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Best All-Inclusive Resorts 2012

All-Inclusive Resorts: Viceroy Riviera Maya, Mexico, on beachfront

Viceroy, Riviera Maya, Mexico This is one of the most natural all-inclusives we've ever encountered. It sits within a preserve on the Riviera Maya. Swinging beds overlook the sea, waterfalls are tucked into lush overgrowth, and seven miles of pearly sand invite early-morning exploration. | Debbie Snow

By By Islands Staff May 8, 2013

Our top picks for the best all-inclusive Caribbean resorts in 2012 targeted all types of travel: Super indulgent, family, nonstop activities. These are experiences that left lasting impressions.

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All-Inclusive Resorts: Viceroy Riviera Maya, Mexico, for a Mayan blessing — **Viceroy, Riviera Maya, Mexico**
Resident shaman Joe Colli waves a smoldering wand of copal incense and delivers his blessing: "Ah yum hunab ku evam maya ema ho" (Let the peace of nature and the cosmos be with you). | Debbie Snow

All-Inclusive Resorts: Club Med Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Caribbean — **Club Med Punta Cana, Dominican Republic**
Go big or go home. That's the impression you get as you stroll the sprawling grounds of Club Med Punta Cana. | Zach Stovall

All-Inclusive Resorts: Club Med Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Pool — **Club Med Punta Cana, Dominican Republic**
Candy-colored low-rises reside next to a palm-studded white-sand beach. There's a swimming pool so large that it has its own island. | Zach Stovall

All-Inclusive Resorts: The Caves, Jamaica — **The Caves, Jamaica**
The Caves is named for the immense grottoes that open up below the cliffs atop which it's perched. There's no beach here, but there is some of the world's most astonishing water. It's warm, transparent and bristling with fishes of all sorts. | Zach Stovall

All-Inclusive Resorts: The Caves, Jamaica, cottage — **The Caves, Jamaica**
Moonshadow is our pad for the week. It's a wooden cottage with a cute kitchenette, outdoor shower and a balcony off the upstairs bedroom with an epic view of the Caribbean. It's one of only a dozen one- and two-bedroom cottages at this all-inclusive hotel. | Zach Stovall

All-Inclusive Resorts: Palm Island, Grenadines — **Palm Island, Grenadine Islands**
Among the quiet Grenadines Islands sits this: your own sun-drenched island. Like most islands in this part of the Caribbean, it's fringed with talcum-soft sand and swaying palms. But Palm Island is like no other island in the entire region. | Zach Stovall

All-Inclusive Resorts: Palm Island, Grenadines, coconut — **Palm Island, Grenadine Islands**
So what do you do on a private Caribbean island? Casual hikes. Bike rides through the coconut grove. Snorkeling. And sipping tropical drinks to the sound of waves brushing the beach. | Zach Stovall

Best All-Inclusive Resorts 2012

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