About us

Many years ago, we met at our workplace in Switzerland.  We became friends, and as we are both interested in other countries and cultures, we soon started traveling together.  While travelling in Indonesia, we came up with the idea to turn our safe life in Switzerland inside out and start a hotel in foreign country.

In 2005, we realized Mexico was the right country for our plan, but we hadn't yet found the region.  We traveled for two months in 2007, traversing the country from north to south.  At the end of our journey we knew that we had found our future home in Merida.

After much planning, we returned to Merida in January 2009 to begin our search for suitable property and to build up important local contacts.

At the end of August 2009, we finally broke camp in Switzerland and moved to Mexico.  We were fortunate to soon find the ideal house for our vision, which we bought in November 2009.

After months of planning and remodelling, thanks to the support of our Mexican friends and together with our architects, we will be able to open the hotel of our dreams in the summer of 2010.

Yvonne Gosselink and Jacqueline Ritschard