Our mission is to turn your stay in Santa Marta into a transformative experience. We want to help you discover the magic of this territory, its people and history.

The Hotel Escuela El Habitante has been a long-held dream of Fundación Tiempo de Juego. In 2012, the project of El Habitante won three prizes for social businesses at the Ventures Awards, which are sponsored by Dinero, a Colombian financial magazine. The hotel, which was originally intended to be in Cartagena, has the double purpose of contributing to the sustainability of Tiempo de Juego’s community-based projects on the ground, as well as exploring alternative ways of tourism development that are inclusive and ecologically responsible. At the same time, it is conceived as a training facility for local youth to learn skills and trades related to the hospitality industry.

Whether you’re in town for the first or tenth time, for business or for pleasure, this house will prove to be the ideal space for turning your visit into a transformative experience. Our promise is a tailored experience suited solely for you, in combination with a careful curation of the wonderful things this extraordinary territory has to offer and the incredible people inhabiting it.