16 Best Hotels in Tulum, From Luxury Resorts to Beach Bungalows
Once awash with sand-floor smoothie bars and relaxed, palapa-style hotels spread amidst the palms, Tulum’s reputation as a sleepy seaside village no longer stands. Akin to the trajectory of its northern neighbor, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, located in Mexico's Quintana Roo state, has grown into a veritable town with development showing no signs of slowing. Now, its dirt paths are paved, and its beach entrance is flanked by side roads leading to all kinds of hospitality concepts, with properties extending their reaches into the jungle behind the town’s famed beach road.
Big, luxury hotel names have officially entered the space, with Conrad Tulum staking its claim with luxury suites situated around five pools and 11 on-site restaurants. Then there’s the more far-flung outpost by Mexican-owned hospitality group Chablé, a 10-suite boutique retreat at the end of the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve.
Whether you're looking for a posh suite set on the bustling beach road or a tucked-away treehouse amidst the verdant jungle, Tulum offers an ideal stay for every type of traveler. No matter what type of stay you choose, expect to feel at once sedated and mesmerized by the balmy conditions, tropical foliage, and white sand beaches of this Yucatán Peninsula hotspot. Without further delay, these are the 16 best hotels in Tulum.
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Courtesy La Valise TulumLa Valise Tulum
Ethereal, white-sand walkways lead to 11 beachfront suites with ocean views at this boutique hotel hideaway, all set within A-frame, palapa-style structures that blend seamlessly with the natural surrounds. In 2022, La Valise Tulum debuted its latest development: 11 additional jungle-facing suites, most with private jungle terraces and outdoor soaking tubs. During a stay, guests can enjoy taking dips in one of three pools, plus everything from cacao ceremonies to bee venom facials at the spa. Organic meals are offered at Nü, which sources many of its fair-trade ingredients from the regenerative farm Mestiza de Indias, designed to preserve ancient Mayan farming techniques.
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Within the Tulum jungle, near the La Valeta residential development, this boutique hotel respite is barefoot sophistication realized. Although each of the property’s 26 villas can be booked as a standalone stay, the hotel is ideal for groups. Each villa offers extensive gardens with semi-outdoor showers immersed in nature, some with private plunge pools, and can be connected to adjacent villas to accommodate families or large groups of friends. At Gaudea, guests can enjoy poolside fresh fruit smoothies by morning and candlelit dinners and mezcal-based cocktails by evening, while the wellness offerings include yoga classes and holistic massages.
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Victor EliashotelConrad Tulum Riviera Maya
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Readers' Choice Awards 2022, 2023Though this luxury resort is only located about 13 miles north of Tulum’s downtown near Akumal, it feels a world away. While most Tulum properties are boutique hotels by nature, mostly due to the limited availability of land, this hotel, with its 349 guest rooms, is sprawling. Withn the grounds, guests can spend their time at the cenote-inspired spa or lounging in one of five swimming pools. There are also 11 on-site restaurants and bars, ranging from a sushi bar to a Mediterranean restaurant with small plates inspired by the flavors of southern Spain and North Africa.
Courtesy Shibari TulumShibari Tulum
Guests of this jungle-side property don’t even have to leave the grounds to immerse themselves in one of Tulum’s most precious natural resources—cenotes, which are natural pools with subterranean limestone cave systems. In fact, this 64-villa property is designed around its very-own cenote, known as Tuuch, which is lined with a swimming pool area replete with beach loungers and hammocks. Japanese and Mayan philosophies merge at this resort. Both Samurai culture and the sensual Japanese art of Shibari, a therapeutic rope-tying technique, are integral to the property, with workshops offered regularly. During a stay, guests are also privy to two on-site shopping boutiques, a cafe, a hot tub bar, as well as a restaurant exclusively open to hotel guests.
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Courtesy The Beach TulumhotelThe Beach Tulum
The Beach Tulum is an intimate, adults-only oasis that combines a serene escape with easy access to local hot spots for a perfectly balanced Mexican getaway. Located just under two hours from Cancun International Airport, it is nestled snugly in the middle of Tulum’s main hotel zone with the beach and the main strip on either side of the hotel. A blissful retreat filled with private plunge pools and hot tubs—it’s almost as if the whole hotel were a spa—it’s a go-to for guests looking for a harmonious escape from the hotel’s party-centric and lively neighbors. —Taylor Mead
hotelBe Tulum
Readers' Choice Awards 2023A rare boutique property in this resort-heavy area, Be Tulum has a smaller feel and plenty of character. Guests love the outdoor showers and jungle-nestled feel that still keep the beachfront at their feet. Popular for honeymooners and cuisine lovers who enjoy the open-kitchen restaurant, it's a beach club-meets-hotel vibe that embodies Tulum well and has garnered repeat clients, including Traveler readers who landed it a spot on the 2023 Readers' Choice Awards.
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Edgardo Contreras/Casa ChabléhotelCasa Chablé
$$$ | Hot List 2023 Readers' Choice Awards 2023Evoking the Tulum of yesteryear, Casa Chablé is stunning in its simplicity. Beyond the entrance of the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve, located about 22 miles south of Tulum, the property offers travelers the feeling of staying at a private home. Guests first enter through the main villa, which features five guest rooms, each with private balconies. Past a plunge pool shaded by palms, down a white-sand swath, are five standalone oceanfront suites with indoor-outdoor showers and terraces. While on property, guests can enjoy sunset cocktails on the lagoon or a Yucatecan-inspired menu crafted by chef Jorge Vallejo of Quintonil in Mexico City.
