Belmond Maroma Ranks No. 33 on The World's 50 Best Hotels 2025

Belmond Maroma was named No. 33 on The World's 50 Best Hotels 2025, a strong showing for a resort that has anchored Riviera Maya's original stretch of luxury beachfront since the 1970s. The ranking arrived alongside Two MICHELIN Keys and a Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star rating, giving Maroma a genuinely comprehensive set of top-tier recognition across the industry's major ranking systems.

The resort's sustainability program has become one of its more distinctive features, expanding its resident bee hives toward a goal of at least 100 by 2025 and introducing Guerlain's Bee School and Women for Bees initiatives to Yucatán communities, with Mayan women in nearby villages raising hives of their own. It's a genuinely community-connected approach to conservation, rather than a symbolic gesture confined to the resort grounds.

A 2023 renovation amplified the property's signature hacienda-style hospitality across its 72 rooms, suites, and villas along Maroma Beach, and the Maroma Spa by Guerlain, set within the surrounding jungle, rounds out the wellness offering with a full hydrotherapy circuit. For travelers who remember Maroma from its earlier decades, the current version manages to feel both thoroughly modernized and true to the hacienda spirit that first made it a destination.

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