Dos Aguas Lodge in Rincón del Mar

Where the lodge actually sits

The photos already hold the pace: the footbridge onto the sand, palm shade, hammocks on the lagoon, an open room with a fan. The pin and the house rules come after that. Both are real, and neither is the reason you come.

Rincón del Mar is a village of San Onofre, in the department of Sucre, postal code 707017 on the public listing. La Punta is the beach neighbourhood at the end of the main sandy road. Dos Aguas stands there, between open water and the lagoon. OpenStreetMap marks the hotel node on Puente Artesanal La Punta, the wooden footbridge the lodge itself uses in its directions. That pin is the one on this page. It is a mapped hotel point, not a GPS we walked ourselves.

The portfolio the lodge sends to agencies calls the place a boutique hotel built for encounter: people who arrive, and people who already live in Rincón del Mar. Their sustainability note, revised December 2025, says the building uses natural materials and ancestral techniques they name as bahareque, palm, local bamboo, and cultivated wood, put up by local hands, so light and wind can move through. They describe an aim of carbon neutrality by reducing before offsetting. They also state a target of buying at least half of each quarter's goods locally, and of financing some village production at zero interest. Those are their claims. We do not add a tonne, a percentage beyond that sentence, or a certificate number.

They are a certified B company, which their booking note states. The Dos Aguas Foundation page is the lodge's own account of the project. Read it there. This page does not invent a headcount or a budget for it.

The open architecture is the thing you feel in the photos: thatch, timber, woven lamps, hammocks facing the lagoon, a bar open to the sand. Sound travels. The lodge says so, and asks guests to act as if it does.

How many nights are worth the road

On 2 November 2026 the lodge wrote that guests usually stay three or four nights, and that they prefer not to go shorter, because the road is long and the village has its own pace. Some people stay a full week. That is the shape of this programme: a few nights in one place, with the sea in the morning and the lagoon at the back of the hammocks.

The 2027 agency sheet is more precise about the contractual floor, and it is not the same sentence. High season as they define it for the minimum (Easter, and 27 December to 7 January) asks for four nights. February and August ask for three. The rest of the year, their sheet allows two. A separate line in the booking requirements says a minimum of two nights in low and mid season, and three to four in high season. If you want the shorter floor, ask before you hold dates. If you are coming from Cartagena or further, three or four nights is the stay that matches the journey they described.

Their high-season price windows, still on that 2027 sheet, are 24 to 31 December, 1 to 10 January, all of February, 20 to 27 March for Easter 2027, and all of August. Some holiday weekends can move to the high rate when demand is there. They also ask foreign guests who want quiet to avoid festive long weekends, because the village gets loud. None of that is one dry season. The card says the lodge is open year-round. The windows above are the price peaks to plan with.

Groups: the terms guests must accept say they do not take more than eight people travelling together. The booking requirements sent to agencies say twelve. We use the stricter line, eight, until a quote says otherwise. Children: the booking note says they receive children from five years old, and the terms ask you to give ages and to show guardianship. Infants from twelve months count in the room capacity on those terms. This is not an adults-only hotel. The family room on the public site sleeps up to four.

Arriving at La Punta

The lodge's own access line, on the public site, is about three hours from Cartagena, one hour from Tolú, and three and a half hours from Montería. Flights they name: Tolú, Corozal, Cartagena, or Montería, then a private car. Or a bus to San Onofre and a taxi into the village. We do not sell that transfer inside a package on this page. Put the car on the quote if you want it held.

The last part is on foot. Their guest text says the beach has no vehicle access. You leave the car at Parqueadero Lua or Mingo if you drove, cross a wooden bridge they call rustic and a little wobbly, and walk about ten minutes on the sand, which their other paragraph measures as about 400 metres from the parking. Tell them when you enter the village if you need help with bags. They ask for an estimated arrival time 24 hours before check-in, and, if your agency is not on call around the clock, a guest phone number the same day so they can help with the last stretch.

There is no ATM in Rincón del Mar. Most village businesses take cash only. The lodge accepts Visa and Mastercard, and a transfer, for what you spend with them. Bring pesos for the guides and for lunch in the village. Do not count on a card machine on the sandy street.

Rooms between the sea and the lagoon

The public homepage names a Double Deluxe and a family room for up to four. The 2027 sheet sent to agencies names more types, without us printing those figures: Double Standard, Double Deluxe, a suite for two, a suite for three, a family room for three, and a family room for four. On 3 November 2026 the lodge's own booking engine, in Colombian pesos, listed Doble Estándar as the lowest named room when the full board was up, below the Deluxe. One date showed only the Deluxe. A single night on one search is not a From. This card stays blank, because it would print a dollar sign and we do not convert.

What the photos show, from the agency folder and the 2026 portfolio, is an open timber room with a mosquito net, a woven runner, a view onto garden or water, and a simple bathroom in clay plaster. Fans matter in this climate. A public review from October 2026 mentions two fans and a green courtyard. We have not slept in the room, so we do not rank mattresses or promise a sea view on every category. Ask which room faces the beach and which faces the garden when you hold the date.

Check-in details that are not on the sheet should be confirmed on the quote. We do not invent an hour.

A vegetarian table, and the village kitchens

The restaurant at Dos Aguas is vegetarian. Their booking note says 100 percent vegetarian, and that the village has many places for local food. Breakfast is included, and filtered drinking water is available through the stay. The bar is part of the same building, with tropical cocktails, and they write that it is open every day from 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Outside drinks and food do not come into the rooms. That is a house rule, not a suggestion.

