Need to know
Rooms
30, including 28 suites.
Check–Out
Noon, but flexible for up to two hours (after which a charge applies), subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 4pm, also flexible if the room is ready.
More details
Rates don’t include the Continental breakfast (US$32 a guest). A minimum two-night stay is required.
Also
Boca de Agua’s wild untamed terrain and stilted hideaways unfortunately make it unsuitable for guests with mobility issues.
At the hotel
Acres of jungle, access to the Laguna de Bacalar, pétanque court, concierge, and free WiFi. In rooms: air-conditioning, minibar with Mexican products, French press and organic coffee, and Laguna Cyprien bath products. Please note, rooms are intentionally screen-free to make them all the more serene.
Our favourite rooms
Something as immensely fun and exciting as a treehouse – especially the ones here, swathed in grown-up sophistication – shouldn’t be bound by boring technicalities. But, these jungle-buffered stays, set on four-meter-high stilts to let nature go on doing her thing around them, aren’t technically in or attached to a tree. Not that this matters, because architect Frida Escobedo has used her signature latticework to not only add a touch of Japanese-style minimalism, but also make the border between indoor and out all the more ethereal, so you feel like you’re floating in the treetops anyway. And, these aren’t the low-frill hideouts of youth, thanks to sleek eco-friendly furnishings by Memo design studio, air-con and luxurious linens and towels – but no electronic screens, you’ll have friendly spider-monkey sightings to distract you. Book the Master Pool Treehouse and you can cool off in seclusion (the Master King Suite and Double Queen Suite have to share their strip of pool).
Poolside
There’s a cenote to swim in on-site. You can also swim out into the clear waters of the lagoon – the sides are rocky, but there’s a jetty leading out to a deck lined with large lounger cushions.
Spa
A spa and wellness center will be set next to the cenote pool, offering solo or couples treatments with Gaia-approved Laguna Cyprien products and more holistic therapies: sound baths, icy dips, meditation… For now, guests can enjoy massages, facials and more to a soundtrack of rustling leaves, bird song – and perhaps the odd spider monkey roar – in their treehouse.
Packing tips
Help the hotel look after the lagoon and ensure your sunscreen and mosquito repellent (and any other lotions and potions) are all-natural and green as can be.
Also
The hotel has a dedicated star-gazing deck.
Children
While not strictly adults-only, these treehouses are for guests aged 12 and over.
Sustainability efforts
Boca de Agua is built on strict sustainability principles designed to protect the Laguna de Bacalar’s delicate ecosystem. Around 90 per cent of its 82 acres is left to run wild as part of conservation and regeneration programs. The stilted ‘treehouses’ are built with minimal intervention to the surroundings, using locally sourced tropical hardwood from tree farms certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. Water is treated on-site to be used in bathrooms and for irrigation (no waste goes into the lagoon), and all mangroves were mapped when the elevated walkways were built around them, so not a single one was cut down, and two acres of a nearby mangrove ecosystem were replanted. Furnishings are made from recycled natural materials; beds have organic, biodegradable latex mattresses; and bath products are all-natural from Laguna Cyprien. The hotel works with local NGO Con Mono Araña, which monitors the spider-monkey population, electricity is supplied by a renewable-energy supplier, and staffing and activity programs are all engineered to bolster the local communities.
