We call ourselves a regenerative hotel because the land and the water around us are meant to be in better shape for us being here, not just left alone. In practice that's a set of real things you can walk to: a natural biopool, an artificial reef, a turtle sanctuary, bees, a permaculture garden and a restaurant that cooks from all of it.
We're at Playa Blanca, Zihuatanejo, on Guerrero's Costa Grande. It's 250 acres where the ocean, a saltwater lagoon, the mountains and long beaches meet, and the whole place sits inside a wildlife reserve. That last part shapes how we run things more than anything else.
The biopool
Our biopool is a 6.5-million-litre natural freshwater ecosystem, built for swimming and for regeneration at the same time. It's the middle of the Hotelito: the rooms are arranged around it, some looking straight down onto the water, some meeting it at the terrace. It's where people end up between the beach and dinner.
It's the clearest example of what we mean. A pool that's also a living system, not a tank of treated water.
The reef and the turtles
Offshore, we've put in an artificial reef. It's ocean restoration infrastructure, there to give marine life somewhere to settle and to rebuild biodiversity along this part of the coast.
On the beach, our turtle sanctuary protects sea life and supports marine restoration. You can also join a release of baby Leatherback, Green and Olive Ridley turtles with La Tortuga Viva, a community-led conservation group. It takes about sixty minutes and asks a USD 25 donation per person, which goes to the work.
The farm, the bees and Alba
Alba is our restaurant, and its menu is seasonal: it's built from what we harvest on our land and what comes out of the Pacific. It comes from the land, mostly ours.
Two places keep that land working:
- The Mandala Garden: a living landscape for meditation, soil regeneration and permaculture education. This is where the work on the soil happens, and where we teach it.
- The Apiary: a sanctuary for bees and for the biodiversity that comes with them.
The stables and Kavaná
The Stables are a circular sanctuary for horses, used for movement and for teaching land stewardship. Kavaná is our retreat and learning center, set up for personal transformation and for work with a wider impact. Both are part of the same idea: the land is something you learn from while you're on it.
How we ask you to stay
Because we sit inside a wildlife reserve, we ask everyone to follow our lighting, noise and waste guidelines. We share them, along with check-in times and the rest of the house rules, before you arrive. They're the least glamorous part of being regenerative and probably the most important.
Ocean and land experiences here also run on nature's schedule. Weather, tides and minimum numbers decide whether a boat goes out or a trail is open, and we'll move something before we'll run it unsafely.
How to see all of it
Take the Harvest & Harmony Tour. It's a guided walk through the gardens, the salt lagoon and our art collection, and it's included with every stay. Morning yoga is included too, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 9am.
If you're not staying, a Day Pass gets you in for the day, with access to Alba, Club de Playa and our daily food and drink. It costs $100 USD or $2,000 MXN.
Where to sleep while you're here
We have five Hotel rooms, four Hotel Hideaways, three Basecamp rooms on the beach, three Basecamp rooms in the jungle and five Villas. The Villas are design-led houses with full kitchens and private pools, sleeping from two people at Casa Ánima to fourteen at Casa Amixtli.
We've been featured in National Geographic, Condé Nast Traveler and Architectural Digest, among others. Come see the land for yourself. Take your time with it.
Getting here
We're 25 minutes from Zihuatanejo Airport (ZIH). Book through RESERVE on any page, or write to resy@findmusa.mx.