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 | Hotel Playa Mazatlan: Beautiful Spanish-Colonial Hotel
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Playa Mazatlan by JetlagCity
We stayed in a room with a big balcony overlooking the water. The only downside to this was that we could hear the music from the waterside bar in the evenings, until midnight or so, but after the first night (when I was exhausted) this wasn't a problem anymore since we were staying up that late anyway, and we just enjoyed it.
As far as I can tell, Hotel Playa Mazatlan is one of the few hotels in the Zona Dorada which isn't some generic-looking building. It actually looks like it belongs in Mexico, with its Spanish-Colonial architecture and Mexican decorative details. I hate that high-rise, chain hotel look that gives you the creepy feeling like you could be anywhere. When I'm in Mexico, I want to know it! : )
Feista Mexicana - this show is offered a couple evenings a week, featuring Mexican folk music and dance. We were going to check it out, but the line was so long we skipped it!
There are three heated pools. We swam around and relaxed in one of them one evening and were the only people in that one - like having your own private place.
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| Hotel Playa Mazatlan: The Grandaddy of the Golden Zone
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 It's the Beach, silly by MonoBichi
For one thing it is resolutely un-highrise. One of the new wings is 5 stories, but it doesn't project that attitude...it just seems to be a sprawl of bedrooms just 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, in addition to the larger one out front locals quaintly refer to as the Oceano Pacifico. There is 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.
You can stay at the Playa for under $100 a night. It's as Mazatlan as it gets. It's a deal. PLAYA WEBSITE
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 fifties 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 accomodated 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 bossa nova 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!
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| Hotel Playa Mazatlan: A Pleasant Hotel on the Beach
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 Swimming Pool at the Playa by KimberlyAnn
In January 2003 – April 13, and April 20 – 25 the price for rooms ran from $90 U.S. dollars to $185 U.S. dollars per day. For April 14 – 19 the prices ran from $113 U.S. dollars to $205. A 17% tax would be added to this.
You will enjoy the outdoor open air setting of the hotel’s La Terraza Playa Restaurant and Bar, as well and the La Playita Snack Bar, which will serve you juice, freshly prepared snacks or lunch including sodas, juices, and tropical cocktails beneath the palapas or on the beach. Theme: HotelPhone: 1-800-762-5816Directions: In the Golden Zone of Mazatlan along the Pacific Ocean on the beach.Website: www.playamazatlan.com.mx/
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| Hotel Playa Mazatlan: On the Beach
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