Hands-down the town's nicest hotel, Lobitos Lodge has just eight rooms on a big swath of beachfront property. The rooms have flat-screen TVs, balconies with hammocks and a few photographs of the surfer-owner-business-magnate and his kin ripping it up. If you ask in advance they can prepare a homemade meal. It's 300m south of the pier.
It's worth springing for the oceanfront rooms as the back rooms get hot.