![]() The neighborhood/area Part of Punta Mita, a 1,500-acre private peninsula home to luxury resorts, high-end residences, and perfectly manicured golf courses, Naviva feels like an oasis tucked within an oasis. The temazcal, or sweat lodge experience, is led by a resident shaman and should not be missed. ![]() The spa Two futuristic spa pods each feature private, palm-shaded hot tubs and daybeds and offer transformational therapies informed by Mesoamerican traditions such as a Mayan mud massage and copal cleansing ritual. Take advantage of having breakfast served on your spacious terrace. Rooms are stocked with top-quality, locally-roasted coffee and an old-school cocktail trunk with artisanal mezcal. Wine nerds should explore the interesting Mexican varietals on the menu from producers such as Bruma in Valle de Guadalupe. The interiors feel truly rooted in place, decorated with local art, artisan textiles, custom furniture, and comfy robes sourced from Oaxaca.įood and drink The F&B team love educating curious guests and are happy to host mezcal tutorials, cocktail lessons, and cooking classes in the open-air restaurant, Copal Cocina. The small size of the property allows chef Sofía Mojica to do away with menus and customize meals, such as baby beets with burrata and candied pecans and the catch of the day over farmer’s greens. There are two categories of suites: Tents are 1,250 square feet and grand tents span 1,700 square feet. The latter have more spacious outdoor areas with two-tier decks, but both are over-the-top fabulous and boast indoor bathrooms with deep soaking tubs, outdoor showers, and private plunge pools with west-facing sunset views. The rooms Romantic couples will be forgiven if they don’t leave their palatial, safari-style tented suites. The intimate size and focus on wellness, personal discovery, and unscripted experiences is a fresh approach to Four Seasons’ legendary white-glove hospitality. Luxury Frontiers, the award-winning design firm behind Amangiri’s Camp Sakiri in Utah, Nayara Tented Camp in Costa Rica, and many Instagram-sensation African safari lodges masterminded the unique look and sustainable, biophilic design of Naviva. The backstory An expansion of the existing Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita, which opened in 1999, Naviva is the first all-inclusive offering from the luxury hotel brand. At night, couples swap stories over mezcal tastings and cooking lessons in the open-air restaurant. By day, it feels as if you have the resort to yourself as guests cocoon themselves in their futuristic safari tents or in one of the bamboo spa pods for transformational healing journeys. Most have been regulars at neighboring Four Seasons Punta Mita Resort, but are now converts of this 15-suite, adults-only alternative. Set the scene Sporty couples in their 40s and 50s are up before dawn to join the ocean-obsessed GM for a sunrise paddleboard. And the simple choice is the poolside Ketsi, which also serves an enormous breakfast buffet and an effortlessly delicious lunch.Why book? Four Seasons has re-imagined the glamping experience and the brand’s approach to five-star service with this intimate adults-only, all-inclusive resort overlooking the Pacific. (The vegetable dishes shine too: A grilled avocado salad was so delicious, I ordered it two nights in a row.) The more formal option is the fine-dining flagship Aramara, whose name means “sacred place by the sea” in the local language (even though it’s in the main building, relatively far from the surf), and whose menu leans toward sushi and other Asian dishes. My perfect evening would be a sunset margarita there, then a seafood-centric dinner at Bahia, the beachiest of Mexican star chef Richard Sandoval’s three outposts on the property. Its barmen, Iván and Aldo, couldn’t be more gracious, accommodating hosts. ![]() It feels nothing like part of a luxury resort, and everything like that unassuming local spot you fall in love with during a stroll on a beach. One especially popular new addition is the Shack Bar, which really is a wooden shack on Las Cuevas Beach. ![]() Among their crazy ideas that just did work: giving the golf carts that ferry guests around the sprawling property a vivid new paint job inspired by Mexican street art installing oversize, stylized “flower buds” rising from the lawns serving fried grasshoppers and silkworm tacos during a tasting of unusual tequilas and mescals letting kids paint graffiti around the basketball court with local artists setting up a fresh-coconut stand on the beach where servers hack off the tops of the fruit with machetes and stick straws inside and hanging cocoon-like pod swings at the end of one of the beaches. ![]()
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