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Hotel VIP

Mexican TV series or program

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ121535163 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hotel VIP is a Mexican reality competition television series that premiered on Canal 5 on 16 August 2023. It is an adaptation of the Argentine series El hotel de los famosos. The series follows a group of celebrities living together in a hotel competing for the cash grand prize. It is presented by Roberto Palazuelos and Karina Banda.

Format

Sixteen celebrities are selected to spend a vacation at the Hotel VIP. However, the hotel has no employees, so the celebrities will face challenges that determine their status. Those who win the challenges will be the VIP members of the hotel and can enjoy all the comforts and luxuries, while those who fail will be the staff members of the hotel and must take care of the chores. At the end of each week, an elimination duel will be held to determine who leaves the hotel.

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Production

Filming of the series took place in Argentina from January to April 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hotel VIP” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.