travel42 Hotel Review: Royal Hideaway Playacar

Royal Hideaway Playacar travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

On 5 hectares near the Allegro, a mile south of Playa del Carmen in the Playacar development, this adults-only property is not as glitzy or modern as some of the newer resorts on the Riviera Maya, but it makes a valiant effort to provide something akin to luxury, albeit in updated colonial-inspired garb.

This is one of Barcelo's more restrained resorts here and around the globe, sharing a gracious European style—Spanish, mostly—that this chain honed on the Cos...