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     Mazatlan, Mexico
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Beautiful

  • July 10, 2006
  • Rated 5 of 5 by a traveler from Travelocity.com
This hotel is definitely one of the best in this area. The beach in front is clean and there is plenty of security guards making sure only hotel guests are using amenities. People are friendly and the food is cheap and good! I would definitely come back to this hotel again!The views are wonderful, perfect for the amazing sunsets.

A Great Time!

  • April 24, 2006
  • Rated 5 of 5 by a traveler from Travelocity.com
I stayed here with my four and six year olds, and my seventy-something grandmother and we all loved it. There was something there to do for everybody, from group activities, to games, to arts and crafts. The beachfront was perfect to relax in. Its restaurant has good food at competitive prices, especially enjoy the breakfast buffet! At night it has the best place in town (with oceanview) to enjoy their live music and dancing if you want a decent place where even your little ones can be at.
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Hotel Playa Mazatlan

  • June 20, 2005
  • Rated 1 of 5 by Trow from Dallas, Texas
I thought the hotel was beautiful when we first pulled up. Bougainvilleas were everywhere, and the gardening was lush and beautiful. The rooms were a different story. I was first greeted with the black mold around the air-conditioning vent. I went to sit down on the bed and found that it was very, very hard. It was a hard mattress on a concrete platform. The shower leaked and the door wasn't sealed, so it flooded the bathroom. The management really did not care to address the problem. If we wanted a room with a king-size bed, we were stuck with that room, that or we could pay for an upgrade. The hotel was often loud because of all the children. One night we had kids running up and down hallways yelling until well after midnight. Once again, the management did not care. They would "take care of it," but the noise did not stop.

The one highlight of the hotel is the beach. They have palapas for shade, waiters to keep your drinks filled, and security guards to keep the salespeople on the beach at bay.

Overall, the hotel was very disappointing.

From journal Mazatlan, Mexico

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Hotel Playa Mazatlan

  • June 15, 2004
  • Rated 5 of 5 by El Gallo from Monkey Junction, Newfoundland, Afghanistan
Hotel Playa Mazatlan

The Playa was the first of the Golden Zone hotels, and remains everybody's recommendation for lodging value. Back in 1955 when Ulysses George built a low-lying motel with one killer stretch of beach, nobody thought much of the idea. Today the Playa is the grandaddy of the row of hotels that stretch north: there are bigger, cheaper, posher hotels, but there is something very Mazatleca about the Playa.

For one thing it is resolutely un-highrise. One of the new wings is five stories, but it doesn't project that attitude . . . it just seems to be a sprawl of bedrooms right off the Pacific with pools everywhere you turn. Those rooms don't try to be anything more than hotel rooms, for the most part. They are comfortable, roomy, and functional without pretention. The idea is that you won't be spending that much time in your room, and it seems to work that way. There are at least three pools and a nice gym that tends towards aerobic kinds of things like spinning and stair-staring, but also has weights and sweatables available. Kids can paint ceramics or take place in organized kid-wrangling programs to get rid of them. There is 24-hour internet available. There are shops, including a knockout furniture gallery.

But mostly, if predictably in a place called Playa Mazatlan, the big deal is the beach. You step out onto a stretch of sand you can walk for miles, waves that are the perfect size and attitude--neither too far nor too close to the Valentinos point break. Hobie Cats or kayaks take you straight across to the unpopulated beaches of the Three Islands. Any way of laying around on the beach can be handled expeditiously. The Playa is a 50s beach bum, essentially.

But there is no need to take off for the slavering maw of the Golden Zone nightlife district once the glorious sunset fades. Lots of locals come to the Playa for entertainment. Grownups, that is. Springbreakers and twits are, thankfully, better accommodated elsewhere. The seafront restaurant is a mecca for romance, actually. It's a huge place that seats hundreds, probably the biggest stand of tables within yards of sand in the whole town. And the cooking is way above average, with prices that are quite reasonable compared to most of the hotel places along the strip.

But mostly what the Playa offers at night is tropical romance by the hibiscus-full. The center of the restaurant is open to the stars, and contact dancing is encouraged by the sound of waves, the warm tropic bouquet, and the highly experienced bands that can cook our salsa or meld bodies with sensual bossanova or Santana instrumentals. On Sundays, the view of the stars is augmented a little . . . a fireworks show lights up the skies and stitches the beach with "castillos" or sparkle, dazzle, and Ole!

You can stay at the Playa for under $100 a night. It's as Mazatlan as it gets. It's a deal. PLAYA WEBSITE

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