Incredible Mexican Spas You Need to Visit at Least Once in Your Lifetime

Mexico is a country with some serious variety, from Caribbean white sands to temple-dotted jungle landscapes and long Pacific beaches – natural landscapes here offer up solace for the work-weary soul. With some of the best spa resorts in the Americas, where better to soothe and pamper? What’s more, they’re all bookable with Culture Trip.
One and Only
Resort, Hotel

At the southernmost tip of Baja California, perched on a cape near San Jose del Cabo, the One and Only has views of both the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez. Every room has over-the-ocean balconies and floor-to-ceiling shutter windows – from the suites – in light creams and taupes, with heavy-dark wood furnishings – to the vast Mediterranean-white villas with private pools. The spa is one of Baja’s biggest, but with lush gardens, a faux-Temazcal (Mexican sweat house) and low-lit treatment rooms it feels serene and intimate.
Banyan Tree Mayakoba
Resort, Luxury

On Mexico’s eastern coast, Banyan Tree overlooks a milky-white beach and turquoise Caribbean waters. Surrounded by lagoons and jungle, this is an idyllic setting. Yet the bars and restaurants of Playa del Carmen – the Riviera Maya’s liveliest town – are all on the doorstep. So too is an 18-hole Greg Norman-designed golf course. Check in and you’ll find creamy-pale open-plan villas with plunge pools, all walled entirely with glass, allowing light to flood in from beach or lagoon. The multi-award-winning spa has treats coming out of its ears, from saunas to an ice fountain to myriad Asian-style treatments.
Nizuc
Resort, Hotel, Villa

Marquis Los Cabos
Boutique Hotel

It’s big, it’s blocky – and it has some astonishing ocean views. Enjoy the outlook from your bed, through wall-high French windows, or over the hotel breakfast balconies and private sun decks. The most-Instagrammable of all are from the ocean suites – think polished tiles offset with Turkish-style silk cushions, comforters and abstract wall art – as well as the open-plan, semi-al-fresco Casita villas with their very own pools. There are also some captivating views from the treatment rooms in the Natura Bissé spa – along with stay-as-long-as-you-like steam rooms, hot and cold plunge pools and rainfall showers.
Be Tulum
Boutique Hotel, Hotel

Four Seasons Punta Mita
Resort

It’s worth going in deeper and booking a plunge-pool oceanfront space – or even a simpler casita – at this Puerto Vallarta five-star: that’s because the rooms are built around the views. Open-sided villas and suites frame swaying palms, rocky islets and Pacific waves and sunsets over the horizon. Décor is minimalist – neutral soft creams, raw woods, buffed concrete offsetting the outlook; blue scatter cushions match blue plunge pools, decks have loungers for cheeky nude private sunbathing and cocktails at sunset. First-class facilities include a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course and a superb spa.
St Regis
Hotel

Villa Montana
Boutique Hotel, Spa Hotel, Luxury

Beyond the edgy town of Morelia, it’s hard to imagine a more soothing spot than this hillside millionaire’s mansion turned spa boutique. Speckled with objets d’art left by French former owner Count Philippe de Reiset, this spot offers up the chance to see Renaissance-era carved lions, rococo finials and swimming pools you could imagine Rita Hayworth stepping out of. With dark terracottas and chunky wood furnishings, bedrooms can be described as plush-ranch-house. Standards are compact – it’s worth upgrading to a suite.
This is an updated rewrite of an article originally by Lauren Cocking.
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