Guerrero, Mexico

Hotelito at Musa

Price per night from$335.40

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (USD335.40), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

Artistic by nature

Setting

Sierra-backed sands

Hotelito at Musa pairs a green ethos with sleek, sepia-toned design on Mexico’s wild southwestern coast. Though, the creative enclave this boutique stay calls home paints with the full tropical palette. Art-studded gardens, colorful Mexican cuisine and a sunset-spying beach club form the heart of this village with a vision, where sustainability is balanced with inspiration-sparking design. Retreat to your private plunge pool or ocean-spying tub as the sky turns inky, and sparks of a different kind fly.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

13, including two suites.

Check–Out

Noon. Check-in is at 3pm, but both are flexible, subject to availability and a fee of US$50 an hour.

More details

Rates at Hotelito are room only, but Mexican and American breakfasts are available at Alba for $25 to $30 each.

Also

Unfortunately, Hotelito at Musa isn't suitable for guests with limited mobility.

At the hotel

Private beach, palm grove, garden, farm, water temple, pickleball courts, treehouse, e-bikes to borrow, music studio with instruments to borrow, paid laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: Marshall or Sonos speaker, air-conditioning, steamer, minibar, free glass-bottled water, hairdryer, bathrobes and For All Folks bath products.

Our favourite rooms

In the Hotelito Grand Deluxe rooms you can slide straight from your glass-walled shower to your private plunge pool, making getting dressed an entirely optional affair.

Poolside

There are two unheated outdoor pools: glide straight from your ocean-gazing sunlounger to the Club de Playa pool, or make the quieter Basecamp pool your palm-fringed bolthole. Both pools are child-friendly, and are open from 8am to 8pm. Wander down to the water temple and you’ll find the natural swimming pool, where you can float nymph-like among the lily pads.

Spa

There’s no spa, but massages can be arranged in your room or amid the tropical grounds. You’ll find a covered, open-air gym over in the Basecamp area of Musa, with the full gamut of work-out equipment including a rowing machine, treadmill, bike, boxing kit, squatting bar, weights and yoga mats.

Packing tips

Bring your own fragrance, by all means, but be prepared to come home with a new favorite. Hotelito’s signature blend, designed by Izaskun Diaz, combines natural Mexican ingredients including sandalwood, frankincense, amber, clove and copaiba. If it steals your heart, you can score a bottle from the lobby boutique.

Also

Musa’s art collection is rooted in the surroundings — the current curation includes landscapes by Ricky Lee Gordon painted with all-natural pigments, and Rachel Garrard’s geometric sculptures infused with black sand gathered from the beach.

Pet‐friendly

Furry pals are welcome in all rooms for a nightly $40 fee. See more pet-friendly hotels in Guerrero.

Children

Little Smiths of all ages are welcome, but not especially catered to.

Sustainability efforts

A focus on local, sustainable resources runs foundation-deep at Hotelito –– natural Mexican materials like parota wood and black granite are woven into the architecture. The same goes for the restaurant, where chefs work with seasonal regional produce. There are solar panels and a zero-plastic policy in place, too. And Musa is home to a regenerative farm, plus an artificial reef and natural swimming pool to help rebuild natural habitats. Put simply, nature is nurtured here.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Sit up at the black terrazzo counter for a front-row seat to Alba’s action-packed kitchen.

Dress Code

Casual with a conscience –– organic cotton and earth-kind dyes will go down well here.

Hotel restaurant

Take in frond-framed ocean views from the alfresco terrace at Alba, Hotelito’s main restaurant. Chefs Hugo Cabrera and Abraham Alonso Pineda put a contemporary spin on traditional Mexican flavors, made with sustainably sourced ingredients from Guerrero’s farms, ranches and waters. Signature dishes include tender short ribs and serrano-spiced tuna sashimi, alongside plenty of vegetarian and plant-based picks.

You hardly need stray from your sunlounger for a light bite at Club de Playa. The ceviche, sandwiches and quesadillas are all packed with fresh local produce, but we’re making eyes at the mushroom aguachile with green tomato, avocado and chile sauce.

Hotel bar

At Alba Bar, mixology masters Edoardo Ruzzante and Susanna Dal Cin have put a sophisticated twist on classic tropical concoctions –– take the Enfocados, an attention-grabbing blend of mezcal, cointreau, chili liqueur and mango chamoy cordial. Simpler options include the signature Medicina Latina, which pairs mezcal with fresh lime juice, ginger and honey. Mocktails here are just as much of an art form, and sommelier Andrey has curated a knockout wine list, too.

Last orders

Alba is open from 8am to 10pm, and the bar pours from 7am to 11pm. Club de Playa opens between 8am and 10.30pm.

Room service

There’s no formal room service menu, but if you fancy an in-room bite while the restaurant is open, staff will be happy to sort something out.

Location

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Address
Hotelito at Musa
Musa Lote Axis Mundis 1
Loma Bonita
40832
Mexico

Hotelito at Musa is part of an eco-focused retreat on Mexico’s southwestern coast, in the Pacific-lapped state of Guerrero.

Planes

Direct flights from Mexico City, as well as US hubs including LAX and Houston, touch down at Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo airport. From there, it’s a 45-minute drive to Hotelito. The hotel can arrange transfers on request; a taxi for up to three is MXN1500 each way, and a van for up to eight passengers is MXN3000 each way.

Automobiles

The hotel can arrange rides into the city, but for those bringing their own wheels, there’s free private parking a two-minute walk from the hotel.

Worth getting out of bed for

Confident surfers can catch some waves solo, book in with a surf instructor, or join a surf trip to some of the Pacific coast’s best breaks. Stay wetsuited up, because scuba diving and jet skiing are also on the agenda. And if evenings around the fire pit and live DJ sets are more your speed, stop by the beach club. Inland, follow trails through the tropical gardens, spotting treasures from the hotel’s art collection along the way, or go for a dip in the natural, freshwater swimming pool. Guided yoga and meditation sessions are usually running, too, as well as one-off wellness, culinary and creative workshops; check the monthly newspaper in your room for the latest line-up.

Local restaurants

If you fancy heading into Zihuatanejo for dinner, staff can give you a ride in one of Musa’s trucks — and tip you off on their favorite local spots along the way. Our pick is Angustina, a toes-in-the-sand cocina serving authentic Guerrero dishes.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this holistic hotel in Mexico and unpacked their Hunza G two-piece and hemp pajamas, a full account of their beachfront break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Hotelito at Musa in Guerrero…

If a future-focused eco village sounds a little intense, it’s no accident; the U in Musa stands for Utopian. But Hotelito at Musa has its feet firmly on the ground, a home-from-home harmonizing lofty ideas and laidback luxury with philharmonic-level finesse. 

Wellness workshops find their counterpoint in oh-what-the-hell indulgence (so those post-meditation mezcal Negronis are a go). At weekends, when an international coterie of DJs soundtrack the beach club, the hidden pool offers a palm-swathed pause. After adventurous days, where surf sessions and reef dives set the tempo, a bubble bath out on your private terrace, with the lapping of the waves keeping time, make for a welcome coda. And throughout, respect for the landscape rings bell-clear, from the menus cued by Guerrero’s seasonal produce to the bespoke parota-wood interiors, filled with pieces by local craftspeople. At Hotelito, inspiration doesn’t so much strike, as score the whole experience.

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Price per night from $309.40