Cirque du Soleil Theme Park Coming Soon to Vallarta: Watch the Video Cirque Spotlight
August 22, 2015

Cirque du Soleil y Vidanta (Destinos Exclusivos)

Coming soon to Puerto Vallarta from the imagination of Cirque du Soleil and the vision of Vidanta comes the world's next groundbreaking destination resort: Celebrate Project is an entertainment destination unlike any other in the world.

Envisioned by Grupo Vidanta and Cirque du Soleil, the new park at Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta will be an experience that will create an entirely new entertainment category.

Visitors will be immersed in a new and magical realm full of surreal structures, strange characters, spectacular rides, and unexpected experiences. The park will feature three in-park resort hotels, each themed, as well as a full Cirque du Soleil show and water park experience.

Daniel Lamarre: For 30 years the mission of Cirque du Soleil has been to evoke the imagination, to provoke the senses, and to evoke the emotions of people around the world. For many, many years we have been looking for someone that could give us the opportunity to enhance the sandbox of creativity of Cirque du Soleil. This is amazing that a visionary of the resort business is meeting with a visionary of the entertainment world. We are going to deliver an experience that is going to be totally unique in the world.

Gary Goddard: We've been working on something new, something completely different - it's a new kind of destination resort. I'm always looking for ways to do things in a new - that push the envelope. So in the ways that we innovated in retail with The Forum (Shops at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas) and hotels with The Galaxy and in theme parks attractions with Spider Man (at Islands of Adventure in Orlando), with T2 (at Universal Parks), with Caesars Magical Empire - all the things we've done - we want to find a unique way into the whole Cirque experience and create a memorable, unforgettable, emotional experience that picks up on the things that we think of as Cirque and brings them to life in a new way. At the first meeting with Guy Laliberte and with Daniel Chavez from Vidanta we'd already had a day or two in the Vidanta Resort to see the beautiful work that they do. In my mind what began to form was we can take what Cirque does, and we can take what Vidanta does, and we can take what GGE does, and we can create an entirely new kind of experience that doesn't really exist and that uses the best resources and abilities of all of the people that comprised our various companies.

Taylor Jeffs: In a traditional Cirque du Soleil show you are in the role of spectator, you sit and watch in the audience. However, imagine what it would be like to get out of your seat and wander onto the stage and not just that, but to be a character within this fantasy world they created.

Gary Goddard: The Celebrate Project, which is the working name at the moment, is an integrated resort with 10 unique entertainment attractions surrounded by three exclusive Vidanta resorts: the Kingdom of the Sun, the Kingdom of the Stars, and The Grand Cascades.

Taylor Jeffs: These resorts literally put guests right in the middle of the action. The Kingdom of the Sun Resort is a grand golden palace located right in between the Village of Sun's daytime experience and the Valley of the Blue Waters waterpark experience.

Gary Goddard: This is the place where all things Cirque exist. You'll be able to enter the square which will be a beautiful plaza and there's a wide variety of attractions you should be able to experience while you're there. The village is also home to the CirqueCamp. The CirqueCamp is a very unique place... this particular thing let you go and learn from the Cirque performers themselves how to perform, how to put on the makeup - you'll be able to learn that with the masters from the actual Cirque company.

Ben Potvin: what we want to do is bring our expertise to the general public. Our guests are going to be able to have fun in a safe environment, as well as learn something new about themselves and about Cirque du Soleil. We want to be able to bring to everybody what it feels to actually be on a Cirque du Soleil stage. Everything that we have in our shows we will have a component of that on site. We really want to work together to bring to life everybody's creativity and bring this whole theme park experience to the next level.

Taylor Jeffs: On the opposite end of the resort we have the Grand Cascades, which is a luxury spa resort located right on the edge of the water park. Every single room ensuite has a premium view of this incredible fantasy paradise that we've created.

Gary Goddard: You look out onto the Grand Cascades resort, which is an amazing hotel - which has waterfalls - and that is actually our water park that surrounds this hotel. We call that the Valley of the Blue Waters.

Amy Lareau: This will be the world's first theatrical water park and here the guest is the star.

Taylor Jeffs: Just as a real theatrical performance begins with the opening of a curtain our show begins with the opening of a curtain also, but ours is a curtain made of water. As you arrive at the park the curtain will actually part open revealing the park in front of you, and from that point on guests are immersed in the theatrical experience of our water park.

Gary Goddard: The Kingdom of the Stars as a magical palace. It sits at the top of the hill and it forms a center of our entire night time experience of which the feature is the Village of the Moon. The Village of the Moon only comes to life at night, after the sun goes down and we've designed the park to be on axis with where the sun goes down so literally once the sun starts to go down there will be a ceremony that happens across the lagoon, and if you want to go there you need to go to the Embassy... you can get your passport there, which will allow you entrance into this Village of the Moon. And as you pass the threshold, your passport - with the power of the moonlight - will glow as you enter, signaling that it's ok for you to enter. And from this village - just like a real village - you have many opportunities: if you go down this path it will take you to The Grotto, if you go down that path it'll take you to The Wylde, if you go down that path it'll take you to The Forest, if you go to this path it'll take you to the Mechanical Gardens. Now, what are all these things? Well the Mechanical Gardens is actually a ride park, but all the rides have been twisted and turned in a unique way that makes them uniquely Cirque. And then if you go down that path - to The Wlyde - what is the Wylde? The Wylde is kind of the area of nightmares. From there you might want to go on The Grotto, and we're going to - for the first time in a boat ride - not only have animatronics and special effects but live performers performing in unique new ways. And then there's The Lake.

Amy Lareau: The Lake is another new kind of show for Cirque du Soleil. It will be our first show to be staged outdoors and will feature the largest cast ever put together by Cirque, and performances and acts never seen before in any of our shows.

Taylor Jeffs: The other big attraction here is The Forest. We're going put guests on a train, take them out to the edge of the property, drop them off, and their job from that point on is to find their way back to the village. They're going to discover these incredible worlds filled with fantasy creatures, fantastical characters and interactive experiences unlike anything they've seen before.

Daniel Lamarre: We are so excited to have the opportunity to finally push the envelope, push the boundaries of creativity in conjunction with a unique partner that we do respect very much.

Martin Boudreau: We are very confident by combining the amazing creativity of Cirque du Soleil and the power of our brand through the expertise of the Goddard Group and the talent of Vidanta team will give us everything we need to build an amazing project in Puerto Vallarta.

Gary Goddard: I think the reason Cirque du Soleil is so beloved all around the world is because it is always appealed to people's emotions, it makes them laugh, makes them cry, and it aspires to be a demonstration or a reflection, like a mirror, of our best qualities. So if we can tap into all these very human emotions and elements it will be an attraction that will entertain people for generations to come.

Three spectacular resorts • Four thrilling daytime attractions • Six groundbreaking nighttime experiences • A destination like no other • Only at Vidanta