This is a authentic hotel that has been here for about 50 years and is not a high rise! We seek out the smaller properties for the better service and rustic charm. The Beach here was fabulous and did not have the hoards of trinket sellers asking and interrupting your sun rays. Food was good and the price was excellent. The rooms were a little small but worth the price. A return on my next trip!

Just came back from 5 night stay in Playa Mazatlan. It was our second time in Mazatlan and we intentionally chose this hotel based on its location, which was the only positive about this hotel. It's right in the middle of the Golden Zone and you can walk to multiple bars and restaurants and it is very close to the Historical Zone as well. The hotel looks really nice from the outside and the grounds are very clean and well maintained. There are several pools and a hot-tub (which wasn't actually hot, it was the same temperature as the pools); the beach area is very nice with plenty of lounge chairs and cabanas. There is a restaurant on the property - we didn't eat there, just had drinks and it seemed a little pricey. While the location is great it is also not so great depending where your room is. It gets really loud at night with music coming from various bars and going on until morning. So ocean view rooms are the best way to go (unless they are close to Joe's Oyster Bar). The rooms themselves are very worn out. We had to switch rooms 2 times. In the first room the the water was barely coming out of the shower and it had really strange color, so we asked to change rooms. The second room we got was a corner room and although the was water in the shower (still with a little tint) - there was no ventilation and the room was always damp, so all our clothing felt wet. Plus the room was facing the street and it was very noisy at night. We asked to switch rooms again the following day. The third room was OK, but not great. It was overlooking the pool area, so it was relatively quiet. The color of water was still an issue, so we were buying big bottles of drinking water for brushing out teeth and rinsing tooth brushed. It was OK for showering though. There was no safe in the room, but the hotel lobby provides safe deposit boxes. Beds are really firm - in fact they have concrete blocks instead of box springs, so mattress pads might not be a bad idea. There were no microwaves or kitchenettes like you would get in other hotels for the same price. It was an OK stay for us, but we will not go back to this hotel.

My friend and I had room with an amazing ocean view. It was very clean and quite spacious. The service was great as well. Our only complaint is that the restaurant at the hotel had poor service and the food was only average. Also, we could here loud music playing from 2 night clubs in the area (the oyster bar next door and another location) into the wee hours of the morning.

The beach in front of the hotel was the best around and we were in a great location to walk to may restaurants and bars in the area.

My husband and I went to Mazatlan from Jan 17-21. We booked with Apple Vacations on a last minute deal. We were very pleased with everything.

After reading previous reviews, when we checked in we asked for a quiet room. We wanted to avoid the noise factor from the restaurant and Joe's Oyster Bar. We were given an absolutely wonderful room, right on the ocean. The only sound we heard each night was the waves crashing on the beach. The room itself was very spacious and clean. We asked for a mattress pad after the first night, and housekeeping promptly brought it. I've stayed at lots of mexican resorts, and without exception, the beds are ALWAYS hard. The pad made the bed very comfortable.

The pools were never, ever crowded. It always bugs me when people "reserve" chairs around the pools or on the beach, and then are hardly ever there. No one seemed to do that at the pools, which resulted in natural turnover of users for the loungers. We always had multiple loungers to choose from. We did notice that people DID reserve a few chairs on the beach. One morning, I started reading a book on the beach at 9am, and by the time I left for lunch at noon, I NEVER saw the people/persons who had saved the entire cabana, come use it! Very annoying.

The restaurant has a great breakfast for $100 pesos ($10 dollars) which is all you can eat. It's not super extensive, but nonethess the chef is there to cook your eggs to order, they are making fresh waffles right there, and a nice lady is making fresh corn tortillas. It was good. We had breakfast once at Panama, which I didn't like. My food tasted odd. It was kind of like Dennys. For the money, the hotel breakfast is the best deal. Lunch was okay - nothing spectacular, and we only ate there once or twice.

We always went out for dinner. I highly reccomend Panchos. The food was superb. The best fresh red snapper I've had in a long time.

The Mexican Fiesta ( on tuesdays and saturdays) was great. The show was wonderful. Lots and lots of other people/tours start pouring into the hotel to see it. The food was good. Not spectacular, but good nonetheless.

Overall, our stay at the Playa Mazatlan was great. I was amazed at the number of people that had been coming to the hotel for 20-30 years. There were tons and tons of retired couples who were there for a lenghtly stay. If we go back to Mazatlan, I would recommend this hotel. The location is good, and the property itself is good as well.