Royal Caribbean revealed what it has deliberate for its non-public vacation spot push that’s going to go properly past what any cruise line has ever dreamed.
Royal Caribbean is poised to open 4 totally different initiatives over the subsequent few years, every with its personal option to give vacationers precisely what they need: an idyllic day within the solar, surf, and shore.
The developments crisscross the Caribbean, and even lengthen to the Pacific. It is all a part of Royal Caribbean’s grasp plan to supply the perfect locations which might be second to none.
At an occasion in New York, the cruise line showcased what it has deliberate at every of its non-public seashores, together with opening dates and what we will count on.
Royal Seaside Membership at Paradise Island
- Opens: December 2025
- Capability: 4,000 visitors
- Paid, All-Inclusive
The primary of those new seashores to open would be the Royal Seaside Membership at Paradise Island, situated in Nassau, Bahamas.
Scheduled to open in December 2025, the Royal Seaside Membership at Paradise Island is an all-inclusive, seashore membership you may have to pay to entry.
It is like a brilliant shore tour that Royal Caribbean curates to cater to precisely what its passengers need: a high-end seashore day expertise with a deal with native authenticity and upscale facilities.
Royal Caribbean relied on in depth visitor analysis and suggestions to give you the expertise.
Friends shall be transported by way of custom-built water taxis that depart from the port space, with two arrival factors to make getting the place you need to go straightforward.
Royal Caribbean says “bookings change into accessible in only a few brief weeks.”
There are going to be three zones, every with a special method to get pleasure from your time.
Chill Seaside
You will discover each a pool and a seashore right here, and it is meant to be probably the most enjoyable space of the membership.
There’s a lengthy pool with a swim-up bar (actually, each pool has a swim up bar throughout the membership), and loads of house to get pleasure from quiet, ambient Caribbean music.
Occasion Cove
Occasion Cove goes to be the spot to go to if you would like a pool get together vibe.
You will discover the world’s largest swim-up bar, generally known as “the Floating Flamingo”. It incorporates a devoted DJ space, and VIP “get together wings.”
It is two tales with the DJ on the middle of it on the prime stage. There’s going to be built-in compressed air to raise the get together ambiance.
The get together wings permit visitors to really hire the complete wing on your group, just like the way you may hire a cabana elsewhere.
The pool is definitely damaged up into three areas, with the biggest swim up bar having over 100 seats.
Household Seaside
Catering to visitors with youngsters, Household Seaside may have a zero-entry pool and that is actually the main focus of this zone.
It is a lengthy and shallow pool for households to get pleasure from collectively, however there is a swim-up bar right here too.
That is additionally the place you may discover the debut of the first-ever land-based Final Household Cabana, which guarantees an over-the-top expertise for households.
It has equal entry to seashore and pool, and the cabana goes to have nearly every thing you’d need for a splurged up sort of day.
Your personal slide, eating space, lounge house, and extra.
Partnership with The Bahamas
The operation shall be run in partnership with Bahamian stakeholders (underneath a 51/49 three way partnership), making certain that the service and meals authentically replicate native tradition.
You will discover Bahamian artwork, structure, and locally-sourced meals seamlessly mixing into the visitor expertise.
A powerful emphasis is positioned on sustainability by means of initiatives equivalent to zero waste to landfill practices and superior wastewater recycling methods.
Excellent Day Mexico
- Opens September 2027
- Included, with a number of premium upgrades accessible
Royal Caribbean’s greatest land undertaking ever will open with Excellent Day Mexico.
It is situated in what’s now Costa Maya, Mexico. When Royal Caribbean is completed, the previous Costa Maya and area shall be uplifted and redeveloped with vital funding in the neighborhood and the facilities all through.
The cruise line purchased the port and surrounding land, and it should be an epic unique for Royal Caribbean passengers that builds upon the success they’ve had with Excellent Day at CocoCay in The Bahamas.
Admission is included in your cruise fare, however there are alternatives to spend on extras like cabanas, waterpark and excursions.
When passengers get off the ship, they’ve the selection of getting into Excellent Day Mexico or strolling to the close by Transportation and Vacationer Heart to select up a shore tour or different type of journey out.
The primary itineraries you possibly can e book that may function a go to to Excellent Day Mexico will change into accessible this fall.
There shall be 5 key zones to discover:
Fiesta Plaza
That is the place you may enter Excellent Day Mexico, and it is decked out in daring, colourful Mexican décor, and acts because the social hub and introduction to the vacation spot.
You will discover rapidly the world’s largest sombrero bar and vibrant street-style signage.
It is an engineering marvel, and began out as an thought to construct the world’s largest sombrero, however Royal Caribbean determined to show it right into a bar.
You may stroll into Excellent Day Mexico on foot, or decide to take one of many trajineras, that are colourful, flat-bottomed boats that you just’d discover within the canals of Mexico Metropolis.
The river that runs by means of the doorway helps set the scene, and Royal Caribbean thought providing boat rides can be a extremely enjoyable option to transfer individuals.
Chill Seaside
That is the first and fairly giant seashore space visitors that spans the shoreline. The whole space is nearly 2 miles in size.
That is the place you may go for a phenomenal and enjoyable seashore day, full with lounge-friendly areas with palm-lined shorelines.
Friends can get pleasure from complimentary loungers, umbrellas and towels in any respect seashores and swimming pools at Excellent Day Mexico.
Royal Caribbean will even supply cabanas to hire, together with ones which have little plunge swimming pools hooked up to them. There shall be land cabanas, water cabanas, and plunge cabanas.
