The best surf & design hotels · Puerto Escondido
Hotel Escondido
Two hundred metres of private Oaxacan beach, sixteen bungalows each with its own pool, and an ocean that is categorically unswimmable. The rips at this beach are serious. Grupo Habita understood this and built accordingly — not a surf camp but a beach retreat for people who have already surfed Zicatela and want somewhere to recover from it. Forty-five minutes south of town, quiet enough that the only sounds are the break and the birds, adults only, no guests under sixteen. The restaurant sources directly from local Oaxacan fishermen. The main pool at dusk operates as the bar. Hotel Escondido is the version of Puerto Escondido that doesn't need to explain itself to anyone who has been to Puerto Escondido.
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The hotel
The Design
Palapa roofs in authentic thatch. Local tropical hardwood. An architect who built beach houses before he built hotels — and it shows.
Federico Rivera Rio worked exclusively in beach houses before this commission. The bungalows are spare by design — the private pool does the heavy lifting. Materials throughout are from within Oaxaca state: thatch, local timber, regional craft. Nothing imported, nothing that doesn't belong to the coast it sits on.
The Design
Palapa roofs in authentic thatch. Local tropical hardwood. An architect who built beach houses before he built hotels — and it shows.
Federico Rivera Rio worked exclusively in beach houses before this commission. The bungalows are spare by design — the private pool does the heavy lifting. Materials throughout are from within Oaxaca state: thatch, local timber, regional craft. Nothing imported, nothing that doesn't belong to the coast it sits on.
