Mayakoba
In the Mayan language, Maya Koba translates to “village on the water.” Here, you’ll quickly learn it stands for so much more. Our vision consists of more than just one idea, one theme or one resort. Instead, our landscape is brought to life through a collection of the world’s finest boutique hotels, each with its own host of hospitality, culinary and spa experiences, and all set in the Riviera Maya region of Mexico. Comprised of five luxury hotels, Mayakoba promises a full collage of culture and activity for residents living here and for guests on vacation. Viceroy is pleased to join fellow tastemakers and trendsetters Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, and Banyan Tree. In fact, the only name missing is yours.
The comprehensive resort destination features:
• 15 restaurants
• 5 world class spas
• Over 7,000-yard PGA champtionship designed golf course
• Tennis facility
• Cenotes to explore
Let the Water Guide You
Freshwater canals meander through Mangrove jungles, creating aquatic pathways to every corner of the resort and placing nature's most exotic offering within arm's length. All who navigate these enchanting waterways and lagoons will be enraptured as they ferry from Mayakoba's inland reaches to the beach club, restaurant, spa or the Greg Norman designed El Camaleón championship golf course.
The choices are plentiful. Mayakoba is a confluence of luxury on 1,600 flourishing acres. Each hotel and resort has a personality that complements the others, and presents each resident and guest with an unexpected palette of choices and amenities.
A Unique Approach
If this were a typical Caribbean undertaking, it could have easily resulted in yet another wall of high-rise hotels. In keeping with their vision to make this land be something “sensational and singular,” OHL had to ask what could be done with 240 square hectares of mangrove forest and jungle that had a relatively short coastline of 1.6 kilometers? The old way, as seen at Cancun, would have been to build a wall of 22-storey hotels on the beach. But our developers saw something different in Mayakoba: An opportunity to let the land "be what it wants."
This prompted a team of leading engineers, architects, biologists, hydrologists and marketers to camp on the site for weeks, exploring, brainstorming and dreaming. Their thinking was brilliant. Open the jungle. Provide access to the coast by way of iconic beach clubs. And use all of the luxuriant landscape, rather than a mere ribbon of beachfront.
One question remained. How would people explore their surroundings? The answer was underneath their feet. By carefully sculpting a series of channels and liberating the pristine waters already beneath the surface, a tapestry of canals and lagoons would be created that residents and guests could use to travel from residence to hotel to spa to beach via small boats. The result is Maykobá, and a resort unlike any other place on earth.