All-Inclusive: 10 nights at Margaritaville Beach Resort, Riviera Maya, Mexico

Pools are what this place does best. As well as a big main pool, there’s a peaceful one that’s fringed by sunbeds. You can also plump for a swim-up suite* that opens directly onto one of the river-like pools that wind around the hotel grounds. The hotel’s right on the beach, where plush daybeds are dotted along the sand.

4 outdoor pools
There are four pools to choose from, two of them are beachfront and one has its own swim-up bar.

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There are four gourmet restaurants for you to choose from, including a Mexican restaurant, a beachfront eatery, an Italian number and a Latin fusion place. Six bars are spread around the grounds. You’ll find a swim-up option in one of the pools, while the adults-only watering hole’s by the beach. There’s also a rum lounge and a smoothie bar.

Frank & Lola’s Italian Trattoria
Opening Times: [17.30-21.30]
Chefs prepare authentic Italian cuisine in an open kitchen at this elegant à la carte restaurant. The menu ticks off antipasti, soups, fresh house-made pasta, risotto, gourmet pizzas and mains from the grill. Theres an extensive wine list to accompany your meal.

The Beach House
Opening Times: [06.30-21.30]
The Beach House is an open-air Caribbean and international restaurant with a casual atmosphere. At breakfast there’s everything from huevos rancheros to eggs benedict. Lunchtimes tick off Mexican specials and super-food salads, plus pizzas, pastas and paninis.

Latino à la carte restaurant
Opening Times: [18.00-22.00]
This Fusion restaurant combines Latin flavours and Asian spices with fresh and locally sourced ingredients.

License to chill bar
Opening Times: [10.00-17.00]
This adults-only bar is located on the beach and has a wet feet pool to enjoy while sipping on your favourite cocktail. In the evenings, the firepits are lit and there’s live evening entertainment.

Rita’s Taco House
Opening Times: [12.00-17.00]
This is a beachfront lunch venue with views of the sea and a laid-back menu of salads, ceviche, tacos and burritos.

S.O.S swim-up bar
Opening Times: [10.00-17.00]
Laid-back luxury is the theme at this thatched-roof bar, where you can enjoy premium-label drinks and cocktails on chair beds suspended from the ceiling. It looks out on to the sea and it’s connected to the activity pool, so it also has in-water loungers.

Compass
Opening Times: [17.00-24.00]
This Caribbean Rum lounge offers sugar cane-inspired drinks and a wide variety of Caribbean rums and rum-based concoctions.

A la carte dining
All four of the restaurants in this hotel are à la carte.

Blended
Opening Times: [07.00-12.00]
Head to Blended for your health fix, this wellness and smoothie bar offers super food bowls, vegan options, fresh fruit and smoothies.

5 o’clock somewhere bar
Opening Times: [10.00-23.00]
Located just a few steps from the beach, this is the go-to place for poolside cocktails, a cold beer or world-famous Margaritaville margaritas. And there’s live music, too.

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Entertainment-wise, beach parties, mariachi fiestas and karaoke evenings are all on the agenda. Live music’s on offer after dark in a few of the bars, too. Youngsters are completely spoilt, with a hotel-run kids’ club that’s filled to the rafters with the latest toys and games consoles.

Live music
If you want to enjoy some live music performances, these can be found everyday at the Five o’clock Somewhere bar and weekly at the License to Chill bar or Rita’s Taco House.

Parakeet Kids’ club
Opening Times: [09.00-17.00, 19.30-21.00]
This hotel-run kids’ club has a daily schedule of activities suitable for 4 to 12-year-olds. The jam-packed schedule includes arts and crafts, decorating cookies, face painting, video games, plus singing and dancing. Under 4s are welcome if accompanied by an adult.

Karaoke

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The 8,000-square-metre spa’s got everything you need for a head-to-toe pampering session, including hydrotherapy pool, a herb-scented steam room and a globe-trotting treatment menu*. The fitness centre, meanwhile, is fitted with a selection of cardio and strength-training machines. Alternatively, you can book an al fresco yoga class.

St. Somewhere spa*
Opening Times: [08.00-20.00]
This retreat features a luxury treatment list and beauty salon, plus a hydrotherapy area. In the spa there’s also a herbal steam room, dry sauna and chromotherapy shower.

Beauty salon and body treatments*
Manicures, pedicures and waxing can be booked in the beauty salon. Make-up application, including the option for eyelash extensions, is also available. You can go for body treatments too, these include scrubs and wraps enriched with the likes of mango and papaya or chocolate and coffee.

Hair salon*
Appointments can be made for cuts, blow dries, styling, extensions, and braids in the hair salon.

Fins up! Fitness centre
You can start your day with an outdoor morning yoga session, or choose from a variety of classes to stay on top of your fitness goals.

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You can fill your days with everything from cocktail-making classes to Latin dance sessions. Over in the pools, you can give scuba diving and snorkelling a go. Down at the beach, paddle-boarding, kayaking and volleyball top the to-do list.

Daytime activity programme
The daytime activity programme includes cooking classes or Latin dance classes, plus cocktail making for the grown ups. Over at the beach, there’s volleyball and football.

Scuba lessons*
Introductory scuba diving lessons are held in the pool to give you a taster of what to expect on a day out. When you’re ready, you can book with the PADI approved scuba diving school. There’s also snorkelling for those who don’t fancy gearing up.

Kayaks
Just so you know, you’ll need to pay a $5 conservation tax to snorkel.

Aqua aerobics

Stand-Up Paddle Boarding
Just so you know, you’ll need to pay a $5 conservation tax to paddle board.

Boccia
Beach Volleyball
Football on the beach
Darts
Snorkelling
Just so you know, you’ll need to pay a $5 conservation tax to snorkel.

Items marked with * incur extra charges which are payable locally