“De viaje con los Derbez” premiered on Prime Video on 18 October 2019, and it did not stop for six years. The Spanish-language documentary comedy ran five seasons and 37 episodes, ending on 10 October 2025. It follows Eugenio Derbez and his family across foreign destinations, all of them together and, as the premise insists, unfiltered.
Eugenio Derbez Built the Show Around His Own House
The cast is the family, and the family is the show. Eugenio Derbez, the patriarch, appears as himself. Alessandra Rosaldo, his wife, appears as herself. Aitana Derbez, their daughter, appears as herself. Vadhir Derbez, Eugenio’s oldest son, appears as himself. José Eduardo Derbez, his youngest son with ex-wife Victoria Ruffo, appears as himself. Aislinn Derbez, his eldest daughter with ex-wife Gabriela Michel, appears as herself.
That is a lot of names for one call sheet, and it is the whole point. A travel show needs travelers who will talk to each other. This one arrives with decades of shared history already in the room, plus the ex-wives and the step-relations that a family like this carries. The show does not have to build chemistry. It inherited it.
Mauricio Ochmann, Aislinn’s then-husband, and Kailani, their daughter, also figure in the family the series documents. The word “then” matters here. A show that runs from 2019 to 2025 will outlast some of the marriages it was built to film, and this one did.
Lionsgate and 3Pas Studios Put the Family on Prime Video
“De viaje con los Derbez” is co-produced by Lionsgate, 3Pas Studios and Wallin Chambers Entertainment. It premiered worldwide on Amazon Prime Video on 18 October 2019, with two exceptions: the United States and Puerto Rico. Viewers there get the series on ViX, and have since the third season.
That distribution split is not a footnote. It is the reason a Spanish-language family travel show could run five seasons while remaining, for its largest potential audience, a streaming exclusive on a Spanish-language platform rather than on the service that commissioned it. The show was never one thing to one audience. It was a Prime Video title in most of the world and a ViX title at home.
The English title is “Derbez Family Vacation.” The Spanish title is the one that stuck.
Five Seasons, 37 Episodes, and a Renewal in 2023
The math is straightforward. Five seasons. Thirty-seven episodes. First aired 18 October 2019. Last aired 10 October 2025. In October 2023, the series was renewed for a fourth season, which premiered on 24 November 2023.
Here is the key facts box.
KEY FACTS
- Premiere: 18 October 2019, Prime Video
- Finale: 10 October 2025
- Seasons: 5
- Episodes: 37
- Network: Prime Video, Pantaya, ViX
- Genre: Documentary
- Producers: Lionsgate, 3Pas Studios, Wallin Chambers Entertainment
- U.S. and Puerto Rico streaming home from season 3: ViX
- Season 4 renewal announced: October 2023; premiered 24 November 2023
- TMDB audience score: 7.5/10, from 1,348 votes
What the Show Actually Does With a Destination
The synopsis is honest about the format: the family discovers new cultures in foreign lands, all together and unfiltered. That is a travelogue with a built-in conflict engine. Put six or more relatives in an unfamiliar country, remove the usual buffers, and let the cameras run.
The genre label is documentary. Not reality competition, not scripted comedy, though the source calls it a documentary comedy series and the comedy is clearly part of the design. The distinction matters when you weigh what the show is selling. It is not selling a game. It is selling the family, and the destination is the room they argue in.
That is a durable format, and it is also a limiting one. A travel show lives on novelty of place. A family show lives on the slow accumulation of familiarity. “De viaje con los Derbez” chose the second, and the second is why it lasted five seasons.
Ranking What the Show Got Right
- Casting the actual family, with the ex-wives and stepchildren included, rather than a curated version of it.
- Keeping the Spanish-language title and identity intact while distributing worldwide.
- Letting the run go long enough for the family to change on camera.
- Choosing destinations as backdrops for relationships instead of as the main event.
- Staying on ViX for the U.S. audience instead of chasing a wider English-language rollout.
The ViX Split Is the Most Interesting Business Decision
For a show that premiered on Prime Video worldwide, the carve-out for the United States and Puerto Rico is the detail worth studying. The third season onward streams on ViX in those markets. That means the largest Spanish-language audience in the world watches “De viaje con los Derbez” somewhere other than where it started.
It worked. The series reached a fifth season and a 2025 finale date. Whatever the arrangement was, it did not starve the show.
The renewal in October 2023 tells you the same thing from the other direction. A fourth season order, followed by a premiere on 24 November 2023, is a vote of confidence in a title that had already been running for four years. Streaming services do not usually hand out fourth seasons to travel shows that have stopped growing.
Where the Show Is Thin
The format has a ceiling, and “De viaje con los Derbez” hits it. A documentary comedy about a family on vacation has no plot to resolve, no antagonist to defeat, no finale that pays off five seasons of setup. Each episode is a destination and a set of relatives. The pleasure is company, not story.
That is fine. It is also why the show will never be more than it is. There is no episode of “De viaje con los Derbez” that a viewer needs to have seen to understand the next one. There is no arc. There is a family, and there are places, and there are 37 episodes of the two meeting.
The “unfiltered” promise is also doing more work than the show can fully cash. A produced series co-produced by three companies and distributed by two platforms is not unfiltered. It is edited. Every family on television is edited. The show’s honesty is in who it put on camera, not in how raw the footage is.
What 1,348 Voters Saw
The TMDB audience score for “De viaje con los Derbez” is 7.5 out of 10, from 1,348 votes. That is a solid number for a documentary series, and it is a number with a specific shape. It is not a critics’ score. It is an audience score, which means it reflects people who chose to watch a Spanish-language family travel show and then chose to rate it.
That self-selection is the whole story of the number. The people who found this show liked it. The people who never found it are not in the 1,348. A 7.5 from the converted is not the same as a 7.5 from a general audience, and this show was never aimed at a general audience.
Our Verdict on De viaje con los Derbez
This is a good show that knows exactly what it is, and the 7.5 out of 10 is the right score for it. “De viaje con los Derbez” does not try to be a great documentary about culture, and it does not try to be a great comedy. It tries to be a long, warm, occasionally tense record of the Derbez family going places together, and across five seasons and 37 episodes it succeeds at that.
The strongest thing about it is the cast list. Eugenio Derbez, Alessandra Rosaldo, Aitana Derbez, Vadhir Derbez, José Eduardo Derbez and Aislinn Derbez are not performing a family for the cameras. They are a family, with the divorces and the half-siblings and the in-laws that phrase implies, and the show’s willingness to include all of it is what separates it from the average celebrity travelogue.
The weakest thing is that it never builds. Five seasons in, “De viaje con los Derbez” is still doing what it did in season one, which is putting relatives in new countries and watching them react. That is a formula, and formulas do not improve. They persist. This one persisted for six years and ended on its own schedule, which for a streaming documentary series is close to a best-case outcome.
Watch it for the family. Watch it for the destinations if you want, but the destinations are interchangeable. The family is not. That is the review, and it is why the score holds at 7.5 out of 10.
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