The location on the beach is superb and the town is friendly, safe, affordable and you don't need a car. Alas this place is poorly managed and maintained. The problems seem to be getting worse. We see it every day although we haven't stayed in it in a couple of years and we talk to people. However the ultimate disaster is regular overflow of the septic onto the beach at water's edge. Stench and all. I don't know how they are getting away with it. It is not typical here at all. Strongly suggest you look elsewhere until you get better signals from this group.

This hotel is slowly being run into the ground. Nothing seems to get fixed. The pool has a leak in it and has been that way for two years. Great location to the beach, but needs new owners with a wrecking ball. This was our first stay there and our last.

Hotel Ojo de Agua is named after a fresh water spring in the ocean about 30 yards off the beach. It's a great spot to snorkel around. Almost directly in front of the hotel there is also some groups of coral and good snorkeling. And then there is of course the reef which you have to go with a guide to see because it is a protected National park. The Puerto Morelos town square is close and offers great restaurants and friendly people...

But, In my opinion Hotel Ojo is a run down hotel, with poor overpriced food. The staff wasn't very friendly and all seem just out to squeeze you for every penny. Especially the staff renting out umbrellas and kayaks. Yes, you have to pay to sit under an umbrella. It is also crowded with locals on the weekends and holidays.

If you really can't afford anything else then it's location and price make up for a lot of it's short comings but if you can do better, please do!

On our way back from Tulum we decided to visit Puerto Morelos, a charming fishermen's village, if you want to live a real Mexican experience I truly recommend to spend a few days in PM.

Since we were heading to Cancun we hadn't made any accommodation arrangements and we wandered until we found an available room (all hotels in PM were fully booked).

Ojo de Agua had a room available for one night and we decided to stay there, the hotel is well maintained, clean, beachfront, service is warm and friendly, overall a good value for money.

We enjoyed the rest of the afternoon walking around PM, had lunch at Pelicanos, very typical and inexpensive seafood place, one of the best fish ceviches I ever had... some "artisinia" shopping to bring some gifts home and then we headed to the beach. The beach is not as nice as Tulum but was totally uncrowded, strange considering the high occupancy they were running.

At night we looked for a casual dinner option, half a block from the town square, we found a little hidden gem, a place that opened that week, Tanino's, great casual food (salads, gourmet sandwiches, crepes) and an extensive and very good winelist available by the glass. I had the steak and portobello sandwich with gorgonzola with a glass of Albariño, and my partner had a greek salad, both very tasty and well presented, service is friendly and prices inexpensive

I travel quite often to Riviera Maya and Cancun but I will definitly organize a week in PM in a very near future.