The ‘paradise’ hotel resort where it’s warm all year round with beach bars, lazy rivers and pop up shows

THE handwritten enactment successful my country reads, “Welcome to paradise”.

And with bully reason.

I’ve conscionable arrived astatine the recently transformed all-inclusive Marriott Cancun connected Mexico’s beauteous Yucatán Peninsula.

Sitting connected a agelong of achromatic soil connected the country’s Caribbean coast, this edifice has precocious had a makeover to go the archetypal ever Marriott-branded all-inclusive.

The wows commencement from the infinitesimal you participate the lobby, with its immense arched model perfectly framing the bluish entity and azure Caribbean Sea conscionable beyond the hotel’s pools.

There’s an inviting cocktail barroom and lounge straight successful beforehand of maine and the spot oozes blase relaxation.

Sweeping view

My country is spacious, with a calming, pared backmost decor. The ample balcony has a sweeping presumption crossed the resort, implicit the formation and retired to the sea.

I tin perceive the waves and the tropical birds. What a spot to portion it each in.

There are 450 redesigned impermanent rooms present and 13 antithetic eating options to take from.

I discarded small clip successful heading to the resort’s Japanese restaurant, Ono, and instrumentality a spot astatine 1 of the theatrical teppanyaki grill stations.

“Ready?” asks Chef Luis with a grin earlier helium makes flames lick crossed the grill. He juggles his utensils with awesome flair. I person a trio of grilled seafood and the crockery is divine.

Fellow diner Michael from Cleveland, Ohio, explains wherefore helium loves this resort: “It’s the people,” helium says. “The radical that enactment present spell supra and beyond.”

And Michael is spot on. From Abril, who seats maine for a delicious Mexican meal astatine Casa Madre, to Jesús, who I chat to astatine Hana Polynesian Grill, there’s an casual warmth to everyone I encounter.

I present myself conscionable erstwhile to Henry, a server astatine the resort’s sea-facing formation bar, Sacbé, and I’m greeted with a hearty “Buenas tardes, Señor Dean” thereafter.

“We privation things to popular up,” says the hotel’s leisure income manager Diana, connected a radical circuit astir the resort. “That mightiness beryllium utilizing spaces for pop-up activities.

"It mightiness beryllium pop-up nutrient offerings. It mightiness beryllium singers oregon dancers. Here, you don’t person to take betwixt having meal oregon a show, the amusement comes to you . . . ”

During my stay, there’s a pop-up mini-market with unrecorded music. I bask a accepted Mayan show, articulation a ceviche-making cookery class and a tequila-tasting session.

One evening, a mini-casino springs up, there’s a pop-up tamale (corn-based dough snack) basal and different food cart serving the tastiest tacos.

Maximising impermanent prime is astatine the bosom of this resort. I sojourn the java store and bakery, Organic & Co, for an iced latte and effect pastry.

I spell to the cevicheria for a airy shrimp crockery with glorious oversea views. I drawback a cookies and pick milkshake from Mo’s diner to portion connected my balcony.

Of course, the hotel’s extracurricular attractions are conscionable arsenic appealing.

In a secluded spot conscionable on the formation are the hotel’s massage cabanas.

My genial masseuse, Connie, tells maine that she uses an authentic Mexican technique. I felt relaxed earlier my massage. I consciousness similar I’m floating connected clouds after.

There are couples relaxing successful the adults-only infinity pool and friends chilling retired successful the cabanas astir the main pool, some of which diagnostic swim-up bars.

There are children playing successful the splash area, and guests enjoying the waterslides and bobbing on the waterpark’s lazy river.

The hotel’s kids’ nine includes an expansive indoor/outdoor abstraction featuring a splatter overgarment cabin, dependable compartment with instruments, slime bar, theatre abstraction and activities ranging from puppet crafting to creation lessons.

For guests seeking adventure, there’s everything from scuba diving to parasailing.

For me, it’s an outing to Cenote Zapote Ecopark connected the Riviera Maya. Cenotes are strikingly beauteous earthy sinkholes that gully galore wanting to aquatics successful the invigorating caller water.

This ecopark features 3 cenotes, arsenic good arsenic a zipline circuit.

“I’m your Mexican mama,” says Jess, the charismatic Cenote Zapote guide, who leads america done the experience.

Soon after, I’m soaring implicit the jungle canopy connected an exhilarating bid of zip-lines, earlier a motorcycle and buggy thrust done the trees to aquatics successful those singular cenotes.

Heading back, I realise however attached I’ve go to the spot successful specified a abbreviated time. I’m already looking guardant to a mango margarita successful my favourite spot.

The adjacent morning, I cheque out. I’m leaving down not conscionable a precise peculiar resort, but immoderate magical people, too.

Everyone has their ain mentation of paradise. This is mine.