If you ask me what my most beautiful and precious trip ever was, I can of course only answer: our honeymoon! During Christmas and New Year's Eve 2013 and the very first weeks of 2014. New York, Miami, Mexico, New York, that was it. And one of the nicest places (although, how can one choose) has to be Tulum, and there is the Papaja Playa Project of the designhotels.com group. Although it is a neck and neck race with hotel Coqui Coqui (pronounced kokkie kokkie). So Tulum (pronounced Toebloem) is where life is simple: either you are on the beach or not. We explain: although the hippie town officially has a small city center, Tulum Downtown, the kilometer-long beach with a small cluster of hotels and restaurants every few meters is Tulum's real core and the place to be. Here it is a matter of choice: a spot on the white sand or a table at one of the restaurants on the other side of the street. At the beginning of this kilometer of Tulum is the Papaya Playa Project, an initiative of designhotels.com, a collection website with design hotels, most of which can easily be added to your bucket list. The German owner of the group, Claus Sendlinger, has a nice home in the area and during an evening walk found a large unoccupied stretch of beach at the beginning of the increasingly popular Tulum Beach. Here he started the Papaya Playa Project, the group's second hotel resort (the first was in Greece) and originally a pop-up concept that would last a beach season. It became a huge success and Claus and associates soon received a free pass to leave their pop-up beach huts standing for good. The current Papaya Playa, now five years old, feels like a small village where stone winding paths take you from one cabin to another between the dense dunes. There are simple huts made of stone and thatch without power supply for your own equipment (you plug it in in the specially equipped part of the Papaya Playa Bar) but with air conditioning, shower, toilet, a double bed under a mosquito net and a view over the rushing ocean , interspersed with backpacker-style cabins for six or eight - a shared bathroom is available for showering and toilet visits, and super-luxury stone houses with private balconies, paddling pool with a view of the ocean and rain shower. The residence of all residences is Casa Madere, a huge private house for twelve (or twenty if you want to arrange it a bit) on the edge of the resort where, don't tell anyone, the De Mol family also stayed for a holiday. And whether you book the cheapest option or go expensive, everyone gathers in the super social central point: a restaurant plus bar with different levels where it is a party even in the pouring rain, thanks to the insatiable Mexican staff and sultry spinning sessions by the house DJ or musical guests. The audience: hip holidaying New Yorkers, well-informed backpackers and handsome families. The food: fusion Mexican. Paradise on earth if you ask us. Papaya Beach Project