Double Room, Ocean View | Balcony

Reviews of Hotel Bocas Town

3 out of 5
Hotel Bocas Town
Calle 1, Isla Colon, Bocas del Toro, Bocas del Toro

Reviews

8.6

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 46 out of 98 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 37 out of 98 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 12 out of 98 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 2 out of 98 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 98 reviews" "

9.0/10

Cleanliness

8.6/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

8.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

N. Beckett, Toronto

Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Irena

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The property is very centrally located close to everything. The rooms are small but we had a balcony which helped. The hotel is bright and clean. The staff is very friendly and helpful. The breakfast was very good. The only drawback was we were on the top floor and there is no elevator so a lot of stairs to climb.
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Brian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great view and central. Excellent breakfast. Everything was great. Sammy at the bar down below was excellent. Might be back some day.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Nadine

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Ocean view room was awesome. Just book it! Comfortable beds, very soft sheets, clean room. Nice staff.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

Sandra

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Amenities
I would stay there again if in that area. Wiuld also recommend to friends. Good value for mpneu
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

Orlando

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very Nice.
Great and friendly staff and water front view was amazing.
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Edgar

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jeff

Stayed 1 night in May 2023

6/10 Okay

stanton

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

David

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Island life - outstanding
Our experience here was excellent. Professional and very pleasant and helpful staff. Would return here in a heartbeat.
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

Diana

Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2023

8/10 Good

cynthia l

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

8/10 Good

Patrick

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

Cynthia

Travelled with partner, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The room was very comfortable and clean. The bartender/server was superior. He went way above and beyond. All the staff were very nice.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2022

8/10 Good

Gladys

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
The balcony really makes this hotel for us. It is large with a great view over the water, perfect for happy hour. It can get hot but the air conditioning works well. Shower is nice and bathroom large enough. Hotel is close to everything in town and lots of restaurants. Breakfast area is nice and breakfast was good. I recommend for a stay in Bocas town.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful
Beautiful boutique hotel right on the ocean with views of the different islands surrounding. Very peaceful and clean. Extremely central and overall beautiful location. Great simple breakfast and coffee in the morning and very kind staff! I would recommend this place to anyone.
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2022

4/10 Poor

Bev

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
A disappointment
Beautiful looking hotel spoilt by the constant rave music next to it on a party boat that went on til 4am every night. Room was clean, breakfast decent, wifi was not working. All in all, disappointing.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2021

10/10 Excellent

Jason

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect for your stay in Bocas
Excellent Hotel, in the perfect location. Staff were very helpful and friendly.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2022
Response from Bocas Town on Jan 14, 2022
you are welcome back anytime

8/10 Good

Aldo

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The hotel was in a great location. Friendly staff and very helpful
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2021

8/10 Good

Ascanio

Business traveller, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I like the view. The restaurant and bar is over a dock, wich is pretty awesome.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

Will, Lakeway

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The staff could not be any more friendly. They are the best! The hotel is typical of an island hotel. This is not a Hilton or a Hyatt, but it is very comfortable, clean and affordable. We will definitely come back here in the future.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2021
Response from Yurisel on Sep 28, 2021
Thank you, was a pleasure having you at our hotel, You are most welcome any time

8/10 Good

Levi

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2021

8/10 Good

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
All good as described
Beautiful place (once you get used to the rose color) and location. Friendly staff. Good internet. Small room without seating other than the bed, but that was my fault as I just didn't want to pay for the bigger room they offer.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2021
Response from Yurisel on Jul 28, 2021
you are most welcome to come back, hope when we see you again you can stay in our ocean front room. but it was our honor to have you here. see you soon

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2021

8/10 Good

Linda

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2020

10/10 Excellent

Eric

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We really enjoyed our stay here, wish we could’ve stayed longer. The staff is nice and helpful, had a (beautiful) ocean view room and it was perfection and comparing prices with other hotels on the same street we found it very reasonable. Breakfast options are nice too.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020

8/10 Good

Michael

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
Overall this is a pleasant and clean hotel, but quite basic in terms of amenities and with a bit worn out interior design. The value you get for your money was not that good, compared to other places I stayed at.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

8/10 Good

lynn

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Book a water side room.
Upgraded to a water side room. Loved it. And is was quieter than we expected.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2019

