The original story is from Spain's Grande Hotel (2011). Mexico did a second version called El Hotel (2016).
Miami Beach's iconic Fountainbleu Hotel is the hotel on which The Riviera Grand is modeled after. Some scenes were shot on location.
Many of the cast have also appeared in Os Fosters: Família Adotiva (2013). These include: Anne Winters, Denyse Tontz, Brandon Quinn, and John Marshall Jones.