Los Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

So, let’s talk about it! Many of you have asked me about my recent trip to Cabo and now I will be providing you with all the details. Moe and I knew that we wanted to go to Mexico, but just wasn’t sure where. He has never been to Mexico, so I left it up to him to pick the city and then I would do the research for the resort and flights. He landed on Cabo, so Cabo it is!

Now, let me tell you; looking for flights was a little frustrating. When you’re flying out west and it’s international you are left to deal with long layovers and just a whole day of traveling. I kept seeing flight for $500+ that was a 12 hour travel day (and the 8 hour trips were about $700); that was something I wasn’t really trying to do, so I was determined and kept looking because I knew there had to be something better out there. So, after a few weeks of looking we were ready to throw the towel in and just buy the $500 flight; but for some reason we didn’t get the day we agreed and said we would buy it the next day.

The next morning, I was on my way to work and I received an email that flights went down to $253 RT with Aeromexico. I texted Moe to let him know and he was taking too long to respond (it was probably only 2 minutes) and I just booked the flights for us. I didn’t want to miss out on that opportunity. We could have paid well over $1,000 but ended up paying $507 for the both of us!

Now the next step was confirming the resort; this is where we are so picky. We wanted a resort that was close enough to the downtown area, food/drinks, beach in walking distance (preferably onsite); you know all the things that would make your vacation a vacation. We came across 2 resorts that we were going back and forth with and finally agreed on Cabo Villas Resort. This resort had everything we wanted plus Hookah onsite with cabanas. I wanted to book through my parent’s timeshare (for $500 for the week), but by the time we made up our minds the dates were gone. So we ended up booking with the resort directly; which ended up being a blessing because of all the perks we got.

$200 credit for food and drinks on the resort
20% off at all restaurants and bars on the resort (minus 1)
Free wifi
Free continental breakfast
30 minute couple’s massage and spa use

All these perks added up and helped us to save money while we were out there. We ended converting $100 USD each which with the hotel exchange rate gave us $1765 pesos. I always recommend to exchange at the resort or a trusted place that you know; NEVER in the airport (they give you the lowest exchange rate). Besides the pesos we exchange we paid cash for the Arch tour which was $15 pp and a shuttle round-trip the first night to downtown which was $8 each way. Later in the trip we realized we could just take an Uber for much less ($2 each way). Prior to coming to Mexico we arranged our transportation to and from the hotel with Baja Travel (recommended by the resort) and that was $18pp each way.

During this trip we did a lot of relaxing but also did a few activities and went to the Downtown area. As I mentioned we went on the Arch tour and it was absolutely breath-taking, we saw sea lions and very colorful fish. The water was so rough that day so we couldn’t get a close as we would have liked. The Lover’s beach was also closed because of how rough the waters were. We also went on a sunset cruise (via Caborey) originally $74 a person but we went for free because we went to the Timeshare presentation. ( I recommend indulging in these timeshare presentations; not to buy, but they often come with free breakfast or lunch, free and discounted excursions).

The only thing I was disappointed with at the resort was the hookah weren’t working. It seemed like they only had 2 onsite (false advertisement in my opinion); but were able to find one downtown Fumari Hookah Lounge (about 5 mins from us) and we went 2 nights while we were there. There are so many food and drink spots downtown, with really good specials. We even went to a place where it was “Ladies night”, I drank for free and Moe got a pretty good deal with his drinks.