PRIVATE CHILDCARE IN THE RIVIERA MAYA
Professional childcare, thoughtfully provided.
Trusted private childcare for travelling and resident families, grounded in Early Childhood Education and thoughtfully tailored to each child, family, and care environment.
Trusted, professional childcare gives parents the confidence to enjoy their time away, knowing their children are receiving developmentally appropriate care tailored to their individual needs.
Peace of Mind for Traveling Families.
Qualified Early Childhood Educator
Professional knowledge of child development, routines, and play-based learning supports thoughtful, age-appropriate care tailored to each child.
Private Childcare Services
Professional childcare provided in hotels, villas, vacation rentals, and private residences, allowing care to fit naturally into your family’s stay.
Play-Based Learning
Meaningful activities encourage creativity, exploration, confidence, and age-appropriate development through play.
Serving the Riviera Maya and More
Available throughout Tulum, Playa del Carmen, Mayakoba, Cancún, Playa Mujeres, Puerto Morelos, Akumal, Tankah Bay, Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, Holbox, Bacalar, Mérida and Progreso — with worldwide care available by request.
OUR APPROACH
Care begins with understanding the child.
Every child brings their own routines, interests, temperament, comfort needs,
and way of experiencing the world.
Our approach is responsive and child-led, allowing care to adapt naturally to each child
while supporting their sense of security, confidence, exploration, and play.
Natural to the child and reassuring to the family.
Private Childcare Services
Professional, ECE-led private childcare for travelling and resident families throughout the Riviera Maya. Care is provided in hotels, villas, vacation rentals, and private residences, with each booking thoughtfully tailored to your child’s age, routines, comfort needs, and family preferences.
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Professional childcare in your home or private residence, allowing children to remain in a familiar environment while parents work, attend appointments, enjoy personal time, or need additional support.
Care can follow your child’s established routines, including meals, naps, play, bedtime, and other family preferences. Depending on your child’s age and interests, care may also include thoughtfully selected play-based learning experiences, creative activities, outdoor play, and support with schoolwork or homework.
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Private childcare provided directly in your hotel, resort, villa, or vacation rental, giving parents the freedom to enjoy dinners, excursions, celebrations, spa appointments, or time together while their children remain in trusted, professional care.
Care is thoughtfully adapted to your child’s routines, comfort level, age, and interests while also giving them the opportunity to enjoy their new surroundings. Depending on the child, property, and family preferences, care may include play-based activities, outdoor exploration, walks around the property, time at appropriate resort or villa amenities, creative experiences, meals, rest, and familiar routines.
This allows children to experience and enjoy their time away too, with individualized attention from a professional caregiver who prioritizes their safety, comfort, and needs.
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Professional overnight childcare for families who need trusted support during nighttime hours. Your caregiver remains with your child throughout the scheduled care period, supporting their usual nighttime routine and responding to feeding, waking, settling, comfort, and other age-appropriate care needs.
Overnight care is available from newborn onward, with care thoughtfully adapted to your child’s age, routines, and individual needs.
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Professional childcare can be arranged for weddings, retreats, private events, community gatherings, and other occasions where families would benefit from dedicated childcare support.
Care may take place at the event itself or, where more appropriate, in a nearby hotel, villa, private residence, or designated childcare space. The arrangement is thoughtfully planned around the venue, schedule, number and ages of children, family preferences, and the nature of the event.
Depending on the setting, care may include individual family care or coordinated care for multiple children, with age-appropriate play and activities incorporated where suitable. Caregiver-to-child ratios, the ages and needs of the children, and the safety and suitability of the environment are considered when determining the appropriate care arrangement.
A little more support for your family’s stay.
FAMILY STAY SUPPORT
Optional services designed to make the practical parts of traveling with children a little easier.
Private transportation arranged for MLP families, including airport transfers and transportation during your stay.
MLP Private Transportation
MLP Stay Stocked
Pre-arrival grocery and family essentials provisioning, so your accommodation can be ready before you arrive.
Professional childcare,
Clearly and simply priced
RATES & PRICING
Every booking is thoughtfully tailored to your child, family, schedule and care environment.
