The best hotel in North America isn’t in the US
by Alexandra Carlton · Australian Financial ReviewAlexandra Carlton
May 12, 2026 – 5.00am
On the first morning of my stay at Chablé, a former hacienda-turned-luxury retreat in southeastern Mexico, I swing my leg over the little green pushbike sitting outside my private casita and head out to explore the grounds.
Delicate deer – the Yucátan brown brocket – trip-trap across my path as I weave through the 300-hectare Yucátan jungle property, amassed with huano palms and magenta bougainvillea. Jays and orioles screech in the canopy overhead and heavy-lidded iguanas line the tops of the hacienda’s stone ruins, sunning themselves in the morning heat, which has already climbed to 30 degrees, before 9am.
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