Bahía Taganga Hotel

Great hotel, lovely staff, good breakfast. Amazing view from my room and from the roof terrace. The rooms in the old part of the hotel are slightly dated but still very nice. Check out the photo of the view from my bedroom. Great to have a pool and aircon in the rooms.

Beach and scenery

Nice view of bay. However entrace under condtruction. Restaurant hours limited. Staff polite. Bedroom had a few bugs. No hot water since, weather is generally very hot and humid. Walk down to several restaurants but constant flies and bees while eating. Beautiful scenery expect fir tge very poor surroundings. Entrance dirt road poor and ghetto looking area.

It was the most amazing view!!! A breath taken view! However be prepared for a very basic stay I terms of hotel structure. No hot water, not elevator, no minibar.

The place was nice, the bedroom was nice. But why wouldn’t they get thicker glass windows if the music from the bars out side is so loud. We couldn’t basically sleep because of that. The music in front of the hotel is too loud!

Incredible view, great staff and wonderful breakfast.

The property has a great view, good facilities, great personal, Excellent food. Everyone and everything was a good experience within the hotel. Only one thing I didn’t like was fact that the lighting on the street at night is not the best on your way back from the bars area. Having in count is the farthest hotel from the restaurants and bars area I will suggest to have that on mind.

First, the good stuff: The views from the room, the restaurant and the pool were stunning. None of the staff spoke English, but they were all very patient with us using Google Translate and were very responsive to our requests, which included pre-ordering breakfast to be ready earlier than traditionally offered due to us having to be at the dive shop each day by 8am. Breakfast was hearty and filling. The staff also carried our two heavy bags up and down several flights of steep stairs, which would have been very difficult for us to do ourselves.

Now, the rest of the story. The room is VERY small. The bathroom was tiny, and had NO shelves to put anything on. There is a small closet in the room with a few hangers and shelves, and a TINY table and chairs, and only one tiny nightstand. I ended up needing to use one of the chairs as a nightstand so both my wife and I could have a bottle of water and a place to place our phones at night.

Also, there is NO HOT WATER. The sink and shower are FREEZING COLD. Apparently, this is common in hotels in different parts of the world, but I have have only run into this in a remote jungle camp in Belize and a remote diving outpost in Indonesia, NOT in a hotel in town with a restaurant, pool, WiFi, etc.

The pool is clean and beautiful, but oddly, also colder than expected, considering how strong the sun is there. There is indeed a large Jacuzzi which could seat at least 8 people and has jets, also COLD (are we detecting a theme here?).

Lastly, and I need to state that this is not the hotel’s fault, nor it it anything they can control, but Taganga is LOUD. For reference, I live in New York City so I am not accustomed to silence, but picture multiple establishments blasting music on speakers meant for a stadium-sized concert, concurrently playing their own music, starting around 10am and going ALL. NIGHT. LONG. Considering this hotel is up the mountain a bit and this was all coming from several blocks away, it still felt like I was trying to sleep in the middle of a parade.

So if you read, like I did, that Taganga is a chill fishing village, apparently that’s old news. The scuba diving there was great (highly recommend Poseidon Divers!) but it is arguably the LEAST relaxing place I have ever been.

The staff was nice. However, everything else was terrible. The area around the hotel was dirty. Unsafe to walk to the dirty beach. Many stairs to climb to room. Nasty room, bugs, etc. No hot water and posted “Do no drink water”Very loud music from local bar until 5 am, so sleep is not possible. We paid for the week, but left after first night losing all payment in advance. Best experience there was sitting on a large iguana on our 4th floor apartment patio. Went to Marriott and had a great time.

What a nice place. Atop a mountain just gorgeous view. We had a room with a view and it did not disappoint. The hotel is very nice, but they definitely have to do some work on it. For the price we paid it could have been better. The people who work there are impeccable. They cater to your every need. Peaceful and majestic views. Nestled between two mountains in sacred lands this place is magnificent. Things are getting a little dangerous so caution is recommended.

The hotel is decent, but don't book there unless you're physically able to walk up a lot of stairs. The area is nice, but it's very noisy, that's just the area. That's what it is. Fortunately, the Hotel is above a lot of the noise. The staff is fantastic! Thank you very much for all you did for us. Wasn't impressed with the free breakfast and because of it, we decided not to die in at the hotel. There's a lot of great choices in the area that are easily found. I'd stay there again.

The staff was awesome! I was a little disappointed with the breakfast that was included in the stay and felt like they should've turned it up a notch. There is a lot of climbing involved, they're on the side of a mountain and do not have an elevator so to enjoy, the pretty view you have to work for it if you are not physically fit enough to do a little stairclimbing I'd recommend you stay away from this facility. The rooms are OK but very basic, no refrigerator, but I was furnished with a cooler and ice at my request . They were very accommodating! They do have a restaurant but because of the disappointing breakfast, we decided to eat elsewhere during the stay, there were many great choices in that area so we were OK having not utilized the restaurant. I would definitely stay there again because it's a very pretty place with a nice pool And a view to die for. Again, the staff were Very accommodating, friendly, and attentive.

Rooftop pool hot tub and main restaurant!
The hotel is on basically on the side of a cliff above the entire city below… probably the best hotel I’ve ever stayed at ngl.

I enjoyed the pool area ,the view and breakfast definitely recommend this place

Lovely views, nice staff, lovely pool. However No hot water, don't go near Easter week as local shops blast music at incredible volume all night with no stopping. Service at restaurant/bar was awful waited 40 minutes for a coca cola however chef lady was very nice and food was good when arrived. wind blew all day all night whistling through and under our door dragging dirt under it.

Staff is wonderfull, friendly and helpful. I felt welcome and safe. The swiming pool and it view is increduble. The food at the restaurant is pretty basic but does the job. The room that we got had an awesome view, but auper noisy over the week end. We had to change room after for one night to make sure we could at least sleep a few hours. Matress needs a little update. Other than that i recomande, it beautiful, close to playa grande beach and Taganga is a little hidden treasure to discover.

Nice view

Service very carefully and always taking care about what you need, friendly, nice swiming pool, english speaking can be nice to improve.
Very Clean !!! :)
Good breakfast :)

Small importan t details in general, garbage jand strong smell before arrive, late on night need to be carefully , no family place, no cause the hotel, for the party in the beach, pretty noise .

No parking at the hotel, surroundings not clean, no elevator

There were mouse droppings in the bathroom. They were there every day. The maid never cleaned the room, she would remove the trash but never swept the floor so there was a layer of dirt and sand. The shower had two settings: extremely hot or frigid -- there was no in between. The architecture of the balcony was such that the strong winds sounded like we were staying next to railroad tracks. It is a short walk to the nicer beach (I think the listing said 7 minutes but unless you are sprinting that is not going to happen) but even the less nice beach is still good. No refrigerator or coffee machine so you must be constantly going to the often-closed restaurant for everything.