Out of the Blue returns to Moon Palace Cancun from Thursday 7 to Sunday 10 January 2027, the fourth edition of Noah Kahan’s destination festival. Kahan headlines his own weekend, joined by Hayley Williams, Mt. Joy, The Head and the Heart and Gregory Alan Isakov, with more artists still to be announced.
One rule shapes the trip: there are no standalone tickets. Attendance is by all inclusive package only, so the festival, the room and the food are one booking. This post covers the lineup, the ride in, and the first hour.
What is happening
The festival was announced in May 2026 as the fourth edition of Out of the Blue, produced by 100x Hospitality and built around proximity rather than spectacle. Across four days, guests cross paths with artists at pool parties, sunrise DJ sets, wellness events, golf tournaments and late night jam sessions, and the weekend closes with Kahan’s traditional and Friends set of collaborative covers and surprise duets.
The announced bill pairs Kahan with Hayley Williams, alongside Mt. Joy, The Head and the Heart, Gregory Alan Isakov, Del Water Gap, Gigi Perez, Buffalo Traffic Jam and Mon Rovia, with additional artists still to come. All inclusive packages cover accommodations, unlimited food and drinks, airport transfers and curated excursions, from cenote diving and catamaran cruises to tours of ancient Maya sites.
Because the package is the ticket, the booking order matters more than the flight order. Returning guests had first access in the alumni presale on 1 and 2 June, and the general sale opened on 3 June. Check package availability before you price flights: a flight without a package does not get you through the gate.
Getting there after you land
Fly into Cancun International, CUN, 16 km south of the Hotel Zone, with Terminals 3 and 4 taking most international flights and a free shuttle linking the terminals. Package holders have airport transfers covered in the booking, so confirm your pickup details before you fly. Everyone else uses the guide options below. See our Cancun airport to Hotel Zone transfer guide for every option, priced and compared.
ADO bus to the Hotel ZoneCheapest
The direct strip service runs a few fixed departures a day, so it is the cheapest way to your hotel door if one fits your landing time.
ADO bus to downtown
Coaches run every 30 to 45 minutes to the downtown terminal, beside the R1 and R2 stops for the ride up the strip.
Pre-booked private transfer
Per vehicle pricing beats the taxi counter for groups of three or more, with a driver outside arrivals and the price settled before you fly.
Authorized airport taxi
The walk up door to door option. Pay at the counter, never to a tout in the hall, because nobody legitimate sells rides in the arrivals corridor. Rideshare pickups are barred at the terminals.
Where to stay, and getting back
Festival guests sleep at Moon Palace itself under the package, so these guide picks are for the nights before or after the festival, or for companions building a longer Cancun stay around the weekend. For a Splurge, Le Blanc Spa Resort Cancun, at Blvd. Kukulcan Km 10, mid strip, is an adults only all inclusive with a butler on every floor, three pools and five restaurants. For Mid-range, Fiesta Americana Condesa Cancun All Inclusive, at Km 16.5 on the quieter southern strip, suits families, with nine restaurants and the Maya Museum beside it. For Budget, Nomads Hotel and Rooftop Pool, on Av. Carlos Nader downtown, sits 200 meters from the ADO terminal, with dorms, private rooms and a rooftop pool and bar.
The Hotel Zone is the resort strip, beaches at the door; downtown is the real city, with local prices and the best cheap food. Expect the sanitation fee, about MXN 85 per room per night, collected separately at check in.
The first hour, sorted
Load a Mexico plan on an Airalo eSIM before you fly, so you land connected. Pay the MXN 293 Visitax online only at visitax.gob.mx, and treat arrivals as stage one: immigration, baggage, then a corridor of desks selling transfers and tours. Everything legitimate waits outside or at a marked counter, so walk through with your ride already decided.
Dollars are accepted across the Hotel Zone, but pesos get the honest rate. Resorts take cards; buses, markets and tips run on cash. Do not drink the tap water: drink purified water instead, and know that restaurant ice is factory purified and safe.
For a first meal outside the resort, the guide sends you downtown: Parque Las Palapas, the city evening food court, where stalls serve tacos, salbutes, elotes and marquesitas from about 18:00, or tacos al pastor off the trompo at La Parrilla on Av. Yaxchilan. Book ahead for January: Chichen Itza and the Isla Mujeres boats both sell out in season.
Four days of music with the artists in the same resort rewards booking the package early and the flights second. Browse the events calendar for what else is on while you are in town, and use plan your trip to line up the days around it.
Chichen Itza, Tulum and the January beach, for the days around the festival.
Get the Cancun first hour checklist by email
The ride in, the first ticket and the first meal, in the Cancun guide PDF you can read on the plane.
The checklist, free, from After You Land.
What else is on
The events calendar tracks every guided city, strikes and stoppages included.
Events calendarLine up the rest
Plan your trip pulls the guide, the stays and the bookings for this trip into one place.
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