Spain-based Meliá Hotels International is launching a new leisure and entertainment-based resort brand called Falcon’s Resorts by Meliá. The new brand is in partnership with entertainment company Falcon’s Beyond. The Florida-based company owns or operates theme parks, resorts, attractions, patented technologies, and film and television content. Falcon's Beyond has won design awards and provided design services in 27 countries, "turning imagined worlds into reality."
The two companies intend to develop properties within entertainment destinations in prime leisure markets worldwide under the banner Falcon’s Resorts by Meliá, which will offer a “resortainment” hospitality experience, a release by the companies says. The concept marries premium resort amenities with entertainment experiences. The resorts will provide direct access to "vibrant and curated" dining, shopping, and entertainment venues as part of a larger destination experience.
The first of these new resorts, Falcon’s Resort by Meliá | All Suites Punta Cana, will be a multi-phase transformation of two existing Meliá properties in the Dominican Republic: Paradisus Grand Cana and The Reserve at Paradisus Palma Real.
Phase one, expected to open in DEC 2022 and begin accepting reservations in OCT this year, will be an all-inclusive resort with multiple high-end bars and restaurants, pools, swim-up suites, a water park and a kids’ camp. Through the re-brand, the Paradisus Grand Cana resort's amenities and experiences across the property will be upgraded, and will integrate what the companies call "a unique interactive platform" they'll announce soon. Phase two will see the completion of the re-brand of The Reserve at Paradisus Palma Real in 2023.
Falcon’s Resort by Meliá | All Suites Punta Cana will be one of three components of a new, multi-faceted $350 million entertainment destination. Falcon’s Beyond Destination | Punta Cana will be the first Falcon’s BeyondDestination to debut. The overall destination will also feature Katmandu Park | Punta Cana, a new theme park expected to open by late 2022 or early 2023, and Falcon’s Central | Punta Cana, a retail, dining and entertainment district currently in development.
Katmandu Park will feature new ride technologies, interactive storytelling and mega-park-level attractions. Falcon’s Central will connect guests with world-renowned brands through curated location-based entertainment venues, experiences, amenities, content, restaurants, shopping and 'retailtainment.' Both Katmandu Park and Falcon’s Central will be accessible to guests of Meliá’s area resorts and hotels, comprising 1,825 rooms, as well as to guests of hotels in Punta Cana’s Bavaro region — an additional 42,000 rooms — and to over 43,000 local residents within a 30-minute drive.
Meliá and Falcon’s intend to develop multiple Falcon’s Beyond Destination locations worldwide, including sites in Tenerife, Canary Islands (scheduled to open in 2024), Playa Del Carmen, Mexico (scheduled to open in 2025) and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, with an opening date TBD.
To learn more, visit Meliá Hotels International and Falcon's Beyond.
