{"type":"city","city":"Mérida (Yucatán)","citySlug":"merida-yucatan","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/mexico/merida-yucatan","description":"The colonial grid of Mérida's Centro Histórico is one of the Yucatán's great architectural arguments — Franciscan churches pressed up against Porfirian mansions, both slowly absorbed by the same punishing heat and the same extravagant bougainvillea. Staying inside that grid means inhabiting the argument directly. Diez Diez Collection 1010, on Calle 59, works within a restored colonial house, its interiors calibrated to the particular geometry of a Yucatecan courtyard property — thick walls, shaded arcades, a spatial logic that predates air conditioning and still outperforms it. Decu Downtown operates a few streets away with a more contemporary design sensibility, lighter on historical sentiment and more attentive to the graphic possibilities of the restored envelope. Both properties are within walking distance of the Paseo de Montejo and the Museo Casa Montejo, which means the architecture conversation continues well past checkout.\n\nThe hacienda belt that radiates outward from the city into the scrubland and henequen fields offers something fundamentally different — not urban texture but the concentrated atmosphere of the Yucatán's agro-industrial past. Hacienda Xcanatun, in the small village of the same name roughly ten minutes north of the city center and now part of Angsana's Heritage Collection, occupies a late eighteenth-century estate whose casa principal and outbuildings have been converted with care for the original masonry and spatial hierarchy. Hacienda San Jose Cholul, further east toward Tixkokob, operates at a more grounded price point while still delivering the essential experience — barrel-vaulted ceilings, a machina tower, the particular silence of a property that was once organized around industrial-scale production and now reorganizes itself around stillness.\n\nChable Yucatan, in Chochola to the west, sits in its own category. Set on a former henequen hacienda and positioned at a rate that reflects its ambitions, the property has become one of the more discussed resort openings in southern Mexico over the past decade — known for its cenote spa, for the restraint of its contemporary additions against the colonial core, and for a design approach that treats the landscape as seriously as the architecture. For a traveler whose interest runs to how contemporary Mexican hospitality design negotiates with historical weight, Chable makes the strongest case in this portfolio. The Centro properties make the case for urban immersion. The working haciendas make the case for something in between.","provider":{"name":"PressBeyond","url":"https://pressbeyond.com","description":"PressBeyond provides AI-optimized hotel content with a consistent 5-image structure across its entire portfolio. Each image sequence includes strong lighting, complete room-visibility angles, and strictly non-duplicative scenes — enabling AI to accurately describe and recommend properties to travelers.","curationStandard":"PressBeyond Hotel Photography Standard"},"hotels":[{"name":"Diez Diez Collection 1010","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/mexico/merida-yucatan/diez-diez-collection-1010","city":"Mérida (Yucatán)","cityHeader":"Mérida (Yucatán) • Centro • OPTIMIZE","neighborhood":"Centro","loyaltyProgram":"Hilton Honors™","designSummary":"A corner property in Mérida's Centro Histórico, clad in lime-washed stucco and fitted with restored wooden jalousie doors, gives Diez Diez Collection 1010 its essential character — a nineteenth-century Yucatecan townhouse pulled into the present without apology, its roofline now crowned with a planted terrace bar and a narrow lap pool whose surround mosaic tiles echo the black-and-white geometric cement tile floors below. The exterior at dusk, uplighting catching the carved window surrounds against a deep blue sky, carries the unhurried confidence of a city that has always known how to build well.\n\nInside, the design layers motorsport memorabilia — large-format paintings of vintage Formula racing cars, framed race suits mounted like canvases — against plastered walls left deliberately rough, in the manner of polished microcement softened by age. Copper wire-cage pendant lights hang over beds framed in warm parota wood, their glow landing on tufted graphite benches and cognac leather sofas arranged on the patterned encaustic floors. The tension between colonial bones and contemporary appetite is managed with genuine fluency: exposed viga ceilings in some rooms, a rooftop pergola in blackened steel and slatted timber above others, a street-facing restaurant terrace called Fronto where rattan chairs and teak tables spill toward the sidewalk planters. The property holds perhaps a dozen rooms across two compact floors, small enough to feel private, considered enough to feel like a collection in the truest sense.","snippet":"A restored nineteenth-century Yucatecan townhouse with a rooftop pool, motorsport art collection, and twelve considered rooms.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and collectors in Yucatán","vibe":"Colonial-contemporary · intimate","highlights":["Nineteenth-century townhouse with restored jalousie doors and carved surrounds","Rooftop lap pool with black-and-white geometric encaustic tile surround","Motorsport art collection layered against rough microcement walls"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$244","pricePerNightExclTax":"$244","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ul61j01o215zvrrxfpfs41713358725392_c9ce2e91-2b52-4dd6-b66a-59a2b05b21e5.