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Carretera Federal Cancún-Playa del Carmen, Km 298
Mayakoba
Mexico
Tel: 888 767 3966 (toll-free)
Water figures big in the design here, and we're not talking just about the curling Caribbean Sea that laps at the resort's edges. All 128 suites are waterfront—some on the bleached-white beach, others on the aqua canals that wind through a dense mangrove forest, which is populated by herons, cormorants, and crocodiles, and along which guests navigate via electric-powered barquito. There are three sculpted public pools, and every suite has its own plunge pool (though the ones fronting a canal don't allow complete privacy). Each suite's trampoline-size tub and separate shower are set against a wall of glass that looks onto a private garden. As a counterpoint to all this fluidity and the jungle abundance, the strikingly modern white cabins have taffy-colored Yucatán limestone on the walls, and decks and slatted sunscreens made of tzalam wood. The resort offers four restaurants—including a raw bar and an organic spa café—plus a deliriously well-stocked tequila library. Part of the Mayakobá Ecological Resorts complex, the Rosewood shares a Greg Norman–designed golf course and a network of waterways with a growing cluster of first-class hotels.
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