The Best Hotels Near San Ignacio Resort Hotel, by the Record
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Seventeen acres of working rainforest inside city limits, including an on-site iguana conservation project, set this family-owned resort apart from every other in-town option in San Ignacio. Rooms range from cozy to spacious, with the better ones overlooking jungle canopy or the Macal River. The on-site steakhouse pulls meat from the family ranch, and the Lobby Bar draws locals on weekend nights with live music. The Michelin Guide has selected it among its hotels.
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Seventeen rooms tucked into the Belizean rainforest outside San Ignacio, where the casitas have private gardens and the spa employs what is said to be the last practicing Mayan shaman in the Cayo district. This small boutique resort runs its own organic garden, feeds much of the kitchen from it, and organizes archaeological expeditions to nearby ruins when the pool loses its appeal. The jungle provides the atmosphere; the staff handles the rest with an unhurried warmth that feels nothing like a hotel script.
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Five Sisters Waterfalls drops straight past your cabana at this adults-only eco-lodge deep in Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve. Thatched roofs outside keep things properly jungle; inside, the rooms lean contemporary-classic with enough polish to feel like a luxury stay. The rainforest is the lobby, more or less, with a natural river pool, an organic garden, and Caracol ruins close enough to justify the winding drive to get here. Michelin awarded it 2 Keys.
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Francis Ford Coppola found this stretch of Belizean rainforest because it reminded him of the jungle locations from Apocalypse Now, which says something about the landscape if not entirely about his vacation instincts. The upscale eco-lodge holds around twenty cabanas and villas, all rustic-luxe, where manicured gardens give way to actual wilderness. Days run toward Mayan ruins and rushing rivers; evenings come back to wood-fired pizza and wines from the Coppola estate.
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Francis Ford Coppola's third Central American eco-lodge sits on the edge of Lake Peten Itzá, a short drive from the Tikal ruins. Ten rooms with shared terraces keep things deliberately rustic, the kind of place where the rainforest and the lake do the heavy lifting so the lodging doesn't have to. The restaurant mixes Guatemalan cooking with wood-fired pizza and Coppola wines, which is a sentence that exists. A Michelin Key.