Casa Volta near Casa Wabi

Two-bedroom open-air architectural retreat a one-minute walk from the beach near Casa Wabi, with a private pool and a queen plus a toddler bed in each room.

Location: Puerto Escondido, Mexico

2 bedrooms, sleeps 4.

Price: From $405 USD per night

Casa Volta is a small open-air architectural retreat on the Oaxacan coast, a one-minute walk from the beach and within walking distance of Casa Wabi, the arts foundation designed by Tadao Ando. Two bedrooms each have their own bathroom and hold a queen plus a toddler bed, so the house suits two couples or a family with very small children. A private plunge pool sits inside the open-air plan, and the main space breathes rather than being air-conditioned. Puerto Escondido town is about twenty minutes away, which makes this the quiet end of the coast. The minimum stay is two nights. | Location: Puerto Escondido, Mexico | Bedrooms: 2 | Guests: 4 | Price: From $405 USD per night | Top Amenities: Private pool, Walkable to beach, Near Casa Wabi | Best For: Couples, Families with toddlers, Architecture and art travellers

Casa Volta is small, deliberate and a minute from the sand. Two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a private pool and an open-air plan that leaves the boundary between inside and outside mostly unresolved, which on this coast is the correct answer. Each bedroom holds a queen and a toddler bed, so it works for two couples or for one family with very small children.

Near Casa Wabi

The house sits near Casa Wabi, the arts foundation Tadao Ando designed on this stretch of Oaxacan coast, which is the reason a certain kind of traveller comes here at all. The beach is a one-minute walk. Puerto Escondido town is about twenty minutes away, so this is the quiet end of the coast rather than the surf-town end, and the trade is deliberate.

Inside the house

Two bedrooms with a bathroom each. Both rooms carry a queen bed and a toddler bed, which is unusual enough to be worth stating plainly rather than burying: this is a house that expects small children. Open-air living means the main space breathes rather than being air-conditioned, and the architecture keeps the connection to the surroundings at the centre of the plan. Two bedrooms, two bathrooms. Each bedroom holds one queen bed and one toddler bed. Open-air living areas. Bed data taken from the owner's own published listing. Two-night minimum stay

Pool and beach

A private plunge pool sits in the open-air plan, and the beach is a one-minute walk from the door. That combination is the whole argument for the house: you do not have to choose between a pool with nobody in it and sand you can reach without a car. Private plunge pool. Beach a one-minute walk away. Open-air spaces throughout. Casa Wabi within walking distance

This stretch of coast

Casa Wabi is the fixture, and it is worth checking the exhibition programme before you travel because the schedule is not continuous. Beyond it, the Manialtepec lagoon glows with bioluminescence at night, the Rinconada palapas do the ceviche, and the surf lessons happen at Carrizalillo or La Punta rather than Zicatela, where the current is serious enough to be dangerous. Casa Wabi arts foundation within walking distance. Bioluminescent lagoon at Manialtepec. Surf lessons at Carrizalillo or La Punta, not Zicatela. Ceviche at the Rinconada palapas

Best For

Couples wanting design without scale. One family with toddlers, since both rooms carry a toddler bed. Art and architecture travellers heading for Casa Wabi. Short stays, with a two-night minimum