From Susan Breslow Sardone,
Your Guide to Honeymoons / Romantic Travel.
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Couples heading for the Riviera Maya have a wide choice of hotels. These hotels range from small, informal places with fewer than a dozen rooms to luxurious all-inclusive hotels with every amenity one could desire.

Larger Adults-Only Riviera Maya Hotels

What all the following Riviera Maya hotels have in common is this: The hotels are restricted to adults age 18 and over.

Holding more guest rooms than boutique hotels and offering greater services and facilities, some of these adults-only Riviera Maya hotels are all inclusives. Other hotels are clothing-optional, as noted:

• Maroma Resort - Orient-Express hotel voted no. 1 beach in the world by the Travel Channel and named to Condé Nast's Gold List multiple times
• Royal Hideaway Playacar - Beachfront all-inclusive AAA Four-Diamond hotel
• El Dorado Maroma - intimate all-inclusive Riviera hotel with 15 spa treatments for couples
• El Dorado Royale - Riviera Maya all-inclusive with casitas that front a winding river
• El Dorado Seaside Suites - 133-unit all-inclusive hotel
• Hidden Beach Resort - Clothing optional Riviera Maya hotel
• Mosquito Blue Hotel - Design matters at this hotel in a private orchard setting
• Aventura Spa Palace - 85-acre luxury all-inclusive hotel
• Ceiba del Mar - Riviera Maya spa resort hotel
• Desire Resort & Spa - Hedonistic hideaway hotel with nude beach
• Paraiso de la Bonita Resort - Riviera Maya spa resort that belongs to Great Hotels of the World Group
• Secrets Excellence Riviera Cancun - Luxury all-suite, all-inclusive Riviera Maya hotel
• Secrets Capri Riviera Cancun - Luxury all-suite, all-inclusive Riviera Maya hotel.

Small Riviera Maya Hotels

Young couples and those on a budget visiting Riviera Maya — as well as those who prefer simpler lodgings — may appreciate a laid-back vacation at the following small hotels:

• Azulik - Beachside villas; hotel's for adults only
• Acanto - Seven private Riviera Maya villas
• Cabañas Copal Hotel Tulum - Rustic, candlelit eco-hotel with 47 jungle cabanas inland from the Riviera Maya
• Hotel Deseo - Fifteen rooms

Uncommon Riviera Maya Hotels

• Iberostar Playa Paraiso Hotels - Cluster of four luxurious all-inclusive Riviera Maya hotels
• Freedom Paradise Resort - Riviera Maya's only hotels for plus-size people recently changed names. Large-size couples are still welcome but the resort is no longer exclusively for them.

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