PRIVATE CHILDCARE
Standard Private Childcare
550 MXN / hour
3-hour minimum. Includes 1–2 children
Available for bookings up to 9 hours in one day.
Multi-Day Care
500 MXN / hour
For qualifying 3 or more day bookings
with the required reserved hours.
Extended Hours
685 MXN / hour
Applies to care beyond 9 hours
within the same day.
Professional overnight childcare in your hotel, villa, or private residence, tailored to your child’s age and care needs.
OVERNIGHT CARE
Newborn and Young Infant
750 MXN / hour
Birth - 6 months
Infant and Toddler
650 MXN / hour
6 months - 2.5 years
Standard Overnight
600 MXN / hour
Over 2.5 years
Overnight care window · 12:00 AM–6:00 AM
GOOD TO KNOW
CARE & CHILDREN
Standard private childcare includes 1–2 children.
Additional children
+150 MXN / hour per child
RESERVATIONS & PAYMENT
50% reservation deposit
to secure your booking.
Remaining balance due
48 hours before care begins.
READY TO PLAN YOUR CARE?
Tell us a little about your family and care needs,
and we’ll help you plan the right care arrangement.
Qualified. Experienced. Trusted.
Founded by a qualified Early Childhood Educator, Mega Little Palms combines professional childcare with years of hands-on experience supporting children across a range of ages, routines, and family environments.
Families visiting Tulum and the Riviera Maya choose Mega Little Palms for professional, trustworthy childcare in homes, villas, hotels, and vacation rentals.
About Mega Little Palms
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Mega Little Palms began with a simple idea: families should be able to travel with the same confidence they feel when they have a childcare professional they already know and trust.
The idea first came from a family Megan cared for in Canada who wished she could travel with them and continue providing care while they were away. It highlighted something that many travelling parents experience: finding someone they feel confident leaving their children with, especially somewhere unfamiliar, isn’t always easy.
That idea grew into Mega Little Palms: professional, ECE-led private childcare designed to give families someone they can trust, communicate easily with, and feel confident welcoming into their family’s time away.
What began with one family’s wish has grown into something with a larger purpose: raising the standard of professional private childcare for traveling families.
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The quality of care is found in the details.
Mega Little Palms prioritizes each child’s safety, comfort, routines, communication style, interests, and stage of development.
Clear communication with parents, respect for family preferences, religious beliefs and practices, developmentally appropriate experiences, and a professional standard of care remain central from the initial booking through the completion of care.
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Professional knowledge and hands-on experience shape the care behind Mega Little Palms.
Mega Little Palms was founded by Megan Girault, a qualified Early Childhood Educator with a Bachelor of Arts and a diploma in Early Childhood Education from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University).
Megan’s experience includes supporting children across a range of ages and developmental stages in educational settings, private family homes, hotels, villas, and vacation residences. Her approach draws on professional knowledge of child development together with hands-on experience providing responsive, child-led care.
Her background includes:
• Early Childhood Education qualifications and professional knowledge of child development
• Experience supporting infants, toddlers, and school-age children across multiple developmental stages
• Experience in both educational and private family settings
• Play-based, child-led practice supporting learning, confidence, and social-emotional development
• Private childcare experience with travelling families throughout the Riviera MayaMegan’s experience in the Riviera Maya includes providing private childcare for families staying in established hotels, residential communities, villas, and resorts, including La Zebra SLH Hotel in Tulum, La Privada in Aldea Zama, Tulum, and Mayakoba in Playa del Carmen.
Mega Little Palms is also a recommended childcare provider for homeowners and guests at Nativa Tulum, supporting families staying within the private residential community.
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Families deserve to feel confident in who is caring for their children, especially when they are away from home.
Mega Little Palms combines the individualized experience of private childcare with the professional knowledge and intentionality of Early Childhood Education.
Care is thoughtfully planned around the individual child and family, with attention given to routines, preferences, communication, comfort, and the details that help children feel secure in an unfamiliar environment.
Whether care takes place in a hotel, villa, vacation rental, or private residence, the purpose remains the same: children receive thoughtful, professional care while parents have the confidence to enjoy their time away.
Professional private childcare throughout the Riviera Maya and select destinations across the Yucatán Peninsula, with worldwide care available by request.