The lobby entrance sets the tone before a guest even checks in, and at Playa Mita that job falls entirely to a tiered, palapa-style thatched roof rising in stacked cones above the porte-cochère. Endureed’s Performance Weathered Palm gives it that soft, sun-worn gray-brown finish that reads as generations-old Mexican coastal architecture rather than a resort built to a construction schedule, framed on either side by a row of towering royal palms that make the whole entrance feel less like arriving at a hotel and more like arriving somewhere.