Eterna Tulum

Pros: super clean, new. Very friendly staff. Martha was incredible and so accommodating. She had the best tips for how to get around and which beach clubs offered the best deals. Also there are a couple of good coffee shops and restaurants within walking distance plus the Jungle Gym if you want to get a good workout while on vacation. Cons: it's a little far from the beach. You either have to pay a pricey taxi or ride a bike. (It took me 45 minutes to get to the the zona hotelera, and I consider myself in fairly good shape.)

The service and design is amazing!

no issues at all

There are a few important things to note if you want to stay at Eterna (as we would not suggest staying here): Location: the hotel is located close to the Centro strip if that is where you want to be located. However after we got to Tulum we realised that the beach, popular Tulum restaurants, popular cenotes and nightlife are ~20 minutes from the hotel. A taxi one way to these locations is approximately 900 pesos, so if you stay at Eterna you will need a car or scooter to get around, which is what the check-in staff member suggested upon our arrival. This was a shock to us and other guests who did not know how expensive taxis were in Tulum (especially since 20 minutes does not seem that far anywhere else in Mexico). The hotel is located on a side street with a very rough driveway, so you will need to take care when driving through here. The hotel itself is located right next to a landfill (more detail on this in the breakfast section below). Our stay: we recommend you confirm your room with the staff prior to your stay. We were on our honeymoon and the check-in staff allocated us in a worse room than the one we booked, even though it was booked 6 months+ in advance of our stay. This took a lot of back and forth before they actually gave us the room we booked / paid for. Even though we paid a daily cleaning fee, our room was not cleaned once during our stay and we had to beg for fresh towels and toilet paper 4 times until we were walked to the facility cupboard to get them ourselves. We did not mind the beds / room not being made but constantly asking for fresh towels / toilet paper became a bit ridiculous when multiple front desk staff were sitting on their phones. Breakfast: the breakfast is located across the road at a local cafe. Fruit is supposed to be available from 8am and full breakfast from 9am. We were advised by WhatsApp message the day we checked in that breakfast service is slow as it is local cuisine, which we we did not mind. However, the fruit option is a box of largely half rotten bananas and apples, and the chef will come make you whatever he feels like eating at whichever time he decides to come in the morning, which for us was around 10.30 am. The chef made 3 vegetarian tacos for breakfast, and that was all that was included in the breakfast fee paid to the hotel with no options for any other breakfast items. To top it off, the cafe is literally located next to a landfill where you will smell garbage all morning and listen to the worker there loudly crush garbage while you are eating breakfast. One positive point is that the rooms look like their photos and are aesthetically pleasing, spacious and modern. This is the only positive point of Eterna. All in all, there are similar hotels that are located on the beach for the same price. I do not see how this hotel considers itself to be a 4 star hotel. Save your money and hassle of organising last minute car / scooter rental, save any stress you will suffer from booking here and find yourself another hotel. Don’t mind the detailed review, but we want others to benefit from full transparency of the hotel which we did not have.

Beautiful and staff always present

very kind and helpful stuff nice breakfast organised in the neighbouring caffee

shower

wowza the room was so much more than we expected! Set on 3 levels, we had a kitchen area, the room and bathroom then an upstairs private hangout it area. pool area was great too!

kitchen could use a few more amenities to make it easier to use (cleaning products etc). Breakfast was not great, area was surrounded by flies next to a large garbage disposal area- quite off putting Road leading to the hotel is a mess of potholes (but so are a lot of roads around there)

nice energy, staff and amazing building

nothing

clean rooms, staff were friendly and hotel had a nice feel

breakfast had minimal options and was not at the hotel, our rooms were not cleaned daily