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February 29, 2024
We arrived on an evening when the weather was awful (due to hurricane Agatha) and the weather was supposed to stay that way our whole stay (5 nights!) Fortunately it was just bad for one day and then absolutely perfect! When we arrived we were actually shown 3 different rooms and allowed to choose - since the one we had booked on *********** was right by the party area, they were super considerate of how noisy it might be for us and we ended up essentially getting a free upgrade to a huge lovely room. It is a party hostel - they don’t hide this and we were aware but we appreciated being in a room where the music wasn’t disturbing :) However the doors/windows didn’t really lock and there was no safe- but we felt quite safe and secure anyway! There is a Kitchen and place to fill up your bottle with drinking water. The whole place is honestly beautiful - the decorations etc it’s just lovely to be around. There’s also an adorable friendly dog, cats and even ducks. The beach area isn’t huge but big enough, people go and sunbathe on the pier over the ocean anyway. We booked a snorkelling trip via Nomads and had the best time - our tour guide was someone called Miguel. We would 100% recommend (it was the underwater museum one but he also took us to a reef). They put on lots of free activities e.g. guacamole making, cocktail making, ceviche (all free). And the parties at night are great fun. Some of the staff members are fantastic. We loved Jose the bartender! We also hired a golf buggy via Nomads to explore the island. We didn’t shop around so can’t say it it would be better value elsewhere but it was just easy to get it directly from them. The best place to head is downtown (where the ferry port is) as there’s sooo many bars and restaurants. We went round the entire island on our buggy. It was so fun and felt very safe. You can also order food directly to the nomads bar - they have a mini food market and it is pretty decent. We also would thoroughly recommend the restaurant across the road for breakfast/brunch/lunch. We went practically every day. Isla Mujeres can get quite swarmed with tourists but we did feel quite separated from all of that at Nomad’s, which was great. We would definitely come back, thank you to all the staff for a fantastic stay!