This Is Your Next Caribbean Swim-Up Suite

By: - March 16th, 2016

In winter destinations, it’s about ski-in, ski-out. In the Caribbean, it’s all about swim-in, swim-out.

Increasingly, hotels are responding to consumer demand for swim-up suites, rooms that extend directly into swimming pools.

And the newest on the scene are the swim-up suites at the Hyatt Ziva Cancun all inclusive.

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In total the hotel has 25 swim-up suites; eight in the hotel’s adults-only premium tower, which have a semi-private infinity pool.

But it’s the family-friendly Pyramid Tower that has the real show-stoppers: swim-up suites that also have ocean views.

In all, there are 17 swim-up rooms, right on the sea.

Talk about the best of both worlds.

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