This stunning property has unique qualities for discriminating guests and is a pleasant one mile/five minute boat ride across a lagoon from the outstanding foodie scene of downtown San Pedro with its good and affordable restaurants, bars, resorts and shops. My family group greatly enjoyed a one week stay at this house in early December 2022.
Location: The curb appeal of this lagoon-side house is off the charts. The grounds are beautiful. The home is tastefully decorated and immaculately clean inside. It features numerous huge windows and a cute, little private pool. There are numerous porches on the first and second levels of the house affording spectacular water views morning, noon and night. The house sleeps ten, with two king bedrooms, one queen bedroom, and a nice bunk room with four beds in it. Believe there are four full baths and two half baths. One of the king bedrooms is in a separate apartment for extra privacy. The aforementioned lively scene in San Pedro, however, can be noisy and coarse at peak times with annoyingly heavy golf cart traffic. The isolation of this property on the sparsely populated far side of the lagoon can be a welcome respite after a busy day or a night on the town.
Service: This house comes with a dedicated boatsman/caretaker, Mr Senel. He is practically at the beck and call of house guests for about 16 hours per day.
Senel is available with his boat on a moments notice to shuttle guests to and from San Pedro in five minutes to access all the fun activities of San Pedro. He also cleans the pool daily and is readily available to trouble shoot small problems with the house and grounds, e.g., firing up the BBQ grill or unclogging a toilet. Additionally, a very convenient "quasi-amenity" that comes with this house is the fact that an independent restaurant called the Coconut Cafe is located less than a ten minute walk down the shoreline. At those times when it's not favorable to cross the lagoon it is a super convenient and scenic dining option especially for breakfast or lunch.
Highlights: We spent several hours each day lounging at the pool and porches without ever leaving this house. But during our week stay we also arranged excursions through super-host Samuel Gomez to snorkel at the Hol Chan Marine Reserve and go fishing inside the reef. We also rented a golf cart to drive to Secret Beach. Favorite restaurants in San Pedro included Elvi's Kitchen, Ramon's, Blue Water Grill and Palapa Bar.