Bocas del Toro Town
Boastfully '100% bocatoreño,’ Dos Palmas offers eight basic wooden rooms with old-fashioned furnishings and bright turquoise walls. Run by Noviña, a…
Bocas del Toro Town
Boastfully '100% bocatoreño,’ Dos Palmas offers eight basic wooden rooms with old-fashioned furnishings and bright turquoise walls. Run by Noviña, a…
David
David’s largest hotel offers 119 modern yet fairly sterile rooms better suited to domestic businesspeople than travelers. But the hotel isn’t short on…
El Valle
Very central Don Pepe has 19 bright rooms (those on the top floor are best) with tiled baths, firm mattresses and craft touches. A sprawling open deck on…
Panamá Province
The wave-front Palmar Surf Camp is aimed at surfers or those who want to learn the ropes. Motel-style rooms feature cool murals, cable TV and free coffee…
Bocas del Toro Town
This sprawling pea-green Caribbean-style house has 15 brightly painted rooms, with wooden floors and somewhat dated bathrooms. The service isn't much to…
Colón
Housed in a massive three-floor stone building, this 132-room business hotel fronts a small park in a comparatively safe part of Colón. Cramped tiled…
Bocas del Toro Province
About 20km south of Almirante down a steep dirt track from the coastal highway, this lodge has four comfortable though sparse rooms with large screened…
Panama City
If you like quiet, this big, red canal house offers cheap and reliable accommodations. The pleasant dining patio and open-air kitchen offer respite from…
El Valle
Popular with groups, this small, very central hotel packs in 16 renovated rooms that feature high-quality linens, orthopedic mattresses, minifridges, and…
Isla Bastimentos
Located amid the foliage on the way to the beach, this chain budget resort manifests in Red Frog in a huge hotel, with options ranging from 11-bed dorms…
Comarca de Guna Yala
Just about the only 'real' hotel in the archipelago, Hotel El Porvenir has 15 cramped motel-like rooms housed in a building painted in bright pastel…
El Valle
How often do you get to spend the night in an orchid garden? This rather simple hostel, with two private rooms for up to four people and another two with…
Panama City
Industrial chic has hit Casco hard. Do oversized spikes on the ceilings work for you? Various artists were commissioned to decorate the 12 rooms of this…
Panama City
This all-suites hotel is serviceable for traveling executives wanting amenities, or long-term visitors in need of more than a hotel room. Suites are…
Bocas del Toro Town
Shining like a beacon from the southwestern tip of Bocas town, the three-story 'Waves' has 25 clean polished-wood rooms with electric hot-water showers,…
Darién Province
This very central guesthouse atop a general store counts four simple but large rooms, two with air-con, two with fans and all with cold-water bathrooms…
Península de Azuero
Just off the Carretera Nacional, this nondescript hotel has 23 fairly cramped but clean rooms with good storage space, decent bathrooms and chunky carved…
Isla Bastimentos
On a hill off the main path, this sprawling yellow clapboard house has a bright selection of 28 rooms and hammock decks. Spaces are creaky but serviceable…
Santa Catalina
This branch of a Sunset Coast surf hostel occupies a two-story wooden house on the main road above a minimarket. It features six rooms set around a 2nd…
Península de Azuero
Some 77 spacious rooms in this white-tiled hotel feature comfortable beds and tile floors, and the onsite restaurant-bar is good for a drink and an…
Isla Colón
With a waterfront location 2km from Bocas town, this family-orientated, California-style home offers three comfortable suites in a main building and annex…
Boquete
This modern brick hotel is said to be built on the grounds where the family matriarch once tended her chickens. It has 18 comfortable rooms decorated in…
Archipiélago de Bocas del Toro
Located on a lovely strip of sand, this low-key resort is really just a humble clutch of romantic cabins, a bungalow and an attractive all-wood suite…
Península de Azuero
Dim’s has a family atmosphere and a coveted backyard patio, complete with breakfast tables, hammocks and a mango tree. The nine rooms vary in quality –…
Isla Colón
Though a far cry from luxury, this 11-room complex is one of the few budget beach lodgings on Isla Colón. Its brightly painted wooden cabañas are bare…
Bocas del Toro Town
This pretty 14-room inn right on the water at the northern end of Bocas town offers rather good value. Standard rooms have town views, or splurge for a…
Isla Colón
Running on solar power, the 20 rooms at this Playa Bluff property are modern and Mediterranean in style, nestled into a rainforest location that includes…
Comarca de Guna Yala
A thatched village of a dozen tourist cabins (half of them private), Cabañas Senidup is a popular spot, even though its six dorms are a little crowded,…
Santa Catalina
On the main road in town, these funky, chilled lodgings offer decent value. Simple thatched bungalows sit out back. There's also dining at the in-house…
Panamá Province
Perched on a cliff above Playa Galeón, this is the island's only ‘resort’ but it feels worn out and in need of a revamp. The 48 rooms, in low-rise adobe…
Panama City
This tiny retro-cute hostel has only six rooms, including two dorms. Though conveniently located, there's little in the way of shared spaces, beyond a…
Península de Azuero
Sister hotel to the Pedasí Sports Club B&B and sharing the same property, pool and restaurant, the Casa Loma has 10 large and immaculate rooms in a…
Panama City
Though the look here could use an update, the spacious rooms have flat-screen TVs, leather sofas, and beds with firm mattresses and brocade covers…
Chiriquí Province
About as bare-bones as you'll find, the five cabins at this popular beach bar with a US owner are seconds from the sand. Surfing tides can reach 6m here…
Santa Catalina
Well-kept and strewn with plants, there's a certain amount of pride in this basic two-story hotel, run by owner Juvenal. It sits on a hilltop with its…
David
A very secure budget choice, this central hotel offers 86 tasteful tiled rooms with wood furnishings. Rooms are on the small side, but the setting is…
Darién Province
Simple and sweet, Hotel Biaquirú Bagará has hardwood decks, wicker furniture and firm beds above street level. Five of the 13 rooms share a bathroom,…
Península de Azuero
This property at the northern end of town with 11 motel-style rooms may lack a certain character, but the rooms are impeccably clean and cool, with air…
Península de Azuero
A clean and well-kept place with frilly bedspreads, friendly Piamonte has 44 small-ish rooms; make sure to ask for one with a window. The rooms in the…
El Valle
Now in a new location and run by the next generation of the same family, this scaled-down version of the legendary 'John's House' is aglow with street art…