Costa Seaside Membership (additional price)
Based mostly on the Coco Seaside Membership, this would be the upscale seashore membership expertise with elevated eating, unique swimming pools, and luxurious cabanas.
You will discover white sand seashores, a heated infinity pool, and devoted restaurant.
There are cabanas to hire right here as properly, which include a devoted pool.
El Hideaway (additional price)
The adults-only space is an inland pool zone with large get together swimming pools, swim-up bars, and DJ leisure.
Encompassing eight acres, it has a pool that’s going to be 50,000ft², whereas the Hideaway Seaside pool at this time is barely 17,000ft².
Both facet may have the “chill” zones, whereas the middle shall be all concerning the get together ambiance.
Enjoyable reality: will probably be residence to the world’s largest bottle of tequila!
You will discover right here the Occasion Cabana, which may deal with as much as 20 individuals. It has its personal devoted toilet, its personal bar, and it will have its personal bartender.
Splash Cove
A brand new idea, Splash Cove is 30 acres in measurement. It has a pool that could be a little over thrice greater than the Oasis Lagoon.
This whole neighborhood shall be included in your cruise fare.
Surrounding the pool would be the world’s longest lazy and loopy river.
The lazy river shall be between a forty five and 60 minute journey, but it surely has a number of stops alongside the way in which the place you possibly can tie up your raft at a bar to take a “break”.
There shall be three of those bars, generally known as “Tubes and Tequila”, and you may clip your tube to the bar for a cease.
There will even be the biggest Splashaway Bay for teenagers, together with extra seating than you’d discover on the CocoCay model.
Talking of younger youngsters, there shall be a bubble up exercise, which is describe as an expertise that inflates with water jets coming off of it, after which it deflates and children climb up it and fall down. It is a tremendous enjoyable younger child factor
Loco Waterpark (additional price)
Spanning 15 acres, it is thrice the scale of Thrill Waterpark, and may have 31 slides throughout 5 towers.
One huge theme is you may discover lots of raft slides, as they resonate probably the most with Royal Caribbean’s visitors. There’ll nonetheless be drop slides or physique slides, however many extra raft slides.
You will discover the tallest water park within the Americas, eclipsing the one in Brazil that is at 160ft.
There is a Jaguar head tower (170ft tall), together with Sombrero Tower (100ft tall), and the launch tower
The launch tower has hydro launches and drop slides. These are those that fly you thru the air after which drop you down.
Royal Caribbean has an thought to place a bar close to the launch tower so visitors can have a drink and watch individuals flying by means of the air and provides them rankings, like an Olympic competitors.
There is a wave pool that shall be about twice the scale of the one on CocoCay.
Eating in Excellent Day Mexico
Royal Caribbean may have 12 regionally impressed eating choices all through the resort. There shall be sit-down eating places, fast service entries, and nearly all of the meals shall be included in your cruise fare.
There are additionally 24 bars unfold throughout Excellent Day Mexico, together with six swim-up bars.
Royal Seaside Membership Cozumel
- Opens: December 2026
- Paid, All-Inclusive
The second seashore membership shall be in Cozumel, and its focus is providing visitors a day crammed with enjoyable centered across the pool, seashore, solar, meals and tradition.
It’s going to be situated the place Playa Mia seashore resort is at present, as Royal Caribbean will take it over. They’ve additionally acquired the properties on each side of Playa Mia.
The final day of Playa Mia’s operations is Could twentieth, after which building will start. Identical to Costa Maya, Royal Caribbean will demolish every thing that existed there earlier than to introduce their very own imaginative and prescient.
It is a couple of ten minute drive south from the place Royal Caribbean docks its ships.
There are 5 major areas: Important pool, North Seaside, The Mercato, South Village, and South Seaside.
Identical to the seashore membership in Nassau, Royal Caribbean needs it to supply three vibes: chill, household and get together. It is a work in progress as to how they’ll obtain it right here, however they’ve just a few concepts.
As you arrive, you may be surrounded by lush landscaping. As you stroll in, you may begin to see the vibrancy of Mexico with artwork and wonderful views forward of you.
There shall be a pool with a swim-up bar, together with a facet that is toes within the sand that stretches over to the seashore.
There will be in water music expertise, but it surely stays to be seen if it is a DJ or not.
On the Mercato, you may discover the central meals expertise. Royal Caribbean needs to supply a 50/50 mix of native impressed classics, in addition to American meals.
So you may discover tacos, recent guacamole, recent salsa, recent tortillas, margaritas, quesadilla, tortas and churros. However you may even have a rooster sandwich, burger, fries, and so forth.
Lelepa
- Opens: Early 2027
- Included
Situated in Vanuatu, Royal Caribbean has its first non-public vacation spot outdoors of North America with the Lelepa. This is not a seashore membership, however not a Excellent Day both. It is a totally different sort of product that does not match into the opposite locations mould.
It isn’t very removed from Port Vila, and Royal Caribbean has basically leased the complete northern a part of the island
Ships will tender right here, as there shall be no pier.
One key distinction is Lelepa may have no thrill issue. As an alternative, they’ve doubled down on the nippiness, which is described as “attractive.”
The group is taking the essence of the seashore membership product, however making it inclusive within the cruise fare.
There shall be numerous villages to interrupt up the format of Lelepa:
- Welcome Village
- Seaside villages
Once you arrive, you may see a neighborhood retail village and a welcome bar.
The non-public seashore flanks each side of the island, with a walkway in-between. Either side has seashores, eating places, sports activities actions, and playgrounds.
They’re additionally engaged on an adults-only space that does not price additional. It is basically a quieter, unmanaged space away from every thing else for adults.
One thing else being added are strolling trails all through the property, as a part of a curated nature path.
