Banyan Tree Group has announced that Banyan Tree Veya Bacalar, the group’s sixth resort in Mexico, is slated to open early 2025 in the Bacalar Lagoon region located in the southern part of Quintana Roo. The $28 million, 40-room resort is located 30 minutes north of the Belize border.
Tucked away in the southeast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, Banyan Tree Veya Bacalar will feature 35 villas and five residences. Four dining concepts will overlook more than 300 feet of Bacalar Lagoon’s waters, and a specialty restaurant will offer dining over the lake. Watersports enthusiasts will enjoy an expansive main pool and gear available in the lakeside palapa for kayaking and paddle boarding.
The resort will offer programs curated by dedicated wellbeing consultants. Traditional spa services and bespoke programs with an emphasis on what the brand calls “embodiment therapies” are offered through the Veya program, based on Banyan Tree’s eight proprietary pillars of wellbeing that cover a range of multidisciplinary modalities including sleep, dietary awareness, physical vitality and harmony with nature. Created in direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Banyan Tree Veya aims to address a world with an urgent need for reconnecting mind and body on a daily basis.
Banyan Tree Veya Bacalar is Banyan Tree Group’s second project with developer Groupo UBK, who also developed Banyan Tree Veya Valle de Guadalupe. This is the latest addition to the group’s expansion plans in Mexico, joining a portfolio that includes Banyan Tree Mayakoba, Banyan Tree Cabo Marqués in Acapulco, Banyan Tree Puebla and Hacienda Xcanatun by Angsana in Merida.
The Veya portfolio includes the recently opened Banyan Tree Veya Phuket (March 2022) and anticipated openings of Banyan Tree Veya Vabbinfaru in the Maldives (Q4 2022), Banyan Tree Veya Ilha Nejovo in Mozambique (2023), and the two Mexico openings of Banyan Tree Veya Valle de Guadalupe (2023) and Banyan Tree Veya Bacalar (2025).
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