Hyatt is closing one in all its high luxurious resorts within the Mexican Caribbean in a number of months, with plans for a rebranding, Caribbean Journal has discovered.
The Andaz Mayakoba Resort Riviera Maya, one in all a trio of properties within the luxe Mayakoba group on the Caribbean coast of Mexico (together with a Rosewood, a Fairmont and a Banyan Tree) will “droop operations” on March 2, in keeping with Hyatt.
The plan is to rebrand the 148-acre property into the first-ever Alila resort within the Caribbean: the brand new Alila Mayakoba will open “later this yr,” the corporate stated.
So what’s Alila, precisely? It’s a model that had its origins in Asia, centered in Indonesia, one which has been a part of the Hyatt portfolio since 2018, with 19 resorts in whole. It does embody a trio of resorts in California, however the brand new Alila can be the primary within the Caribbean and Latin America.
It’s a model centered on “sustainability, respect for native tradition and profound connection,” as Hyatt describes it; consider it as Hyatt’s reply to IHG’s Six Senses model.
Sustainability will inform a lot of the rebranding, which can even embody an “eco pleasant renovation.”
Pete Sears, Hyatt’s regional group president, says the concept is a “new stage of luxurious, sustainability and impactful wellbeing.”
The modifications will truly lead to a smaller lodge, with a better proportion (about 40 %) of the rooms being suites with a wellness orientation.
On the operations aspect, Alila can have a number of totally different eating places together with a seashore membership and a restaurant, with a farm-to-table focus and what it calls a “restorative” method to meals.
It’s the top of a resort that had been open for nearly 9 years, with a 2016 debut. It was additionally the one Andaz-branded resort within the Caribbean, though there may be an Andaz in growth in Turks and Caicos.
So what do you do when you’ve got a reservation on the Andaz after March 2? You’ll be able to cancel without spending a dime, change to a different lodge within the Mayakoba space or shift your reservation to a special Hyatt-portfolio property.
For those who’re set on Mayakoba, the Rosewood has lengthy been our favourite inside the growth, with among the finest service of any lodge we’ve encountered within the area.
Proper now, the Andaz Mayakoba has costs at about $445. It’s possible the charges on the new Alila needs to be significantly greater.
How a lot greater? The Alila in Massive Sur, California has charges of about $2,953 per evening proper now.
