TRIBE Car­ni­val and Machel Mon­tano’s Melé Des­ti­na­tions, a 5-day, 4-night all-in­clu­sive get­away to Can­cun, Mex­i­co, is back in 2023.

Af­ter a suc­cess­ful in­au­gur­al edi­tion in April 2022, or­gan­is­ers say more than 50 per cent of the rooms at the lux­u­ri­ous Moon Palace Re­sort have al­ready been booked by avid Car­ni­val lovers look­ing for­ward to the Melé se­quel card­ed for Sep­tem­ber 7th to 11th, 2023.

A first-of its kind des­ti­na­tion week­end get­away, Melé Des­ti­na­tions fea­tured fetes, day & night, Carib Beer, An­gos­tu­ra White Oak Rum, Dou­bles, bot­tom­less pre­mi­um drinks, un­lim­it­ed food, a cast of the Caribbean’s finest artistes and DJ’s, plus an all-day Car­ni­val pa­rade by TRIBE Car­ni­val. Ac­cord­ing to those in at­ten­dance, the very first Melé was “noth­ing short of EPIC”.

The well-known mas gi­ant and so­ca leg­end duo who col­lab­o­rat­ed to cre­ate the sig­na­ture ex­pe­ri­ence can­not wait to re­turn and take over Mex­i­co for round 2.

Melé Can­cun 2022 fea­tured de­signs by pop­u­lar TRIBE de­sign­ers Solange Govia & Shawn Dhan­raj and marked TRIBE’s first time pro­duc­ing cos­tumes and its renowned mas­quer­ad­er road ex­pe­ri­ence since T&T Car­ni­val 2020. It al­so marked the very first per­for­mance by Machel Mon­tano and band since the 2020 Car­ni­val sea­son.

The pro­claimed King of So­ca kicked off his cel­e­bra­tion of 40 years in the So­ca in­dus­try at the start-stud­ded event back in April. On the first night, Mon­tano ser­e­nad­ed ador­ing fans, singing hits from the first 20 years of his ca­reer in So­ca.

Over the course of Melé, artistes in­clud­ing De­stra Gar­cia, Bee­nie Man, Patrice Roberts, Voice, Lyrikal, Ker­win DuBois, Prob­lem Child, Skin­ny Fab­u­lous, Farmer Nap­py and Viking Ding Dong graced the stage, many per­form­ing their col­lab hits with the So­ca leg­end. On the fi­nal night, at the grand fi­nale con­cert, Mon­tano per­formed his lat­est (20 years of) hits, clos­ing with a glo­ri­ous fire­works dis­play.

CEO of the TRIBE Group of Com­pa­nies, Dean Ackin ex­pressed his grat­i­tude to all Melé guests who be­lieved in both brands and their abil­i­ty to de­liv­er an event con­cept that was new to both Machel and TRIBE; one which takes Trinidad and To­ba­go’s mu­sic, cul­ture and cos­tume pa­rade over­seas for the first time.

“TRIBE’s mis­sion has al­ways been to show­case T&T Cul­ture to as many peo­ple as we can reach – those who al­ready love Car­ni­val, and those who are yet to par­tic­i­pate in it” he stat­ed.

Ackin be­lieves that through Melé, TRIBE can at­tract new vis­i­tors to T&T from across the globe who, af­ter ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the taste of T&T that Melé pro­vides, will “re­turn to our shores to ex­pe­ri­ence the re­al thing – the glo­ry of the Great­est Show on Earth.”

The next edi­tion of Melé was in­tend­ed to be a Cruise in April 2024, but the team, who con­sid­ers feed­back from par­tic­i­pants and hope­fuls alike as their main de­ci­sion-mak­ing tool, took the de­ci­sion to step away from sail­ing as many still do not feel safe cruis­ing in large num­bers. As such, Melé will head back to its on-land Can­cun oa­sis in 2023, big­ger and bet­ter than in 2022.