Ser Casasandra: 25 Years of a Home Where the Soul Can Breathe

Twenty-five years ago, on a quiet and still-untouched island in the Mexican Caribbean, a space was born without a name. A small house, built from a desire to heal, to create, to return to the beginning. Its founder, artist and writer Sandra Pérez, wasn’t thinking of a hotel. Not of guests or bookings. She was thinking of returning home — not to a place, but to herself.

That is how Ser Casasandra came into being.
At first, it was an intimate refuge. Over time, it grew slowly, lovingly, with the same rhythm that the sea gently embraces Holbox’s shore. There were no famous architects or vast budgets. There was intuition, beauty, and a quiet certainty that something sacred was unfolding.

The name arrived with the ease of things that are simply meant to be.
“Why don’t you name it after yourself?” a taxi driver once suggested. And so the house became Casa Sandra. With time, that name evolved and revealed its deeper truth: Ser Casasandra — to be Casa Sandra.
Because the being is the home.
Because we already are what we seek.
And because everything that happens in this space — every painting, every silence, every gaze — exists to help us remember that.

For 25 years, Ser Casasandra has been more than a hotel.
It is a home for the soul. A space where art is not decoration, but a spiritual language. Where hospitality is not performance, but presence. Where each guest is invited to stop striving, and simply be.

Over these decades, travelers from around the world have passed through our doors. Some came looking for rest, others unsure of what brought them. But all have left with something intangible: a seed of stillness, of beauty, of awakening.

Therapists, artists, writers, seekers, and ordinary people — all have come here to reconnect with something sacred and real. And though Holbox has changed, and Ser Casasandra too, the intention remains untouched: to offer a space where one can return to their essence.

This 2025, we celebrate not only an anniversary, but the continuity of a vision that is still alive.
Ser Casasandra was never finished — and it never will be.
It is a living space, a work in progress, a home that keeps being built through every presence that arrives.

To those who have been part of this journey: thank you.
To those yet to come: welcome.
To those who don’t yet know it: this might be your home, too.

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