Casa Malca

Lio Malca, a New York gallerist who backed Basquiat when few others did, wanted a holiday house in Tulum, and in 2012 he bought one on the beach road that had belonged to Pablo Escobar. It became a hotel, and the collection moved in, KAWS and Kenny Scharf among it. The bar is named after Keith Haring and done in velvet curtains and chandeliers; the weekend grill is named after a Basquiat, Head of a Madman, a name few restaurants would risk. The suites open through sliding glass onto the garden or the sand, and in one a disc of poured paint, ringed in bright colours like the cut end of a tree, hangs on grey plaster beside the bed. Of the three pools, the Grotto is underground, in a cool cavern lit like an installation, about as far from the Caribbean as a beach hotel can take you.

Recommended for anyone who would rather take a beach holiday with an art collection than without one, and for families: the Family Village Suite has a garden for children to play in, and there is babysitting. Philosophy serves breakfast facing the sea. After that the daybeds under the palms and the main pool compete for the day, and the pool has the better catering: sushi from Ambrosia, cocktails from Haring Bar. There is a padel court for anyone who feels they should earn them. There is a free guided tour of the collection and gardens, and boats go out through the mangroves and lagoons of Sian Ka'an, a minute's drive south. Between the main pool and the sea runs the Beach Tunnel, built of branches in the shape of a camera lens, so that even the Caribbean comes framed.