Reviews of Hotel Caribbean View
Isla Bastimentos Bocas del Toro, Bastimentos, Panama
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Reviewed: 17 August 2025 · Stayed in August 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 5 April 2025 · Stayed in March 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 29 March 2025 · Stayed in March 2025
Verified reviewWe loved the vibe in Old Bank, Bastimentos and the hosts of the Caribbean View. The hotel is run by a family and theyre all really friendly and helpful. The son Luis can also take you on some amazing trips with his boat. The room is very big and clean, and every day your room is cleaned. Sometimes there is a problem with water on the island but when you ask the owner he puts the water straight on for you and you will have warm water to shower
Nothing
Reviewed: 13 March 2025 · Stayed in March 2025
Verified reviewWhat did I like. The loud music playing late into the night. I was impressed with the little fan in the room instead of the air conditioner as advertised. The trash everywhere in the neighborhood.
No air conditioning. No running water, shower, toilet. Father and son dishonest about condition of hotel facilities. Trip to red frog beach left us stranded on the dock. Do Not Stay There.
Hello, Let me explain: the hotel has rooms with fans and rooms with air conditioning. You booked a room with a fan. The hotel is not responsible for the tours. You requested a boat to go to Red Frog Beach, and the person in charge arranged it for you. Normally, the captain drops passengers off at Red Frog Beach and later picks them up. When you arrived, you chose not to pay the entrance fee of $5 per person because you found it too expensive, which is understandable. However, please do not say that you were abandoned at the Red Frog dock, as it was your decision not to pay. Regarding the water supply, we live on an island and rely heavily on rainfall. We are currently in the dry season, so the water reserve has decreased in recent days. For this reason, we have a schedule for providing water service.
Hello, Let me explain: the hotel has rooms with fans and rooms with air conditioning. You booked a room with a fan. The hotel is not responsible for the tours. You requested a boat to go to Red Frog Beach, and the person in charge arrange… Show more
Reviewed: 3 March 2025 · Stayed in February 2025
Verified reviewGreat value for money. Rooms are big
Reviewed: 19 February 2025 · Stayed in February 2025
Verified reviewGood value for money, the rooms were comfortable. The street outside was very loud but the whole island is very loud so we didn’t mind that too much.
We waited about 30 minutes at reception to check in as we couldn’t find any members of staff. When we finally could check in it took a while for them to find our booking and we were given the wrong room so we had to change.
Reviewed: 18 February 2025 · Stayed in February 2025
Verified reviewThe hotel is right at the water, the boot droped us off in the dinning room of the hotel. We could check in the room, even though we were very early.
The room / bathroom is very small, but we loved our stay. We had hot water/ Air conditioning and two beds and loved the staff.
Reviewed: 8 February 2025 · Stayed in February 2025
Verified reviewThe staff was incredibly friendly and helpful. They went out of their way to help me and my cousin out when we were robbed on Wizard beach, one of them even coming with us to the police station in bocas town and making sure we wouldn’t have to pay a fee for the water taxi.
The wifi was not usable in the room, only common areas.
Reviewed: 24 January 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewGreat location overlooking the Old Bank. Easy hike to Wizard’s beach.
All good.
Reviewed: 11 January 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewGreat location and warm family who run it!
Reviewed: 2 January 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewVery nice location on the water. Very friendly personal.
Reviewed: 22 March 2024 · Stayed in March 2024
Verified reviewLove the island, beaches were worth the trip. Booked 2 days stayed 6. Apparently, this is pretty common. Greet the locals, they are friendly back
Town has little infrastructure, and no ATM. Stock up in Boca before arriving. (Though, this is kinda a plus.)
Reviewed: 9 February 2024 · Stayed in February 2024
Verified reviewThe location is great, being located on the water and a short walk from restaurants in Old Bank. The room we stayed in had a good view of the bay from the balcony. Luis was a great host who gladly attended to any of our needs and helped to organize activities for our stay in Bocas del Toro and our excursion to Red Frog Beach.
Nothing, really. We enjoyed our stay and will come back again.
Reviewed: 19 March 2023 · Stayed in February 2023
Verified reviewreally nice and helpful owner. Water Taxi stop. And nice seaview where you can see the sun down. Haf to buy the breakfast but was really good with a lot of choices.
The owner sometimes turns down the water for the hole property ( no big deal, just ask him to turn it on again)
Reviewed: 20 February 2023 · Stayed in February 2023
Verified reviewLuis is a great host, made is laugh on many occasions!
Reviewed: 22 January 2023 · Stayed in January 2023
Verified reviewThe owners of Caribbean View are a very sweet family, and the room was very clean with housekeeping coming every day.
The restaurant was never open during the identified hours, and there was almost never someone there to assist with any problems that arose. The internet was not very strong based on what else was available on the island.
Reviewed: 9 January 2023 · Stayed in January 2023
Verified reviewSimple but clean room, friendly staff
Reviewed: 3 January 2023 · Stayed in January 2023
Verified reviewLucho is a great host. His sun Luiz took us with his boat to two tours, he’s a funny guy who prepared fish for us with coconut leaves on the beach (his fish was the best we had in Panama😋).
There are occasional problems with water, if that happens just talk to Lucho…
Reviewed: 3 November 2022 · Stayed in October 2022
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