Thank you, Bacalar.
For years, this stretch of the lagoon was our escape. Whenever we could, we took the dirt road through the jungle, leaving behind the last traffic light and the neighbours’ music, all the way to the same quiet shore. No sargassum, ever. No crowds. Just water as calm as a mirror, in seven shades of blue, birds instead of engines, and the jungle all around us.
Here, time works differently. The day starts when the light touches the water, not when an alarm goes off. You eat when you’re hungry. Afternoons are for floating, and the end of the day belongs to the sunset. We started calling it lagoon time, and once you’ve lived it, it’s hard to go back.
Nowhere else did we feel this close to nature. So when we decided to get married, there was only one place we wanted to say “yes”.
Domo arigato means “thank you very much” in Japanese, and that’s exactly what this place is: our thank-you to Bacalar. Eight geodesic domes (domo), built with gratitude (arigato).
Now we want to share it. We created Domo Arigato so others can discover the Bacalar we fell in love with: its quiet side, far from the noise. Every guest who wakes up here, swims in crystal water and leaves a little slower than they arrived becomes part of that thank-you.
