Mexico's Velas Resorts has unveiled a new picnic option for travelers attending their outdoor excursions.
At Grand Velas Riviera Maya, the Picnic in Paradise includes a bottle of red or white wine, four varieties of salads with house-made dressings, smoked salmon, French cheeses and charcuterie, fresh baked baguettes, and a selection of fresh roasted turkey breast, roast beef and duck terrine. Dessert options vary based on daily creations. The Picnic in Paradise offering is included complimentary in the resort's nightly rate at Grand Velas Riviera Maya.
At Casa Velas, guests can choose from three themed picnic offerings: wellness, English and vegan. The wellness basket includes dried and fresh fruit, nuts, a flaxseed bread sandwich with mozzarella cheese and cherry tomato with avocado, oil, salmon rolls with goat cheese, pesto tuna tartar with pine nuts, and mini lychee tarts. The English Picnic is more traditional a selection of cheeses and charcuterie; homemade baguettes; fried Chilean sea bass; caviar; salmon and tuna tartar; fruit; and blackberry Clafoutis. A vegan basket features cabbage-wrapped vegetables, fruit, endives with chickpea mousse, lentils with pineapple, strawberry sushi, beets, cilantro, beans, orange tapioca pudding, and apricot rice pudding. Accompanied by music (a live trumpeter with the Wellness Picnic), a bottle of Dom Perignon or Moet & Chandon Champagne, sparkling and still water, and fresh juice, picnics at Casa Velas range from $280-$400.
Guests of both resorts can preorder their Picnic in Paradise baskets 48 hours in advance of their outdoor excursions.