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The Sessions Royal Sands Guests Book Most

Guests here travel in numbers and stay long enough to relax into the trip. These are the three sessions we photograph most often for families staying at The Royal Sands.

Multi-Gen Family Trips

Three generations, one frame, ten minutes — we shoot the whole group first, while patience is still available, then break it down into grandparents, each couple, the cousins, the siblings. Everyone leaves with their own picture. Our family session guide covers how we plan around naps and mealtimes.

Groups of Friends

Twelve, eighteen, twenty-four people is routine for us, and the group package exists precisely for it: everybody gets the full set at the end, not a shared folder with four usable frames. See the group session guide for how we organise larger parties on the sand.

Anniversaries

Almost every reunion hides a couple celebrating thirty years, a delayed honeymoon, or parents who have never had one good photo of just the two of them. We add twenty minutes at the end, once the group has gone in for dinner. Our anniversary session guide shows what that looks like.

Where We Meet You: Km 13.5 and the Marlin Sand

The Royal Sands sits at Blvd. Kukulcán km 13.5, in the second stretch of the hotel zone, about 20–25 minutes by car from Cancun International Airport. We meet you at the public beach access by Playa Marlin, a few minutes’ walk away — and that short walk is the whole point when the group includes a stroller and somebody who would rather not go far. By resort policy and for everyone’s comfort the session happens on the public beach, and that is exactly what keeps the price where it is.

Playa Delfines and its lookout are 10–12 minutes by car if you want the postcard backdrop, and Playa Fórum about 8–10. For a group over ten we almost always recommend staying at Marlin: the shorter the walk, the more of your hour goes into photographs instead of logistics.

The Best Hour for a Group of Fifteen

Golden hour is warmer and easier to schedule, and it is what couples pick. For fifteen people, sunrise earns the alarm clock: the sand is genuinely empty, the light is soft from every direction, and no stranger walks through the background of the one frame where all fifteen are finally looking at the camera. Send us your dates and the headcount and we will tell you which slot to take.

Many families here come back the same week every year — and so do we. Tell us it is a returning session and we will match the framing to what you already have on the wall at home, so the years line up. You can see how we work on our Cancun photographer page, and our vacation photography guide covers the rest of the trip.