HACIENDA CHICHEN RESORT & YAXKIN SPA: Mexico's Best Green Jungle Resort and Eco-Spa Wellness Destination. Our geo-vision and mission statement: working together to serve guests with caring hearts, sharing our Maya traditions and values... uniting hospitality, communities, conservation and sustainable travel choices. By far, the most unique boutique green hacienda hotel found in Yucatan, Mexico. National Geographic traveler magazine has selected Hacienda Chichen within their "Traveler 2009 Stay List: Hotels We Love." Located in Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, a few steps away from the visited Mayan temples and ruins, Hacienda Chichen embraces the soul of all that visit it. Hacienda Chichen and Yaxkin Spa are a comfortable 90 minute drive from Merida or Cancun Airport; rent a car, it is a safe way to explore Yucatan and enjoy your eco-cultural vacations at our Eco-Spa Resort.

This beautiful and serene boutique hacienda hotel, has become a Sanctuary of Life, transcending beyond hotel charming historic rooms to an enchanting soulful place that provides guests a deep sense of cultural insight, environmental awareness, an intimate contact with Mother Nature, the Mayan people, their mystical ceremonies, cuisine, and holistic herbal healings. Among the Yucatan haciendas, boutique hotels, and Eco-Spa Resorts, Hacienda Chichen is the best Maya Eco-Spa Wellness Destination and the most romantic soulful of all Wedding Destinations in Mexico. Located just steps from Chichen Itza in the Yucatan Peninsula, this green hotel offers unique cottage rooms to enjoy a relax vacation, explore the eco-cultural wonders of Yucatan, or volunteer as a social worker for the Maya Foundation In Laakeech!

Hacienda Chichen Resort lies just next to the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza on the Yucatan Peninsula. Three Barbachano family's females have run the Hacienda as a eco-friendly cultural destination and the best Green hotel in Yucatan for over 50 years; now, the newest generation of owners has converted this lovely hacienda into a boutique Hacienda hotel dedicated to sustainable tourism which has helped the Hacienda Chichen become Yucatan's best eco-cultural sanctuary and Mayan Spa Retreat, supporting the Maya living culture and people, while offering its guests exquisite Yucatan's best green hotel accommodations, unique personal experiences, eco-vision hotel practices and Mayan cultural traditions.

From the moment you enter Hacienda Chichen Resort, Yucatan's best green boutique Mayan Spa Wellness getaway, you will be in awe with the beauty of this serene hotel's Colonial Mansion, the lushness of its Bird Refuge gardens, where flowers, birds, fountains, and tropical fruit trees greet you at every turn. The Colonial Hacienda Mansion houses this green eco-spa hotel's reception area, its Chichen Itza restaurants, bars, and elegant salon library. The hotel's Chichen Itza restaurants offer a Colonial ambiance eating terrace or an inside air-conditioned formal Colonial restaurant that serves Chichen Itza's best Fusion Gourmet Cuisine and many healthy organic menu selections. The elegant library offers historical reference books about the hacienda, the Mayans and Mayan archaeological sites throughout the Yucatan; many guests have donated fine books, plus guests enjoy a great book exchange selection.

Upon checking in, guests are escorted to one of 15 bungalows, where each room is unique in its history and Mexican country interior design. During the last century, many famous archaeologists have stayed at Hacienda Chichen while exploring and studying Chichen Itza, and each cottage is named after one of them. Guests at this Green Hotel have the opportunity to experience many Mayan traditions and true eco-activities to enhance their stay and understanding of the Maya Culture. One of the highlights of this jungle resort is found in Yaxkin Spa; rejoice in the pampering experience of Mayan healing rituals and holistic spa beauty treatments or relax in the Olympic sized swimming pool surrounded by 100-year old Royal Palms, flower and fruit trees, singing birds and Yucatan's exquisite native orchids.

For green tourism travelers, we recommend to check Chichen Service fabulous eco-cultural vacation packages; also, booking online with Travel Yucatan Today, a prepaid stay with us, will help you save up to 10% of the cost. Staying at Hacienda Chichen brings many opportunities to enhance your visit to Chichen Itza ruins; so take time to plan your visit and include: sunset Birding Tour offered by our Mayan birding experts, a true Maya sacred ceremonies; or learn Maya Cuisine and cook a delicious ancient recipe with produce from our organic fruit and vegetable fields. A visit to Merle Greene's Museum; plus, take part in our cultural events; explore the Yucatan Peninsula; or just relax in a hammock and enjoy the peace and quiet of their surroundings. And if you must be connected to the outside world, Hacienda Chichen Resort provides unlimited use of high speed wireless internet to its guests at its open bar terrace in front of the Guest Service Center.

