A hotel you inhabit from inside the water.
At the deepest point of the Lagoon of Seven Colors, an international-caliber hotel lets itself be threaded by man-made rivers built within the development. The water doesn't surround the architecture — it runs through it. Every suite, every villa and every courtyard is born where the jungle, the concrete and the current meet.
Tropical brutalism, immersed in a network of water.
This is not a hotel with a water view. It is a hotel built inside the water. Man-made rivers within the development — designed in keeping with the surroundings — thread the suites, the courtyards and the terraces, so you reach your door by crossing a wooden bridge over the current. The palette is honest: concrete, chukum, wood and jungle. Two villa languages, one landscape of water. And a privilege reserved for those who live here: owners and their guests enjoy 30% off the hotel and all its services.
The signature
Man-made rivers that run through the architecture
The gesture that defines The Reserve: a network of man-made rivers within the development, traced to respect the trees and the levels of the terrain. Water passes beneath the suites, sets one villa apart from the next and gives the lagoon back its sound. You live on wooden bridges, among reflections, at the deepest point of the Lagoon of Seven Colors.
- Man-made rivers
- Wooden bridges
- Architecture over water
- Seven Colors
Two languages, one origin
Suites and villas in chukum and concrete
Each stay speaks one of two material languages: chukum, the warm, handcrafted plaster of regional tradition, or exposed concrete — raw and emphatic. Both open onto private terraces over the water, with wooden screens that filter the jungle light. Same soul, two temperatures: the warmth of earth or the strength of stone.
- Handcrafted chukum
- Exposed concrete
- Terrace over the water
- Wooden screens
The arrival
A lobby open to the jungle
The entrance has no walls to close it: concrete arches, water mirrors flush with the floor and the jungle pressing in from every side. You cross the reflection before you cross the threshold. Double height, light sieved through screens, and the murmur of water in the background. Here the hotel introduces itself exactly as it is — quiet, material, alive.
- Concrete arches
- Water mirror
- Double height
- Jungle within
The table
A signature restaurant over the water
Beneath illuminated vaulted ceilings, a signature kitchen translates southern Quintana Roo: local produce, Mayan recipes reread and mezcals beside the current. You dine in the open air, your feet almost over the man-made river and the jungle as backdrop. From breakfast at the water's edge to the evening mezcal, the table is the social heart of the hotel.
- Signature kitchen
- Local produce
- Tables over the water
- Mezcal bar
The rest
Spa and wellness in a jungle key
A spa conceived as a clearing in the vegetation: water ritual, temazcal, steam and massage, strung along the sound of the current. The rooms open onto private chukum courtyards where light falls filtered through the leaves. The water that defines the hotel becomes therapy here — cold, hot, at rest. Restoring the body to the rhythm of water.
- Water ritual
- Temazcal
- Chukum courtyards
- Yoga in the jungle
The setting
Immersed in the jungle, leaning over the lagoon
The hotel sits where the jungle meets the lagoon at its deepest, most turquoise point. Nearly ten hectares stay as living jungle, home to native wildlife; our commitment is to reforest to offset every tree removed within the development. From the hotel, a short walk takes you to the QTZL Day Club and its private pier over the Lagoon of Seven Colors.
- ~10 ha of jungle
- Native wildlife
- Reforestation
- Day Club access
Get to know the hotel from within
We arrange private visits to the site: walk the hotel's location within the master plan, explore the villas in chukum and concrete, and experience the lagoon at its deepest point. The way you inhabit this landscape of water is best understood standing on it.