The Floating Bar - Bocas del Toro, Panama

by Rebecca Hollman
updated March 13, 2019

The Floating Bar - Bocas del Toro, Panama

The name says it all. It’s a bar, and it’s floating. This cute little bar is located just outside the Bocas Marina on it’s own platform. They serve up delicious tacos and drinks all day and into night time. They have an upper deck, chairs to chill on, noodles to swim with, a platform for jumping off of, and plenty of sun. Bring a snorkel mask and you can swim to the nearby mangroves and shipwreck of The Southern Wind. You will probably see more starfish here than at Starfish Beach. This is a great place to hang out with friends and get some sun during the day, and then watch the sunset over some beer and tacos.

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Getting There

To get there, you need to take a water taxi from Bocas Town. Get a boat from any of the water taxi spots and tell them you want to go to the Floating Bar. Most taxi drivers should know where it is. If not, tell them the bar past Bocas Marina. The bar can call you a taxi back when you want to leave, or if you see a water taxi going by then just wave one down. The water taxi from Bocas Town should be $2 per person each way.

Important Information to Know

An important thing to note is that The Floating Bar is only open during Bocas high season - which is from January to April or May. The rest of the year the bar is not there. The chitra bugs are really bad here around sunset time, so bring plenty of insect repellant! These guys are smaller than mosquitos but their bites are exponentially more itchy.