When you come to Hacienda Chichen Resort, be sure to visit the petite Toh Mayan Boutique & Gift Shop where a fine selection of Mayan traditional arts along with exquisite Maya Vessel replicas, fine Maya pottery and Jainas by Patricia Martin, Rodrigo Martin and Roger Juarez are sold. These three artists are the three most acclaimed Mayan reproduction fine artists in the Yucatan. The boutique also offers an exclusive collection of jade and sterling jewelry, various Maya hand dyed weavings and colorful embroidered items. Toh Boutique has a carefully selected Mayan art-craft collection for sale, including fine Mayan pottery replicas, Jainas, textiles, and jewelry; each item has high quality and uniqueness. Proceeds from Toh Boutique's sale go towards the Maya Foundation In Laakeech non-profit volunteer work and the hotel's Wild-Herbal Medicine Project which includes ecological awareness activities and green workshops to teach local residents the value of managing native habitats. This eco-vision behavior must be taught before the montes (local wild forest) get destroyed.

Morley's Cottage (#1, 2, 3, and 4) - The Sylvanus Morley Cottage was built by Dr. Morley with Maya stones while reconstructing temples at Chichen Itza. This historical cottage houses our honeymoon room 1 with a queen bed. Room 2 with two full beds, Morley's Master Suite 3 with one King bed and Room 4 also a honeymoon room one a Queen bed. Ruppert's Cottage (#5 and 6) - Karl Ruppert lived in this cottage while surveying Chichen Itza for the Carnegie Institute. The simple nature of the two guestrooms reflects Mr. Ruppert's conservative nature. Each room has two full beds and a large ample terrace overlooking the main fountain garden. His cottage is near the pool area. Pollock's Cottage (#7, 8, 9 and 10) - One of the original six Carnegie-built cottages named after Harry E. Pollock houses two honeymoon rooms: H.M #7 with one Queen bed and Pollack's Suite #8 with a King bed. Rooms 9 and 10 have two full beds each. Suite Linda Schele(#11) - Spacious Master Suite with a King bed featuring a unique Colonial wood-carved headboard. Dr. Schele is recognized worldwide for her academic achievements that have helped us understand the Maya ciivilization.

Tatiana's Cottage (#12 & Master Suite) - Ms. Tatiana Proskouriakoff, a very talented scholar and artist, loved her cottage serene ambiance during her fieldwork periods in Chichen Itza. Guestroom #12 has one Queen bed while Suite Tatiana, a separate cottage, features two full beds. 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. Thompson's Cottage (#16, 17, 18 and 19) - Edward Thompson owned Hacienda Chichen in the 19th Century. conducted several expeditions, including the dredging of the Sacred Well or Cenote. His work contributed greatly to the international awareness of Chichen Itza. His cottage includes a spacious suite and four charming guestrooms, all of which have two full beds each. Jean Charlot's Cottage (#20, 21, 22 and 23) - As a young artist, Jean Charlot was invited by Dr. Sylvannus G. Morley to be part of the Carnegie Institute Maya Expedition staff at Chichen Itza in the early 1920's. Charlot's task was to record in detail through his drawings, paintings and sketches the various Maya temples and their facades with stone sculptures. Each of these rooms has two full beds each and a split bathroom, with the vanity outside the shower and WC area.

Eroza Peniche Suite (Suite#24) - This archaeologists dedicated his academic years to the study of the Maya and Chichen Itza. His spacious suite is in the Catherwood cottage (a King bed). Merle Green Robinson's Suite (M.S.#25) - This lovely cottage, with a spacious master suite (King bed) and private terrace, was built in the 1990s specially for Dr. Merle Greene. She enjoys having Yaxkin Spa next door and the private garden view of her "home away form home" retreat. Do visit the Merle Green Robinson Museum during your stay with us. Ann Axtell Morris Suite (M.S.#26) - Anna A. Morris worked for four seasons with her husband, the field director for the Carnegie Institute. She recorded details of Mayan stone carvings and murals with her drawings and paintings. Her spacious suite has two full beds. Alice Le Plongeon Suite (M.S.#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 suite has two full beds. Catherwood Cottage (M.S.#24 & M.S.#28) - Catherwood Master Suite is a truly romantic hacienda jewel; offers a Maya Ritual Tub bathroom, private deluxe seating patio with a Mayan hammock. Frederick Catherwood, born in 1799, was an Englishman who illustrated John Stephens famous book Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. His remodeled Catherwood Cottage has two Suites, both have a King bed,