Cancún and Riviera Maya Close 2026 With a Wave of Hotel Openings

Cancún, Quintana Roo — The Mexican Caribbean enters the year-end high season with 1,487 hotels and 140,966 rooms, and is set to close 2026 with one of its busiest stretches of hotel openings in recent years, according to the latest report from Quintana Roo’s Tourism Information System (SITUR Q).

At least five properties are scheduled to open between November and December, with national and international chains adding hundreds of rooms across Cancún, Puerto Cancún and the Riviera Maya corridor.

The November–December openings

• Grand Hyatt Cancún Beach Resort — Hyatt initially announced a Nov. 17 opening and later pushed the date to December. The 500-room property, including 46 suites, sits at Kilometer 1.5 in Puerto Cancún and represents a $100 million investment.
• Park Hyatt Riviera Maya — Confirmed by Hyatt Hotels Corporation for Dec. 3. The 148-room hotel will be the first all-inclusive Park Hyatt in the world, located in the private AMAI enclave between Cancún and Puerto Morelos.
• Casa Nizuc — Set to open Dec. 8 and mark the debut of Marriott’s Tribute Portfolio at the southern end of the Cancún Hotel Zone, in a 24-story tower within Aldea Nizuc.

Properties that opened earlier in 2026

• The St. Regis Costa Mujeres — Opened June 29 with a ribbon-cutting attended by federal Tourism Department officials. The property offers 213 keys across rooms, suites and residences, and does not operate as all-inclusive.
• Kimpton Tres Ríos Riviera Maya — Opened Sept. 22 as the first Kimpton all-inclusive in the world, with 355 rooms at Kilometer 54.5 on the Cancún-Tulum highway, inside the Tres Ríos park.
• Amàre Cancún Adults Only All-Inclusive — Opened Oct. 31 with 429 suites at Playa Langosta, Kilometer 4.5 of Kukulcán. It is the first Curio Collection by Hilton property in Cancún and the first hotel the Spanish group has opened outside Spain.

More rooms coming in 2027

The pipeline extends into the new year. Grand Fiesta Americana Riviera Cancún is scheduled to open in early 2027 with 600 rooms, 83 suites, 16 restaurants, eight bars and nine pools, making it the largest property the Mexican chain has built in the destination.

Hotel groups point to the pace of openings as evidence of continued confidence in Cancún and the Riviera Maya as investment targets heading into the 2027 season.