Cancun Hotel
 

Ritz-Carlton Cancun

Retorno del Rey 36
Zona Hotelera, Quintana Roo
Cancun 77500
Mexico

Description: 369 rooms

Property Amenities

The 511-square-meter (5,500-square-ft) Kayantá Spa, offering ingredients such as avocado, vanilla, papaya, and coffee inspired by pre-Columbia rituals, includes a couple's room and offers massage techniques from around the world, therapeutic baths, body wraps and scrubs, Vichy showers, facials, hair and nail care, and waxing. Treatments include Lol-Ha, the traditional Mayan flower bath for brides; Zac-Xib, a warrior ritual involving a body scrub and essential oils bath for men; and the Sacred Warm Stone Massage.

Treatments are offered in air-conditioned rooms, in a thatched-roof pavilion overlooking the beach, and on private open-air terraces. Women's and men's sections offer private, open-air, eight-person spa tubs sided by plunge pools; saunas; steam rooms; Swiss showers; open-air showers; and relaxation lounges.

A complimentary fitness center contains weight machines, cardio machines, and free weights. An exercise studio offers complimentary aerobics classes such as Pilates, yoga, pool Pilates, and kickboxing for surcharges.

A kids' club (ages 4-12) provides supervised activities (surcharges) in an air-conditioned clubhouse. A full-service business center rents cellular telephones and includes private rooms containing Internet-connected computers (surcharges). Wireless Internet access is available throughout the resort (surcharge). Shoppers can browse boutiques, an art gallery, and a jewelry store. The hotel purifies its water.

Swimming pool - outdoor

Poolside bar

Swimming pool - children's

Spa tub

Full-service health spa

Steam room

Sauna

Concierge desk

Complimentary newspapers in lobby

Fitness equipment

Restaurant(s) in hotel

Bar/lounge

Room service (24 hours)

Parking (free)

Parking (valet)

Conference room(s)

Event catering

Banquet facilities
Business center

Meeting rooms (small groups)

Ballroom(s)

Internet access - wireless

Internet access in public areas - high speed

Audio-visual equipment

Cell phone/mobile rental

Business services

Computer rental

Internet access in public areas - surcharge

Safe-deposit box - front desk

Number of rooms: 365

Express check- in

Porter/bellhop

Express check-out

Doorman/doorwoman

Security guard
24-hour front desk

Multilingual staff

Number of floors: 9

Hair salon

Gift shops or newsstand

Shopping on site

Currency exchange

Tour assistance

Medical assistance available

Beauty services

Dry cleaning service

Shoe shine

Air-conditioned public areas

Elevator/lift

Wedding services

Supervised child care/activities


Rooms

The hotel offers 365 guestrooms and suites in a tan, E-shaped, Spanish-colonial building with tile roofs and wrought-iron railings. Rooms contain high ceilings, pale-pink walls with pearl-green wood trim, green floral carpets, light-colored furniture, and blue-tone fabrics, with Frette Italian linens on beds. Furnishings include upholstered reading chairs and desks. Black-and-white Italian-marble bathrooms feature large stall showers, separate tub/shower combinations, and twin-sink vanities. Terry-cloth bathrobes and slippers provide lounging comfort. CD players and video-game consoles offer entertainment.

Ritz Club-level rooms feature five food-and-beverage services daily in an exclusive concierge lounge, beginning with a full American buffet breakfast. Salads and sandwiches are offered at lunch. Afternoon tea includes pastries. Cocktails and appetizers are served evenings, with live music offered Wednesdays through Saturdays. In a separate top-floor ocean-view lounge is a martini bar (adults only). Chocolates and cordials end the day.



