Nice. I wouldn't pay more than $250 a night and would hope it's more like $200. The staff is very friendly. However it's explicitly a dog-friendly hotel (resort is a bit of a stretch, bless) and they keep a very angry, reactive to other dogs, dog on site at the hotel. The staff all just kept warning me about her- a total of four times on our first day there. If you need to warn guests maybe there a sign having the dog here is a bad idea?
So while it is dog friendly, any time your dog encounters this feral stray dog they took in, you can enjoy this reactive dog barking a lot and in some cases trying to attack your dog. Reactive dog hides under the lobby couch (even tho she's so big I don't get how lol) and appears to be under zero supervision.
I brought a very sweet, not at all fighter, dog. The feral dog would bark and growl very aggressively every time she saw my dog, and in one case, tried to attack my dog. I picked up my dog really fast so nothing happened. But the behavior from feral dog on site was escalating. The almost-attack was right before we left. I'd hate to think what the escalation would have looked like if we stayed a full week or longer.
Ive had reactive rescue dogs before so it's easy for me to spot and easy for me to say the dog I brought is chill af and never has skirmishes with other dogs. In fact I do own a reactive dog. I left that dog at home bc REACTIVE DOGS DO NOT BELONG AT A HOTEL. I only brought my chill dog.
Bless Mexico, but they don't really have a dog culture similar to the US. There doesn't seem to be a cultural understanding that aggressive feral dogs are a danger to pet dogs. I'm unconvinced this super reactive dog had all of its shots. I'm sure it would have bitten my dog if I wasn't more vigilant. I'm sure this on site feral dog just needs training and to be sequestered away from guest pet dogs until the training is successful. But I don't get the sense that the staff will train or separate this dog.
Guard dogs are fine. Don't have an unwell reactive guard dog roaming around free 24/7 if you allow dogs at the hotel. Just like human hotel guards are great but if they angrily harass the human patrons for literally no reason all the time....they should change their behavior or be fired. Same with the dog. She deserves a home. But she just lives here instead. This means your dog does NOT belong here. Leave your dog at home.
I would recommend the hotel either switches to be no dogs allowed, or they find another home for the reactive dog. I would not recommend you bring your dog to this hotel unless you plan to keep your dog in a sling or bag on your person the entire time and remain vigilant.
The staff is very friendly. The restaurants are a fail if you're vegetarian (menus included non meat items but in my experience the items were between bad & okay or just no longer available) but probably fine if you aren't. The hotel is generally clean (minus some poop in the common areas, I assume from on site feral dog as I think mine was the only pet dog there).
If the reactive dog were not there this would be a very good hotel. That dog deserves a loving, safe, and comfortable home that will train and properly care for it. And your dog deserves to be safe and comfortable too--so this hotel should stop advertising itself as dog friendly. read more