stay here to dive given the proximity to the dock of one of the main dive operators, I just wish there were some more dive friendly updates. Regardless of this, I would gladly stay here again, even for a dive trip, and strongly recommend this hotel.
Oh, and the price per night here is fantastic!