This exclusive beach hotel is located between Playa del Carmen and Tulum. The location is Mexican style, amidst tropical vegetation and directly on a beautiful long sandy beach with turquoise blue sea. The Hacienda Dona Isabell village belongs to the complex and offers many entertainment facilities. Links to the public transport system can be found nearby. From here, guests are able to take the bus to Playa del Carmen. In the immediate vicinity, a diverse range of shopping facilities, numerous restaurants, cafes, bars in plenty, nightclubs, pubs and extensive entertainment venues are available. Tulum is around 20 minutes away by car and the Maya temple, a further 20 minutes away. Playa del Carmen is around 35 minutes from the hotel and Cancun airport 90 minutes.
This modern hotel comprises various 3-floor buildings, spread out behind the beach with around 852 double rooms. The hotel offers its guests a foyer with a 24-hour reception desk. A variety of shops, a hairdresser's salon, 5 different bars and 2 speciality restaurants (1 Mexican and 1 Mediterranean) as well as an air-conditioned main restaurant (buffet style). A nightclub is located at the entrance to the complex, in the entertainment area. The Hacienda area includes its own reception, as well as a public Internet terminal, a washing service, a bicycle hire service (at an extra charge) as well as a car park and a garage. The hotel also owns its own charming garden, where guests are invited to while away the hours.
The Gran Bahia Prncipe Tulum Resort is formed by two 5 stars hotels with a total of 1,440 rooms, the commercial and entertainment center "Hacienda Doa Isabel" and the best variety of services in the Caribbean. Designed by the prestigious Mexican architect, Fernando Quirarte, and inspired by the Puuc Mayan architectural period, the Gran Baha Prncipe Tulum Hotel welcomes its guests with all of Mexican's characteristic warmth. Materials such as stone, talavera pottery, marble, large palapas, hardwoods and an exquisite colour combination make the hotel a cool and harmonious place that is easy to discover and enjoy. The project was carried out following patterns of sustained tourism in order to make the best use of all the area's resources. The kilometre-long beach is completely natural, and large, manicured gardens will make your strolls around the complex all the more enjoyable. Modern energy-saving and water-processing systems, among others, illustrate the hotel's concern for the environment. Thanks to its situation, its project and its facilities and services, the Hotel Baha Principe Akumal is known in the Riviera Maya as an excelent hotel of five stars. The resort follows patterns of sustained tourism. Walking through the property you can admire the wonderful tropical vegetation, nice gardens and protected areas where ecology and architecure combine perfectly. You will enjoy a wide, varied gastronomic offer in the five restaurants in the hotel: the Main Restaurant with an international buffet three restaurants with Italian specialities, International Gourmet and fish and an American style snack bar with fast food 24/24. You can also quench your thirst or try our special cocktails in the six bars around the different areas of the hotel: three on the beach, one inside the swimming pool, one in the amphitheatre or entertainment room and a lobby bar. You also have the Bars and Restaurants in different styles of the Hacienda Doa Isabel (extra charge). Suitable dress is required for access to the main restaurant and diners may not wear swinsuits. Long trousers are also required in the themed restaurants. You'll be able to enjoy the following sports: kayaking windsurfing catamarans diving and scuba (free demonstration in the swimming-pool and courses for advanced divers) bikes for use within the hotel's confines 3 (floodlit) tennis courts golf on two courses in the surrounding area football basketball volleyball aerobics riding, etc.And if that's not enough for you, you can always follow our programmes of daytime and evening entertainment for adults and children, with the participation of our entertainment team.*****Hurricane Policy for Bahia Principe Clubs & Resorts******If a storm has been declared a Hurricane Category 1 or higher the following policies and procedures will apply: (This is NOT applicable to Tropical Storms)If the guest feels the need to leave only within the time period mentioned above KIPPIN (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) will issue a hotel credit for travel up to the end of the year for the number of unused nights. I the guests are stranded due to flight cancellations or airport closures, a distressed rate of 50 will apply. If arriving guests are unable to arrive due to the flight cancellations one of the following will be offered: 1.Guest may arrive arrive after the storm passes for the same number of nights without an increase in the nightly rate, (always subject to availability) 2.If the resort is damaged and remains closed for an extended period of time, guests may elect to stay at one of the other Bahia Principe Resorts at the same rate and in a comparable category.3. KIPPIN (mentioned above) will authorize a full (hotel only)creditfor travel up to one year and will guarantee the original rate (and category, if available) regardless of travel dates, expect for the following the blackout dates. (Dec 20, 2008 through Jan 2, 2009 January 15, through March 15, 2009 December 20, 2009 through January 2, 2010 and January 15 through March 15, 2010. 4.If KIPPIN authorize that all arriving guests are to reschedule until after the storm has passed the hotel will offer a full credit voucher for travel up to one year, exceptions to the black out dates mentioned above. 5. Arriving guests who decide not to follow or accept these procedures, will do so with the implicit understanding that no compensation will be forthcoming for any disruption on services and/or inclusions which may occur as a result of the storm.