Brides who want to be a duchess for a day and marry like royalty can buy out the 29-suite Esencia estate, originally created as a duchess' private home, with the "Takeover Wedding" package.
Take over Esencia's 29 suites for 58 family members from $26,940 per day through Dec. 20, 2008, or $464 per person. The "Takeover Wedding" includes daily breakfast, welcome fruit and wine for each suite, a $100 per person daily credit toward food and beverage, a $100 per room daily credit toward spa services, taxes and service fees. Additional people are charged at $150 per day for adults, and $75 per day for children, and a three-day minimum applies.
For reservations, please call 1-877-528-3490 or visit
http://www.hotelesencia.com.
Options include the services of an Esencia wedding planner who coordinates the ceremony and reception and pre- and post-ceremony activities, including yachting trips around the Caribbean Sea, trips to the Tulum ruins, gourmet Mexican cooking classes, organized tournaments on the beach, and more.
Esencia was transformed into an elegant estate for guests in 2005 by ProHotel International, which also operates the celebrated La Pleta Hotel and Spa in the Spanish Pyrenees and the Casanova Hotel in Barcelona, Spain. Esencia, located on Playa Xpu-Ha on a two mile stretch of fine white-sand beach 46 miles south of Cancun, is the essence of simplicity, elegance and beauty. Its spacious suites and guestrooms include a range of features from private gardens to solariums and deep-soaking plunge pools.
Sal y Fuego (Spanish for "salt and fire") specializes in Meso-American cuisine. The menu showcases the freshest local seafood as well as dishes from the rest of Mexico. The restaurant's ambience combines Mexican flair and rustic simplicity, with its palapa roof and view of a cenote, an illuminated underground fresh water pool.
Esencia's Aroma Spa, fully organic from its architecture to its products, harvests its own lush herb garden for indigenous fruits, plants and herbs. The 2,500 square foot palapa-roofed spa offers five treatment rooms, four Jacuzzis and two Mayan-style domed steam rooms.
