Caracol Plaza is a three-star hotel in Puerto Escondido. The hotel offers a pool, a restaurant and breakfast. It scores 4.0/5 across 2093 guest reviews — a very good rating. In our 2026 scans, rooms ranged from US$75 to US$85 per night depending on dates and occupancy. It sits about 1 km from the centre of Puerto Escondido. Most rooms can be booked with free cancellation, and every booking removes a tonne of CO₂.
About Puerto Escondido: Puerto Escondido is less a town than a string of beaches with separate personalities, and picking the wrong one means a taxi for everything. All hotels in Puerto Escondido →
Rooms and rates
Across our 2026 scans we logged 11 priced stays for Caracol Plaza: rates ran from US$75 to US$85 a night depending on the date, how far ahead you book, and occupancy. Rates in Puerto Escondido move with demand: midweek stays booked a couple of weeks out are where our scans found the widest choice of free-cancellation rooms. The price you see after tapping “Check availability” is the live app.impt.io rate for your exact dates, not an estimate.
Location
Caracol Plaza is at Calle Septima Oriente Esq. 1A Sur, Puerto Escondido, Mexico. That puts it about 1 km from the centre of Puerto Escondido's hotel district, based on the coordinates in our scans. The nearest city with a bigger hotel scene is Santa Maria Tonameca, about 59 km away — compare Santa Maria Tonameca hotels too if your plans are flexible. This page's “View on map” link opens the exact spot in Google Maps, so you can measure the journeys that matter to you.
The facilities, in detail
For food and drink, the hotel lists bar/snack/cafen', bars, breakfast, pool bar and restaurant(s). On the wellness side there's fitness center, kids pool, outdoor pool, pool bar and swimming pool. Practical services include 24 hour front desk, 24h. security, business center, free car parking, laundry service and luggage storage. In the room itself: air conditioning, bathroom, free wifi, hairdryer, iron and board and safe. The full list of 53 facilities is below; double-check the ones that are deal-breakers when you book, as hotels adjust what they offer by season.
Good to know before you book
Booking is straightforward: pick dates and guests in the widget, check the live rate on app.impt.io, and complete the reservation there. Most rooms are offered with free cancellation until a few days before arrival — the exact deadline is shown next to each rate before you pay. Every confirmed booking also removes a tonne of CO₂ through IMPT's carbon-removal projects, at no extra cost to you. When comparing, note that the three-star rating reflects the hotel's declared standard; the guest reviews on this page tell you how it actually feels to stay.
Puerto Escondido for hotel guests
Zicatela is the big wave, the bars and the roar of the surf; La Punta, at the south end, means beginner waves, hostels and dirt streets; Carrizalillo and the Rinconada hold the hotels with pools and a view; the Centro, around the Adoquín, is where the practical business happens. Our 2026 scans logged 20 hotels with a real price: from US$47 a night and a typical from-price of around US$102. The warning that matters: you do not swim at Zicatela, the currents are serious. All hotels in Puerto Escondido →
Facilities
Guest reviews
4.02093 reviewsTerrible service. Employees are bothered when you for information they should provide. The restaurant closes at 6pm and good luck with any service as simple as a cup of ice or asking for the tours because they're too busy talking. The pool, nice and beautiful but good luck getting a drink, or getting anyone to give you any information about who can help you with a drink. It's summer time and I am a business person and all I was thinking was, the potential of this place to have music, drinks and finger foods. All of the guests that were there at the pool came from a far away place. We drove…
I have really mixed feelings about the hotel. The view is nice and location is also not bad but in general it’s really dirty. When we came to the room there was so much sand on the floor everywhere that it was obvious that no one sweeps the floor there. Also linen was dirty every time they change it, it was dirty as you can see on the picture. Another issue is mold in the bathroom. Moreover, twice we were stuck outside of our room, once for one hour because the lock in our door was broken so it’s easy to see that the hotel needs some renovation.
I had a great room 5th floor overlooking the pool. The room was clean, the beds soft, great A/C. and great shower. Good food in restaurant and clean pool. Staff awesome in the restaurant but not at the front desk. Curtains need updating to keep the outside lights out at night.
Planning your trip to Puerto Escondido
When to go
The dry season runs November to April: dependable sun, low thirties Celsius, warm nights. Prices peak over the last week of December, the first week of January and Holy Week, when Mexican travellers arrive in force and the better rooms disappear months ahead.
