Organization, operations and basis of presentation

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2020

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Organization, operations and basis of presentation

Background

Playa Hotels & Resorts N.V. (“Playa” or the “Company”) is a leading owner, operator and developer of all-inclusive resorts in prime beachfront locations in popular vacation destinations. We own and/or manage a portfolio of 21 resorts located in Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. Unless otherwise indicated or the context requires otherwise, references in our condensed consolidated financial statements (our “Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements”) to “we,” “our,” “us” and similar expressions refer to Playa and its subsidiaries.

COVID-19 impact

Due to the spread of the coronavirus (“COVID-19”) global pandemic, and in response to related governmental restrictions and advisories, reductions in scheduled commercial airline service, and potential health risks to our employees and guests, we temporarily suspended operations at all of our resorts from late March through June 2020. Our resorts began reopening in July, in stages, based on incremental easing of government restrictions and advisories and increases in scheduled commercial airline service. On July 1, 2020, we reopened 8 out of our 21 resorts and subsequently opened another 4 resorts. Currently, 12 out of our 21 resorts have reopened. We also implemented additional safety measures at our resorts to mitigate the potential health risks of COVID-19.

Although we began operations in July, we cannot predict when our business will return to normalized levels because we cannot predict when all effects of the pandemic will subside. The longer and more severe the pandemic, the greater the material adverse effect the pandemic will have on our business, results of operations, cash flows, financial condition, access to credit markets and ability to service our debt.

Liquidity and ability to continue as a going concern

As COVID-19 has had a significant adverse impact on our business and financial condition, we took several actions to help remedy our liquidity situation, which include the following:


•	we temporarily suspended operations in late March and subsequently began opening our resorts, in stages, beginning in July;


•	closed on the sale of equity (see Note 8) and issuance of additional debt (see Note 11) as part of our capital raise efforts;


•	amended our Senior Secured Credit Facility to waive the existing financial maintenance covenants until the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2021 (see Note 11);


•	sold two of our resorts operated under the Jewel brand for cash consideration (see Note 4);


•	significantly reduced staffing levels at the properties and at our corporate offices;


•	imposed compensation cuts throughout the entirety of our corporate offices;


•	adjusted our marketing spend;


•	canceled all non-essential corporate travel;


•	deferred all non-critical capital expenditures for the remainder of the year; and


•	continue to pursue the potential sale of certain of our non-core resorts.

Due to the measures taken, we expect to be in compliance with all financial maintenance covenants and have sufficient liquidity to meet our obligations for at least twelve months from the date of this report. Accordingly, we believe that our plans to improve our liquidity situation have been effectively implemented and the conditions that previously raised substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern have been mitigated.

Basis of preparation, presentation and measurement

Our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information. Certain information and disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted. Accordingly, these unaudited interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements should be read in conjunction with our Consolidated Financial Statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2019, included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on February 27, 2020 (the “Annual Report”).

In our opinion, the unaudited interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared on the same basis as the annual Consolidated Financial Statements and include all adjustments, consisting of only normal recurring adjustments, necessary for fair presentation.

The results of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020 are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations to be expected for the full year ended December 31, 2020, particularly given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic noted above. All dollar amounts (other than per share amounts) in the following disclosures are in thousands of United States dollars, unless otherwise indicated.