Another wonderful trip to Bocas Town and another great stay at The Cocomo. I was so excited to see the new mural, which was being done last year as we left. We were a smaller group this year, we only had 2 of the rooms instead of the entire house. The place was full the whole time but everything was very quiet. Including the neighbors and their dogs. I actually enjoy when they have a get together and play music. It always ends rather early. This trip they only had one evening for a family event and it was over by 8pm. My favorite room is the one in the back next to the laundry. Doug had a new bed and a/c in the room. Better then ever. I dream about my Cocomo hammock time.

Let me start off saying that these are my kind of people ! Now having said that, service was great breakfast was awsome best omelettes ever. Owner douge took great care in our stay, set my wife and my self up with a privite snorkeling trip with a local and reasonable price 60$ three locations. I must say i will defanitly go back.

This place would have the potential to be one of the nicest places in town, but:
Hard to find sleep: It is very (!) noisy, not only because of the very noisy neighbours and their constantly barking dog, the hotel itself has thin walls, wooden planks where you hear every footstep, the door of our room also had a window to the hallway where light gets in - and of any reason the lights are on during the whole night, no matter how often you shut them. If you have one of the back rooms you hear the passing cars especially the cabs who love to use their horn. The two front rooms, facing the terrace and with ocean view, in former days the best rooms at all, now are a night mare. Dark, musty, old and worn mattresses, and: noisy! In former days the (huge) breakfast was served on the terrace facing the second building with the reception. Now the owner decided to use the terrace only for himself so breakfast is served right under the window of your sleeping room. This means as soon the staff prepares the table you'll be awake. People will sit straight in front of your window hearing every noise you make and vice versa. Talking about the terrace: although the hotel has only four rooms it can happen to you that you find the terrace quite crowded with people. If you start to wonder in what rooms they stay you might find out that they don't stay at the hotel at all - it is common for some of the residential ex-pats to use the terrace to wait for a boat that'll come to pick them up or just for socialising. Odd thing if you find yourself as a paying guest not able to take place on the terrace of your hotel because it is taken by other people...
Somebody wrote about padlocks: That's true: The door of of our room could only be closed by a padlock because it didn't have a handle. That means the door stands wide open if you don't lock it! So if one of the guests of the room wants to stay inside while the other one is leaving you always have to lock the door. This is a very unconvenient thing unless you are on your own. Doug the owner indeed is a very nice and friendly person, only that doesn't help much as most of the time he is not there while his also very friendly recepionist can't do much for you if you have complaints, while Doug himself stays friendly but simply doesn't care about the concerns of his guests. To sum it up: The place still has the advantage of a great location but is far too expensive for what you get in the end. There are so many other places now in Bocas who offer much more for sometimes less money, so no reason to stay there.

very cute little B&B right on the water, only a 5 minute walk into town but its far enough from the core that you can actually swim in the water.

Awesome breakfast with more food then you could ever eat & good coffee. Cute clean rooms with good quality mattresses and linens. Fridge & freezer available as well as laundry & Wifi.

There is a big outdoor deck, eating area with open spots to suntan, shaded area with hammocks to relax and a nice view.


The only down side is the neighbors, which of course Cocomo has no control over. The neighbors seem to play really bad punta music from sun up to sun down and constantly yelling over the music, they also have two dogs barking through the day. It may have just been the weekend we were there, not sure if its like that all the time - but they must have had 20 people coming and going from the house.

That being said, it was still the best place for us to stay in bocas and @ $70 including breakfast its a steal. I would stay again in a heartbeat.