Basico Hotel Playa Del Carmen

Spring might be upon us but we're already thinking about some summer getaways. For the end of Bedroom Month, we present to you the bedroom we would really really like to spend this weekend in.

It's a room at the Hotel Basico in Playa Del Carmen in the Yucatan Penninsula. The hotel features a raised platform bed, swim fins and polaroid cameras at your disposal and twin rooftop pools made from converted oil tanks. We love the light and the soothing colors. Oh and it's next to the beach. Yes please.

Comments (8)

I'm really enjoying this series on non-traditional hotels. Thanks!

I spent X-mas and New Year's in Playa del Carmen with a large group of friends. 4 of my friends stayed in this hotel. The rooms and hotel are as cool and minimal as they appear in the pictures. However, the primary draw to the Hotel Basico is the roof top bar which plays thumping disco into the wee hours of the morning every day. My friends told me that the walls of their room and their beds literally vibrated and shook all night. Do yourself a favor, just visit the hotel for drinks on the roof, but don't stay there unless you don't plan on sleeping.

This hotel is like staying in the middle of Times Square. The rooms are nice but you might have a melt down from the noise before you even get to the beach. Been there, checked out.

How wonderful. I'm crazy about boutique hotels, and I love the simplicity of the design.

I've stayed at their sister propoerty - Hotel Deseo - and going again in April. True, the peace & quiet are available at a minimum; be prepared to party all night and catch up on sleep during the day. But, great minimalist design at both properties.

My husband and I went to Playa Del Carmen about this time last year and stayed at Mosquito Blue (across the street from Hotel Deseo). We went for drinks every night at either Hotel Basico or Hotel Deseo and loved them both (for drinks, but not to stay there!.. see comment above about thumping music into the wee hours). We loved our stay at Mosquito Blue but would stay at the sister hotel Mosquito Beach next time, just to be closer to the beach. Great little 5-day vacation though, and fairly inexpensive.

The cornerstone of good design is functionality and comfort. Basico misses the mark so far that it has become the punchline of my bad vacation joke. Our room was literally a concrete cube, the only window to which was a sliding glass door/wall covered with black rubber tire-tread curtains. The only privacy from the roof deck for our sad little cell was to pull the rubber curtain, leaving us with only the red neon light under the bed for light. The linens were nice, I'll give it that, but it was so uncomfortable that we forfitted three nights of pre-paid lodging to leave.

Is this the adult only hotel across the water from Cozumel? If so it has two big hot tubs on the roof oram I thinking of someplace else?