HOTEL REVIEW BOCA CHICA BOCA CHICA HOTEL REVIEW
WORDS BY LOUISE RODGERS
BOCA CHICA
ACAPULCO
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PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF GRUPO HABIT
Grupo Habita, working with designers
or many of those who went loco down leaving most of its original features and even furniture
Frida Escobedo and Jose Rojas, and
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in Acapulco during its mid 20th century intact.
antique curator Claudia Fernandez,
heyday, the Hotel Boca Chica was where it In March 2009 a restored Boca Chica will reopen in
all happened. all its postmodern, hedonistic glory. Mexican hotel
have restored the 1950s architectural
Perfectly located away from the high-rise hotels on a Grupo Habita will complete the hotel’s renovation
gem of Boca Chica, on a small
small peninsula adjacent to Caletilla beach, the Boca just in time to ride on the crest of the 1950s nostalgia
peninsula near Caletilla beach.
Chica offers the quietest and cleanest waters in the wave that is sweeping through the worlds of fashion,
resort for scuba diving, snorkelling or just swimming, film and interiors, with design team Frida Escobedo
fantastic views across to Roqueta Island and the best and Jose Rojas, and antique curator Claudia Fernandez
sushi in town. hunting down furniture and fittings of the period.
It is also a 1950s architectural gem, which fell on hard The Boca Chica’s laid-back, tropical luxury has been
times when Acapulco itself fell out of favour in the lovingly recreated with some important 21st Century
1980s. There followed twenty years of neglect, taking updates some, like the lift shaft, requiring some
its toll on the fabric of the building but, thankfully, major structural work. A new ground-floor gym offers
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