In all of Panama, this place has to be the worst. Two flights of stairs up to the room (nicely decorated), down to the restaurant and bar with no service, waking up in the morning covered head to toe with flea bites, walking in a tropical downpour to the "ferry" terminal, etc., etc. Panama is a wonderful country, but Bocas del Toro needs to catch up. Got a short "sorry" from the manager, but no offer of a refund. Stay away from this place!

The hotel is in the main street next to Limbo hotel (who seems very similar to Hotel Bocas) In the same street are the Tropical suites.
Good:
* The hotel is very clean
* In a good zone in Colon Island

Not Good:
*The restaurant is not good, and the service is really bad. They could not make scrambled eggs with oignon because its not in the menu, even if they have eggs and oignon.
*At night the room is noisy because of the bars next to the hotel

If you are looking for scuba diving go to The Buga and contact Diego or Ricardo, they have an excellent service and gives you anywhere, and the price is really good.
The buga is not in the comercial zone, but you go out of the hotel and take left hand for the street and you will find them.

We really enjoyed our stay at this hotel. We had a room for 3, with an ocean view (well worth the extra $). The room was large enough for us, the beds very comfortable and it was very clean. Bocas Del Toro Hotel also has the best happy hour on the island. The staff were very helpful. We got 4 days of laundry (for 3) done in one day for $5.00!!! How can you go wrong. Snorkeling trips booked through the hotel are not recommended-try Tranparente or Joe Baker.

This hotel was awesome and the price was right. You can stay in Bocas town for as little at 8 dollars a night up to a couple of hundred of dollars. We paid $96 for a queen size bed and a spotless room. We started out staying 1 night because we weren't sure of our plans and ended up staying 5! Each morning when we woke up we would ask if they had a room for the night. Since we didn't have reservations and couldn't decided how long we were going to stay, we had to change rooms a few times but the staff moved our belongings and we got to see a couple diff. rooms. My favorite room being #10. The rooms were nicely decorated, always had clean linens, a safe in each room and a 27'' flat screen TV's on the wall to boot! The staff was friendly and accomodating and the owner Carla was almost always present. She runs a tight ship. The hotel had been recently remodeled and the wood work was was beautiful. The location only a block off the busy main st which was nice. We stayed in a few other less expensive places in Bocas which were nice too but this was by far my favorite. Would go back in a heart beat! The only thing I would recommend is including breakfast but at the time of my stay the kitchen was being leased out. I think this was going to change sometime soon though. All in all, my experience was great.