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Coppola Hideaways hotels
A filmmaker’s former family retreat sets the tone for intimate jungle, lake and garden hotels.
Coppola Hideaways is Francis Ford Coppola's group of small hotels. Blancaneaux Lodge, in Belize's Mountain Pine Ridge, was a family retreat for about a decade before it opened to guests in 1993. La Lancha, on Lake Petén Itzá in Guatemala, is dated 2003 in the atlas. Jardín Escondido in Buenos Aires is dated 2009, with 7 rooms.
3 Coppola Hideaways hotels in 3 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by Francis Ford Coppola's family
- Worldwide: Three houses are filed in the atlas: Blancaneaux Lodge in Belize, La Lancha in Guatemala, and Jardín Escondido in Buenos Aires. A published account also describes Turtle Inn on the Belize coast, bought in 1999, which is not in this atlas set.
- On the atlas: 3 High Luxury
History
Coppola Hideaways is Francis Ford Coppola's group of small hotels. Blancaneaux Lodge, in Belize's Mountain Pine Ridge, was a family retreat for about a decade before it opened to guests in 1993. La Lancha, on Lake Petén Itzá in Guatemala, is dated 2003 in the atlas. Jardín Escondido in Buenos Aires is dated 2009, with 7 rooms.
Timeline
- 1980s — Coppola buys Blancaneaux Lodge in Belize and uses it as a family retreat.
- 1993 — Blancaneaux opens to the public. The atlas dates it to 1993 and 20 rooms.
- 1999 — A published account says Coppola bought Turtle Inn, on the Placencia coast, in 1999. That hotel is not filed in the atlas.
- 2003 — La Lancha, in Guatemala, is dated 2003 in the atlas, 10 rooms.
- 2009 — BE Jardín Escondido, in Buenos Aires, is dated 2009 in the atlas, 7 rooms.
The houses to know
- BE Jardin Escondido by Coppola, Buenos Aires, Argentina — Francis Ford Coppola bought two houses from around 1920 on Gorriti in Palermo Soho, joined them in 2007, and lived here while shooting Tetro.
- Blancaneaux Lodge, San Ignacio, Belize — Twenty rooms gather in the Belizean jungle near San Ignacio at Blancaneaux Lodge, a Cayo District retreat open since 1993 and recognized with a MICHELIN Key in 2025.
- La Lancha, San José, Guatemala — Francis Ford Coppola bought a Frenchman's private estate on Lake Petén Itzá in 2003 and turned it into a ten-room rainforest lodge, furnishing casitas with Guatemalan textiles and hand-carved pieces he and Eleanor chose themselves.
Newest openings
- None of the open houses filed in the atlas carry a 2024 or later date.
Opening next
- No named unopened hotel was verified.
Every Coppola Hideaways hotel on the atlas
Argentina
- BE Jardin Escondido by Coppola — Buenos Aires · High Luxury
Belize
- Blancaneaux Lodge — San Ignacio · High Luxury
Guatemala
- La Lancha — San José · High Luxury
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