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Overview
Playa Mazatlan Beach Hotel provides legendary hospitality based on rich Mexican traditions. This hotel features colonial style architecture, amidst an oasis of lush gardens, swimming pools and waterfalls. Overlooking the Pacific Ocean and offshore islands, it is backed by the majestic Sierra Madre Mountains.
Check in
3 p.m.
Check out
12 p.m.
Rooms
400
Inclusions
- Round-trip airport transfers
- All taxes
Rooms
- 1 king bed, or 2 double beds
- Garden or Pool Views
- No more than 4 guests in the room
- 1 king bed, or 2 double beds
- Garden or Pool Views
- Minimum 1 adult, maximum 4 adults
- Maximum 2 children
- No more than 4 guests in the room
- A/C
- Alarm clock
- Hair dryer
- Housekeeping
- Rollaway bed (on request, $)
- Room service ($)
- Safe
- TV
- Complimentary toiletries
- Balcony or Terrace
- 1 king bed, or 2 double beds
- Ocean view
- No more than 4 guests in the room
- 1 king bed, or 2 double beds
- Ocean view
- Minimum 1 adult, maximum 4 adults
- Maximum 2 children
- No more than 4 guests in the room
- A/C
- Alarm clock
- Hair dryer
- Housekeeping
- Rollaway bed (on request, $)
- Room service ($)
- Safe
- TV
- Complimentary toiletries
- Balcony or Terrace
Amenities
Pool
Pool
Pool
Pool
Fitness centre
Theatre
Exterior
Exterior
Exterior
Hotel Aerial
Location
Reviews
TripAdvisor Traveler Rating
AVOID AT ALL COST
Nicole B on Mar 28, 2025
I hate leaving such a bad review, especially of a family run business, but I can honestly say the experience we had at this resort was the worst experience we ever had staying anywhere. The food was fine, we only really ate the breakfast, which was mediocre. The ceviche place was really good, and the snack bar was ok. The staff, specifically the bartenders and servers were great, but management was rude and condescending. When reading other reviews I saw people mention the bands on the beach and the noise, and I wish I had paid more heed to those reviews because, WOW. It was loud. All the time. No one was exaggerating the band noise, and if you think you will be fine with it, trust me after day two you will not be. The cherry on the top of the crap sundae was on our last night there we had put some items on our patio to dry off before packing them, and apparently we forgot to lock the patio door. We were on the main level, and at about 9pm a security person walked onto our patio and OPENED THE PATIO DOOR AND BEGAN TO COME INTO OUR ROOM. We were shocked and quite shaken up about the intrusion, and I went to the desk to tell someone what happened and I was literally shaking with anger/nerves. The lady I spoke with was nice and said she would speak with management, but the next day when we were leaving I just wanted so badly to get out of there so I never followed up on it. Hopefully they had a nice long conversation with the security about how absolutely inappropriate that was.
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B A on Mar 27, 2025
I'll start with the good then the bad. Playa's best qualities is the location, staff and cleanliness. Playa is located in a very nice and what felt safe area with stores and restaurants all within walking distance as soon as you leave the resort. Almost all of the staff I met were very very kind and helpful especially the waiters. The hotel was always clean from my room to the restaurants, the room service and maids kept this place clean. Now onto the Bad. This place was PACKED the whole time I was there, I am not over exaggerating. Every pool was full from opening to closing and had no where to sit or enjoy yourself while in the pool as it felt like you were shoulder to shoulder with the other guest. With the Pools being packed you'd think you could try your luck at the beach...WRONG, the beach already doesn't have many seats for Playa guests and with how over crowded it was there was no chance at finding an open spot to relax. This place also isn't packed with for foreigners or tourist instead was mostly locals and natives to Mexico so don't expect to see many tourist like you would at many other resorts. With the amount of pools that were there and people, they did not provide much seating areas around the pools so it was hard to find a spot to lay our stuff down while swimming. The pool bar near the adults only pool was closed and I suspect it has been closed for some time now as many reviews for the past few months have mentioned this, the issue with this is the pool that had the closed bar was the least populated pool so I spent a lot of my time there but because their wasn't a bar near by you'd have to walk over to get a drink from a different part of the resort making it less enjoyable then it already was(this pool was also very cold and not heated). I don't know if I just had a bad experience and went at the wrong time but I would not recommend this resort instead would stay somewhere else because even though I didn't enjoy the resort, Mazatlan is a gorgeous city and had so much to do.
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