Temazcal Ceremonies, Mayan Riviera

This huge eco-theme park offers visitors a pot pourri of ready-wrapped, family-sized Mexican attractions. There are Mayan sites, great snorkelling, cenotes and underground rivers, a purpose-built Mayan village and ‘Day of the Dead’ cemeteries. You can swim with dolphins, nurse sharks and manatees; and there are tame jungles populated with rainforest wildlife, and after-dark, a glitzy Maya ‘cultural show’.

Yes, you can the real thing elsewhere. But accept Xcaret as a kind of Maya World Disneyland and it’s great fun.

Carved into a cliff-face between the Sierra Madre mountains and the Pacific Ocean, and blanketed by a tropical rainforest, this chic hideaway is so romantic that if you aren’t madly in love when you arrive, you will be by the time you leave. It’s about pure unashamed decadence.

Each suite exudes a sense of place, with a classic ochre colour palette and classy Mexican art. All have acres of space, including a wide terrace with a discreetly positioned plunge pool for guaranteed privacy. A can-do butler will arrange candlelit dinners in your room or picnics on the private white-sand beach.

The spa takes inspiration from ancient Aztec wellness traditions; treatment rooms are scented with the healing toronjil flower and lotions feature cacao, coffee, aloe and cactus.

A local artist has decorated the hotel’s beach cruiser bikes and curated a flora and fauna tour of a nearby nature reserve. Guests can also help at his art classes for local children. The hotel also offers a Mexican-food cooking lesson – with a trip to the local market first for ingredients – yoga, golf, scuba diving, deep-sea fishing, sailing and surfing.

Thoughtfully fashioned from an abandoned 19th-century hacienda, this jungle-clad resort is set in 750 acres of rainforest dotted with crumbling arches and atmospheric outbuildings, adding gravitas to the modern Mexican groove.

The focus is wellness, but it takes many forms, from the elegant spa, with morning and evening yoga and meditation, and open-sided treatment rooms which makes the jungle feel part of the massage, to a round on the serenely-beautiful golf course and culinary classes in the hotel kitchen.

Chable’s eco-conscious ethos makes it ideal for nature-loving romantics looking for soft adventure; jungle hikes paired with pampering therapies, tequila tastings and star-lit dinners set against the lush tropical backdrop.

It’s also one of the few hotels to have its own cenote – a natural, semi-subterranean limestone pool that makes for a surreal swimming experience.