Worth every shekel just to play in its steamy Mayan communal baths!
Yeah, well, I’m guessing this joint is catering to celeb VALS like Jonah, Bay and Kenny, ‘cause it ain’t unwashed devils, you, me, coughing up a thousand bucks a night for one of its gorgeous, all-concrete rooms.
Hotel Casa To, at the southern most point of Puerto Escondido, which is home to the biggest closeouts on the planet and dominated most recently by “the world’s smartest surfer” Nathan Florence, is a newly opened brutalist hotel which, to quote Vogue, “stands as an ode to the interplay between the functional and the surreal.”
Banana and passion fruit vines encircle the steel, concrete and clay construction, giving the joint the look of a fabulous Mayan temple.
Wander down the stairs to the pool and it has high-end gay bathhouse vibes, shadowy corners, private nooks, steamy! Who knows who you might meet in its warm water! Those not ready to play or just a little shy can sit in stadium style seating while the action goes down.
The hotel “defines itself as a manifesto of hospitality for introspection, sited opposite the Zicatela Ecological Community, a key destination for contemporary nomads from every latitude, who seek to find themselves among wide beaches ideal for surfing and watersports, walking, meditating, and even helping to release turtles in the local sanctuaries.”Sexy!
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I’ve been practicing that piece of surf wisdom above for many years, gleaned from personal experience and from a surf guru or two, and ‘purposely’ did it above— you gringo kook..
I used to stay Hotel I’nes? …good times.
I’d pool in!
I walk by there a lot. No ocean view and a ten minute walk to one of the most crowded, lawless point breaks in the world. If the rates seems expensive, I got an apartment in a better location for less then half the rates! And I might even paint the joint!
Old habits die hard—and it’s basic surf protocol for any hard-core surfer—‘never reveal the real name of where you surf’….you gringo kook….
Sik comment!!
want lox on that bagel?
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Dredge lox Rasta…
Show me one prick staying at that joint and paddling out at legit Puerto. I’ll shake that hand.
NomNomJohn may have eaten a turtle egg or two during his travels.
Looks like a Stanley Kubrick movie set. Malcolm McDowell is head of concierge.
I wonder if the guests feel as ridiculous as the concrete environment
Looks like a construction site that just randomly had some furniture placed in it.
Opened the Pyzel board ad:
As the name implies, the Padillac was built to paddle fast and easily. It has extra thickness and a fuller outline throughout the entire board compared to most standard guns. This allows you to catch and ride bigger
waves with ease, and most of all, with confidence.
A Padillac Surf Trip!
And I…. care less
La Punta via cerf-line really went off last week. I’m goofy. Dane would go!
Goofy is an understatement kind sir…
The ancient Mayans would have a ‘field day’ within the confines. Kicking heads (aka futball) in a three dimensional pitch instead of a traditional ‘coliseum.’ At the end of play, the surviving participants would roll down to the beach, set great bonfires and throw human debris into huge boiling vats. When the final bell tolls, and the cooking was done? The Great Feast!
Or maybe my imagination is just running away?
Escondildo
Do I get a fresh turtle? I expect my water bottles to be crisp evian and not skanky on-premises bottled slop (limescale, gross): no recycled turtle for me, fanks.
Short but sweet. I enjoyed that.
But the mayans werent even in puerto, they were in the yucatan.
What’s your point?
That the people who built it are ignorant?
Not my cup of tea, I remember many many moons ago, sleeping in the back of my car at Rio Nexta, Mex., perfectly content and happy.
I fear the day is coming, that any surf break that’s half way decent—will have a surf camp there (advertised on-line), built by some idiot trying to ‘cash in’ on the surf there— but claiming , “ hey man, it was my dream, I’m just doin it so I can surf more.
While his stinking camp is right where die hard surfers used to park, set up there tents or whatever and camp for free with no crowds….
PS
Just my opinion, but I think surf camp owners are low life exploitive scum, (and that’s being polite), I’d much rather sleep on the beach in a sleeping bag than stay at one of their yuppie inspired, cater to your every wish, continental breakfast, internet included, sleazy dumps..,
Give ‘em hell, Sam !
Green eggs & ham!
but realistically ; if any guest in this tool house can out paddle you onto a good wave, you need to re evaluate your fitness levels
A grand a night for a resort made from prefab concrete from China?
Book me in!!!
Don’t forget to release some turtles.
I think he’s still stuck in Hawaii caddying for Rick Kane