June to October is the wet half — showers mostly late in the day, humidity from breakfast onwards, green hills and near-empty sand. It is also the cheapest stretch of the year, and the season for bioluminescence in Laguna de Manialtepec, best on moonless nights.
Surfers keep a different calendar: the south swell lands from May to September, which is when Zicatela earns its reputation. Heat never really relents — count on 30°C and thick humidity in any month — so air conditioning, a proper fan or a pool is a selection criterion rather than a bonus.
Getting there and around
PXM airport sits roughly four kilometres from the centre, over on the Bacocho side, with daily flights from Mexico City and Oaxaca City. A taxi to Zicatela or the Adoquín costs in the order of MX$150-250 depending on the beach, a little more to La Punta.
Overland, the Barranca Larga–Ventanilla motorway cut the drive from Oaxaca City to about three and a half to four hours, against six or more on the old mountain road. Buses and shared vans run it; there are fewer curves now, not none.
In town, short taxi hops run around MX$50-100 and you agree the fare before getting in. Shared pickups work the coast road towards La Punta and the airport for pocket change. Walking between zones sounds sensible and seldom is: highway shoulder, full sun, patchy pavement.
Where to stay, zone by zone
Zicatela is the long strip facing the open Pacific: hotels and hostels at every budget, bars, restaurants and the noise that comes with them. You sleep near the water and wake to the wave. During swell season the whole street runs on surf time.
La Punta, at the southern end, is the young, cheap end of town: dirt streets, hostels, simple rooms, surf lessons and food eaten off the kerb. You pay less and slow down, in exchange for fewer services and a colectivo or moto-taxi for everything else.
Carrizalillo is the small cove with the best swimming water and the view you have already seen in photos; the Rinconada above it holds many of the pool-and-terrace hotels. You pay for that, and the staircase down to the beach announces itself on the way back up.
The Centro, around the Adoquín and Bahía Principal, is the useful zone: market, banks, boats to Puerto Angelito and Manzanillo, hotels short on charm but well placed. Bacocho and Sector Reforma are quiet and residential near the airport; carless, you will live in taxis.
Eating and going out
Fish and shellfish do most of the work: fillets, ceviche, tostadas, whole fish grilled a la talla. At market and downtown comedores a set lunch runs about MX$90-130; a fish plate on the seafront climbs to MX$220-350, beer MX$45-70. The late fruit-and-coffee breakfast is a local institution.
For nights out, Zicatela is the axis of bars and music running late; La Punta ends the day on the sand, barefoot, around food stalls; the Adoquín is more touristy and earlier. Two streets back from the front line, the same dishes cost noticeably less.
The region has seen violent incidents that do not target visitors, but ordinary caution applies: take a taxi at night rather than dark stretches of highway, carry little cash, skip empty beaches after dusk. In practice, though, the Pacific undertow is the real hazard here.
Booking well
Our 2026 scans found 20 hotels with a real price in Puerto Escondido: from US$47 a night, with a typical from-price of around US$102. It is a small formal inventory sitting alongside plenty of guesthouses and apartments that never show up in scans, which is why peak dates sell out earlier than people expect.
Book two or three months out for the last week of December, the first of January and Holy Week. In September and October you can arrive on a few days' notice and still have room to negotiate a weekly rate.
Before you confirm, check three things: whether the air conditioning is real or just a fan, whether the windows have insect screens, and the actual distance to the beach you care about — ten minutes here can mean ten minutes of highway. In Zicatela or the Adoquín, ask about night noise too.
Frequently asked about Caracol Plaza
How much does Caracol Plaza cost?
Prices we observed in 2026 started at US$75 per night. These are scan observations, not a live quote: the final rate depends on your dates. Use the check-availability widget on this page to see the current price.
Where is Caracol Plaza?
The address is Calle Septima Oriente Esq. 1A Sur, Puerto Escondido, Mexico, Puerto Escondido, about 1 km from the centre. This page's "View on map" link opens the exact spot.
What facilities does Caracol Plaza have?
The hotel lists 24 Hour Front Desk, 24H. Security, Air conditioning, Alarm clock, Balcony and Banquet. The full list (53 facilities) is in this page's facilities section.
How do I book Caracol Plaza?
Pick dates and guests in this page's check-availability widget: it takes you to the live price on app.impt.io, where you complete the booking. Most rooms come with free cancellation, and every booking removes a tonne of CO₂.
