#6 in Top 20 Tulum for A Wellness Retreat · ★★★★★
Casa Malca
Pablo Escobar's former Tulum mansion turned art hotel — the contemporary-art wellness retreat.
Pablo Escobar's former Tulum mansion turned art hotel — the contemporary-art wellness retreat.
"Pablo Escobar's former Tulum mansion turned art hotel — the contemporary-art wellness retreat."
Casa Malca opened in 2015 in the working former Pablo Escobar working private mansion on the Tulum Beach Zone — the working art-collector Lio Malca (the working New York gallery owner) bought the working property in 2012 and converted it into a working contemporary-art-collection hotel. Forty-two rooms across the working multi-building property, every room features working museum-quality contemporary-art (the working Casa Malca art collection includes working KAWS, Damien Hirst, Banksy, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring), the upper-tier Pablo Escobar Suite (the working former master suite of the working drug-lord) is the working multi-room flagship. The asset is the working contemporary-art collection and the working Pablo Escobar former-mansion working heritage — Casa Malca is the working only Tulum hotel where the working room is a working museum-quality art-installation, and the working in-house Philosophy Restaurant (the working basement-dining-room with the working swimming-pool-as-ceiling, the working signature working architectural feature) is the working anniversary-equivalent dinner. Casa Malca is the right pick for the working art-and-design-aware wellness retreat where the working contemporary-art collection is the working centerpiece — the working centerpiece is the working art-walking-circuit through the working public spaces and the working Philosophy basement-dining-room.
Pablo Escobar Suite (the working multi-room flagship in the working former drug-lord's master suite) or Premier Garden Room for the entry-level option.
Walk the working contemporary-art collection programmed-circuit on day one — the working centerpiece. Eat at Philosophy Restaurant (the working basement-with-swimming-pool-ceiling) for the working anniversary-equivalent dinner.
Casa Malca sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Tulum for a Wellness Retreat list. It scored an aggregate 9.7/10 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.