TuboTulum Hostel — Hotel in Quintana Roo

Pros: Breakfast is decent for being "free" (apples, eggs which you can cook yourself, basic cereal and milk, coffee, sugar, white bread, marmalade, and butter). Free drinking water which has been pre-boiled and cooled. Shared bathrooms are spacious and pretty clean considering the traffic. I enjoyed the natural-like setting among urbanized Tulum. Just to the left is Ola Bike which is a major bike rental company in the area, very convenient! The hostel also rents out bikes but they only have like 2 or 4 so they are quickly gone. Definitely get a bike because it's a 15-20 minute walk into the main parts of town. Across from Chedraui grocery store which is convenient. Cute dogs and cat in the common areas.||||Cons: Tubes are smaller than expected but the photos are pretty accurate in retrospect so maybe it was just me. There is only a tiny shelf inside that runs the length of the bed horizontally so your backpack and luggage will likely have to squeeze under the bed. It's pretty hot and muggy in the area so you have to blast the AC and be freezing (you only get a thin sheet for the bed, no real blanket), or put up with a humid room. No place to hang items dry. Lots of mosquitos on the property and I stayed in December so can't imagine how summer is like, but I saw other travelers hanging out in the open. Bring your own shampoo/soap/conditioner and towels for showering; there is a basket of shared amenities but this varies depending on the generosity of...

Pros: Breakfast is decent for being "free" (apples, eggs which you can cook yourself, basic cereal and milk, coffee, sugar, white bread, marmalade, and butter). Free drinking water which has been pre-boiled and cooled. Shared bathrooms are spacious and pretty clean considering the traffic. I enjoyed the natural-like setting among urbanized Tulum. Just to the left is Ola Bike which is a major bike rental company in the area, very convenient! The hostel also rents out bikes but they only have like 2 or 4 so they are quickly gone. Definitely get a bike because it's a 15-20 minute walk into the main parts of town. Across from Chedraui grocery store which is convenient. Cute dogs and cat in the common areas.

Cons: Tubes are smaller than expected but the photos are pretty accurate in retrospect so maybe it was just me. There is only a tiny shelf inside that runs the length of the bed horizontally so your backpack and luggage will likely have to squeeze under the bed. It's pretty hot and muggy in the area so you have to blast the AC and be freezing (you only get a thin sheet for the bed, no real blanket), or put up with a humid room. No place to hang items dry. Lots of mosquitos on the property and I stayed in December so can't imagine how summer is like, but I saw other travelers hanging out in the open. Bring your own shampoo/soap/conditioner and towels for showering; there is a basket of shared amenities but this varies depending on the generosity of...

As many people point out, the air conditioning is not appropriate for the tubes. It's too strong, too loud and gets too cold and with a specific smell. If you turn it on the room quickly gets too cold, even if you set a higher temperature it seemed to only have cooling mode. If you turn it off the room quickly gets really hot. The ventilation is very little on the tubes, ideally there should be something like 1 AC per 3 tubes connected by ventilation and kept at a globally confortable temperature like 20°C We were also sad that for some reason we couldn't take a bike but we did not understand why, (it was not very well explained) as they all seemed to be standing there unused as we were some of the first people awake and this was one of the reasons we looked forwardto this accommodation. The breakfast was nice, some fruits, bread, jam, butter, eggs for you to freely cook and the local helper made pancakes for everyone but they were only ready a bit later so we almost missed that. I wish the kitchen part would be better cleaned/in a better condition. The toilet is right next/behind the kitchen/eating place and everything is open so you will mutually hear and smell each other, if you know what I mean. While the price was affordable I would not wish to sleep here...