Room Amenities

Internet access - high speed

Internet access - wireless

Cable/satellite TV

Video-game console

Pay movies

CD player

Hypo-allergenic bedding available

Premium bedding

Climate control

Complimentary newspaper

Blackout drapes

Air conditioning

Internet access - surcharge

Multi-line phone

Internet access - dial-up

Voice mail

Minibar

Wake-up calls

Housekeeping (daily)

Turndown service

Bathroom telephone

Bathrobes

Complimentary toiletries

Hair dryer

Makeup mirror

Massage - available in room

Sewing kit

Slippers

Separate bathtub and shower

Bathroom scale

Child care (in room, surcharge)

Television

Iron/ironing board

In-room safe

Clock radio

Window opens

Rollaway beds

Cribs (infant beds) available

Smoking rooms


Dining

The Club Grill Dinner restaurant employing local ingredients and emphasizing seafood and prime-grade meats. Choices such as roast lobster with leek brandade, chanterelle salad, and roast duck with chipotle and sweet potato purée. Live jazz nightly.

Fantino Opulent fine-dining dinner restaurant. Recessed ceilings painted with pastoral murals, wall recesses containing scroll paintings, pale-green linens, and ivory-colored chairs. Mediterranean cuisine. Piano music nightly.

El Café Mexicano Dining room and outside terrace. Buffet and à la carte breakfast. A la carte lunch. A la carte dinners plus Sunday night family-style barbecue buffet, Tuesday night Mexican buffet with live music, Friday night lobster-and-seafood buffet.

The Caribe Bar & Grill Casual pool-terrace spot overlooking beach. White-tile roof, blue umbrellas. Open mid-morning to early evening for light meals, snacks.

The Lobby Lounge Ocean views. Upholstered seating. Appetizers, cocktails, more than 120 tequilas, cigar-lounge section. Entertainment nightly.

On request, the hotel serves private candlelight dinners-for-two in guestrooms and on the beach.



Recreation

A terra-cotta-colored terrace overlooking the beach and extending the full length between the hotel's outer wings includes a two-level main pool floating like a freeform lagoon above the turquoise Caribbean Sea. A blossom-shape "quiet pool" isolated at one end of the terrace measures approximately 18-by-18 meters (60-by-60 ft). A spa tub accommodates 16 guests. Pool concierges make dining reservations and book outside tours. Pool captains hand out cold towels and complimentary fruit and water.

The hotel's beach frontage comprises 200 meters (219 yards) of Cancún's powdery white sand. Furnished with cushioned lounge chairs, beach rentals comprise wood-floor thatch-roof structures accommodating from 4-8 guests, thatched palapas, and two-person lounge chairs with fold-up shades.

An independent water sports center, AquaWorld, rents snorkeling gear and boogie boards. AquaWorld's main center is a marina located two km (1.25 miles) from the hotel on Nichupté Lagoon, where a myriad of watersports are available, including kayaking, sailing, and windsurfing. AquaWorld also books fishing trips and scuba diving and snorkeling excursions. Independent operators offer personal watercraft and parasailing at various points along the beach extending the length of Cancún Island.

The resort includes three lighted hardcourt tennis courts (surcharges). The 18-hole Hilton golf course is three km (1.75 miles) from the hotel, and the 18-hole Club de Golf Cancún is seven km (4.5 miles).

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


Golf - miniature nearby

Snorkeling nearby

Swimming on site

Scuba diving nearby

Water skiing nearby

Aerobics on site

Jet skiing nearby

Sailing nearby

Surfing/boogie boarding on site

Fishing nearby

Tennis on site

Golfing nearby

Pilates classes/instruction on site

Yoga classes/instruction on site

Parasailing nearby

Windsurfing nearby

Playground on site



Policies

In an attempt to provide the utmost in service, this hotel requests that guests submit the following information in the Special Requests box at the time of booking:

Estimated time of arrival in Cancun

All guest names

Ages of children

Bedding preference

Special occasions being celebrated

Repeat visitors

Extra person charges may apply depending on hotel policy.

Rollaways and cribs may be available and should be requested at the time of booking; fees may apply. Rollaway beds are not permitted in rooms with two double beds.

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

All special requests are subject to availability upon check-in.

Check-in time is 3 PM

Check-out time is Noon