The All-Inclusive Dining Guide Is a Personal Project That Got Out of Hand

Hi — I'm Colin. I started this site because I couldn't find the information I needed before my own trips, and I got tired of piecing it together from outdated forum posts.

How This Started

I've taken my family — four kids — to all-inclusive resorts in Cancún and the Riviera Maya more times than I can count. Each trip involves the same frustrating research loop: which restaurants need reservations, what's the dress code, can we actually eat at the other hotels in the complex?

That last question is the one that drove me crazy. Resort complexes like Barceló Maya, Moon Palace, and the Palace Resorts group are built around multi-property networks where guests at one hotel can (sometimes) dine at restaurants across the whole complex. The access rules are real, consequential, and almost completely undocumented in one place. Resort websites bury them. Travel agents get them wrong. Forum threads contradict each other and go out of date.

I started building a personal spreadsheet to track it all. At some point the spreadsheet turned into this website.

What This Site Covers

All Inclusive Dining Guide is a structured database of restaurants, bars, and dining venues at all-inclusive resorts across Cancún, the Riviera Maya, Los Cabos, and Puerto Vallarta. As of 2026, the site covers:

Every resort entry includes a full restaurant listing with hours, dress codes, reservation requirements, cuisine type, insider tips, and — critically — a cross-property sister dining guide that maps exactly which guests can eat where. That sister dining information is the reason most people end up on this site.

How the Data Is Collected and Maintained

Resort data is gathered from official resort websites, direct traveler reports, and AI-assisted research tools — then reviewed and cross-referenced before publishing. Access policies, reservation rules, and dress codes are the most commonly wrong things you'll find on other sites; we pay particular attention to getting those right.

Every page includes a last-updated date. High-traffic resort pages are reviewed at least quarterly; individual restaurant pages are updated when we receive corrections from readers or identify discrepancies in new traveler reports. Menus rotate seasonally, and we flag that clearly rather than pretending our data is a live PDF menu.

That said: resort policies change without notice, especially around cross-property dining access. Always confirm time-sensitive details — particularly sister dining rules and reservation requirements — directly with your resort at check-in.

Transparency

This site contains affiliate links to booking platforms (Booking.com) and activity providers (GetYourGuide). If you book through one of those links, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. That revenue is what keeps the directory free, up to date, and without a paywall.

Affiliate relationships never influence which resorts are featured or how they're presented. Every resort appears in the directory because it's relevant to readers, not because of any commercial arrangement. See the full affiliate disclosure for details.