Paradise Village Beach Resort and Spa

Lit by candles, aromatically scented, and graced by flute music, a 1,858m (20,000-sq-ft) health-and-beauty spa offers facials, body scrubs and wraps, Vichy showers, and bath therapies such as Mayan-milk and hydromassage. Massage options include raindrop aromatherapy, shiatsu, hot rock, and Reiki. A twin-bed room allows couples' massage. Massage is also available in an air-conditioned building on the beach with one-way, ocean-view windows. The spa's beauty salon offers hair and nail care, waxing, foot therapies, and scalp massage (surcharge for all spa services).

The spa's café serves healthful juices and foods; contains an expansive, air-conditioned fitness center equipped with cardio and weight machines as well as free weights; and provides Pilates, yoga, flex-ball, tai chi, chi-kung, tonatiuh, jazzercise, stretching, meditation, and aerobics classes. Personal training and computerized body analyses are also offered (surcharges). The resort's shopping mall also has a fitness center, which offers spinning classes (surcharges).

Located 138m (150 yds) from the Paradise Village Beach Resort and Spa's main entrance, the resort's air-conditioned shopping mall contains a supermarket and some 100 shops, boutiques, art galleries, and restaurants. Included are Internet centers, an electronic-games center, and a sports restaurant/bar that plays recorded music nightly for dancing.

A three-section zoo (one section at the golf course) includes Bengal tigers, jaguars, a mountain lion, monkeys, deer, a crocodile, badgers, a lynx, and birds such as owls, macaws, and toucans. Ostriches and peacocks roam freely around the grounds. Complimentary open-air animal shows are offered.

For surcharges, children age 4-11 enjoy half-day, full-day, and per-hour supervised activities in a large, air-conditioned clubhouse with an outdoor playground. (Playground equipment is also available on the beach.) Evening sessions with meals are offered twice weekly. Some evenings feature piñata parties. Complimentary adult activities include pool aerobics, bocce and Ping-Pong tournaments, and beach volleyball. Beach vendors selling clothing, jewelry, and crafts are confined to a large thatched-roof palapa. Ceramics painting is available at a poolside stand (surcharges).

A doctor maintains office hours at the hotel during the day and is on call 24 hours. Catholic Mass and non-denominational Protestant services are conducted Sunday mornings in the shopping mall or at the hotel. The beach resort purifies its water.

• Marina on site 
• Children's pool 
• Steam room 
• Full-service spa 
• Spa treatment room(s) 
• Spa tub 
• Health club 
• Babysitting or childcare (surcharge) 
• Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge) 
• Nightclub 
• Meeting rooms 7 
• Conference space 

• Total number of rooms - 490 
• 24-hour front desk 
• Porter/bellhop 
• Express check-out 
• Multilingual staff 
• Number of floors - 8 
• Hair salon 
• ATM/banking 
• Gift shops or newsstand 
• Shopping on site 
• Laundry facilities 
• Arcade/game room 
• Barbecue grill(s) 
• Elevator/lift 
• Golf course on site 
• Tennis on site 
• Number of bars/lounges - 2 
• Number of poolside bars - 2 
• Breakfast available (surcharge) 
• Wedding services 
• Coffee shop or café 
• Concierge services 
• Number of outdoor pools - 3 
• Picnic area 
• Luggage storage 
• Number of restaurants - 2 
• Free self parking 
• Free WiFi 

• Outdoor pools  
• Children's pool  
• Free Wi-Fi  
• Kitchen  
• Laundry facilities  
• Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)  
• In-room childcare (surcharge)  
• Arcade/game room  
• Playground on site  
• Refrigerator  

• Microwave  
• Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)  

• Premium TV channels 
• Patio 
• Separate sitting area 
• Room service (24 hours) 
• Blackout drapes/curtains 
• Air conditioning 
• Ceiling fan 
• In-room climate control (air conditioning) 
• Kitchen 
• Refrigerator 
• Coffee/tea maker 
• Microwave 

• Cookware, dishware, and utensils 
• Daily housekeeping 
• Free toiletries 
• Hair dryer 
• In-room childcare (surcharge) 
• Iron/ironing board 
• In-room safe 
• Free WiFi 
• Free cribs/infant beds 
• Rollaway/extra beds (free) 

Faro de Tulum - Beachside restaurant with air-conditioned, glass-wall dining room and open-air terrace seating. Breakfast buffet. Lunch/dinner menu featuring Mexican specialties, steak, fish. Saturday-night Italian buffet with live music. Sunday-night fajita buffet with live music. Sunday champagne brunch with live music.

