“If Maroma is a village, the Hotel Esencia is like the estate of a stylish acquaintance whose attentive instincts are balanced by a knack for letting you be. The core of Esencia, a white stucco villa with a terra-cotta-tiled roof, was built by an Italian duchess in the early 1990s as a vacation home. Two years ago, it launched as a twenty-nine-room resort, before closing for a spell post-Wilma and then reopening with a circular, Mayan-themed spa. My second-floor unit, with whitewashed interiors and high-tech gadgetry, feels like a city loft in the jungle...”

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