Hotel Bardo Tulum

Style

Concrete jungle

Setting

Mystic riviera

A stylish and spiritual stay in Tulum, Hotel Bardo shows guests the quieter side of Mexico’s party-loving coastline with meditation, Mayan traditions and mezcal on tap. The jungle-shrouded, polished-concrete villas all have a plunge pool and garden, with a calm communal pool for mindful swims and sunlounger reflecting, and a fire-pit for sundowners and stargazing after dark. At the spa, regular massages are swapped out for sound baths, celebrations of sunset and traditional Mayan rituals led by a shaman, including one that mimics Mother Earth’s womb. It even smells good, thanks to the bespoke scent created to make everything (even) better.

Facilities

Rooms

29 villas.

Checkout

Noon. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

More Details

Rates don’t usually include breakfast.

Also

The wellbeing doesn’t stop at spiritual cleansing and Mayan meditations: the hotel helps a local charity for street children by hosting events and raising money for their accommodation and food.

Free Internet Access

Laundry

Pet Friendly

Pool

On-Site Restaurant

Room Service

Spa

At the Hotel

Yoga shala, fire-pit, boutique and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: air-conditioning, minibar, free bottled water and Nespresso coffee machine.

Our Favourite Rooms

The villas are all crafted from the same polished concrete, with an outdoor shower, plunge pool, hammock and garden. To really feel like you’re in the jungle (and not one that’s this close to civilisation in the form of refined restaurants and well-dressed nightlife), book a villa away from the main pool.

Poolside

The leafy main pool is serene and speaker-free. Guests from the Una Vida resort next-door can book sunloungers for the day, but no children are allowed.

Spa

One of the villas houses a spa, where things get a little more interesting than your average massage: treatments include sound baths and shaman-led Mayan ceremonies.

Packing Tips

A void for your newfound inner peace to ease into. Your own personal shaman, optional.

Also

The jungle-lined pathways and grounds are not easily accessible for wheelchair users.

Children

To preserve the Mayan mysticism, the hotel is adults-only.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

The three tables nearest to the fire-pit at Milum are the cosiest – but for the clearest stargazing potential, ask to sit at the spot next to the Agave living room.

Dress Code

Take me to church.

Hotel Restaurant

Milum may as well be a shrine and one we’d gladly worship at the altar of: candles, candelabras, feather-like foliage, carved faces – and votive pineapples. The menu highlights Yucatán produce, with breakfasts of avocado on toast in its birthplace, grilled lobster for lunch and snapper and mash for dinner. Guests can also head over to Ananda at Una Vida for a slightly less religious experience (and casual pastas and paninis).

Hotel Bar

Despite the name, the most risqué the Kinky Room bar gets is with its cocktails, the stories behind which the mixologists will just love to tell you about if you pull up a pew.

Last Orders

The restaurant is open all day between 7.30am and 11pm. The bar serves drinks from 7pm until 11pm.

Room Service

Whatever’s on offer in the restaurant can be delivered to your villa between 8am and 10pm. Drinks can be dialled in until 11pm.

Planes

Tulum’s international hub is your closest airport, around 40 minutes away by car. Transfers can be arranged on request for an additional cost.

Automobiles

There’s plenty to keep you entertained within Bardo’s boundaries (not least sound baths and sunset celebrations), but if you have brought your own wheels, the property has a private car park.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

For yoga at a more-reasonable-than-usual hour, head to the hotel’s shala at 9am every day; and continue on your journey to inner peace by calling in at the temazcal hothouse, the daily celebrations of sunset and the regular sound baths. For catered craft shopping, head to the village of Macario Gómez, around 20 minutes away from Tulum, where you can pick up both colourful textiles and typical regional food; or keep the quest for wellness going with a trip to Mystika Museum, an ‘immersive mystical experience’ with hallucinatory whales, butterflies and (to keep it authentic) Mayan ruins.

Earn or Redeem Points with World of Hyatt

This Mr & Mrs Smith hotel participates in the World of Hyatt loyalty program. As a member, you can earn and redeem points and enjoy exclusive benefits for qualifying nights. .