WHY STAY WITH US? Because it can
bring magic to your vacation time! if you
are looking for a very
special vacation experience, then Hacienda Chichen is
the place for you to stay and indulge in pampering experiences, plus
savor the soulful essence of our
Colonial
and ancient Maya heritage. Not only you will enjoy a
relaxing
romantic ambiance, but can truly revitalize your soul
in communion with Mother Nature
flora,
fauna, and other amazing eco-cultural enriching
experiences. Sadly, some travelers
choose to
endure crowded day-trip tour buses to visit
Chichen Itza, thinking that
there is not much to enjoy nearby, not knowing that such
guided group tours are exhausting and give little value to their overall
vacation.
OUR
COTTAGES AND ROOMS
Enchanting Serenity: Our 12 historic
hotel
cottages
house
a total of 28 guestrooms.
Each cottage offers one or up to four rooms, all uniquely
decorated with Mayan crafts and
Spanish Colonial accents. Each
hotel guestroom offers you a spacious patio terrace over looking our
vast lush
Maya jungle gardens. You may
reserve a variety of room choices to meet your needs: you may
enjoy a two Full beds historic guest-room to share with family
or friend, but if you are traveling along we suggest our one
Queen bed solo-guestrooms. Couples will love to reserve one of
our cozy honeymoon rooms (one Queen bed) or any of our spacious
and beautiful Master Guest-rooms you have a choice of booking
one King bed or two Full bed, please do express your choice to
our reservation staff.
We offer dog-lovers special pet-friendly
rooms.
National
Geographic Senior Travel Editor, Sheila
Feldman comment says it all: "Hacienda Chichen and Yaxkin Spa
do not just reflect their surroundings - they help define them.
Their transcendent
innovating vision
goes beyond traditional hotel keeping." She adds, "you leave
with the kind of insight only soulful places can provide."
So
come enjoy our Green hotel
eco-cultural activities, fabulous
grounds, and unique history. All guestrooms
offer
green living
features: led lights, bio-digestible septic system, eco-friendly
amenities, and social
responsible services; where no T.V. or
phone will disrupt your enjoying
birds singing and an intimate contact with
nature.
Please help us
care for the
environment by following a few tips:
Bedding
and Towels:
please keep your
towels and sheets clean and off the floor, every other day we
change them during your stays. An eco-friendly hotel
practice that helps conserve our precious
water resources
and the environment.
Eco-Friendly
Laundry Services for personal clothes at an extra charge,
next day service only. Use Laundry Bag. No dry-clean items. Never hang your wet clothes in your terrace or gardens,
it is not tolerated by other guests and will be promptly removed
at your own risk.
Drinking
Water: You may drink our tap water, but if you prefer
bottled water, you will find it for sale in your room.
Mini-bar snacks and bottled drinks are there for sale, payable at check out. Profit from mini-bar sales help our
sustainable social work ventures.
Energy:
This is a Green Living Destination, so please remember to always
"Turn Off" your room's A/C, lights, fan, etc. when leaving
your room! On cool nights avoid A/C use.
Trash:
Never throw paper or any other item in W.C. (toilet), this will
keep our eco-friendly bio-digestible septic system running
smoothly -
Use only eco-friendly personal care items
such as pump-spray cosmetics, bio-friendly
sun-block lotions and insect repellents.
Smoking: For
your additional comfort, please note that all our guest-rooms
are non-smoking. If you enjoy smoking please do so in your open
patio terrace or in our gardens. For free Wi-Fi visit main open
terrace.
DID YOU KNOW?
All Master guest-rooms offer a split hotel room plan with vanity area,
walk-in closet, handmade soaps and eco-friendly amenities, large
pool towels, ropes, slippers, and other special green living and
eco-friendly treats.
You can choose a King bed or two Full beds
Master guest-room, plus the choice of deep deluxe bath-tub or senior friendly
shower area.
PET
FRIENDLY HOTEL:
Pet lovers do check our pet-friendly hotel policies before
booking. You may wish to review our
regular prices
contact-info and
vacation offers. Bellow
is a brief "who is who" information about each cottage
archaeologist that has lived at Hacienda Chichen and the cottage rooms we offer you:
DETAILED
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR
COTTAGES AND ROOMS
Pollock's Cottage
(Honeymoon Room #7)
Reserve
Morley's Cottage
(#1, 2, 3 Master, 4)
-
This historic cottage offers you lovely historic hotel
accommodations, it was built by Dr. Sylvanus Morley, Head of
the first Mayan Scholar Expedition sponsored by the Carnegie
Institute in the early 1900s. He built it with ancient Maya
stones while reconstructing temples at Chichen Itza. It houses
Morley's Master #3 in honor of
Dr. Donald M Hart, this suite has an ample living area
with mini-bar and coffee maker, one premium memory pad King
bed, and senior friendly shower bathroom; it shares a
lovely large patio terrace with Morley's Queen Bed guest-room #
4 ideal for newly wed couples or solo guests. Morley Room #1 offers two Full beds; and Morley
Room #2, also a honeymoon room with a Queen bed, share a
lovely large terrace patio overlooking the lush gardens near the
swimming pool.
Offers
Rates
Reserve
Ruppert's Cottage
(#5 and 6)
-
Karl Ruppert lived in this cottage while surveying Chichen Itza
for the Carnegie Institute. The simple charm of its two hotel rooms reflects Mr. Ruppert's conservative nature. Each
hotel room
has two Full beds and share a large ample terrace overlooking
the main fountain garden. His cottage is near the pool area.
