Oaxaca, Mexico

La Valise Mazunte

Price per night from$349.65

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (USD349.65), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Healed-by-nature hideout

Setting

Magical Mazunte reserve

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At adults-only La Valise Mazunte, indoor-outdoor suites put its coastal reserve setting — and accompanying hues of green and blue — on centre stage. Tropical foliage rolls out into an endless expanse of Pacific Ocean, and you can enjoy this wild panorama at the horizon-blurring infinity pools or cliff-tucked private beach. There’s an open-air restaurant and surf-town Mazunte nearby, too, but the hotel's most alluring corner might just be its Alberto Kalach-crafted villa, a Brutalist beacon on the Oaxacan hillside. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

10 suites and one villa.

Check–Out

Noon; check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates at La Valise Mazunte include a breakfast of fresh juice, tea or coffee, a homemade pastry and a main dish, such as chilaquiles or chia-seed oatmeal.

Also

Unfortunately, this coastal stay isn’t suitable if you have reduced mobility — its hillside setting means you’ll need to navigate steps and stone pathways.

At the hotel

Private beach with palapa service (weather-dependent) and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: air-conditioning, ceiling fan, free bottled water, bathrobes and organic bath products; the villa also has a minibar and coffee machine.

Our favourite rooms

Each view-framing bedroom at La Valise Mazunte is, quite literally, rooted in the locale: they're all named after a type of Mexican flora with a strong cultural significance. Paying homage to the region’s trees, Suite El Árbol has a small garden with plants and trees at its heart, and you can gaze out to the ocean from its balcony-set hammock. But the jewel in this cliffside crown might just be architect Alberto Kalach’s Villa Pentágonos, a hexagonal Brutalist residence with all-angles views of the water, a private infinity pool and some serious design credentials.

Poolside

Swimming spots dot this cliffside hideaway like larger, polished versions of the rockpools that you might find along the craggy shores below. The main swimming spot is just below Casa Chicatana: its infinity edge blur into the Pacific Ocean’s horizon, and bean-bag-style sunloungers are shaded by umbrellas and trees. Down at the hotel's private beach, an etched-into-rock pool is open on clear days for saltwater dips. There’s also a second infinity pool on the rooftop terrace at Casa Guayacán, where everyone is welcome to swim among the treetops.

Spa

There’s no formal spa, but staff can arrange treatments in your sea-breeze-soundtracked room from a curated menu of massages and facials.

Packing tips

There are help-yourself bottles of organic suncream and insect repellent dotted around the resort, so you can pack your board for riding Mazunte’s waves and your book for post-surf downtime, instead.

Also

‘La Valise’ means suitcase, and you could live out of one — or four. In addition to newbie La Valise Mazunte, the brand has three other Smith-approved retreats in Mexico City, Tulum and San Miguel de Allende, primed for a Mexican tour.

Children

This romantic retreat is for over-18s only.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

On one of the low-slung sofas by the bar, or down by the pool deck at the private, plant-hugged table.

Dress Code

Nearby Mazunte may draw a laidback surfer crowd, but come evening at this bolthole, swap your swimwear and Birkenstocks for shirts and ballet pumps.

Hotel restaurant

There’s a lot of gazing to be done at the romantic, open-air restaurant: out to the Pacific Ocean panorama that runs along its terrace; down at polished plates of locally sourced produce, and if the latter two haven’t distracted you too much, into each other’s eyes, of course. Oaxacan favorites, such as octopus tacos and enmoladas, are given a fine-dining spin on the all-day menu; and at breakfast, you can tuck into chilaquiles, memelas or chia-seed oatmeal.

Hotel bar

There’s a bar on the restaurant’s backdrop-boasting terrace that pours local beers, Mexican wines and mezcal-based tipples. A second shack-like bar serves drinks near the beach pool, but it opens on an ad-hoc basis depending on the weather.

Last orders

Breakfast is between 8am and 11am; an all-day menu is served from noon to 9pm, and the bar pours until 10pm.

Location

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Address
La Valise Mazunte
Reserva El Toron
Mazunte
70947
Mexico

From its cliffside perch on Oaxaca’s picturesque coastline, to the east of Puerto Escondido, La Valise Mazunte overlooks its namesake beach town and the Pacific Ocean.

Planes

International flights from the US or Canada, as well as connections from major Mexican hubs, touch down at two nearby international airports: Bahías de Huatulco, an hour’s drive from the hotel, and Puerto Escondido, a 75-minute drive away. Staff can arrange transfers from either airport on request.

Automobiles

Put someone else in the driving seat and let the hotel arrange tours, transfers and taxis. Should you bring your own set of wheels, there’s free parking at the hotel.

Worth getting out of bed for

Reconnecting with nature ranks high on the agenda at La Valise Mazunte — that is, if you even want one. Either way, you’ll achieve this before breakfast, waking up in your open-plan suite, before heading to a private, ocean-facing yoga class or for a dip at the beach pool when conditions are clear. Staff are on-hand to arrange in-room hot-stone massages, surfing lessons in nearby Mazunte or transcendental temazcal experiences. They can also point you in the direction of nearby, low-key playas or take you to release baby turtles.

Local restaurants

Morocco comes to Mazunte at El Armadillo, where authentic plates of falafel, flatbreads and beetroot hummus are as vibrant as the lush, tropical setting. Fresh seafood specials and Oaxacan plates tempt tastebuds at locals’ favorite Traviesos Restaurante. 

Local cafés

Flaky pastries, fruit-topped breakfast plates and espresso-spiked horchata lattes are the soul-nourishing temptations at colorful Ícaro Café. Arrive hungry to brunch at plant-adorned Doba, and leave satisfyingly stuffed thanks to traditional Mexican fare, cold-press juices and ceremonial cacao brews.

Local bars

Cocktail bar Primo Costa keeps things cool — style-wise, and with its frozen Margaritas and zingy ceviches.

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this adults-only hotel in Mexico and unpacked their copal incense and ceremonial cacao, a full account of their at-one-with-nature break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside La Valise Mazunte in Oaxaca… 

We’re ditching our Calm app and heading straight to the source of its soundscapes: La Valise Mazunte, a seven-key boutique hotel that sits in a lush reserve on Oaxaca’s surfer-calling coastline.  

In your indoor-outdoor-style suite, private balconies and floor-to-ceiling windows allow for a natural playlist composed of sea breeze, rustling tropical foliage and tweeting birds, which will lull you to a state of complete serenity. Extra sound effects might include ooh-ing and aah-ing at the ocean from the hotel’s private beach or one of three infinity pools, plus some gentle siesta snoring from a sunlounger or hammock. 

Savor Oaxacan octopus tacos at the restaurant, get hands-on with a baby-turtle-releasing experience and admire Brutalist architecture at the hotel’s Alberto Kalach-designed Villa Pentágonos, a standalone, open-to-the-elements residence. You'll soon find that it’s immersive for all the senses. 

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