Deluxe Ocean View Room - These rooms' small balconies, furnished with two wrought-iron chairs and a table, provide full views of the multi-colored Caribbean. They offer one king bed or two double beds and accommodate a maximum of four guests.

Caribbean Suite - These suites include a living room with a couch and a four-chair dining set, a wet bar, and two television sets. Twice the size of normal rooms, their balconies also supply panoramic views of the sea. They offer one king bed and accommodate a maximum of four guests.

Cafe Salsa - This multi-level restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with both a sumptuous buffet and à la carte selections available in the morning. Mexican regional food is featured at lunch and dinner, except for Wednesdays and Sundays, when a prime rib/lobster buffet is laid out.

Beachwalk Market & Pantry - Serving the sunbathers on the beach and around the pool, this beachwear shop and restaurant serves light lunches. Indoor seating and terrace seating are available.

Gourmet Deli - This spot has takeout foods, espresso drinks, pastries, and gelato available at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Lobby Bar - Espresso, brandy, cigars, and tropical drinks are the features here, in a gracious setting of plush seating and floral carpets.

The hotel also contains a deli/espresso/gelato shop. On ocean beach

Amenity highlights: The two-story spa offers 35,000 square feet of lavish pampering, including an indoor Euro-pool unique in Cancún. Located in a two-story, air-conditioned room filled with light provided by floor-to-ceiling windows, the pool has a 25-yard side for swimming laps and jets on a shorter side for swimming against the current. Adjacent is a 25-square-foot spa.

Mostly marble, hushed, and scented by incense, the spa features men's and women's sections, each supplied with side-by-side hot and cold spas, saunas, steam rooms, Vichy showers, and "living rooms" with magazines, plants, and upholstered couches and chairs. For various massages and body and facial treatments there are 16 quiet rooms and supplies of Mayan herbs and other natural materials to rejuvenate and refresh. The spa also includes an enormous, state-of-the-art fitness center; an aerobics/workout room; a beauty salon; a boutique; and a juice bar offering many choices and complimentary cucumber water.

Arrayed along the resort's front above the beach are a main pool complex, a 20-foot-wide spa, and a second, two-level pool secluded on the hotel tower's south side. A long, sinuous affair, the main pool complex includes two spas, a toddler's wading area, and a children's pool. Its infinity edge overlooks the Caribbean. Multi-level sundecks are furnished with plush, padded lounge chairs and umbrellas.