I have touched heaven, and it is a vacation in Holbox, an island off the north coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula flanked on one side by a lagoon. I’d been hearing about it for a while, usually in ...

I pulled my bag off one of the golf carts that serve as taxis on Isla Holbox and lugged it through the door of the thatch-roofed bungalow we’d rented for a week. Although the sun had recently set and, ...

Brain freeze from a hasty gulp of a piña colada produced the only imperfect moment during five days on Isla Holbox. The idyllic island a two-hour drive and 20-minute ferry ride from the highways and ...

“Yeah, or Playa del Carmen back in the day, when the Blue Parrot was the only place on the beach.” Though I half envied them—and others from my parent’s generation who had wandered the Cancun-Tulum ...

WE’D PLANNED TO spend a week on the beach in Tulum over New Year’s, but Tulum had other ideas. Since my first visit to the Mexican beach town almost two decades ago, when my friends and I slept in ...

Isla Holbox in Mexico is an undiscovered gem offering serenity and sunshine. Here are four great Airbnbs where you can stay. For your next restorative (and, I’m guessing, much-needed) vacation with ...

Villas Flamingos is one of several boutique hotels on the 26-mile-long island of Holbox. The Gastronomic Festival, being held on Holbox at the end of August, isn’t the only culinary festival taking ...