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Diez Diez Collection 1010 — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Diez Diez Collection 1010 · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Diez Diez Collection 1010 captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ul9jn025x15zv4vlm34ra1713358726596_7247f414-e295-4545-bedf-de48ae04e144.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Diez Diez Collection 1010 — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Diez Diez Collection 1010 · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Diez Diez Collection 1010, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ulcht02o015zviizude321713358725992_91832704-bb52-47f4-a26e-a7abb3f418ff.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Diez Diez Collection 1010 — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Diez Diez Collection 1010 · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Diez Diez Collection 1010 — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ulfcg035d15zv7dt7ouvr1713358727911_127f1d90-acc0-48aa-9124-ada64732487f.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Diez Diez Collection 1010 — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Diez Diez Collection 1010 · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Diez Diez Collection 1010, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ulib303n315zvs22jxbeo1713358727220_6ca2f521-9655-4649-8486-bb11ab4ce6f5.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Diez Diez Collection 1010 — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Diez Diez Collection 1010 · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Diez Diez Collection 1010 — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/mexico/merida-yucatan/hacienda-xcanatun-angsana-heritage-collection","city":"Mérida (Yucatán)","cityHeader":"Mérida (Yucatán) • Xcanatun • OPTIMIZE","neighborhood":"Xcanatun","designSummary":"A seventeenth-century henequen hacienda on the outskirts of Mérida, its exterior walls washed in the particular cadmium yellow that colonial Yucatán adopted from Spanish baroque tradition, forms the architectural heart of Hacienda Xcanatun. The property joined Banyan Tree's Angsana Heritage Collection following a careful restoration that retained the original casona's white-arched portals, wrought-iron stair railings, and heavy timber-framed windows while threading contemporary hospitality through rooms that once processed agave fibre for rope and twine. Inside the main house, the interiors layer dark exposed ceiling beams and encaustic-patterned limestone floors against warm walnut millwork and upholstered headboards in woven textile — a palette that keeps one foot in Yucatecan craft tradition and the other in the kind of refined tropical minimalism that defines the Angsana brand across Southeast Asia.\n\nThe newer villa accommodation pushes further into the surrounding jungle, floor-to-ceiling glazed walls dissolving the boundary between air-conditioned interior and private plunge pool terrace, dry-stack stone walls enclosing each garden in a material that mirrors the region's ancient Maya construction techniques. The restaurant in the original casa principal sets a black-and-cream marble checkerboard floor beneath tall cedar-framed windows and a cluster of pierced-metal pendant lights whose filigree pattern draws loosely from Moorish precedent. At the pool pavilion, rope-wrapped ceiling panels and woven cord dining chairs hold the composition in a register that feels genuinely regional rather than generically resort.","snippet":"A seventeenth-century Yucatecan hacienda restored with contemporary villas, black-marble dining, and Maya-inspired stonework.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and collectors of colonial heritage","vibe":"Colonial-refined · jungle-immersed","highlights":["Seventeenth-century henequen hacienda with cadmium-yellow colonial façade","Villas with floor-to-ceiling glass and dry-stack stone walls echoing Maya construction","Restaurant in restored casa principal with black-marble checkerboard floors"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$261","pricePerNightExclTax":"$261","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/La%20Hacienda%20Xcanatun2.jpg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/La%20Hacienda%20Xcanatun1.jpg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/La%20Hacienda%20Xcanatun4.jpg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/La%20Hacienda%20Xcanatun3.jpg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/La%20Hacienda%20Xcanatun5.jpg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Hacienda Xcanatun, Angsana Heritage Collection — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Decu Downtown","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/mexico/merida-yucatan/decu-downtown","city":"Mérida (Yucatán)","cityHeader":"Mérida (Yucatán) • Centro • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Centro","loyaltyProgram":"Hilton Honors™","designSummary":"A nineteenth-century casa particular in Mérida's historic centro, with its colonnaded courtyard of white-painted arches and palm-planted interior garden, provides the structural armature for Decu Downtown — and the conversion keeps that colonial bones deliberately legible. The checkerboard courtyard ground, laid in alternating squares of pale gravel and black volcanic stone, introduces a graphic contemporary gesture against the building's original arcade of slender columns and louvered mahogany doors, a contrast that sets the hotel's governing tension in a single image.