Costa Mujeres will reach 11,600 hotel rooms in 2025, a 16 percent jump driven by new luxury resorts just north of Cancún.
Costa Mujeres will close 2025 with 11,600 hotel rooms, according to the local hotel association. That is a jump from about 10,000 rooms at the end of 2024, an increase of roughly 16 percent in a single year. The expansion is anchored by the new Majestic Mirage Costa Mujeres resort, which is entering a pre-opening phase in December 2025 before its full inauguration in early 2026, adding 605 suites to the strip.
The figures confirm what hoteliers have been signaling for months. Costa Mujeres, located on the mainland side of the Isla Mujeres municipality just north of Cancún, has shifted from “up-and-coming” to one of the most dynamic corners of the Mexican Caribbean. The corridor sits about 20 minutes by road from central Cancún and offers direct views across the water to Isla Mujeres, which remains a major day-trip draw for visitors staying on the coast.
Hotel leaders say about 1,600 new rooms came online in 2025 through three large openings, pushing the destination to the 11,600-room mark. The jump builds on a strong 2024, when the zone finished the year with around 10,000 keys and some of the highest annual occupancy levels in Quintana Roo. Even in traditional low season, Costa Mujeres has kept occupancy between 70 and 75 percent, showing steady demand for a quieter alternative to Cancún’s original hotel zone.
The Costa Mujeres hotel growth story is not happening in isolation. In late 2024, hoteliers were already projecting an additional 2,000 rooms entering operation during the first months of 2025 and more projects breaking ground through 2026. Those expectations are now visible in the skyline, with cranes and new towers extending along the coast between Puerto Juárez, Playa Mujeres and the northern edge of the Costa Mujeres strip.
One of the most closely watched additions is the Majestic Mirage Costa Mujeres. Industry reports describe the oceanfront property as an all-suite resort divided between an adults-only club section and a family section, with large rooms and butler-style services aimed at the higher end of the all-inclusive market. Its phased opening explains why authorities count its 605 rooms in the 2025 totals even though the full inauguration is planned for early 2026.
Another key piece of the new capacity is Ocean Allure Costa Mujeres, a five-star adults-only resort under the H10/Ocean Hotels brand. The property, scheduled to open in December 2025, brings 599 rooms to a beachfront site in the heart of Costa Mujeres. The resort’s own information highlights an all-inclusive model with multiple pools, themed restaurants and a spa, reinforcing the area’s focus on upscale, all-inclusive stays aimed at couples and friends.
Earlier in the year, the opening of Excellence Coral Playa Mujeres, with 470 rooms on nearby Playa Mujeres, also underlined how fast this northern corridor is filling in. State officials have framed that investment as part of a broader bet on luxury all-inclusive properties that create year-round jobs and higher average rates compared with older parts of Cancún.
New road link and long-term room plans
Behind the hotel boom is a major infrastructure push. In April 2025, work began on a 2.7 billion peso roadway project to connect López Portillo Avenue in Cancún directly with the mainland hotel area of Isla Mujeres, including Playa Mujeres and Costa Mujeres. The 25.4-kilometer corridor is designed as a tourist boulevard with expanded lanes, sidewalks and lighting, cutting travel times between downtown Cancún and the new resorts and easing pressure on existing coastal roads.
Tourism officials argue that better road connections should help spread visitors along the coast and relieve congestion in Cancún’s original hotel zone. At the same time, they say the new boulevard must pass environmental scrutiny, especially in the stretches that cross mangroves and sensitive coastal areas. Technical studies and impact reviews are underway to adjust the design where needed so the road can be built without severe ecological damage.
Local hotel leaders are already looking beyond the current building wave. The Costa Mujeres Hotel Association now projects that the corridor could approach 20,000 rooms over the next decade if all planned projects move ahead. Earlier estimates for the wider municipality of Isla Mujeres, which includes both the island and the mainland, have been even more ambitious, suggesting the broader destination could reach the mid-20,000s in room inventory by 2030.
Those figures echo the broader growth path of Quintana Roo’s tourism industry. State officials have stressed that new development on the mainland north of Cancún is part of an effort to diversify the offer while keeping the region competitive with other Caribbean destinations. High occupancy and robust winter bookings in Costa Mujeres suggest that demand is there, especially among travelers who want a more insulated, resort-centered stay.
The pace of construction also raises familiar questions for residents and workers. Local leaders often speak about the need to match hotel growth with adequate public services, housing and transport for staff who commute from Cancún and nearby towns. There is also a growing conversation about how to protect dunes and beaches that shield the coastline from storms, with hoteliers in Costa Mujeres publicly insisting that long-term success depends on respecting those natural barriers.
For now, the numbers tell a clear story. In just a few years, Costa Mujeres has gone from a quiet stretch of sand north of Cancún to a corridor with more than eleven thousand rooms and some of the highest occupancy levels in the state. With 11,600 rooms in 2025 and more projects already rising from the sand, the challenge for the next decade will be keeping that growth orderly, resilient and sustainable for the people who live and work there.
