An exclusive retreat where luxury meets the wild
Seahorse Point is a private 10-acre reserve and boutique eco-retreat on Panama's Bastimentos Island, where the rainforest meets the Caribbean Sea. Reserve the entire site as your own: wake to birdsong, dine among tropical gardens, and step straight from your room into some of the best-preserved coral reefs, seagrass meadows and mangroves in the region.
This is travel with intention. Every stay directly supports our conservation and education work, regenerating marine life and rainforest and funding environmental education for local children and their families. You will be cared for with genuine warmth, in a place where sustainability is not a slogan but a way of life.
A snapshot of what you can see and hear: Different troops of white-faced capuchin monkeys roam across the island and come to visit the aisles of our food forest, feasting on water apple, mango, palms, and other fruit trees. Elaborate tropical flowers appear and decorate our forest trails as if in readiness for a wedding. We learn from our clever indigeous, Nyobe Bugle, neighbours on how to use fallen wood, when to plant food and other crops, and prepare coconut oil in line with the position of the moon. With their intense connectedness with nature, we have witnessed tree lichen phosphoresence and observed noctornal two-toed sloths. Dolphins breathe as they pass by each morning and evening as they travel to feed in Bahia Honda (the deep bay), and colourful parakeets argue and compete for your attention with the other birds that seem to be returning to Seahorse Point as we continue with our nature positive quest.
Carbon saving too
If you love technology, like Howard, there is nothing that he loves more than sharing our varying experiences with a range of off-grid technologies. For anyone who knows us, having the safest water for drinking, cooking, and bathing (filtered to 0.03 microns) and sustainable energy was our number one priority. Stitching the myriad of off-grid power, water technology, and other systems has taken months of research and a little trial and error.
A journey like no other
We have created the Hotel Seahorse Point Nature Reserve because we hope that by sharing in our journey of learning, you too will come to love and care about nature with a passion that you will take back home and do all you can to help conserve and regenerate biodiversity. Spending time with us here, immersed in observing and understanding nature, we want to share with you a different perspective on the nine ecosystems around us here in Bocas del Toro. We don't just want to take you to a beach, but instead, come rain or shine, you will witness Bocas del Toro from the inside out. On our raised walkway, you will get a unique experience to be inside unique red and black mangroves; you'll not look up the canopy but be in the canopy of tall trees, and you will collect water samples and see the micro-world of the ocean and bays that surround us.
Stay
Our Hotel Seahorse Point Nature Reserve offers 4 double bedrooms and 1 twin, all with en-suite, stunning ocean views, and a balcony where you grab a director's chair and watch the rhythm of life, sustainable cayuco fishing, hear the dolphins breathing as they pass by in the morning or late evening and witness huge skies and sunsets that leave you with memories forever.
Events & Celebration Venues
We have been thrilled to offer a whole range of activities over the last few months including our night trails to see the two-toed sloths, ghost crabs and phosphorescence forest display; innovation conferences for groups of between 10 and 50 people with their support teams, and familiarisation visits for tour operators coming to identify the best of Bocas del Toro for their nature loving clients. Large screens are available for seminars and presentations in the main house and in the beach area Seagrass Cafe.
We are also preparing for a number of small intimate wedding ceremonies to be held on our elevated terrace overlooking Bahia Honda and the site continues to be a popular venue for film location scouts who want sites with high standards of infrastructure for crew and cast. Our gentle walks are ideal stressed executives to unwind and there are little corners and benches for breakout groups or walking meetings. `Our large Treenet hammock area lends itself well for small groups who want to leave the office and phone behind and opens up the mind for creative thinking.
What do you do when it rains?
Be prepared - Being in a tropical rainforest we don't let the rain keep us inside or stop us learning and sharing - our bubble umbrellas keep your top dry but let you see the canopy and wildlife.