It is official: One other Excellent Day is on the way in which.
Cruise large Royal Caribbean on Wednesday introduced it will construct a large personal seashore getaway in Mexico that might be much like Excellent Day at CocoCay, its extremely rated personal island within the Bahamas.
To be referred to as “Excellent Day Mexico,” the resort complicated will unfold throughout about 100 acres of land positioned proper the place ships dock on the port of Costa Maya, Mexico, Kara Wallace, Royal Caribbean’s chief advertising officer, instructed TPG in an unique interview.
Talking with TPG prematurely of the announcement, Wallace mentioned the brand new Excellent Day would open in 2027, seemingly “in direction of the again half” of the yr. It’s going to be open completely to prospects arriving on Royal Caribbean ships, she mentioned.
Excellent Day at CocoCay is “probably the most profitable port of name that we go to,” Wallace mentioned, citing visitor satisfaction rankings which are increased than some other port on the planet. “So we took that as inspiration to broaden the portfolio to Mexico.”
Like Excellent Day at CocoCay, Excellent Day Mexico will function each high-adrenaline points of interest and low-key areas for enjoyable — “thrill and chill,” as Royal Caribbean likes to name the 2 classes of resort choices.
Royal Caribbean did not supply many particulars about what vacationers would discover at Excellent Day Mexico apart from that it will embrace a water park, swimming pools and seashores, eating places, bars and music. However Wallace urged the complicated would wow prospects in the same method to Excellent Day at CocoCay.
“We’re recognized for our game-changing thrill and chill, giving our friends, irrespective of who they’re, what they need and what they might count on in an ideal day,” Wallace mentioned. “And meaning one thing … for everyone.”
Over the previous few years, Royal Caribbean Group has poured a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of {dollars} into overhauling and increasing Excellent Day at CocoCay, together with including a significant new adults-only zone referred to as “Hideaway Seashore” simply this yr.
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The revamping of Excellent Day at CocoCay (which till a couple of years in the past had a lot much less infrastructure and was simply generally known as CocoCay) additionally has included the addition of the most important water park within the Bahamas or Caribbean and the area’s largest freshwater pool.
The additions have turned Excellent Day at CocoCay into a large seashore and amusements escape for cruisers on a scale not seen anyplace else on the planet. With the addition of Hideaway Seashore this yr, it now has room for round 13,000 folks at a time. It is anticipated to attract about 3 million guests this yr — a brand new report.
Wallace instructed TPG that Royal Caribbean would use the prevailing docks on the port of Costa Maya when its ships arrive at Excellent Day Mexico.
Passengers arriving on the vacation spot would have the choice of staying throughout the Excellent Day Mexico compound or going off property on shore excursions throughout the area, she added — a notable distinction from the holiday expertise throughout calls at Excellent Day at CocoCay. On the latter vacation spot, which is an island wholly managed by Royal Caribbean, passengers by no means depart the environs of the resort complicated.
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As a part of the brand new growth, Royal Caribbean would construct a transportation hub for native shore excursions, Wallace mentioned.
Wallace additionally promised that the brand new Excellent Day would “convey within the native tradition, the vibrancy, the meals, the landscapes, the folks” of its location into the expertise discovered throughout the compound.
Whereas the land space that Royal Caribbean is growing as a part of the Excellent Day Mexico mission is about 100 acres, there may be one other 100 acres or so linked to the event space that the corporate will protect as wild habitat, Wallace added.
In a press release, the governor of Quintana Roo, the Mexican state the place the event can be positioned, praised Royal Caribbean’s growth plans.
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“We’re very excited that Royal Caribbean has determined to put money into Mahahual, a land of alternative and hard-working folks,” the governor, Mara Lezama, mentioned within the assertion, utilizing the identify of the village within the space. “My administration is trying ahead to working very carefully with the corporate to make sure a sustainable vacation spot that brings shared prosperity to the area and that our native communities are a part of this historic funding.”
Royal Caribbean has hinted that it will construct a brand new Excellent Day growth for a number of years, and Royal Caribbean followers have been eagerly awaiting an official announcement.
The event is only one of a number of that Royal Caribbean Group has within the works at seashore locations within the Bahamas and Caribbean which have been designed to supply its prospects extra locations to go to.
Others embrace Royal Seashore Membership Paradise Island, a personal seashore vacation spot opening within the Bahamas in 2025, and Royal Seashore Membership Cozumel, a lately introduced seashore getaway scheduled to debut in Cozumel, Mexico, in 2026.
Wallace mentioned Excellent Day Mexico would match into itineraries on cruises to the Western Caribbean with residence ports within the Gulf of Mexico, similar to these alongside the west coast of Florida and in Texas.
Based on Wallace, itineraries for 2027 that embrace Excellent Day Mexico are anticipated to go on sale beginning subsequent spring. That is additionally when extra particulars concerning the growth can be introduced, she added.
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