The Real World: Cancun is the twenty-second season of MTV’s reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras document their lives and interpersonal relationships. Cancun, Mexico was first announced as the location for the season on Jan 26, 2009. This will be the fourth season of the series to be set outside the United States, after The Real World: London, The Real World: Paris, and The Real World: Sydney. Series co-creator Jonathan Murray explained the choice of Cancun, saying, “Cancun is a good one to do after Brooklyn, which was a more gritty environment.”

Primary production completed in April and was not affected by the swine flu outbreak in Mexico. Executive Producer Jim Johnston said, “We had stopped production before this thing reared its ugly head.” The season premiered June 24, 2009.

Bunim-Murray Productions also shot an unscripted 2003 movie called The Real Cancun, although it was unrelated to the series. Mexico also served as the season vacation spot for the cast of The Real World: Los Angeles and Cancun in particular served as the vacation spot for the cast of The Real World: Hollywood.

Almost every season of The Real World, beginning with its fifth season, has included the assignment of a season-long group job or task to the housemates, continued participation in which has been mandatory to remain part of the cast since the Back to New York season. The Cancun cast was assigned to work with the spring break resource site StudentCity.com to serve as guides for visiting college students, helping to, as Jonathan Murray puts it, “give people a safe and fun vacation.”

The cast stayed at the Cancun resort, ME Cancun,[6] at Boulevard Kukulkan, km. 12 in Cancun, Mexico. The resort is located in the hotel zone between the Beach Palace and Park Royal Piramides resorts. Fifteen hotel rooms were converted into the cast’s suite: eleven on the second floor, and four rooms on the third floor. Production Designer Chuck Aubrey used the hotel’s signature furnishings to decorate the suite, along with the vivid colors that are typically used by the Real World production to adorn the residences. The suite, like all of the resort’s other 418 rooms, features an ocean and sunset lagoon view. The suite is currently available to the public under the name SuiteMe.

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