Templo is built and run by us — partners in life, and now in this. We met, fell in love, and decided to build the kind of place we kept wishing existed: small, considered, ours, with the wave a hundred meters away. The build took years. The first guests arrived in the spring of 2024. The current shape of the property — five spaces, hexagonal shala, the treehouse — settled into place in the second half of 2025.
This is the place we ran toward. It is also the work we have been preparing for, separately, for a long time.
Jordan Smith
Jordan runs Templo day to day. Before Templo she spent a decade as a professional surf coach, holding instructor tenure at three of the most respected technical surf-coaching schools in the world: Las Olas Surf Safaris for Women in Sayulita; Surf Simply in Nosara; and Surf Sister Surf School in Tofino. She does not coach in the Saladita lineup itself — only local guides do, and we respect that — but ten years of teaching at three of the best schools on earth shapes everything about how she thinks about a surf hotel: what a guest needs after a session, what the rooms should hold, what a board rack should look like, when to leave you alone.
Jordan's daily work at Templo is the property: the staff schedule, the kitchen rhythm, the shala calendar, the maintenance, the guest experience from arrival to departure. She is the reason the day works.
Addie Conner
Addie is a three-time-exited technology founder. Most recently of Breathwrk, the world's #1 breathing app, acquired by Peloton in 2025. Previously of Decoded, the data-driven creative agency acquired by S4 Capital in 2018. And before that, of SocialCode, which scaled to a $100M+ valuation managing more than a billion dollars in annual media spend before she left in 2014. She served on the Facebook Product Council on advertising measurement, auction design, and identity, and holds a degree in economics from the University of Vermont.
She is responsible for the parts of Templo that are not in the water: the architecture, the rhythm of the property, the way the rooms hold light. The shape of the building, the materials, the relationship between the lagoon and the structures we put on it. The work she has done in technology — designing experiments, modeling consumer behavior, building systems that connect data to decisions — turns out to be useful for designing a hotel, in ways that were not obvious before we started.
The property
Templo is five spaces on a corner lot at La Saladita. A glass-walled treehouse in the palm canopy with a copper soaking tub and a private barrel sauna. A master casita with a full kitchen. Three studio casitas, each opening onto a private courtyard. An open-air hexagonal yoga shala that runs community classes six days a week — every peso of class revenue goes directly to the instructors. Two ice baths, a pool, edible gardens. One hundred meters to the wave.
The construction is natural local brick, repurposed shipping containers (for the casitas), and greywater systems. It was built with local crews and local materials wherever possible. The hexagonal shala was the architectural decision we cared most about; it took the longest and changed the most.
What we believe
Five things, in roughly this order:
- The wave firstThe reason most people are here. Everything else is in service of being rested, fed, and ready when the conditions arrive.
- Small scale on purposeFive spaces means we know your name, your board, your coffee. Forty rooms means we don't.
- The village before the hotelThe yoga program runs as a community offering. The kitchen sources from Saladita and Troncones. The staff lives in the village. The hotel sits inside the place, not on top of it.
- Design is not a luxury — it's how we thinkThe building, the rooms, the rhythm of the day. None of it is decoration. All of it is decision.
- We are who we say we areWoman-built. Lesbian-owned. Operated by the people whose names are on the door. The smaller, harder, more interesting kind of business.
If you want to reach us
— Addie & Jordan