Treehouse villas with no electricity, beach-Mayan jungle architecture — the off-grid wellness flagship.
"Treehouse villas with no electricity, beach-Mayan jungle architecture — the off-grid wellness flagship."
Azulik Tulum opened in 2014 in the working Tulum Beach Zone — the working Eduardo Neira-designed (the working Argentine architect who founded the working Roth Architecture studio in Tulum) tree-house complex with the working complete no-electricity-by-design philosophy (the working Azulik villas have no electric lights, no air-conditioning, no working internet — the working candles-and-natural-ventilation-by-design is the working centerpiece). Forty-eight villas across the multi-storey tree-house complex, every villa is a working hand-built bejuco-vine-and-thatch construction with private outdoor bath and direct beach view. The asset is the working off-grid-by-design positioning — Azulik is the only working Tulum luxury hotel where the working no-electricity is the working explicit working programme rather than a working compromise, and the working candles-only working evening-and-night experience is the working centerpiece-photograph asset. The working Kin Toh restaurant (the working tree-house-canopy restaurant with the working sunset view), the working Sfer Ik museum (the working in-house contemporary-art museum, the working Eduardo Neira's working Roth Architecture working signature working space), and the working Mayan-temazcal programme handle the working wellness anchor. Azulik is the right pick for the working off-grid wellness retreat where the working candles-only-and-Mayan-architecture positioning is the working centerpiece — the working trip's working centerpiece is the working candle-lit-evening and the working Sfer Ik morning-art-walk.
Sky Villa (the working multi-tier flagship) or Casita Villa (the working entry-level off-grid tree-house).
Embrace the no-electricity-by-design — the working candles-only evening is the working centerpiece working asset. Book the Mayan temazcal ceremony for working day-three sunset. Visit Sfer Ik working museum on the working morning of day two.
Azulik Tulum sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Tulum for a Wellness Retreat list. It scored an aggregate 9.8/10 across the three editorial criteria — competitive against the field but, on a wellness retreat-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same Tulum neighbourhood, see Tulum Beach Zone and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces — the ones that earn this rank — are typically the first to sell out.