Welcome to Jinava Bay Hotel Restaurant Cocktail Bar
Welcome to everyone who would like to enjoy a unique location on Lake Atitlán. Here you will enjoy a wonderful view, tranquility, personalized service, and excellent eclectic food, as you can read in many international guide books. We offer you unique flavors in our cocktails and lovely rooms with daily chambermaid service. All of our rooms have a lake view, and from your bed you can appreciate the excess of nature composed of the lake surrounded by volcanoes, boulders and mountains. All this is found in a tropical garden with more than 200 species of Central American plants, in addition to the birds and butterflies that you can observe all day. Curious hummingbirds visit the flowers during their constant comings and goings. You can enjoy our excellent, varied music or simply the silence.
Jinava Bay Hotel is located on a small bay in the municipality of San Marcos la Laguna in the department of Sololá. You can enter the hotel from the highway, beginning with the parking lot and going down a small hill to arrive at a lovely hotel with bar service, surrounded by many species of exotic palm trees, on the shores of the lake, a canoe available free of charge for hotel guests to enjoy the peacefulness of the bay and see the interesting architecture. You can also enjoy a refreshing waterfall inside the hotel, perhaps next to your room, where you can take unforgettable photos. We are very accessible to all of Guatemala at only 2.5 hours from Guatemala City. You can get here by land or by boat. By land, take the Panamerican Highway to kilometer 148; under the pedestrian bridge there is a sign indicating Kilometer 148; take the highway to Santa Clara and San Pablo la Laguna. Three kilometers later you will be in San Marcos la Laguna. By boat, you can leave from Panajachel and travel across the lake to arrive directly to Jinava Bay. We are 1.5 hours from Quetzaltenango on the well-paved Interamerican Highway. At kilometer 148, take the highway to San Marcos la Laguna; or come by boat, leaving from Panajachel and arriving directly to Jinava Bay, where we can greet you with an ice-cold Gallo beer.
After thoroughly enjoying our little paradise, you can easily organize short trips to the nearby towns on the shores of the lake. You can also visit Chichicastenango, the southern coast with its theme parks, Xetulul and Xocomil, and a super canopy- ecoadventure, and Antigua. In addition, private airport transportation is available.
The hotel is five minutes from the center of the town, about 250 meters away but far from all the contamination and noise typical of a town. It’s a perfect place to start, end or fully enjoy your vacation. For foreigners, it’s an ideal point to begin a stay in Guatemala or Central America, or to end your time in Guatemala and return to your home country, or simply to visit us any time.
The rooms are individual bungalows, where each guest can enjoy privacy. Here, if you don’t want to, you won’t run into anyone.
We invite you to enjoy our restaurant on the shores of Lake Atitlán, with an unforgettable view, where you can watch the traditional fishermen in engaged their patient art, pelicans, and herons. You can enjoy authentic international food and drinks, such as curries from Thailand and India, Mexican dishes, Italian cuisine, and more. Of course, on the weekends there are always traditional Guatemalan dishes. It’s important to note that our food is prepared with high quality ingredients following strict hygiene practices. After years of meticulous operation, it is a compliment to our cuisine and selection of cocktails that there are many imitations, but they don’t offer the quality ingredients nor the unique flavor of Jinava.
We are very sorry that we can not yet accept Visa, MasterCard, and other credit cards; we accept only quetzals, dollars or euros in cash. There is an ATM near the hotel, in San Pedro, and also in Panajachel.
For the comfort of all of our guests, we do not accept pets; this policy is well accepted by most of our customers.
We do not allow food and drinks to be brought into the premises. Thank you for your understanding.
Fort he safety of your minor children, and because our facilities are not child proof, we reserve the right to refuse entry to children.
For more information, please call Hotel Jinava Bay at (502) 5299-3311, (502) 5493-4115, and (502) 5212-6680.
