Hotel Riu Cancun

Blvd. Kukulcan, Km 8.5, Manzana 50, Lote
5, Zona Hotelera, Quintana Roo
Cancun 77500
Mexico

Description: 714 rooms

Property Amenities

The majority of amenities and activities at this resort are included in the room rate; guests will not be charged extra for the majority of amenities and activities.

A health-and-beauty spa with complimentary women's and men's saunas and four-person spa tub offers massage, body treatments, facials, hair and nail care, hair braiding, and waxing. (Surcharges for all spa and beauty services.) A small fitness room contains cardio and weight machines. Computers with high-speed Internet connections (surcharges) are available in the Sports Bar.

Rooms

The majority of meals and activities at this resort are included in the room rate; guests will not be charged extra for a majority of meals and activities.

The resort offers 569 guestrooms and suites in a 15-story tower and a six-story annex, both in two tones of tan. Rooms and suites feature balconies or ground-floor terraces providing views of the Caribbean Sea or the street. Decor and furnishings include pastel walls and ceilings, white crown molding, blue wood and rattan furniture, fabrics in tones of blue, tile floors with area rugs, and tan-marble bathrooms with twin-sink granite vanities and shower/tub combinations. Ceiling fans provide a cooling alternative to rooms and suites' air conditioning.

As part of the All-Inclusive Plan, rooms and suites include minibars containing beer, soft drinks, and water and liquor dispensers offering domestic-brand rum, tequila, brandy, and vodka.

Room Amenities

The majority of meals and beverages, plus all gratuities, at the following restaurants, snack spots, and bars are included in the room rate for this resort.

Don Juan - Casual, air-conditioned dining room and open-air terrace. Beam ceiling. Table linens. Buffet breakfast. Buffet lunch. Theme-buffet dinner.

Kawachi - À la carte Japanese dinner restaurant with black furniture, white place mats, light-colored wood paneling. Reservations required. Dress code: long pants for men. (No sleeveless shirts.)

Restaurante Corazone - Air-conditioned dinner restaurant with oversize paintings of fruits, vegetables. Blue-and-yellow tile checkerboard floor. Dark-wood accents. Brazilian rodizio-style service with skewered meats, poultry sliced at tables. Salad, dessert bars. Reservations required. Dress code: long pants for men. (No sleeveless shirts.)

La Mision - Open-air seaview restaurant with granite-top tables, rattan chairs, wrought-iron chandeliers. Continental breakfast. Buffet lunch. Mediterranean buffet dinner with cooked-to-order meat, chicken. Open afternoons for snack foods such as burgers, hot dogs, french fries.

Sports Bar - Open 24 hours for beer, tropical drinks, nachos, and microwave-oven sandwiches, burgers. Sports on TVs. Coin-operated pool tables and video games. Computers with high-speed Internet connections (surcharges).

La Punta - Expansive, air-conditioned lobby bar/lounge open mid-morning to late night.

La Fiesta - Twin bars in air-conditioned theater open early evening to late night.

Pacha - Disco bar open late for dancing.

El Faro - Open-air bar open mid-morning to late night.

Wet'n Drinking - Swim-up bar open mid-morning to early evening.

Entertainment

Activities include:

• Nightly entertainment, including music/dance shows, and karaoke, in an air-conditioned theater with upholstered seats
• Bingo
• Pool aerobics
• Beach volleyball
• Beach soccer
• Ping-Pong tournaments
• Darts tournaments
• Spanish lessons
• Dance lessons
• Kitchen tours
• Disco dancing (adults and children)
• Olympic games
• Crazy games
• Beer-drinking contests

Recreation

The majority of recreational facilities and activities described below are included in the room rate for this resort.

Four pools provide different ambiences. A freeform, two-level, seaview "quiet pool" isolated at one end of the resort measures 41 meters (45 yards) long and features infinity edges. Paired with that pool is a 12-person spa tub elevated above the beach. Another freeform pool with an infinity edge measures 23 meters (25 yards) long. A third, 23-meter-wide (25-yard) pool contains jetted sections, in-water tables, and a swim-up bar. An irregularly shaped pool with shallow-water sections for lounge chairs measures 17 meters (56 ft) wide.

Furnished with thatched-roof palapas and lapped by water that remains calm in most weather, the resort's beach extends 200 meters (219 yards) along Cancún Island's north side, where it is protected from open-sea swells. The resort's entire waterfront contains garden-fringed sunbathing terraces with padded lounge chairs and umbrellas.

The resort offers snorkeling gear, boogie boards, kayaks, windsurfers, and small sailboats. Introductory scuba-diving lessons are offered in the pool without charge, and beginner, refresher, and certification instruction and excursions (surcharges for all) are also available. Independent operators on the beach rent personal watercraft and offer parasailing and banana-boat rides. The resort includes two lighted tennis courts.

Pok-Ta-Pok Golf Club is 1 km (0.75 mi) from the resort, and the Hilton golf course and driving range are 8.5 km (5.25 mi).

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.

Policies

Extra person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.

Rollaway beds and cribs (infant beds) may be available and should be requested at the time of booking; fees may apply.

Photo identification and credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.

Pets not allowed

Check-in time is 3 PM

Check-out time is Noon