Narcos fans can now stay in the billionaire drug baron Pablo Escobar’s Mexican mansion that has been transformed into a 35-room, eco-friendly boutique hotel
ATTENTION Narcos fans, you can now stay in one of Pablo Escobar’s personal houses, which has been turned into a 35-room luxury hotel.
For over a decade the drug lord's mansion in Tulum, Mexico sat empty - but it has now been renovated and transformed by art dealer Lio Lamca to become the stunning Casa Malca.
From £395 a night, guests can spend the night in the stunning property, which used to belong to Colombia’s most notorious drug lord.
Locals claim the “King of Cocaine”, who headed up the Medellin Cartel that brought in more than £54million per day, built the white-washed house in the 1980s.
The eco-friendly boutique hotel is located right on a pristine stretch of a private beach in the popular beach resort and comes with a wealth of amenities befitting of the billionaire.
These include an underground steam room, pool and rooftop deck, and rooms filled with paintings, sculptures and furniture from contemporary artists.
Its restaurant uses fresh ingredients from the property’s garden, or sources products directly from local farmers or vendors.
Lio, who saw the property back in 2003 and started renovating it in 2012, said to : “I purchased the property because I thought it was insane.
"I could not believe that in this world, a property like this still exists and hasn't been taken over by a corporation."
Pablo Escobar has been the subject of a Netflix series called Narcos which follows the rise and fall of the notoriously violent, powerful and ruthless drug lord.
At the height of his power, Escobar was said to be the seventh richest man in the world, with his Medellin drugs cartel thought to be behind up to 80 per cent of all the cocaine shipped to the United States.
With an estimated worth of £24billion, Escobar made the Forbes’ billionaires list of the world’s richest people seven years in a row beginning in 1987.
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Dubbed the “King of Cocaine”, he stopped at nothing to protect his drug trafficking business and was behind the murders of thousands of people.
Escobar’s business was so big that in addition to planes, helicopters, cars, trucks, and boats, he even bought two submarines for transporting his cocaine into the US.
He was eventually killed on a Medellin roof-top during a shoot-out as he was trying to flee from the police on December 2, 1993.
Escobar married Maria Victoria Henao when she was just 15-years-old and the pair remained together until his death in 1993.
They had two children – Juan Pablo, who has since changed his name to Sebastian Marroquin, and Manuela.
After Escobar’s death, his family fled the country and travelled for a year before being granted asylum in Argentina.
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