This is not a luxury resort but its location directly on the beach cannot be beat. The rooms and bathrooms are pretty basic. Only liquid soap provided in bathrooms, no shampoo. Although we were only two people, we had a room with a double and 2 single beds which made the room a bit cramped. We were on the all-inclusive package and meals were decent but we would have preferred to dine outside the hotel. We went one night to nearby Josefina’s restaurant which offered delicious seafood and which we would have preferred to the buffet dinners. The first night we were there (a Monday), the nightclub on the beach was pumping loud music with heavy base until midnight. It was impossible to sleep. Thankfully, it seemed not to have opened for the rest of our stay. Our package included 2 outings which were well organised. On our day of departure, our flight was at 13:00. Checkout is at noon but we were asked to vacate the room at 10:30 and wait for the transfer to the airport at 11:30. We then had to wait another hour at the tiny airport which was a bit of a waste of time. Overall, a good place to stay due to its location but for the price, I think they should improve the rooms.

This was my fourth visit to the hotel and Capurganá and my first under Nautilos ownership. On my previous visits (the first in 2003) the hotel was named Almar under different ownership. I found it to be pretty much the same if perhaps a little less classy. For example Almar offered wine with the buffet dinners and there was not the issue with load music that other reviewers have complained about. On that last note just hang on to the earplugs supplied by the aircraft you fly in on. The food was quite adequate if not special though I really liked the fresh ocean fish including Barracuda. The rooms and beds are comfortable and the bathroom clean with everything in good working order. The AC worked well and was quiet.

The village has changed quite a bit since my last visit in 2009. At that time there were two motorcycles and now there are scads and a big tractor and other machines. There is an impressive new school paid for by a foreign country but our horsecart driver didn't know which.

This time we didn't go on any tours or boat trips having done them all before. Instead we made the hour long walk back to the waterfall ourselves on a day when the other visitor were on a tour and had the pool and falls to ourselves. We also hiked a trail that heads more or less north along the coast beginning at the end of the beach in front of the hotel. It's easy to find but not mentioned by any staff. We didn't see any this time but on the last visit I found yellow and black poison arrow frogs in shaded and vegetated areas along that trail.

There is pleasurable snorkeling a short distance from the beach with a nice variety of colorful fish. On past visits I was warned to wear water shoes when swimming because of the prevalence of the black urchins but this time I didn't see any at all. You can swim all the way out to the island in about half an hour using swim fins.

As Almar there were organized activities every evening like karaoke etc. but no longer which was fine as I didn't care for them. The one exception that I did miss were the toad races on the beach. Pretty stressful for the toads though.

All in all it was a pleasant visit once again and no complaints about the new management which was friendly and helpful.My only complaint was the wifi which cost five thousand pesos daily did not reach the room.

We were moving to Nautilus to be near beach. First impresion was good and we even used bar inclusive option (70000). It quickly became obvious that place is just nice cover...

Bar: serving beer and coctails in dirty plastic glasses. Maybe 1.5 dcl, so you could imagine frequency of refilling.

Food: extremely poor for such price

Rooms: first night we had air con from previous millennium but that was ok due it was so noisy that music from disco was not so annoyingly.

Second day we insisted to change room and we got one with new air con.

MAIN ISSUE: there is disco on the beach almost on front of hotel. To be precise: disco and three beach caffes. Each have at least 300 W powerful loudspeakers and you guess about music...

Music (bass) is so loud that even if you use your fingers to cover ears, dooom, dooom is still there.

First night we were lucky: it was started to rain at 3 in morning. Second was worse: it stopped only after electricity was gone...

After second day we had enough and move to Miramar.

As conclusion: this hotel has no value till they not solve problem with annoying loud music at the night