This is a great place to stay at $60 a night. The rooms are clean, the staff is friendly, and the service and food at the restaurant is excellent. Try the Aztec soup; it is a great tortilla soup. When I was there in March of last year, only breakfast and lunch were served. I was back again over the Christmas holidays and was delighted to learn that they served dinner, too. Sunsets are beautiful. You can walk on the beach for miles.

You can easily spend a lot of time watching pelicans, cormorants, and terns diving for small fish in front of the restaurant during breakfast and dinner. The pelicans and terns will dive very close to people in the water in their pursuit of fish. Fishermen also cast their circular, weighted nets for bait fish and will also catch blue spotted jacks when the jacks go after the smaller fish. The water churns with small fish trying to get away from the jacks.

The hotel is at the south end of Santiago Bay. I like to snorkel and take underwater pictures. I saw a variety of fish out around the point close to the hotel and in the small cove on the other side of the point. Sea conditions are not always ideal for underwater photography as the visibility can go down, but usually the morning is good. The water temperature was at 80 in December and I did not need my shorty wet suit. I stayed out for nearly two hours at times. I would go back again.