The Resort
Built small on purpose.
The plot allowed two hundred and forty rooms. We built seventy-four and put the rest into space between them.
Zavana sits on a limestone point north of Punta Nizuc, on land that had been cleared for a much larger hotel and then left. We kept the mangrove edge, set every building below the tree line, and oriented all seventy-four rooms east. The result is a resort you can walk across in four minutes that never feels busy.
What we believe
- Fewer rooms, more staff
- We run roughly two staff per key. That is what makes the service feel personal rather than scripted — there is simply time.
- No wristbands
- Nobody at Zavana wears a band or produces a card. If you are here, you are a guest, and every venue is open to you.
- Local, properly
- Eighty per cent of the team live in Quintana Roo. Our fish, produce, honey and mezcal come from within the peninsula.
- The mangrove stays
- Thirty per cent of the site is protected mangrove and dune. It is why the beach holds its sand and why the birds are still here.
- Water
- We run our own desalination and treatment plant, irrigate with greywater, and put nothing into the lagoon.
- Honest pricing
- One rate, no resort fee, no service charge at the end. We would rather quote a higher number honestly than a lower one that grows.
The resort in numbers
- 74
- keys across eleven low buildings
- 900 m
- of private beach on a point
- 2:1
- staff to room ratio
- 8
- kitchens, no surcharges
- 30%
- of the site left as mangrove and dune
- 18
- holes along the point and lagoon
Come and see
Or fly through it first, from the porte-cochère to the point at night.