VIDEO: Go Behind the Scenes at a Luxury Caribbean Hotel

By: - June 19th, 2015

Above: the Grand Residences Riviera Cancun

It’s not something you ever get to see: how a Caribbean hotel really works.

Caribbean Journal Travel Editor Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon got an inside look at the Grand Residences Riviera Cancun, one of the Caribbean’s leading luxury resorts, with help from Director of Rooms

Watch the latest CJ video below.

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