Bringing culture to the beach while offering one of the most stunning locations on the Yucatan Peninsula, CASA Malca reinvents the wonder of Tulum.
Though there are few traces of its past left now, this luxury hotel on the Caribbean coast of Mexico was once a mansion owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.
It was abandoned after he died in 1993 and subsequently bought by New York art dealer Lio Malca in 2012.
When the hotel first opened, it had eight rooms.After a series of renovations, it now has a total of 42 suites.
Rooms range from $515 a night for a junior suite to $840 for the master suite.
The hotel’s main restaurant, Philosophy, serves Mexican food with a contemporary European twist. The manager is Italian, and the head chef hails from Catalonia in Spain.
