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If you've never been to Playa del Carmen , you might not realize that the Mexican destination's public beaches are totally unequipped and kinda, well, blah. And if you're new to Los Cabos, on the Baja Peninsula, then perhaps you don't know that very few of the region's beaches are actually swimmable ( blame strong currents and rough waves). Luckily, Oyster's reporters have tested the waters at more than 400 beachfront hotels throughout Mexico, so we're ready to tell you which ones are the best of the best. Take a look at the top beach hotels in the Yucatan (on the Gulf of Mexico), Riviera Maya (on the Caribbean Sea), and Riviera Nayarit and Baja California Sur (both on the Pacific Coast).  Get Prices This stunning, all- suite luxury property in Puerto Morelos has 103 incredibly spacious rooms with huge balconies or patios. Though many have full kitchens, there is only one on- site restaurant , El Faro, which serves international and Mexican cuisine f...

Finnish cabinet ministers do it, Russian hockey players do it, Koreans do it on a first date. Social bathing—known as "naked communion" in Japan—is an integral part of several cultures, strengthening bonds between family members, colleagues, and heads of state. In many countries it's also considered the proper way to welcome a foreign guest. Whether sauna or sento, banya or hammam, the shared bath is society's great leveler, its group hug, its collective sigh. "Not sampling the local bathing culture would be like not trying the local cuisine," says Melisse Gelula, co-founder of Well&Good NYC, an online wellness guide . And like any other institution integral to a society, this one has its rules, the first of which is to behave with churchlike decorum. In Finland, the sauna is the church, says Joonas Berghäll, co-director of the Finnish documentary Steam of Life. (Statistics bear him out: With just over five million inhabitants, Finland has roughly...

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