travel42 Hotel Review: Fairmont Mayakoba

Fairmont Mayakoba travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

About an hour south of Cancun, in the heart of the Riviera Maya, the upscale Fairmont Mayakoba was the first hotel in the gated Mayakoba luxury resort development and it continues to prove a centerpiece of the complex, even if outclassed by the regal little Rosewood Mayakoba.

Despite its scale, Fairmont receives plenty of kudos from environmental groups for its sustainability programs. Mangroves that were displaced from construction areas were replanted elsewh...