Design hotels with pools on the Riviera Maya

Corasol, Riviera Maya $$$$

Secrets Moxché Playa del Carmen

Live-edge woodwork and limestone finishes evoke subterranean cenotes across open pavilions. Seven swimming pools with heated sections, three man-made cenote pools, a large lagoon-style interior beach pool, and a Preferred Club rooftop pool

Tulum Beach, Riviera Maya $$$

TAGO Tulum

Architectural pink-tinted chukum plaster meets cumaru wood and palapas. Communal outdoor cenote-style swimming pool overlooking the Caribbean Sea, with private plunge pools or jacuzzis across all 21 suites.

Centro, Riviera Maya $$

Thompson Playa del Carmen Main House

Mid-century Mexican lines, Guadalajara pressed tiles, light-washed concrete, and a hand-carved lava rock lobby desk. Block-long rooftop infinity pool with submerged loungers and swim-up bar on an 11,539-square-foot deck.

La Veleta, Riviera Maya $$

Una Vida, Tulum

Stone pavilions with chukum finishes and thatched roofs connect across garden breezeways. Heated outdoor swimming pool with daybeds, unheated outdoor spa plunge pool, and private plunge pools in select villas

Xcalacoco, Riviera Maya From $550

Viceroy Riviera Maya

Thatched palapa villas built with cathedral ceilings and private heated plunge pools. Sculptural oceanfront freshwater lagoon swimming pool flanked by double daybeds, plus private heated figure-eight plunge pools on every villa sundeck.