11 hotels
The great hotels of Mexico
11 luxury hotels in Mexico are documented in this guide, ordered by international renown. The oldest, Casa de Sierra Nevada, A Belmond Hotel, opened in 1952; the most recent, One&Only Mandarina, in 2020. Each page gives the history, the key figures and a direct line to the events team.
Chablé Yucatán
A nineteenth-century henequen hacienda outside Mérida where the spa is built around a cenote and the restaurant holds a tequila collection of record size.
One&Only Mandarina
Rick Joy set 105 villas into a Pacific cliff and jungle canopy for One&Only Mandarina, opened in November 2020 on the Riviera Nayarit.
105 rooms
Las Ventanas al Paraíso
The resort that gave Los Cabos its first butlers and telescopes in 1997, Las Ventanas al Paraíso still runs 84 suites and villas on the Corridor for Rosewood.
84 rooms
One&Only Palmilla
Opened in 1956 as a 15-room fishing lodge by the son of a Mexican president, One&Only Palmilla sits on one of the few swimmable beaches in Los Cabos.
174 rooms
Rosewood Mayakoba
A 2008 Riviera Maya resort where suites line a mangrove lagoon and guests reach the spa island and the beach by electric boat.
Four Seasons Hotel Mexico City
An eight-storey hacienda on Paseo de la Reforma built around a planted courtyard, with Fifty Mils, a bar that sits on the World's 50 Best list.
Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita
Its Pacifico course has a par-three green on a natural island in Banderas Bay, reached by amphibious vehicle when the tide is high.
Las Alcobas
Thirty-five rooms behind a boutique-sized door on Presidente Masaryk, with interiors by Yabu Pushelberg and Martha Ortiz's Dulce Patria next door.
35 rooms
Rosewood San Miguel de Allende
Its Luna rooftop bar looks across the old town to the pink neo-Gothic spires of the Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel.
Casa de Sierra Nevada, A Belmond Hotel
Colonial houses near the Parroquia became a hotel in 1952, as American veterans arrived in San Miguel de Allende to study art.
Maroma, A Belmond Hotel
Built in 1995 by the architect José Luis Moreno on a beach he had bought in the 1970s, Maroma reopened in August 2023 after a two-year renovation by Tara Bernerd.
72 rooms