Hotel Posada Del Mar Isla Mujeres
Travelers the Marsh's from West Bloomfield Michigan USA

Dec. 8-15th was a little rainery than our past second week of Dec. trips in and around the Cancun area. We wanted something different and we got it at the HPDM. This was our best vacatiion in 10 years of travel in and around the caribean. We are going back for the next couple of years. We spent less than going all inclusive at other resorts. The room was good, but the beds are to hard. The views are excellent, and the staff was great with the exception of the front desk woman mentioned from a previous review. Roger who runs the beach was very helpful and a real friend was made. We went Baracuda fishing and caught 10 in 3 hours and it was the thrill of a life time. The food in the HPDM was great and priced right. Each day when we returned from the beach the maids had turned our very thick towls into works of art. HPDM thank you for a wonderful vacation ,you can bet we will be back next year!

The Marsh's

I went to Isla Mujeres in early November to Dive. I was by myself so I just wanted basic accomidations. I checked out the local hotels on Tripadvisor and from the reviews it seemd that most of the hotels on the island fell into the same catagory- Motel 6 of the Caribbean. I decided that Posada Del Mar was definitely one of the hotels that I wanted to stay at. I had looked at several other hotels, but for some reason they never returned my emails to book a room, where as the staff at PDM always replied quickly.
I had never been to Isla Mujeres before so I wan't sure where to stay on the island- do i stay on the south end and take a cab into town or rent a golf cart, or do I stay downtown? I decided that downtown would be the most convenient and PDM was definitely downtown.
I flew into Cancun and grabbed a shuttle to Puerto Jaurez where I caught the ferry to the island. PDM is only two blocks from the ferry dock so I opted to walk.
Check in was painless and they gave me a room on the ground floor. I did have issues with my first room (which I won't get into here) and after several day I ended up moving to another room. The staff was polite and when I asked for another room they allowed me to change. There were two people that worked the desk during my stay, a man and a woman, I did not get their names. The man was helpful and friendly, the woman just did not seem to that happy about working the desk.
Here is the deal, I am writing this review about the second room that I had at the hotel, I could not recomend the first room.
The room was in the newer wing of the hotel. When I checked in was asked if I wanted a beach view room or a room in the new wing. I almost felt like this was a loaded question. Having never stayed there before I decided that it would make more sense to stay in the newer wing, I might have been wrong, the ocean view wing of the hotel did not seem to be any older that the wing I stayed in, my room over looked the bar and an abandoned building. I did not really care about overlooking the abandoned building, I had read about it in other posts and was well aware that was going to be my view. I was more concerned about what I was going to see underwater than the view out my window.
The room was fairly large, it had a 20 inch TV with cable, the furniture was in good condition, the bathroom had a large shower, the towels were thin by US standards but they were large. I had just stayed at a Motel 6 in Green Bay WI several weeks before and the rooms were definitely comparable.
The food at hotel restraurant, Penguinos, was good. I had lunch and dinner there, the chicken tacos I had for lunch were especially good.
PDM is definitely in a prime location, the beach is across the street from the hotel, there are plenty of bars and restaurants within walking distance. I used Skype (this is a computer based phone system that only chages $.02 per minute for internationl calls) to call my wife from the local internet cafe, they only charged me 15 pesos for 30 minutes internet use.
The hotel worked out great for what I wanted, a cheap room, you can't beat $52 per night (plus tax). There were tons of good restaurants near by. Everything was within walking distance, I never had to pay cab fare.
My trip was in November so it was definitely off season, the restaurants were not busy at all, the only down side to my trip was I had to suffer through remnants of hurricane Patrick that had hit the west coast of Mexico and made its way across the peninsula, so there was a fair amount of rain while I was there.
I can recomend the PDM with this caveat, do not stay on the main floor.

I booked our stay at Posada after reading reviews and deciding a couple of important things -first, I'm a student on a budget - but still wanted to do something special. Second, I was going to be on the Island at the hottest time of year so I wanted a pool, beach, air conditioning, celling fans - or as many of the combinations as possible.
Posada Met my needs.
When we arrived, we were booked into a room in the NEW building - king size bed, ac, balcony... BUT - we were on the first floor and our room looked into a building that had been long ago destroyed and since, just covered in a couple of tarps... NOT the view I w as hoping for.
After a few days (and after the weekend) we were able to change rooms and get a room on the 3rd floor of the OLD building - apparently all those rooms have 2 double beds, no kings.. but the view was great and I actually liked the room design more than the other.
The staff was really accomidating when they could be, my boyfriend felt like one of the guys from the front desk was only there to watch his TV - rather than be helpful. But, I didn't have much issue with him. We had to ask for extra Towels, pillows, and a TV remote. Also, you should know that there are Beach/pool towels at the front desk, just ask for them.
The last day - as we were checking out, we wanted to get our stuff out of the "safe-deposit" box, but apparently the Master-key had broken in half... and they Jimmyed the box open so we could get our stuff - leaving me to wonder how safe the box was in the first place.
The pool - nice, comfortable, but smaller than expected from the pictures.
The Bar - Very Nice, Romy and Beto (bartenders) were great company when a storm nocked out the power on the island... they gave us shots of "Mayan Sacrafice" to light up our night. Just be aware that drinks can get pricey when it's not happy hour.
The Restaurant was good too - we only ate breakfast there though, inexpensive. (Huevos Rancheros was our favorite).

Stayed at Posada July 20-23rd on my first trip to Isla. Excited to go but shocked as I had never been to Mexico before in July and it was so HOT!
Posada was clean, no roaches, no spiders, only a gecko and iguanas outside on the tin roofs you could see from my hotel door. Bed was hard as a rock like most Mexican hotels it seems, it was made daily and I made sure I tipped well, but the sand on them was never shook out except by myself.
Hot water, a large loud air conditioner(which I personally dont mind at all) which was ice cold(yippee!), cable tv. There are snack machines and someone at the desk 24/7. I felt safe there as a single female traveler and there were many other women there alone also. Pinguinos restaurant is in the front and Romi's bar next to the pool.
Decent location at Posada for the beach, the ferry from Puerto Juarez and a short walk to downtown. Overall, not bad for only $52 + tax in the summer.