Offers
Rates
Reserve
Pollock's Cottage
(#7, 8 Master, 9, 10)
-
Housed archaeologist Harry E. Pollock during his field work in
Chichen Itza. Spacious and located at the heart of the Hacienda
Chichen main garden. This cottage offers you our Honeymoon Room
#7 with one Queen bed and Pollack's Master-room #8 with a King
bed (senior-friendly), both hotel rooms share a lovely spacious patio
terrace overlooking the main fountain. Pollock's Room # 9 and
Room # 10 share a very private patio terrace, both decorated
with hand-carved wood furniture and remodeled in July 2012; both
rooms have two Full beds each and are an ideal setting for more
than one night stays.
Offers
Rates
Reserve
Suite Linda Schele(Masters
11 & 12)
- Linda Shele, a renown Mayan scholar loved her cottage stays
at Hacienda Chichen. You can enjoy it too! 2011 remodeled
eco-friendly cottage housing Master Guest-room #11 (premium
memory King bed) and
Master Guest-room #12 with two full beds (family and senior
friendly,
Dog-friendly
hotel accommodations); both decorated with Colonial carved wood furniture
sharing a spacious terrace over viewing lush gardens.
Offers
Rates
Reserve
Tatiana's Cottage
(Solo Cottage Master )
Reserve
Ms. Tatiana Proskouriakoff
(Solo Master
Cottage)
- a
talented Mayan scholar and artist, she loved her eco-friendly
cottage's serene elegant master-room. Remodeled July 2012 this
solo Master cottage offers top green living features,
hand-carved wood furniture, premium memory pad King bed, deluxe tub, spacious
split bathroom design, mini-bar, walking closet, and lovely
private terrace with a hammock and rocking chairs.
Offers
Rates
Reserve
Tozzer's
Cottage
(#14 and 15)
-
Dr. Alfred Marston Tozzer (1877-1954) did most of his fieldwork
on the Maya as Mr. Thompson's guest in the early 1900's. His
cottage features two rooms, each with one Queen bed, and an
large terrace.
Offers
Rates
Reserve
Thompson's Cottage
(#16, 17, 18, 19, Master)
-
Edward Thompson owned Hacienda Chichen in the 19th Century. his
exploration work contributed greatly to the international
awareness of Chichen Itza. His cottage includes a spacious suite
with two Full beds and ample sitting room, deluxe bathroom,
vanity, mini-bar and coffee maker. Cottage also houses four
double-Full-bed guestrooms, all of which have mini-bars and
lovely spacious patios furnished with rocking chairs and
hammocks. This cottage was fully remodeled during the 2012
Summer.
Offers
Rates
Reserve
Pet-Friendly Rooms: Jean Charlot's Cottage
(RECENTLY REMODELED #20, 21, 22, 23) -
A
Carnegie Institute"s Chichen Itza Maya Expedition staff
member in the
early 1920's, Charlot's task was to record in detail many
Maya temples
through his drawings. This large cottage offers four double Full
bed guest-rooms, recently remodeled and beautifully decorated with split bathroom
design, ample terrace, and private
garden. Ideal to stay with your beloved mascot.
Ideal
Dog-friendly rooms. Pet owners
need to pre-book and signed our
pet policies.
Offers
Rates
Reserve
John
Lloyd Stephens Cottage
( Master #24)
This
spacious king bed Master, premium memory pad bed, offers free Satellite TV with
HBO, free Wi-Fi, has its own
private garden and open terrace, very romantic, secluded, ideal
for couples.
Offers
Rates
Reserve
Merle Green Cottage
(Master #25)
Built in the 90s for Dr. Green, this lovely cottage has a
spacious master guestroom (King bed) and private terrace. She
enjoys having
Yaxkin Spa
next door and the private garden view of her
"home away form home" retreat. Deluxe bath-tub and other fine
green living amenities, premium king bed. Do visit our
Merle Green Robinson Museum.
Offers
Rates Reserve
Ann Axtell Morris Master
(Deluxe Master S #26)
-
Anna A. Morris was the field director for the Carnegie
Institute. Her spacious and lovely Master room is
decorated with a fabulous antique Colonial headboard and
original artwork, plus many pampering extras including a premium
memory pad king bed, exclusive
private garden and large open terrace, deluxe bathtub, walking closet,
and eco-friendly features. Offers
Rates
Reserve
Alice
Le Plongeon Suite
(Master #27)
-
Alice Le Plongeon was one of the first European women to
research the
Mayan culture. She and her
husband, August Le Plongeon stayed at Hacienda Chichen in the
1870's and 1880's. This spacious Master guestroom has two full beds,
minibar, coffee maker, vanity, deluxe tub. A green living
eco-design. Offers
Rates
Reserve
Senior Friendly - Catherwood Master
(Solo Master Cottage #28)
-
Our solo Master offers a truly private Master-room cottage
featuring free Satellite TV with HBO, free WiFi, vanity, split
bathroom with senior friendly features, king bed, mini-bar,
coffee maker, open terrace, secluded garden. Ideal for couples
staying three or more nights.
Offers
Rates
Reserve
Catherwood Cottage
(VIP Master #30 is fully booked during 2013)
Frederick Catherwood, born in 1799, illustrated John Stephens
famous book Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. His truly
romantic hacienda style master room is a genuine Colonial jewel;
this premium king bed master room offers an intimate cottage
living charm with its own screened patio living area, deluxe and
spacious bathroom (shower and bathtub separeted), ample closets,
studio area, Satellite TV, free HBO and Sky TV, free Wi-Fi and
International phoneline, large porch
with rocking chairs and Mayan hammock. This master is ideal for
those couples wanting a second home vacation time style of stay
or for scholars needing the right place to stay during their
research in-field work.
Rates Reserve
Hacienda Chichen Cottages and Rooms
Distribution within 13 hectares of lush Tropical Gardens
