Sunrise at Le Blanc Spa Resort — Photo courtesy of Le Blanc Spa Resort

Each year, the AAA Five Diamond Award is given to hotels and restaurants that display exemplary levels of service and quality. The Five Diamond Award is the highest honor that AAA can bestow.

When the 2012 winners were announced, three luxury resorts in Cancun, and one in Puerto Morelos, came out on top. The prestigious AAA Five Diamond Award was given to The Ritz-Carlton Cancun, Le Blanc Spa Resort, and JW Marriott Cancun Resort & Spa (all located in Cancun), and the Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita resort in Puerto Morelos. These upscale properties are no strangers to the illustrious award, each having won the top prize in the past.

The Ritz-Carlton Cancun fared especially well because two of the hotel's gourmet restaurants, Fantino and The Club Grill, also received AAA Five Diamond Awards. Those three awards mean that The Ritz is Cancun's only resort to earn 15 diamonds this year. This is the seventeenth consecutive year that The Ritz-Carlton Cancun has earned a AAA Five Diamond resort rating. 

Le Basilic, an outstanding restaurant in the Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Cancun Resort and Spa, also received the distinguished AAA Five Diamond Award.   

If you enjoy the finer things in life and want to be sure you book a top-notch hotel for your next Cancun vacation, make reservations at The Ritz-Carlton Cancun, Le Blanc Spa Resort, JW Marriott Cancun Resort & Spa, or Zoetry Paraiso de la Bonita.