A luxury guide to Tulum, Mexico: Where to eat, stay and play

“Oh. Mexico’s Byron Bay,” said a friend doubtfully when I revealed my plans to visit the increasingly fashionable – and pricey – seaside town of Tulum on Mexico’s Caribbean Coast. No shade on Byron Bay, of course, but I paled slightly. Crochet bikinis and handwritten neon signs behind palm-fringed alfresco cocktail bars have their place but I didn’t really want to spend too much time feeling like I was at Coachella-sur-Mer.

Tulum sits on the site of one of the…