Pablo García FigueroahotelSánara
$$$This boutique property on the Tulum beach road is barefoot luxury at its finest. Though Sanará’s minimalist beachside suites and villas and jungle-pool compounds are idyllic (some even have private gardens and claw-foot tubs), the real reason most guests stay here is for the property’s Ayurveda-inspired wellness center. Immersive healing programs include massages rooted in Indian healing rituals, yoga classes taught at a beachfront studio, and clean cuisine served at its plant-focused kitchen, the Real Coconut.
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Hotel BardohotelHotel Bardo
$$$ | Readers' Choice Awards 2023Nestled within the jungle, Hotel Bardo offers contemporary luxury rooted in wellness, with regular rituals like sound healing ceremonies and yoga classes on rotation. Though life at this adults-only hotel is centered around a thatched-roof bar and an outdoor pool lined with sun loungers—guests can meet here every evening, pre-sunset, for an intention-setting ceremony—the rooms steal the show. Each of the loft-style villas features its own private plunge pool and outdoor garden with a hammock made by artisans in the Yucatán Peninsula. Pair that with decorative cotton artworks and ceramics by the Mexican designer Caralarga and you have a contemporary lifestyle destination in the heart of the Mayan jungle.
Tanveer BadelhotelOlas Tulum
$$This tucked-away beach bungalow borders the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve at the very end of the beach road, evoking the Tulum that existed when the property first debuted over a decade ago. There’s no pool or flashy beach club at Olas Tulum, and that’s exactly what makes it so charming. With only eight suites, arriving here feels like you’re visiting the home of a dear friend. Delightfully secluded away from the noise and crowds, the property’s meals are organic and served at a communal table. It’s the type of place where you make genuine connections, both with other guests and the staff.
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Claus Brechenmacher & Reiner BaumannhotelTulum Treehouse
$$Top creatives in their field gathered to create this secluded, five-room oasis on the jungle side of Tulum’s beach road. Something like a hotel-concept store hybrid, the Tulum Treehouse is a celebration of modern Mexican design. A sleek, minimalist respite, the concrete property is built with artists of all types in mind: Centered around a pool and open-air kitchen (run by Noma alum Edoardo Fiaschi), the guesthouse includes a working studio with an outdoor ceramics kiln for artists in residence and a shop by Xinú, the top Mexican perfumery. During a stay, guests are privy to the property’s diverse programming like weekly talks, live music performances, and craft workshops.
Casa Maya KaanhotelCasa Maya Kaan
$$Set within a 10-acre plot of the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve along a long stretch of private, white-sand beach, Casa Maya Kaan rises from the jungle like an ancient, secluded paradise. Set well beyond the beach road’s recent developments, a stay here—in either a brick-and-mortar suite or one of nine outdoor bell tents—is centered around wellness. All bookings include a bespoke organic menu according to the group’s dietary preferences, and an extensive catalog of both spa treatments and excursions are available, from a temazcal sweat lodge ceremony to a private boat tour through the Boca Paila Lagoon.
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Photo by Adrian GauthotelHabitas Tulum
$$ | Hot List 2018 Readers' Choice Awards 2019, 2021, 2022Upon arrival at Habitas Tulum, guests are whisked behind a stone façade and greeted with a copal cleansing ceremony. This sets the tone for a stay at this spiritual-chic hideout, located at the beginning of Tulum’s beach road. The heartbeat of the hotel is a central lounge area with low-slung seating in the sand and a bar and restaurant offering vegetable-forward Spanish cuisine. The space opens to an oceanfront pool and lounge with one of the only secluded beaches in the area thanks to two natural rock barriers. The safari-style, low-impact suites are simple yet functional, each with a nearly identical design, save some that offer plunge pools while others have jungle or ocean views.
HolistikahotelHolistika
$In the heart of the jungle, this boutique hotel and holistic center offer a respite rooted in transformation. Guests of Holistika often eschew the late-night parties on Tulum’s beach road in favor of the property’s vast wellness programming, from kundalini yoga and breathwork classes to cacao ceremonies and sound baths. Each of the 24 guest rooms is peaceful and minimalist, with an added option to stay in a communal bunkhouse known as the Beehive. A stay here is also about gathering, whether at the vegetarian restaurant, Tierra, or by the outdoor fire pit for live music in the evenings.
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PanamerahotelHotel Panamera
$$If the terra-cotta-and-cream-checkered pool at Hotel Panamera looks familiar that’s because it is—this property was purchased by Mexican entrepreneurs and rebranded from the old Casa Pueblo into a brighter, chicer version of itself. Within the three-story, oceanfront structure are 14 sunlit rooms. With design touches inspired by historic estates of the Caribbean, each room is austere with polished floors, long white corridors, and minimalist furnishings, as the star of the show is the view of the sea. New to the property is a swanky rooftop terrace, known as The Roof, where craft cocktails are paired with seafood dishes categorized by their preparation: raw, grilled, or atop a crispy tostada.
Courtesy Hotel EsenciahotelHotel Esencia
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Gold List 2018, 2019, 2023 Readers' Choice Awards 2019A luxurious hideaway for the international jet set, Hotel Escencia is set 30 minutes north of Tulum and feels a world away from it all. Once the former home of an Italian duchess, it’s now a thoughtful boutique hotel with three restaurants, two pools, and a spa that overlooks a cenote. Set within a secluded 50-acre estate with flourishing tropical gardens, the property’s focal point is the main house, a three-story building known as Casa Grande, set just steps from 45 suites and three private villas, all with private terraces and some with plunge pools and ocean views. The property borders the Xpu-Ha cove to the south, a haven for the area’s sea turtles.
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