11 All-Inclusive Resorts You’d Book Just For the Food
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Think of an all-inclusive resort and then imagine the food you might eat there. If you’re conjuring umbrella-shaded tables by a pool, stacked high with nachos and chicken fingers, you might have an outdated view of this type of lodging. Sure, those kinds of budget-friendly all-inclusives certainly do exist—essentially megaships on land—but the category is now growing and shifting to meet new traveler demands.
There are all-inclusive safari camps, jungle eco-lodges, overwater bungalow resorts, wellness retreats and even posh farm stays, with culinary experiences that are just as unique and diverse. Expect access to experts (like sommelier-led wine tastings), garden-fresh ingredients, cooking workshops and increasingly locally driven cuisines that you can’t find anywhere else.
Twin Farms
Barnard, Vermont
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True to its name, this bucolic, adults-only retreat 90 minutes from Burlington puts farm-fresh ingredients front and center. Nightly cocktails and canapés are followed by multi-course dinners that draw on the bounty of New England (think, butter and cheese from nearby dairies) and the 300-acre property itself, including honey from its hives, syrup from its maple trees and vegetables from its gardens. Beyond the dining room, you can choose to picnic by the pond or on the ski hill, or partake in more hands-on experiences like pasta-making, grilling lessons or foraging for springtime morels and ramps.
Awasi Iguazu
Puerto Iguazú, Argentina
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You plunge right into the heart of the northern Argentina rainforest when you check into this 14-villa eco-resort just 20 minutes from Iguazú Falls. Chef Mauricio Alvez, who grew up in a tiny farming community three hours south of here, runs the main lodge restaurant, where he cooks for just 30 people a night. That means he can hone in on small-scale ingredients that really speak to the terroir—90 percent of them are local, including Paraná pine seeds, palm heart pulp and fruits like pitangas, acerolas and jaboticabas. Kids over the age of 10 are welcome at the property, and they’ll love the wooden animals carved by Guarani artisans that show up on place settings.
Sensoria Dolomites
Siusi allo Sciliar, Italy
Thanks to its position bordering Austria and Switzerland, the Italian province of South Tyrol has a cuisine that feels closer to Central European than Italian. Experience the flavors at this adults-only wellness resort in the mountains, where experiences include skiing, hiking, mountain biking and tackling one of four via ferratas. Once you’ve worked up an appetite, stop into Anima restaurant, where chef Hichame El Mahi draws on far-reaching influences from Morocco, France and beyond, or the house market, serving fresh-baked bread and pastries, local cheeses and jams made from fruits from the on-site farm.
Paws Up
Montana Greenough, Montana
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Sure, it’s a working cattle ranch with an admittedly playful name, but the experience here is far from “roughing it.” Your stay includes daily breakfast, lunch and dinner, and there’s a wide roster of on-site restaurants to choose from: Pomp for Western-tinged dinners of Rocky Mountain elk tartare and wild king salmon, Trough for huckleberry pancakes, and the summer-only Shed for bison burgers and barbecued cauliflower. Be sure to reserve your Chuck Wagon dining experience early: Set along the Blackfoot River, the family-friendly meal includes live music, tossing horseshoes, and tomahawk steaks and fruit cobbler cooked over campfires.
Soneva Fushi
Kunfunadhoo, Maldives
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There’s a carefree streak that runs through this family-friendly Maldivian sanctuary. Flying Sauces bills itself as “the world’s first fine-dining zipline experience”—it’s perched 40 feet in the treetops and is reached by gliding through the trees. Out of the Blue serves sushi and teppanyaki on an overwater platform with daybeds and a water slide that drops diners directly into the crystalline Indian Ocean below, while Shades of Green is a plant-based restaurant surrounded by the resort’s organic gardens.
Naviva®, A Four Seasons Resort, Punta Mita, Mexico
Punta Mita, Mexico
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At this 48-acre hideaway on Mexico’s Pacific Coast, guests can choose to relax or fill their itineraries with complimentary activities—many of which skew culinary-focused. You can join in an agave spirits tasting with a local distiller, sip small-batch wines, roast your own coffee beans or even prepare “seacuterie.” If you’d rather leave it up to the experts, Naviva’s signature restaurant is the open-air, live-fire Copal Cocina, though you can also dine in your tent, by the pool or at a picnic on the beach.
Savute Elephant Lodge, A Belmond Safari
Chobe National Park, Botswana
At this 12-tent camp in Chobe National Park, one of Belmond’s two Botswana safari lodges, breakfast is taken on an open-air deck overlooking a spot loved by elephants, while dinner means gathering around the campfire at a boma for barbecued meats and local specialties to a soundtrack of live music and fables. Kids six and above are welcome, and beyond all the usual wildlife watching, they can join the chefs in the kitchen and learn how to bake, plus enjoy milk-and-cookies turndown service after their game drives.
Castle Hot Springs
Morristown, Arizona
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Opened in 1896 in the remote desert north of Phoenix, this hot springs retreat was reborn in 2019 with a focus on modern wellness. A rotating roster of culinary experiences includes a tour of the three-acre farm, where the team grows more than 150 different crops, many of which make their way onto the plates of your nightly multi-course tasting menu. That might mean crisp vegetables from the garden served with hummus, greenhouse tomatoes brightening up the panzanella, and edible flowers and microgreens topping meats and seafood or whipped into sauces.
Little Palm Island Resort & Spa
Little Torch Cay, Florida
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The Florida Keys are all about laid-back days, but that breezy vibe takes on a slightly more refined air at this adults-only resort and spa. The restaurant, especially, forgoes Sunshine State clichés in favor of a wide caviar selection and extravagant chilled seafood towers (Key West pink shrimp, stone crab). Guests who stay two nights can enjoy a dining package that includes a welcome bottle of Champagne, daily breakfast, three-course lunches and four-course dinners. Keep an eye out for special collaborations, like a recent menu from Wei Chen, a private omakase chef who has worked in some of the most revered sushi spots in New York.
The Ranch Malibu
Malibu, California
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Befitting its location just outside wellness-obsessed Los Angeles, this retreat in the Santa Monica Mountains is all about transformation and restoration—a theme that naturally, the food program also carries. Plant-forward meals are healthy and hearty, with dishes like veggie tacos and Vietnamese hot pot that are built around seasonal, organic ingredients, and you can learn how to bring those principles home with you through interactive cooking demonstrations and garden tours. The property’s five-acre regenerative farm yields a full ton of produce each month, including 67 types of vegetables and 43 types of fruit.
Jade Mountain
Soufriere, Saint Lucia
The architecture and design, the infinity pools attached to nearly every suite and the views of the Pitons mountains and Caribbean Sea would have been enough. But the owners of this island retreat have somehow topped themselves with a totally unique culinary experience as well. Lauded chef Allen Susser has created what he calls “Jade cuisine,” a fusion of flavors from different tropical foodways. Guests can also visit the resort’s organic farm, hidden in the hills about 20 minutes away; it’s home to more than 1,000 cacao trees, which provide the raw materials for Jade’s on-site Chocolate Laboratory and cocoa-infused spa treatments. (The “Chocolate Delight” sees the sweet stuff applied in layers, to maximize its antioxidant benefits.)
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