Hotel
Papaya Playa Project
Barefoot-luxury beach hotel and party venue tucked into preserved jungle along the Caribbean coast.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Papaya Playa Project on Tulum's hotel zone beach opens on a Saturday morning in January of two thousand eighteen, when federal environmental inspectors arrived at a resort mid-build for a massive beach party. It traces what they found rigged into the protected dune, the paperwork nobody could produce, and the standoff between hotel security and the officials sent to inspect it. You will hear how a beachfront built on barefoot-luxury branding collided with federal environmental law, and what years of fallout followed.
This audio guide was created using AI.