The hotel is small (less than ten rooms) but has a very nice kitchen; we had excellent food every time! The food, view, and charm of the owners are its strongest point. It is on a nearby beach (Las Pocitas), a bit away from the honky-tonk down-town Mancora but not so far that a Mototaxi (4 Soles) cannot have you there in five minutes. The service is better than that of most Mancora establishments, but a bit slow. (The Mancora tourism industry is very new, and many service staff are rural campesinos only learning their roles.) While Mancora's downtown beach is nice and sandy, the beach at the hotel has large rocks protruding in the sand, thus making entrance to the water difficult. We swam at the downtown beach, but the other hotel residents seemed little interested in the beach water, preferring the pool or sunning themselves. Overall, we were delighted at our choice and would choose the Hotelier Arte y Casino if we visited Mancora again.
