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Season 10.
First season outside Mexico, first to draw from the Golden spinoffs, and the first with two bartenders behind the bar.
A rhythm worth tracking.
Season ten ends the show's nine-season run in Sayulita and relocates to Costa Rica, the first time the format has filmed outside Mexico, while returning to its traditional summer premiere. The cast expands to include contestants from the Golden Bachelor and Golden Bachelorette spinoffs, and Hannah Brown joins Wells Adams behind the bar. Later episodes add a voting-based mechanic for deciding who distributes roses.
The #04 slot.
Slot #04 of 10 in the Bachelor in Paradise Editor's Canon. Season ten earns a high slot for how much it actually changes after a two-year gap off the air. The relocation to Costa Rica ends a nine-season run in Sayulita, and it's paired with real structural movement elsewhere: contestants from the Golden Bachelor and Golden Bachelorette spinoffs join the cast for the first time, a genuinely age-inclusive expansion the format hadn't tried before. Hannah Brown joins Wells Adams behind the bar, doubling a role that had been solo for years, and later episodes introduce a voting-based mechanic for deciding who distributes roses. That's four real changes in one season, and the show pulls off all of them without losing its footing.
5 moments, no spoilers.
- Premiere · a new country
The show leaves Mexico for the first time, relocating to Costa Rica after nine straight seasons in Sayulita, and returns to its traditional summer premiere slot.
- Early run · a wider cast net
Contestants pulled from the Golden Bachelor and Golden Bachelorette spinoffs join the beach for the first time, an age-inclusive casting expansion the format hadn't tried before.
- Midseason · two bartenders
Hannah Brown joins Wells Adams behind the bar, expanding a role that had belonged to one person for years into a duo.
- Later run · a new vote
Later episodes introduce a voting-based mechanic where remaining contestants decide which of their peers don't get to distribute roses, a structural first for the format.
- Late run · a guest expert
A relationship therapist makes a guest appearance to work with the cast, a franchise first for that kind of on-camera counseling role.