Casa Palapa

Casa Palapa is an eco-chic beachfront home completely open to the Caribbean breeze with colorful Mexican touches. It contains a grand suite upstairs, a 2-bedroom suite, and a double room at ground level. The grand suite has 2 spacious bedrooms, of which the master is graced with a double-king size bed. Each bedroom within the grand suite has its own private bathroom. They both share a private lounge appointed with a Jacuzzi overlooking a vast sun terrace. The 2-bedroom suite downstairs has 1 bedroom furnished with a king-size bed, while the second bedroom is a twin room with 2 single beds. The bedrooms connect through a lounge area and share 1 bathroom. The private double bedroom is located within a large space with a view, furnished with a double bed, and appointed with a bathroom. All rooms are minimalist in design, which enhances one’s appreciation of the surrounding nature. Floor-to-ceiling windows allow maximum light and a feeling of openness that brings the outside in and the inside out. The sliding windows open wide to catch the breeze and bring the guests into enjoyably physical contact with the astonishing infinity views in the early hours when the sun proclaims the new day from below the horizon.
The casa derives its name from an enormous palapa attached to it. Its open-sided thatch-roofed space covers 400 sq m. It serves as a giant lounge appointed with a full kitchen, generous 20-seater dining table, capacious wine rack, floor lamps, large sofas, colorful bean bag chairs, and other seating, all distributed around the area, forming functional and comfort clusters. Naturally illuminated during the day, at night, the light comes from 30 variously sized and shaped handmade wicker fixtures hanging from the 15m- high ceiling. The ocean side of Casa Palapa is given in its entirety to a rivulet-like swimming pool. Long and curving, it seamlessly connects the palapa to the house, where the pool commences with a lesser depth. It culminates where the beautifully massive staircase of the palapa takes one directly to the beach. At the rear of the Palapa House lies a pristine jungle gently transpierced with a pathway winding in between palm trees. A few steps away from Casa Palapa is an open tropical chapel standing on the rocks overlooking the ocean. It is spacious enough to seat a congregation of 105 persons. Considering its size and secluded location, Casa Palapa is an ideal accommodation for large ceremonies, events, or big family gatherings. Casa Palapa is the outcome of collaboration by several architects, engineers, landscape designers, and interior decorators united in their vision of an organic continuum, living in space intimately interlinked with nature and culture. These two forces charge the structure with extraordinary energies, physical and symbolic, the effect of which is pleasantly astonishing: experience nature and eco-luxury in Casa Palapa.