Sojourn Hotel Focus: Boca Chica

06/05/2019 | Grace Lennon |

Continuing with our Color Trends 2019, we are focusing on designs that explore the color and design of the "Sojourn" trend. Social Architecture is the conscious designing of physical space to optimize human interactions and connection to its surroundings. Designers who utilize the "Sojourn" trend feature local materials throughout the interiors and embrace urban agriculture, sustainability, and reuse. Floor plans and furniture layouts garner community and social interaction, while natural hues, including pale pinks, olives, browns, and rich greens, rustic textures, and graphic motifs populate interiors.

Hotel Sun Deck

Hotel Boca Chica captures a cool 1950s vibe (the original property was featured in Elvis’s Fun in Acapulco) and makes it stylish and new. The vintage exterior looks like it’s straight out of a mid-century movie set, but inside, the reinvigorated interior has been chicly remodeled by designers Frida Escobedo and José Rojas. Vintage pieces were curated by Mexican contemporary artist Claudia Fernández, and the spacious, 36 tropically designed rooms come with large hammocks, outdoor living rooms, and private gardens.

Hotel Exterior

The hotel is perched over a beach cove in the heart of Acapulo’s vibrant Caleta neighborhood. Originally built in the 1950s, this once holiday hotspot took a downturn when the city of Acapulco itself fell out of favor in the 1980s. Although the last 20 years have taken their toll on the hotel, most of the original features and furniture luckily remain intact.

Guest Room Interior

The décor reflects the original structure's time period, riding the wave of 1950s nostalgia that has lately swept through the worlds of fashion, design, and film. The building was restructured to offer 30 guestrooms and six suites, each with private terraces and hammocks, while earth tones, cool whites, and mild greens reflect the clear blue waters surrounding the building.

Sun Deck

The design team at Boca Chica worked painstakingly to revive the hotel’s prominent tropical-luxury atmosphere from the original structure, but just as intently to modernize the facilities to meet contemporary standards of comfort.

Hotel Exterior