More About All-inclusive Resort Brands: A Quick Overview
Here's a quick overview of the most popular all-inclusive resorts, by brand, ranging from the moderate to the most luxurious. With so many choices, contact a travel expert who can help arrange the all-inclusive vacation that's right for you. We also offer convenient travel packages that include your all-inclusive resort stay, your airline tickets and transfers.
ALMOND RESORTS
Caribbean focused, Almond has several resorts in Barbados and St. Lucia, with complimentary shuttle service and visiting privileges among the Barbados resorts. Guests can arrange a two-island visit staying a few days on each. Almond Resorts is family friendly.
AM RESORTS
This Mexico-focused chain operates three brands:
Secrets Resorts & Spas: Focus is couples and romance, with more upscale gourmet restaurants and spas (treatments are extra).
Dreams Resorts: For everyone, family friendly, and more of a budget option.
Zoetry Wellness & Spa Resorts: Aimed at luxury travelers and exclusive.
BARCELO HOTELS & RESORTS
A Spanish-owned company, Barcelo is a well-known Latin brand, with strong presence in popular resorts areas such as Latin America, the Caribbean and Central America. The resorts are family friendly.
CLUB MED
We’re not sure where the all-inclusive vacation first began, but probably French-owned, family-oriented Club Med fit into that history somewhere early on. Over the years, Club Med has reinvented itself, and has become a more upscale product than it ever was. While it has "villages" all over the world, the most popular are in the Caribbean and Mexico.
GRAND VELAS
A newer luxury all-inclusive brand with properties in Nuevo Vallarta and Riviera Maya, which is an all-suite property spread across 86 acres and featuring a 76,000 square-foot spa.
IBEROSTAR
Another Spanish-based operation, with resorts in Mexico, the Caribbean (Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Punta Cana) and Brazil, and which has a luxury adults-only line under the Grand Collection brand.
OCCIDENTAL HOTEL & RESORTS
Occidental operates three all-inclusive brands, with resorts in Caribbean, Mexico and Costa Rica:
Royal Hideaway: For couples (adults only) in search of luxurious indulgences and pampering.
Grand:For everyone and family friendly, in the mid-range category.
Allegro: For price conscious families
PALACE RESORTS
One of the larger all-inclusive brands, with a dozen resorts, mostly in Mexico and a couple in the Caribbean. In Mexico Palace Resorts is frequently named among the best hotel chains. Palace Resorts vary in terms of their appeal, with some more adults-oriented, and others more family-friendly. A concierge level being added. Guests enjoy privat balcony, a double Jacuzzi, complimentary minibar, deluxe linens, 24-hour room service and WiFi. Reciprocal signing privileges available between the resorts.
REAL RESORTS
A Mexico-based operation, targeting price-conscious travelers, though offering some all-suite luxury resorts catering to couples.
RIU
Another Spanish-based company, Riu has hotels and resorts in 16 countries, including fourteen in Mexico and nearly as many in the Caribbean. The Riu Classic brand is geared to budget style, while the Riu Palace resorts are more upscale.
SANDALS & BEACHES
One of the more popular brands, based exclusively in the Caribbean:
Sandals: For couples, and popular with honeymooners.
Beaches: For everyone, with a strong family focus (A Sesame Street sponsor), and one of the more upscale all-inclusives for families.
Sandals & Beaches offers a variety of accommodation options.
SOL MELIA
A vast Spanish hotel group with properties in 27 countries, Sol Melia features these brands:
Gran Melia: the most luxurious (and part of the Leading Hotels of the World)
Paradisus: upscale all-inclusives that offer a concierge option, and family as well as adults areas.
ME: cutting edge design and cuisine focused.
Melia: mid-range to price-conscious, family-friendly resorts.
SUPERCLUBS
Gast growing SuperClubs now offers three prime brand categories: Grand Lido, its luxury brand, Breezes and Hedonism, catering to those looking for toga parties, nude beaches and wet T-shirt contests.