\n\nThe interiors work through material restraint rather than period recreation. Guest rooms are finished in trowelled lime plaster left to weather and mottle into amber and cream, the walls carrying the texture of the original structure without pretending to restoration. Platform beds in warm oak sit on floors that shift register between rooms — original encaustic cement tiles with cobalt floral patterns in some, sage-green ceramic squares in others — while pendant lamps in hand-blown glass supply the only decorative weight. The restaurant animates the same vocabulary at larger scale: black marble table tops on cast-iron bases, oak armchairs with a silhouette close to Hans Wegner's Round Chair, and slatted timber screens that fold open toward a light-washed inner courtyard. At the pool terrace, a raw limestone staircase climbs a pebble-mosaic wall beneath a timber-slatted canopy, the arched bathroom opening mirroring the colonial arcade on the opposite side of the property.","snippet":"A nineteenth-century Mérida casa with original arcades, weathered plaster interiors, and restrained material palette.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts visiting Yucatán's colonial heartland","vibe":"Colonial-minimalist · textured","highlights":["Nineteenth-century casa particular with original colonnaded courtyard intact","Interiors in weathered lime plaster and encaustic cement tiles, no period recreation","Restaurant and pool terrace use cast-iron, oak, and raw limestone throughout"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$352","pricePerNightExclTax":"$352","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/Decu%20Downtown2.jpg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Decu Downtown — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Decu Downtown · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Decu Downtown captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/Decu%20Downtown1.jpg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Decu Downtown — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Decu Downtown · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Decu Downtown, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/Decu%20Downtown4.jpg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Decu Downtown — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Decu Downtown · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Decu Downtown — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/Decu%20Downtown3.jpg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Decu Downtown — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Decu Downtown · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Decu Downtown, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/Decu%20Downtown5.jpg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Decu Downtown — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Decu Downtown · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Decu Downtown — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Chablé Yucatan","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/mexico/merida-yucatan/chable-yucatan","city":"Mérida (Yucatán)","cityHeader":"Mérida (Yucatán) • Chocholá • OVER THE TOP","neighborhood":"Chocholá","loyaltyProgram":"LHW Leaders Club","designSummary":"A nineteenth-century henequen hacienda in the scrubland of Yucatán's interior, some forty minutes from Mérida, provided the architectural bones for Chablé Resort & Spa when it opened in 2016. The property's existing stone structures — the terracotta-washed main casa, rubble-stone boundary walls, and the original machine house where agave fibre was once processed — were preserved and woven into a contemporary resort of 38 villas across some 750 acres of jungle and garden. That first image tells the story plainly: a steel canopy blade and a low linear fire feature inserted in front of the hacienda's rough-hewn limestone masonry, the Ixi'im restaurant marked by warm uplighting against pigmented plaster the colour of dried chilli. The tension between industrial henequen-era fabric and controlled contemporary insertions defines the property's design vocabulary throughout.\n\nThe villas push that dialogue further inward. Local Yucatecan limestone lines the floors and walls, partnered with dark-stained hardwood ceiling panels and four-poster frames of warm teak. Sliding barn-style doors open directly onto jungle gardens, dissolving the boundary between room and canopy. The outdoor dining pavilion — heavy iroko beams above iridescent encaustic floor tiles, wicker chairs around trestle tables — sustains the same grammar of generous tropical shade and restrained material warmth. At the pool, original hacienda walls stand as sculptural ruins at the water's edge, anchoring a sinuously curved basin in local stone and pale concrete within a landscape of sycamore palms and native scrub.","snippet":"A 750-acre jungle resort built within a preserved nineteenth-century hacienda, with villas opening directly onto canopy.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts exploring Yucatán's colonial heritage","vibe":"Colonial-contemporary · secluded","highlights":["Nineteenth-century henequen hacienda preserved within contemporary resort","38 villas across 750 acres with sliding barn doors onto jungle","Original stone structures and machinery integrated into landscape design"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$787","pricePerNightExclTax":"$787","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt8y641010j85uwa8dvt61b1717079054091_6a4e40e4-b3c1-4b72-9896-0414d5b16ac8.