Mayan Palace Puerto Penasco
In 2003 the Mayan Palace Puerto Penasco opened its doors, bringing electricity 20 miles from town (but still not to the beach houses or developments along the way!) We were told the Mayan Palace at Puerto Penasco also has their own generators and desalinate their own water. Phones, fax, Internet and televisions are available. Mayan Palace is the first, and only, completed resort of its kind east of Puerto Penasco.
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Driving out to Mayan Palace Puerto Penasco, takes you through sagebrush and sand on a two-lane paved road for about 16 miles, without a beach or drop of water in sight. But don’t despair! A right turn onto one of the well-maintained dirt roads takes you four miles across more desert to the sand dune ridge and the resort.
Once you get inside the resort you will see the grand vistas of the beach and the gloriously blue Sea of Cortez. The sea is shallow here, so low tide takes the ocean hundreds of feet offshore where the lapping waves are great for wading while looking for the perfect shells among the millions deposited here. It’s a shell-collector’s paradise with rows of shells stretching for miles. In some areas, huge three to four-inch white clam shells almost pave the beach.
Currently this Mayan Palace is smaller and more intimate feeling than many of its sister resorts. With only three stories of rooms surrounding a meandering pool and manicured grounds, it doesn’t have the huge, never-ending feel that some of the other Mayan resorts are known for.
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| The delightful outdoor pool in the center of the resort. |
Mayan Palace at Puerto Penasco also includes an indoor pool—probably because here, at their northern-most resort, winter makes itself known.
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The indoor pool is in the building on the right with the glass windows. |
Mayan Palace Puerto Penasco future developments, Mayan Central Park and Mayan Island are also planned for this point of land filled with seasonal estuaries. (Note that water is ONLY in the estuary during certain high tides, so it rarely looks like the beautiful pictures showing park-like greenery surrounded by waterways.) These are yet to be developed.
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