Naala Tulum in Tulum

TLDR; Exciting concept, poor implementation, horrible service

The concept: a courtyard with its own minijungle surrounded by the actual hotel. All rooms face the courtyard. The breakfast restaurant, the bar and the pool is on the rooftop, overlooking the nearby actual forest. All in brutalistic concrete. Exciting!

But the room smelled of mold, when A/C wasn't cranked up.  The outdoor area was basically flat concrete, with strewn-out sunbeds, apart from the pool area which on the other hand is cramped. The bar served beer only. The breakfast buffet was half-full of items, at all times. We ended up buying breakfast in the nearby supermarket and eating in our room.  AC cranked up.

And all that could have still have been ok - if the there had just been beds that worked We were two parents and one tall 17-year old. We travel a lot, always booking double-beds. Which at this hotel meant queen-size beds - and the smallest version of them. Couldn't fit two adults (except for perhaps those first two rosy-eyed weeks of an affair.) We asked front desk for an extra bed, a pull-out couch, or even just a mattress to put on the floor. Didn't exist. Pushed again. We could get a bigger room the next day. But next day: no, room wasn't cleaned. Or wait, management had said no. The answer wavered. I ended up slerping three nights on the floor. (Next hotel, on Cozumel, no problem getting an extra bed. "Of course, señor, we understand if the beds are too small.")

From the day we got there we had no hot water and our AC wasn’t working. It took nearly 3 days out of the four days. We stayed there to get the AC to work, but it would only work for a few hours and then go out the shower. water was cold never warm and there was an ant infestation on our balcony. We had to sleep with the doors open due to no AC and I’m covered in mosquito bites. They placed us in a room right by the stairway and all we heard was people running up and down all evening and all morning long, nobody spoke good enough English at their hotel to be able to help us when we asked for help. I was really hoping this hotel would fit our needs, but it was terrible.