Riviera Maya · Nine hotels we book
Lagoon villas, residences with private pools and quiet coves from Cancún to Tulum. Same rate as booking direct.

The hotels we book run from Punta Nizuc at the southern tip of Cancún’s hotel zone down the coast to Tulum. In between sits Mayakoba, a reserve of lagoons, mangrove canals and beach shared by Rosewood, Banyan Tree and the Fairmont residences, and quieter stretches like Punta Maroma and Xpu-Ha cove.
It works for every kind of group: residences with private pools that sleep eight, villas to six bedrooms, private-pool villas for two and a beachfront mansion full of art. Nonstop flights reach Cancún from New York, Miami and Los Angeles.

Fifteen villas of two to six bedrooms plus the six-bedroom beachfront Founders Villa, between jungle, lagoon and beach, with 24-hour butler service in every suite. Smaller families take the Mayakoba Two-Bedroom Suite or the Cenote Two Bedroom Villa, and the golfers have El Camaleón on the property.The room we’d book: Mayakoba Two-Bedroom Suite
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Eighteen residences set apart from the Fairmont Mayakoba hotel, each with a kitchen, terrace and private pool, with the resort’s spa, restaurants, kids’ club for ages five to eleven and Greg Norman-designed golf course. The ground-floor Exclusive 3 Bedroom Villa runs to 4,603 square feet and sleeps eight.The room we’d book: Ground-floor Exclusive 3 Bedroom Villa
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A quiet peninsula at the southern tip of Cancún’s hotel zone, with Zen architecture, a sheltered beach and NIZUC Spa by ESPA, about fifteen minutes from the airport with a private arrival transfer through us. Families book a Villa, the Master Suite or the Penthouse, which add a $100 food and beverage credit.The room we’d book: A Villa or the Penthouse
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Every villa has its own pool, threaded through Mayakoba’s lagoons and mangrove canals, with the beach club, the cenotes and El Camaleón, home of Mexico’s PGA TOUR event, a few minutes away. Couples and golfers take a pool villa; higher villa categories can carry a larger resort credit through us.The room we’d book: A private-pool villa
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Five pools, 11 restaurants and a spa that uses herbs from the resort’s own garden give a big group choice all week. Rooms are 505 square feet with two queens or a king and a balcony tub for two, and the grandparents take the Governors or Presidential Suite.The room we’d book: Ocean View room with two queens
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A 50-acre estate between Mayan jungle and Xpu-Ha cove, built as the private home of an Italian duchess, with 45 suites and villas reached by footpaths. Couples take a Jungle Suite with plunge pool; a family takes a Pool Villa or the Private Villa, and the Esencia Suite and higher carry $200 in credit through us.The room we’d book: Jungle Suite with plunge pool
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A beachfront mansion turned hotel by collector Lio Malca, with KAWS and Keith Haring in the lobby and dinner under the palms. Families take the Family Village Suite or the Townhouse Labyrinth Suite; couples the beachfront Master Suite.The room we’d book: Family Village Suite
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Seventy-two rooms in hand-built palapa architecture on one of the Riviera Maya’s calmest stretches of sand, between jungle and reef, forty minutes from Cancún airport. It is the one for the couple in the group who want quiet, with breakfast for two and a $100 resort credit through us.The room we’d book: A room on the calm sand
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An all-inclusive on the quiet Playa Mujeres strip north of Cancún, with a family side with kids’ programming, a separate adults-only area and the Ciel Spa hydrotherapy circuit. We tell you which suites are worth it.The room we’d book: A suite on the family side
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You fly into Cancún International (CUN). Delta and JetBlue fly nonstop from JFK, American from Miami and Delta from Los Angeles.
NIZUC is about fifteen minutes from the airport, with a private arrival transfer included through us. Maroma is forty minutes away, Rosewood Mayakoba about 25 miles, and Hotel Esencia about fifty minutes south, thirty minutes north of Tulum. We arrange the flights and the private transfer.
Fairmont Heritage Place gives the family a residence with its own pool that sleeps eight, plus a kids’ club for ages five to eleven. Rosewood’s villas run to six bedrooms, with a butler for every suite.
Five pools and 11 restaurants at Conrad Tulum keep teens busy, and El Camaleón golf and the cenotes are minutes from Rosewood and Banyan Tree. SLS has a family side with kids’ programming.
Rosewood’s six-bedroom villas, including the beachfront Founders Villa, give each family its own rooms under one roof. Fairmont Heritage Place adds four-bedroom Penthouses with a kitchen and private pool.
Maroma for a calm beach, Banyan Tree for a villa with its own pool, Esencia for a jungle suite with a plunge pool, Casa Malca for art on the beach.
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Send us the dates and who’s coming: how many adults, how many kids and their ages, and who needs their own space.
We match the rooms, the flights and the transfers, and send you the options. You pay the hotel, at the same rate as booking direct.
Check my datesYes. Delta and JetBlue fly nonstop from JFK to Cancún, American from Miami and Delta from Los Angeles.
NIZUC, about fifteen minutes from Cancún airport, with a private transfer on arrival included through us.
Fairmont Heritage Place: the ground-floor three-bedroom villa runs to 4,603 square feet, sleeps eight and has its own pool, with a kids’ club for ages five to eleven. Rosewood Mayakoba has villas of two to six bedrooms.
All 159 villas at Banyan Tree, every residence at Fairmont Heritage Place, and the Jungle Suites with plunge pool and Pool Villas at Hotel Esencia.
El Camaleón, the Greg Norman-designed course that hosts Mexico’s PGA TOUR event, is on the Rosewood Mayakoba property and a few minutes from Banyan Tree. Fairmont Heritage Place residents use the resort’s own Greg Norman-designed course.
The same nightly rate as booking direct. At the seven Virtuoso hotels here that adds daily breakfast or a breakfast credit for two per bedroom, an upgrade on arrival when available, and extras such as a resort credit or, at NIZUC, a private arrival transfer and a spa session; Casa Malca and SLS Playa Mujeres we book directly with the hotel.
