It looks like a prison from the outside, but past the bleak facade is a modern mission-style hotel with spacious, airy rooms decorated in a soothing palette of creams, browns and ocher, plus plenty of wardrobe space and large walk-in showers. Rooms are set around a central pool area landscaped with lofty palms and dazzling bougainvillea bushes.
Hotel Desert Inn
Southern Baja
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
Misión San Ignacio de Kadakaamán
0.11 MILES
With lava-block walls nearly 1.2m (4ft) thick, the former Jesuit Misión San Ignacio de Kadakaamán stands directly across from San Ignacio's small plaza…
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0.12 MILES
Part museum and part bookstore, this beautiful old building sits around a verdant garden with magnificent trees, including a soaring (and shady) ficus…
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0.12 MILES
This small museum offers a glimpse of the area’s natural history and also re-creates the famous cave drawings found in the Sierra de San Francisco.
Nearby Southern Baja attractions
1. Misión San Ignacio de Kadakaamán
0.11 MILES
With lava-block walls nearly 1.2m (4ft) thick, the former Jesuit Misión San Ignacio de Kadakaamán stands directly across from San Ignacio's small plaza…
0.12 MILES
Part museum and part bookstore, this beautiful old building sits around a verdant garden with magnificent trees, including a soaring (and shady) ficus…
0.12 MILES
This small museum offers a glimpse of the area’s natural history and also re-creates the famous cave drawings found in the Sierra de San Francisco.