Hotel Panamera
The hacienda
South-of-Tulum shores
In prime position on Tulum's beach road, Hotel Panamera has the thatched roofs, striped sunloungers and whitewashed walls necessary for a stylish stay in Mexico’s most modish beach town. The centrepiece pool’s handmade tiles were laid by artisans, potted plants climb up the bare plasterwork and there’s not a palm out of place. Even the lobby is as welcoming as rocking up at your fabulous friend’s house, with a reception that may as well be someone’s lounge. Explore the buzzy bars and rowdy restaurants that line this stretch of coastline, knowing you have that heavenly pool to soothe your mezcal-sore head.
Facilities
Rooms
36, including three suites.
Checkout
Noon. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
More Details
Rates don’t usually include breakfast (from US$12 a person).
Also
Music is key to the atmosphere here, so please note that it'll be playing throughout the day and into the evening. Unfortunately, there's no disability access here.
Free Internet Access
Pool
Room Service
At the Hotel
Beach with a beach club, beach palapas, oceanfront deck and firepit; art exhibitions throughout the year; music; co-working space on the beachfront; daily complimentary yoga classes; free WiFi throughout. In rooms: air-conditioning, free bottled water and organic Loredana bath products.
Our Favourite Rooms
Each of the rooms in this three-storey ocean-front casa has a similar, equally dreamy design aesthetic, but we especially loved the Atriums, for their people-watching potential. For the most space, go for a Master. Private, prudish types, be warned: the bathrooms don’t have full doors, so be prepared to get to know your travelling partner well.
Poolside
There’s a red-and-white-tiled, swimming pool surrounded by palm trees and striped sunloungers. The hotel is also part of Distrito Panamera, which has its own beach with a beach club, DJ, palapas, firepit and oceanfront deck.
Spa
The hotel doesn’t have a full spa, but there is an in-room treatment menu, and Pilates and yoga classes can also be arranged.
Packing Tips
Bring snorkelling gear if you’re planning on cenote swims, or just floaty kaftans if you’re hoping to convincingly transition into Tulum life.
Also
You won't find the word 'Panamera' in any dictionary – it's a riff on 'Pan-Americanism', a movement in the late 19th century that encouraged co-operation and friendship between the countries of North and South America.
Children
This one’s for full-grown Smiths only.
Gallery
Food & Drink
Top Table
At Hotel Panamera, all tables are created equal – but the ones closest to the beach are slightly more equal than the others.
Dress Code
King and queen of the jungle.
Hotel Restaurant
The restaurant has a thatched roof and French windows opening out onto the beach. There’s a buzzy, beach-club atmosphere, and a focus on all things Mexican, along with a side line in pizzas. Expect dishes like shrimp tacos, tuna tostadas and grilled octopus. Breakfast – avo on toast (in the land that invented guacamole, it’s going to be good), chia puddings and waffles with fruit and agave – can be served in your room or in the restaurant.
Hotel Bar
The cocktail bar serves up cooling concoctions all day, muddled with house-made syrups and juices, as well as some well-selected organic and natural wines, which are said to cause less-punishing hangovers. For a sundowner, head to the RoOf Sunset Bar, where fresh cocktails are paired with live music and Chef Kane William Sorrells delectable dishes.
Last Orders
Breakfast is available from 8am to 12.30pm, with food and drinks served all day until 10.30pm. Food is served at RoOf from 6pm to 9.30pm; drinks and live music start at 5pm and continue on until 10pm.
Room Service
There’s a special menu of dishes that can be served in-room.
Planes
You can fly direct from various US and Canadian hubs to Tulum Airport, around an hour's drive from the hotel. Alternatively, Cancún Airport is 77 miles away. The drive should take about two hours – the hotel can arrange transfers at an extra cost.
Automobiles
The hotel is about 20 minutes by car from Tulum and a 45-minute drive from Playa Del Carmen. There’s free parking at the hotel. Tulum’s growing popularity among sun-seekers has brought about serious improvements to coastal Highway 307: potholes have been replaced with fresh paving, making it a hell of a lot easier to get around the region.
Worth Getting Out of Bed For
Cure your mezcal hangovers by the pool, or keep going with the cooling cocktails while watching the waves from the bar. The beach is in reach, as are cenotes, scuba-dives, paddle-boarding, wind-surfing, free diving and trips to pre-Columbian ruins. The hotel will also be able to guide you to a Mayan sweat lodge, which is much more enjoyable than it sounds. And if your head’s not too sore, sign up for yet more mezcal tasting. The million-acre Boca Paila Peninsula is also known as Sian Ka’an, and is a Unesco-protected reserve on the southern Yucatán coast where you can go fly-fishing, snorkelling in search of coral reefs and bird-watching. Xcacel is a beautiful white-and-cyan beach with the added bonus of a turtle sanctuary and a cenote. If you’re sensing there’s a bit of a theme here, well done you: more cenotes await at Dos Ojos, an entire system of sinkholes that you can snorkel around (as long as you don’t suffer from claustrophobia). It’s a good two-hour drive north, but Chichén Itzá keeps the crowds coming for a reason – although, if you prefer to have your Mayan ruins to yourself, head an hour up the coast to Coba, a lagoon-flanked ancient city that far fewer people visit.
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