Hotel Posada de las Flores Loreto

The Hotel Posada de las Flores offers guests the ultimate experience of elegance and serenity with its luxurious amenities and strategic location. The hotel is a beautiful pink hacienda-style house surrounded by gardens of palm trees, flowers, and bougainvillea. Guests also have access to a wide variety of activities such as diving, whale watching, tours, and much more.

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How To Get There

Loreto boasts its own Loreto International Airport (LTO), with direct, year-round flights from Los Angeles through Alaska Airlines, and seasonal flights from Dallas and Phoenix through American Airlines. Hotel Posada de las Flores is actually only just 2.3 km from the airport. Guests can easily take a cab, a car, or avail of the hotel's roundtrip airport shuttle services for a surcharge.

Dive Overview

Diving in Loreto, visitors can expect access to some of the Sea of Cortez's best marine experiences. Fewer tourists ensure dive sites are rarely crowded and the corals remain in great condition. The full range of the Sea of Cortez's extensive species list can be discovered here, with a wide variety of endemic tropical fish, notable macro, and of course the big pelagic migrators that everyone hopes to encounter.

Accommodation Overview

Hotel Posada de las Flores offers guests two accommodation types: a Standard Room and a Junior Suite. Seven of the Standard Rooms are outfitted with a queen bed, while the remaining three come with two singles beds. The Junior Suites are outfitted with a king-sized bed. The rooms are decorated with custom-made furniture and unique crafts and antiques, perfectly combining both Spanish and Mexican colonial styles. They also are fully airconditioned and come complete with a minibar, cable TV, and an en-suite bathroom.

Room Amenities:

• Air conditioning
• Minibar
• Cable tv
• Internet access
• Telephone
• Drying machine
• Bathroom amenities

Dive Information

Diving In Loreto

The unique geographical factors influencing the Sea of Cortez make it home to a very diverse range of marine creatures, including several endemic species found nowhere else. Loreto offers the ideal setting for discovering all the Sea of Cortez has to offer, with a range of creatures from all spectrums of the marine life scale. Tropical reefs, deep walls, and pinnacles are home to a plethora of soft corals, gorgonians, and fascinating endemic black corals, while clumps of hard coral add even more color and dimension to the reef. These in turn are home to almost 900 species of fish and other marine creatures, including 90 that are endemic to the Sea of Cortez. The tropical-like conditions close to shore encourage a multitude of vibrant warm water species such as angelfish, blacknose butterflyfish, Panamic sergeant majors, and Moorish idols. Adding to the bustling reef are large schools of graybar grunts, snappers, yellowtail surgeonfish, and plentiful rays.

This abundance of life is watched over by turtles, shoaling jacks and barracuda, and huge schools of mobula rays between May and August. There are also two sea lion colonies, the residents of which provide constant entertainment when encountered on dives. In addition to this, the winter and spring months see high numbers of whale sharks entering the Sea of Cortez, as well as the area's biggest visitors, whales. The Sea of Cortez hosts one-third of the world's cetaceans, and Loreto is one of the best places to encounter blue whales, fin whales, sperm whales, and even humpback whales. A resident pod of fin whales can be spotted throughout the year, as well as common and bottlenose dolphins, and the occasional visiting orca pod.

While the Sea of Cortez may be best known for its big migratory visitors, Loreto also boasts some notable macro for those with sharp eyesight. An exciting variety of nudibranchs, flatworms, and a multitude of crustaceans can be found on almost every dive. Add to this blennies, gobies, and jawfish and you'll definitely want to pack your macro lens.

Dive Center Information

The Hotel Posada de las Flores offers guests the unique opportunity to explore the impressive islands off the coast of Loreto. Divers are sure to have an unforgettable experience as they explore the Loreto National Mark Park which is 160 km long and home to more than 800 endemic species.