Bahia Vik Jose Ignacio

One bungalow has a bathtub carved from a boulder; another has its own pop-art mini gallery; a third opens straight onto the dunes. This boutique resort outside José Ignacio is a working art collection that happens to have 49 rooms, four thin pools running parallel to the ocean, and borrowed bicycles for the lighthouse ride at sunset. The kind of place where the asado is on the sand and the amethyst sink is not a joke.

Two honors, in evidence: