TRAVEL: This Serene Hotel in Mexico is the Ultimate Aquatic Escape

Joe Fletcher/Hotel Mar Adentro

Positioned on the coast of Mexico’s San José del Cabo, a new hotel is taking its watery surrounds very much to heart. Rather than considering the ocean as a luxurious amenity, Hotel Mar Adentro is thematically and architecturally inspired by water — using the illusion of its shallow, reflective pools to style itself as a self-contained island.
Despite boasting a sea-view swimming pool at its center and a 40,000 square-foot beach club, the low-key coloration and distinctly minimalist design of Hotel Mar Adentro ensure that the complex itself never detracts from the ocean as main event.
For more information head over the hotel’s website. Or, if you’re in the mood for more unusual vacation spaces, check out this brutalist retreat in the Italian mountains.