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Zihuatanejo Hotel Rundown: Brisas del Mar

Where: Eva Samano de López Mateos s/n, Playa la Madera, Zihuatanejo, Mexico

Once again, HotelChatter contributing editor Tim Leffel is moving around. He's left Acapulco for Zihuatanejo, Mexico where's he scoping out the burgeoning hotel scene. If you have a question about where to stay in Acapulco or Zihuatanejo, hit us on the tipline, or just comment below, and we will do our best to get you some sort of answer. Enjoy.

If The Tides or Casa que Canta would require a lottery win to get into your vacation budget range, fret not. Zihuatanejo, Mexico is loaded with killer view hotels that give you plenty of bang for the buck. We spent a few nights at the impressive Brisas del Mar for an easy-to-stomach $102 a night. (Not including the local 17 percent hotel tax--grrrrrr.)

For that price we got a nice room with a view that emptied out onto a huge terrace with a whirlpool, two cushioned lounge chairs, a dinette set, and a hammock. (View from it pictured here.) There's free WiFi in the lobby, a large pool with a built-in slide for the kids, and a nice restaurant and bar right on La Madera beach. This beach is not as long as Playa La Ropa on the other side of the cliffs, but a walkway connects this one to the town, where there are dozens of restaurants serving fresh seafood and buck-fifty beers.

There's a a gym and game room on site, a great sunset bar with a panoramic view of the bay, and the bilingual staff is generous with fluffy beach towels and boogie boards to borrow. Rates go up by about 50 percent in the high season, but considering what beachfront room prices are like in many Mexican beach resorts these days, Brisas del Mar is a screaming bargain.

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