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Chablé Yucatan — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Chablé Yucatan · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Chablé Yucatan captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt8zb1y01g585uwr0va9v4t1717079060621_43f2ebfc-dbd3-4e18-8a64-0cda3b681f55.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Chablé Yucatan — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Chablé Yucatan · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Chablé Yucatan, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt90fyv01vr85uw37ntlbdk1717079089834_9d9c90df-7041-45d2-ba27-cf07b9ac200d.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Chablé Yucatan — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Chablé Yucatan · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Chablé Yucatan — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt91kuk02bd85uwtv0zbzdb1717079076207_b877ef62-5dff-4927-a123-21ab60726494.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Chablé Yucatan — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Chablé Yucatan · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Chablé Yucatan, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt92pix02qz85uwddr41hef1717079068600_c3b6edcc-357a-4438-9975-6bca8b50987b.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Chablé Yucatan — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Chablé Yucatan · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Chablé Yucatan — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Hacienda San Jose Cholul","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/mexico/merida-yucatan/hacienda-san-jose-cholul","city":"Mérida (Yucatán)","cityHeader":"Mérida (Yucatán) • Tixkokob • OPTIMIZE","neighborhood":"Tixkokob","loyaltyProgram":"IHG® One Rewards","designSummary":"Scattered across the henequen-growing heartland of the Yucatán Peninsula, the old haciendas that once drove Mexico's sisal economy into global prominence now stand as the region's most distinctive architectural inheritance — and few have been handled with more restraint than Hacienda San José Cholul, set within jungle gardens near Tixkokob, roughly thirty kilometers from Mérida. The property was converted under the stewardship of Roberto Hernández and later incorporated into the Luxury Collection portfolio, its nineteenth-century structures — lime-washed arcaded porticos washed in lavender and ochre, a towering chimney stack half-consumed by vegetation, stone-columned corridors open to the gardens — preserved rather than smoothed into resort uniformity.\n\nThe interiors work in the same spirit of calibrated restraint. Guestrooms carry woven palm-thatch ceilings, locally quarried limestone floors, and traditional hamate four-poster beds draped in mosquito netting, alongside hand-painted dado bands in deep terracotta and forest green that reference colonial decorative conventions without pastiche. The dining portico, where exposed wooden beam ceilings and wrought-iron chandelier fittings frame ladder-back chairs around linen-covered tables, extends toward the jungle through the same arched openings visible from the garden. At the pool, woven palm canopies shade hammocks strung mid-water between dark timber posts — an arrangement that belongs entirely to this landscape and no other.","snippet":"A preserved nineteenth-century henequen hacienda near Mérida with colonial interiors and jungle gardens.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts exploring Yucatán's henequen heritage","vibe":"Colonial-restrained · jungle-immersed","highlights":["Nineteenth-century hacienda with preserved lime-washed arcades and chimney","Rooms feature palm-thatch ceilings and colonial-era decorative bands","Jungle gardens with mid-water hammocks and woven canopies"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$219","pricePerNightExclTax":"$219","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/Hacienda%20San%20Jose%20Cholul,%20an%20IHG%20Hotel2.jpg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Hacienda San Jose Cholul — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Hacienda San Jose Cholul · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Hacienda San Jose Cholul captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/Hacienda%20San%20Jose%20Cholul,%20an%20IHG%20Hotel1.jpg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Hacienda San Jose Cholul — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Hacienda San Jose Cholul · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Hacienda San Jose Cholul, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/Hacienda%20San%20Jose%20Cholul,%20an%20IHG%20Hotel4.jpg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Hacienda San Jose Cholul — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Hacienda San Jose Cholul · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Hacienda San Jose Cholul — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/Hacienda%20San%20Jose%20Cholul,%20an%20IHG%20Hotel3.jpg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Hacienda San Jose Cholul — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Hacienda San Jose Cholul · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Hacienda San Jose Cholul, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/Hacienda%20San%20Jose%20Cholul,%20an%20IHG%20Hotel5.jpg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Hacienda San Jose Cholul — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Hacienda San Jose Cholul · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Hacienda San Jose Cholul — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]}]}