Kaybal Seafood Grill - Open-air beachfront restaurant and bar. Fast foods, tropical drinks for lunch. Dinner menu featuring seafood, steak, grilled lobster, rack of lamb. Live music nightly.

Mayapan Garden Restaurant - Beachside restaurant with air-conditioned, glass-front dining room, open-air terrace seating. Dinner only. Pasta, steaks, seafood, lamb chops. Tuesday-night barbecue buffet. Wednesday-night Country Western buffet with live music.

Il Pescatore - Oil-lamp-lit open-air terrace and air-conditioned dining room overlooking marina yacht moorage. Italian menu with antipasti, pasta, grilled main courses such as seafood platter for two, beef fillet with green-pepper sauce, lobster.

Kikil Grill and Beach Club - Open-air beachfront bar serving fast foods, tropical drinks.

Palenque Natural Health Bar - Sandwiches, salads, smoothies, juices in the health-and-beauty spa.

Casa Club Restaurant & Bar - International cuisine in the golf course clubhouse for lunch, dinner. Sunday champagne brunch.

Xcaret Nightclub - Air-conditioned spot offering drinks and entertainment four nights weekly, including karaoke, casino games, and flamenco-guitar show with buffet Friday nights (surcharge).

Tikal Café - Air-conditioned spot in main-tower lobby with window walls overlooking pool. Coffee, espresso drinks, pastries, ice cream.

Tikal Bar - Bar in main-tower lobby open for tropical drinks, cocktails.

Other eating options at the hotel include a Monday night, poolside Mexican Fiesta buffet with a folkloric show, a trick roper, and a mariachi band; a beachfront gelato stand; and a shave-ice cart at the larger beachfront pool.

Paradise Plaza, the resort's air-conditioned shopping mall located 138m (150 yds) from the hotel's main entrance, includes Brazilian, Italian, and Mexican restaurants; a pancake house; coffee, gelato, health food, and cookie shops; a delicatessen selling takeout food; and a supermarket.

Room Service - Available 24 hours.

The beach resort provides complimentary use of kayaks and boogie boards. Play on two lighted tennis courts is complimentary during the day, with surcharges for night play. Other recreational facilities include bocce and shuffleboard courts.

A dive center offers scuba-diving lessons and arranges dive trips (surcharges). From the resort's 200-slip marina, an African Queen-style steamboat offers bird-watching trips (surcharge) along inland canals running through Nuevo Vallarta. Whale-watching tours (surcharge) are available during humpbacks' winter migration. ATV, hiking, bicycling, and horse riding excursions are also available (surcharges).

Complimentary shuttles transport guests to the resort's El Tigre golf course 2 km (1.5 mi) away. Designed by Robert Von Hagge, the 18-hole championship layout features lakes, a stream, and target greens. (Resort guests pay discounted greens fees.) Part of the Paradise Village Golf and Country Club, the course begins at a 4,199m (45,200-sq-ft) clubhouse containing a golf shop and restaurant/lounge.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.

• Windsurfing nearby 
• Kayaking nearby 
• Sailing nearby 
• Scuba diving nearby 
• Water skiing nearby 
• Hiking/biking trails nearby 
• Mountain biking nearby 
• Scooter/moped rentals nearby 
• Fitness classes on site 
• Bicycle rentals on site 
• Fishing on site 
• Golf driving range on site 

• Golfing on site 
• Motor boating on site 
• Parasailing on site 
• Pilates classes on site 
• Playground on site 
• Snorkeling on site 
• Surfing/boogie boarding on site 
• Volleyball on site 
• Yoga classes/instruction on site 

• Hot stone massage 
• Deep tissue massage 
• Swedish massage 
• Steam room in spa 
• Reflexology 
• Manicures and pedicures 
• Body wraps 
• Body scrubs 
• Aromatherapy treatments 
• Hydrotherapy treatments 
• Sauna in spa 
• Spa tub in spa 

• Massages 
• Body treatments 
• Facial treatments 

To make special requests for accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.

• Accessible bathroom 
• Roll-in shower 
• In-room accessibility 

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.