La Mar de Bien

Excellent place to have some relaxation and disconnection days. Really nice and helpful staff always ready to help and guide. They make you feel as part of the family. Beautiful and clean facilities in front of the sea, full of birds and nature. The menu has many options of food, generous plates and delicious!

Like all the reviews say, this is a cozy, relaxing place to stay. Some things that you should know are: a taxi from the airport takes about 1.5 hours and costs $64 CAN one way. There are buses or car rentals (if you can get one). It is a secluded location with a 1 km walk to the road, but they have a good restaurant with reasonably priced and excellent food. The beach is ok, but there are many days you don’t want to swim because of the waves, possible undertow and the debris that is near the shore. I was kept awake by the neighbor's music one night till midnight. The owner apologized for this and said it only happens once in a while. The owners are retired and were onsite most of the time. He was nice to drove us to the nearby waterfalls and helped organize a trip to a finka (estate that grows cocoa).

I visited the wonderful La Mar de Bien this weekend and can confirm it is fantastic. It's perfect for a relaxing break for couples, families or even solo like myself with its direct beach front location, well sized pool and lovely staff. Special mention for the kitchen who prepared some of the best food I had on my trip, the beach front bar and the delightful (and well priced) massage I got in a cabana right on the beach front all of which made my weekend one to remember :) Its definitely a great option to visit for a relaxing, wholesome and aesthetically pleasing get away!

Beautiful and peaceful, this hotel is perfect for a good rest. All the hotel staff are lovely, very nice and willing to help you. The food is amazing, the rooms are very comfortable and the surroundings are astonishing. I certainly recommend la Mar de Bien.

This place is a paradise! Right on the ocean, amazing beautiful pool. Very nice property and huge palm trees. Excellent restaurant on the premises so you don’t have to leave. Easy to get a taxi to the park entrance of Tayrona or the airport. Really good massage therapist here!!!! So relaxing, a perfect stay!

The beach here is truly breathtaking, and the hotel was quiet when we visited, meaning we mostly had it to ourselves. Nice selection of straw covered shade canopies and seating, tasteful pool - though latter isn't particularly close to the sea. Room is pretty nicely designed - no aircon, but fans were sufficient. Mosquito netting was broken though - we reported but it wasn't resolved, so we ended up with a lot of bites. Having read the glowing reviews, we were looking forward to outstanding service - but sadly, while most staff were friendly (not all - some of the restaurant staff weren't great), service was pretty basic. Not enough staff - no one manning the beach bar for our first 2 days (though on the final day the gentleman there was lovely - Jason I think), and in the restaurant the staff tend to hide near the kitchen instead of monitoring tables - so you have to go chasing to find them. Not really acceptable given the high food prices - circa 50-60k COP for a main (which were good, but not exceptional IMO). Reception was mixed too - on our last day we wanted help with various issues and for some reason the manager/receptionist was away in her office having a meeting for ~45-60 minutes, with no one covering the desk. There was no particular effort to help with problems we were experiencing - there's no ATMs locally so we were out of cash, and asked to add 50k COP (about £10 / $12) to our bill and get that as cash, but they claimed they had zero cash available - hard to believe in a region that runs on cash. Finally - we got a moto taxi back to the hotel in the early hours of the morning one evening - and found the main hotel gate locked, meaning we had no way to get in. We had to be dropped off in scrub land adjacent to the hotel in the pitch black, then wander until we found a fence to climb over. Dangerous and avoidable if we'd been warned in advance. In summary - a stunning location, but the poor service falls well short of the premium hotel prices they charge, in an area with ample cheaper competition with the same views.