Villa Mozart y Macondo

Positive - The bungalow is located in a beautiful garden setting. Esthetically very pleasing. The location is great, about as close as you can get to Playa Manzanillo and right close up to the shopping and restaurants on the main drag in Rinconada. The room was adequately cleaned every day. Negative - 'll put it this way: We were paying a 4 star hotel price for what was at best a "quirky" Airbnb or higher end room at an eccentric hostel. The bungalow had maintenance issues. The mini fridge desperately needed defrosting, you couldn't use the freezer. If their goal is "pretty", that just looks bad. Moving to the bathroom, the shower head wasn't working properly and spraying water all over the place. I asked the maintenance guy and he fixed it, in fairness. Kitchen is outside, that's not a problem. The mini stove is operated with gas, we're not used to that and had to be shown how, The stove eventually stopped working. No microwave-in this day and age, a hotel kitchenette with no microwave? They're cheap, even in Mexico. Again, we paid a lot of money, we're not talking about camping fees here. Management was difficult to deal with and ineffectual. Every one of the above issues we brought to management was met with a long discussion and excuses. I speak Spanish, so it wasn't like we weren't understanding each other. The process for defrosting the fridge was so unnecessarily complicated that we gave up on that one. We were issued one large kitchen knife. We asked for a smaller paring knife and the answer was nope, one knife only. Then that knife was so rusted that it fell apart in our hands. We asked a different person, the maintenance guy for a new one and he got us one right away. He was actually reasonable to deal with. The first night watchman was weird and made my wife uncomfortable. One morning, he was operating the leaf blower at 6 am. We complained to the proprietor about him, she looked at us like we were the problem. We were admonished for running air con and fans in 32 degrees Celsius heat. Criticize us? For what we paid? Fix your problems first before you admonish your guests. When we booked, there was a no refunds policy. We had to pay the full amount of our stay when we walked in the door.

My friend and I stayed in the Bungalow Cocina at Villa Mozart y Macondo for two nights. It was a delightful place to stay! A pathway through lush tropical plants led to the doorway to our bungalow. The air-conditioned room was spacious and filled with beautiful and unique pieces of art. A small kitchenette was outside on the front porch. A peaceful, quiet and comfortable place to stay, located conveniently to the restaurants and shops along the main street in the Rinconada neighborhood. Also very close to the beach. Highly recommended!

Set in a beautiful jungle-like garden, which allows for nice privacy during the morning cafe hours. There is a lot of love and attention to detail put in by the owner and staff, with artistic touches everywhere. Our room was very clean, the bed was comfortable, and we had a beautiful outdoor kitchenette which came in very handy and had almost everything we needed. The only reason I dont give 5 stars here is because we found it hard to get good sleep. Our room had open-air (screened) windows to allow the cool air in at night (no AC) which was great, but it also meant we could hear any sound happening on the grounds. In particular there are workers watering plants, talking etc at 4AM, and then cafe getting ready to open from like 6:30/7AM on. All totally understandable but we could not close our windows to block it out. So that would be my only complaint. Wi-Fi was barely usable, but honestly youre in PE, you dont need it ! Generally it was very quiet and peaceful. Its in a great location to the beaches and restaurants/cafes/shops. Every day it was a pleasure to stroll through the garden on the way to our room.