Do not read the fried fish of the village as the hotel menu. The smell of a fishing village is real. The lodge plate is the other choice, on purpose. Reviews on Tripadvisor mention the vegetarian food as a reason to stay, including guests who do not usually eat that way. Those are their words, linked below on the partner page, not a tasting note from us.

What the community runs, in cash

The lodge does not sell a pre-built activity package. Their text to agencies says every activity is something the hotel does not commission, and that the full amount goes to the local guide. Guests book on arrival, from a board at reception, and they are asked to bring cash. The same note gives an approximate range of 50,000 to 100,000 Colombian pesos per person for those community activities. That range is theirs, for the village list. It is not a price we charge, and it does not cover the boat or the dive desk.

The experiences page names the list in plain language. A 90-minute mangrove journey with the Mundo Verde Association. A sunrise birding walk in the tropical dry forest with Guardabosques de Rincón. A headwrap workshop. Glass painting. A cooking class for arepa 'e huevo, about 90 minutes. Hatha yoga. Dance (they name cumbia, bullerengue, mapalé). Caribbean drumming. A dry-forest bike ride at sunrise. Stand-up paddle with a local partner. The current page is Experiences in Rincón del Mar. Prices on that board can move. Pay the person in front of you.

A short talk of about ten minutes, on the project, is mandatory for every guest in their booking requirements. Plan it on the first day, not as a surprise at the desk.

The sea, the dive desk, and the islands

Snorkelling, the lodge says, can be arranged during the stay. Scuba is different: book ahead with Rincón Dive Center, their named local partner. They describe the water just off this coast as a gateway to Corales del Rosario y San Bernardo National Natural Park. The hotel is not a room inside the park. It is a village base on the mainland, with the park reached by boat.

The San Bernardo islands tour is a separate five-hour boat from Rincón del Mar to Isla Múcura, Isla Tintipán, and Santa Cruz del Islote. It is not a day of this programme and it is not inside the room rate. Their own note says the islands can be busy on weekends and public holidays, and asks visitors at Santa Cruz del Islote to choose experiences that support animal welfare and to avoid attractions that keep wild animals in captivity for entertainment. We keep that limit. We do not list a swim-with-captive-animals stop.

House rules that shape the stay

Read these before you hold a date, because the lodge asks every guest to accept them. No speakers anywhere, including the beach. Headphones for music, video, and calls. No outside alcoholic drinks. No food or drinks in the rooms. No smoking, no candles, no incense, nothing with a flame. No drugs. No pets. Water and electricity are limited, and they ask you to use both carefully. Waste and single-use plastic are part of the same request.

Loud music is normal in the village and can reach the hotel. They say it plainly, in English, Spanish, and French. If you need silence, this is the wrong week when a festival long weekend fills the street. They recommend avoiding those bridges if rest is the point.

Cancellation, on their terms: free until 7 days before arrival, then 50 percent inside those 7 days, and 100 percent for a no-show or a non-refundable rate. From 20 December to 10 January, and at Easter, they apply a longer window. The Spanish text says 15 days. The English line says 14 days. The quote should name the date that applies, rather than us picking one. A refund inside the free window can keep a 10 percent administrative fee, in their words, to cover the transfer. COVID changes are not a current rule we restate beyond what is still printed on that page.

What the rate holds, and what it does not

Included, as their terms print it: breakfast, filtered drinking water, and hotel insurance through the insurer they name (SURA in the Spanish line, Colseguros in the English line). Not included: the car from the airport or the bus station, lunch and dinner, cocktails, community activities paid in cash, snorkel if it is charged locally, scuba at Rincón Dive Center, and the San Bernardo boat. Flights into Cartagena, Tolú, Corozal, or Montería are yours.

We do not print a nightly peso figure on this page. The only 2027 grid we were given is the one sent to agencies, and it stays off this page. Ask for this year's rates on the quote. The public engine names the room, in pesos, and the amount moves with the dates. Do not assume the Deluxe is the From. Doble Estándar is the lowest name when that category is actually listed.

Questions before you write

Is three nights enough?

Three or four is the stay they recommend after the road. Two nights exist on the 2027 sheet outside February, August, Easter, and the New Year window. If the date is peak, the floor can be three or four. Ask before you book a short gap between two other cities.

How do we get there from Cartagena?

About three hours by road, on the lodge's site. Then a walk of about ten minutes from the parking, over the wooden bridge, with no cars on the beach. A private car can be put on the quote. A bus to San Onofre plus a taxi is the other public option they name.

Will the hotel serve fish?

No. The lodge restaurant is vegetarian, with breakfast included. Local seafood is in the village kitchens, not on the hotel menu.

Are the mangrove tour and the islands included?

No. Community activities are cash to the guide, roughly the range they print for the village list. The five-hour islands boat is extra. Scuba is booked ahead with Rincón Dive Center. Snorkelling can be arranged on site and is still not a line in the room rate unless the quote says so.

Can we come with children?

Yes, from five years old on their booking note, inside a family room that sleeps up to four on the public site. Give ages when you ask. The terms also count children over twelve months in the room capacity. Groups travelling together stop at eight on the terms guests accept.

When is the expensive season?

On the 2027 sheet: late December, the first ten days of January, February, Easter week, and August, plus some holiday weekends. That is a price calendar, not a promise about rain. The card says the lodge is open year-round.

Why is there no From price?

The lodge engine names its rooms in Colombian pesos, and the figure moves by date. A single night on one search is not a From. The quote names the room. This card would print a dollar sign, so it stays on request.