When Royal Caribbean opens its new beach club in Mexico, it looks like it will offer a full day of fun.
In March 2024, Royal Caribbean announced plans to build a beach club in Cozumel, Mexico exclusively for the use of its cruise ship passengers.
It will open sometime in 2026, and be the second beach club operated in a popular cruise port by Royal Caribbean. The first will be in Nassau, Bahamas.
When the cruise line announced Royal Beach Club Cozumel, there wasn't much detail provided. However, a new sneak peek gives us a glimpse of what Royal Caribbean is envisioning.
Royal Caribbean's Senior Vice President and Chief Product Innovation Officer Jay Schneider shared new concept art in a webinar with travel agents on Wednesday.
He called this, "real fun, high level directional renders of potentially where we may go," and warned, "these are not anywhere near final."
Water and views
The idea behind all of Royal Caribbean's beach clubs is to combine great views, with great access to water.
"If you think of the DNA of our beach clubs, high volume ports where we go," Mr. Schneider explained. It's designed to have, "great beach, great pool, great food, great service."
Admission into the beach club will include access to swim-up bars, pools cabanas to rent, snorkeling, kayaking, restaurants, and street markets.
Unlike the cruise line's private island in The Bahamas, it's not meant to be for every single passenger on the ship. Rather, it's an optional extra-cost choice for passengers, in addition to the other shore excursions and activities found around Cozumel.
More to reveal in the future
Royal Caribbean has not yet announced where the new beach club will located in Cozumel, nor other details about what the club entails.
Other questions include pricing, and a full list of features.
With the Cozumel beach club the second in line, the primary focus of the cruise line's attention will be the opening of the Paradise Island Beach Club first. Moreover, they may look for lessons learned from the first club to tweak the Cozumel club.
More details on Bahamas Beach Club
Mr. Schneider also went over details of what passengers can expect when the Royal Beach Club Paradise Island opens in 2025, including a few leaked details.
He wouldn't commit to a date, and danced around the exact opening.
The beach club will offer 17 acres of beach, pools, and scenery, "The views off the north shore of Paradise Island are nothing but stunning."
There will be three pools, and the club will incorporate a zone concept for the layout: a family zone, a party zone, and a chill zone. Mr. Schneider was quick to point out those will not be the names, just directional design concepts to follow.
Every every zone has a swim up bar, "we're leaning into really great music, great drinks, great water, great views."
Mr. Schneider also included a slide that he claimed wasn't supposed to be there, that has an idea his team is working through.
"We're dreaming of possibly an ultimate family cabana," he said. The concept was to follow in the footsteps of having the Ultimate Family Suite and Ultimate Family Townhouse, which are over-the-top suites that pack in just about everything a family might want in a cruise ship cabin.
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