8/10 Good

Judit

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Bocas town's most central hotel with lovely staff
This place has the potential to be fantastic. Centrally located, staff is really helpful and they speak English. My room was ready 3 hrs before check-in. The room itself is spaceous and the balcony is pretty big too(I had the city view room, the sunset was beautiful from there #101). The design makes you feel at home. Downside: an entire hotel is being built from the ground up right next to it. So if its not raining, be prepared to hear hammering and chainsaw from 8am. One morning there was no water, but turned out there's a major drought in the Bocas del toro region so no other hotels or any locals had running water either. The hotel manager sorted this out within a few hours, she was great. Maybe bear this in mind if you visit in the dry season. The breakfast was tasty, but it would be lovely to have more choice free of charge.
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Place was cute, clean, good breakfast. Staff was very nice but seemed inexperienced. They could not answer our questions and did not attempt to find out answers. Also we were there during Carnival and it was VERY loud on street side, but we managed to sleep with earplugs. Did not know the hotel was so close to bandstand for Carnival when booking.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service, amenities
Great spot but for now there is construction of new building next door. Not a big problem if you are gone all day as you should be!
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2019

8/10 Good

Eric

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2018

10/10 Excellent

daniel

good hotel
the hotel is very clean and the reception staff is helpfull . the girl how serve the breakfest is not nice.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

8/10 Good

R, Kelowna, BC, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Four Nights in Bocas Town
We had booked a middle room and were upgraded for free to a city view room, which was nice. However, the a/c didn't work properly and once the bars close there are noisy people in the street until well after 2:00 am. Also, during the day they are constructing a building right next door. They start work at about 7:30 am. After 2 nights we moved to an ocean view room that was on the opposite side of the hotel from the construction zone. It was more expensive, but worth it. Overall a good place to stay.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice Hotel clean and nice staff
It was a good experience, the people very friendly.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2017

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Functional
Stayed one night at this hotel before an early flight out of Bocas - we'd been spoilt by other locations, but we were glad we'd not booked longer here. We got woken up on several occasions through the night by other hotel guests, the air con didn't work in the room and the outdoor 'pool' is really just a gap in the jetty (though you can see some good starfish). It's a shame the back deck area is right next to one of the main water taxi points - the result is you get covered in fumes from the boats, else it would be a nice place to sit. All in all, the hotel is well located if you're using it as a base to get out on lots of excursions but it you want a place to enjoy calm sea views, this isn't it.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2017

8/10 Good

Annie, Quebec

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Discivering Panama
A stop in our discovery trip of Panama, we stayed 3 days. It feels like a trip back in time, when California was a great place in the 60's and 70's. People in general are very nice, helpful.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2017

8/10 Good

Leroy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lee's Pre- birthday celebration
Staff was very accommodating and pleasant. Breakfast was different and fresh every day. The view was gorgeous. Flooring and stairs need better maintenance.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2017

10/10 Excellent

Agustin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
I would stay again!
Friendly staff, good location!
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2017

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Staff & service
Close to the Sea
the staff is not so friendly but the seafood is great!

8/10 Good

Audrey

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Couldn't enjoy the breakfast/deck because of the noise and cheap gas smells from water taxi business literally next door. Lovely staff! Internet was poor and sporadic.

6/10 Okay

Indy couple

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Close to restaurants
The room was tiny, the shower had mold in it, there were no wash cloths, the food was ok.

6/10 Okay

Tyffany

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Overpriced 2 star. Great staff. Bad breakfast.
Bocas Town is a small "hotel" that is located just off the main Street, next to the police station. It's great for the night/bar scene, & walkable to everything. Bocas Town appears to be a party town, so it gets quite lively and noisy at night, if you're particular about that. The rooms are quite small. I upgraded to a room with a balcony as the standard room had a very small window. The "swimming pool" was not even swimmable. Not clean. Not inviting. Basically a caged area in the ocean. Rooms are overpriced, although quaint themselves. Common areas look dated & unclean. Front desk staff is great. Breakfast is below basic. 3 pieces of toast, an egg and some fruit. Go elsewhere for breakfast. I wouldn't return.

10/10 Excellent

Sara

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Charming Hotel With a View
Hotel Bocas Town was a fantastic place! We were so impressed with how lovely our room and the ocean view was. We would definitely stay here again.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very pleased but...
The hotel was nice. Right on the water. The only criticism I have is that the bedspread had holes in it and it was not clean. It smelt like dust and cigarette smoke. The staff was super nice. Overall, I enjoyed my stay.

8/10 Good

BBB

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location
Nice hotel well run friendly staff speak English and Spanish, location perfect pool area good but the swimming area being natural is contaminated by the tour boats next door and after a storm clogged with weed so not advisable to swim.Would recommend if having a swimm is not important, you can go to many beaches on s tour trip.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
good deal
I only stayed for one night but really liked the place. Owned and run by some gringos, the place is run differently/better than most. Nicely kept up and very helpful staff.