Cancun is the world’s most visited all-inclusive destination and also the most misunderstood. The strip of hotels running down the Hotel Zone — that famous “7”-shaped barrier island between the Caribbean Sea and the Nichupté Lagoon — has so much variation inside it that choosing by brand name alone will reliably produce disappointed holidays. Two…
Cancun is the test case for what the all-inclusive resort can be when it is deployed at maximum scale in a destination that was created specifically to deploy it. The hotel zone — a thin sandbar between the Caribbean Sea and the Nichupte Lagoon, twenty-two kilometres long, connected to the mainland at either end —…
The Hyatt Ziva Cancun and the Hyatt Zilara Cancun sit on adjacent plots on the hotel zone’s northern section and share the same beach — which means the family booking the Ziva and the couple booking the Zilara are sleeping in different towers above the same stretch of Caribbean, and the World of Hyatt points…