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I recently stayed in Boca Chica last week of August spent the first couple of days post hurricane at the hotel Zapata and the rest of my stay at the Caucho. While slightly overpriced for Boca Chica hotel Zapata has a nice location right in front of the beach. Hotel El Caucho on the other hand has an excellent pool. As for the hotel being a little out-of-the-way it's perhaps three blocks away from the main strip or what would be spoken about as the center of town with a walk from which I found to be safe if your streetwise and know how to carry yourself.

There are some disturbing things about hotel Caucho which took me awhile to understand, and which I arrived at understanding only at the end of my stay. Ownership has changed recently from what I understand to have been an establishment owned and run by Italians and is now run by a very cordial Dominican woman and her nieces. They certainly are trying their very best to cater to their guests, keep the place safe and enjoyable. Sometimes they have to outsource food from kitchen having it made at some other location, which can make for a long wait sometimes especially if you're hungry; 45 minutes to an hour I say depending on what you order. You also have to watch out for some odd surcharges. Some of the bartenders like for you to charge up a tab asking you to buy them drinks and others; if you don't keep track of this you can wind up with a pretty hefty bill at the end of your stay or in the morning the next day. Also it appears that some of the girls that work at this hotel are actually "working girls" which is okay if that's what you're into. But a friend of mine who went on this trip with me hooked up with one of these girls not knowing that that's what she was. At no time did she solicit or make it known that that's what she was. At the end of his stay there was an extraneous sum of money charged to his room. Apparently for services rendered. Some thing to keep in mind when staying at this hotel.