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Riu rules the Riviera Maya – they’re everywhere. This particular Riu has 541 rooms (all with ocean views), including 60 junior suites, and a family-friendly atmosphere.
Riu rules the Riviera Maya – they’re everywhere. This particular Riu has 541 rooms (all with ocean views), including 60 junior suites, and a family-friendly atmosphere.
Though it has 100 rooms and bungalows set around its pretty gardens, the Kin-Ha doesn’t seem crowded. Most accommodations are palm-thatched and wood-beamed, and all have air-conditioning.
Holbox’s best boutique hotel, this Cuban-owned place has a pleasant, lyrical feel and sumptuously appointed rooms.
The Cencali boasts an excellent quiet location not far from Parque-Museo La Venta, and 160 good-sized rooms with balconies, bathtubs and, in many cases, views of the Laguna de las Ilusiones.
This Mayaland Resort is 500m from the ruins. It housed the archaeologists who explored and restored Uxmal. Wide, tiled verandas, high ceilings, great bathrooms and a beautiful swimming pool make this a very comfortable place to stay.
On the waterfront about 150m south of the plaza, it has 15 very appealing, breezy rooms with sea views, kitchenettes and air-con, as well as a small pool and a good restaurant. This is great value.
This new five-star hotel has a dramatic open-air lobby and 92 contemporary rooms bathed in warm colors. Amenities include rainforest shower heads, hair dryers and in-room safes, plus a restaurant, spa and temascal.
Lording over all it surveys from a spectacular hillside perch 3km west of Plaza Cívica, the 210-room Camino Real feels more like a feudal castle.
This Mayaland Resort is Uxmal’s newest luxury hotel. You can’t beat the easy access to the ruins. The pool is delicious, as are the monstro tubs – some rooms even have Jacuzzis.
The Maison Lafitte has friendly staff and a nice location – central but still away from it all. The building was once an old colonial house and has a lush garden and a clean, heart-shaped pool.
A luxury hotel ensconced within the already-cushy Holiday Inn, 4km west of the center. Crowne Plaza’s contemporary earth-toned rooms have large desks, easy chairs and lots of executive-oriented amenities.
‘Enough about you, let’s talk about me!’ That’s the message at this expressionist-inspired, ubermodern hotel. It won’t suit everyone, but if you prefer clean lines over your standard Cancún baroque, then Me is the place for you.
Rooms are on three floors (with an elevator) around two large courtyards. Those in the new, modern wing are quite large, with good beds and TV, and face the lovely pool.
The colorful Hotel Flamingo is a nicely decorated place with spacious air-conditioned rooms (some with fridges) sporting direct-dial phones.
One kilometer north of the Zona Luz, this business-orientated Best Western hotel has good-sized, well-equipped, modern rooms, most with bathtub.
A newish entrant in the upscale boutique category, the Hacienda is lovely by night, with illuminated columns leading you past the pool to your classically styled chambers.
The Colonial features 73 comfortable rooms in a fairly modern building with a small clover-shaped pool and perhaps Mexico’s smallest bar. ‘Promocion’ (promotion) rates can drop the prices by up to M$150.
The best in town, with comfortable rooms that overlook a small courtyard, a swimming pool set amid tropical gardens, and a restaurant and bar. The Maya sun mirror in the lobby adds interesting flair.
This is one of the island’s oldest luxury hotels. It has a lovely beach and 253 posh guest rooms, many with sea views, set amid tropical gardens and swimming pools.
Just outside the historic center on the lovely Parque del IV Centenario, the Plaza caters to business travelers. It aims for Euro elegance with faux French furniture, a sumptuous dining room and attentive bellhops.
A comfortable international hotel with good-sized air-conditioned rooms, all with two double beds, cable TV, phone, balcony and plenty of natural light. The big garden pool is a plus.
Comfortable and in the heart of town; ask for a quieter room overlooking the pedestrian streets Aldama or Reforma. Significantly lower rates online.
The top hotel in town has two of the best restaurants: the more formal Bougainvillea (mains M$200 to M$300) and La Ceiba (sandwiches and salads M$40 to M$90, mains M$120 to M$250), which also serves some buffet meals.
This is in the sedate area north of town on its own pretty little stretch of beach (it’s not deep but it’s a gem), and there’s good snorkeling (the current is sometimes strong).
Swimmers will go woozy contemplating the Chan-Kah’s stupendous 70m stone-lined swimming pool in lush jungle gardens.
While it’s a bit overpriced, this Italian-run joint has pleasant rooms surrounding a small courtyard garden, each with a hammock out front. It’s between Sol and Venus.
The common areas of this hotel are great, with a large courtyard and a narrow pool along one side. If only it followed the same theme in the modern, rather stagnant rooms.
A rip-roaring deal in low season (get the best price online), Playa Palms is right on the beach. The shell-shaped rooms have balconies that look out to the ocean past the curly-whirly dip pool.
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