A perfect day in Cabo San Lucas: A guide for the quintessential 24-hour visit

Cabo San Lucas has agelong been the astir fashionable tourer destination successful Los Cabos. However, respective different destinations of enactment are besides recovered successful Los Cabos oregon the neighboring La Paz municipality, including the different cape city, San José del Cabo, the East Cape, Todos Santos and La Paz. Thus, galore readying a abrogation to the country volition enactment determination different than CSL. 

Still, nary 1 should walk up a accidental to sojourn Cabo San Lucas, adjacent if it’s lone for a azygous day. That’s peculiarly existent for those who person yet to spot and acquisition the charms of the Land’s End city. While it doesn’t person the vibrant creation country of San José del Cabo oregon the affluent taste beingness of La Paz, Cabo San Lucas, location to mile marker zero of the peninsular highway, is crushed zero for outdoor adventures, peculiarly of the water-based variety, and offers the champion formation country and nightlife successful the region. 

With that successful mind, present are immoderate itinerary suggestions for a one-day travel to CSL.

Breakfast: Solomon’s Landing

(Solomon’s Landing Los Cabos)

Start with a bully breakfast. You’ll request the vigor for your greeting adventures. Solomon’s Landing commands a premier spot overlooking the Cabo San Lucas Marina. It besides offers reliable fare, from seafood specialties to greeting fare similar eggs Benedict and waffles loaded with delicious toppings.

Morning: El Arco, Lover’s Beach, Cabo San Lucas Marina

(Salvador Navarro/Unsplash)

Cabo San Lucas was built connected big-game sportfishing and inactive hosts the world’s richest tournament, Bisbee’s Black and Blue. So, full- oregon half-day sportfishing trips are surely 1 of the champion enactment options for first-time oregon instrumentality visitors. However, the astir important geographic diagnostic is the half-mile Land’s End headland, which features Lover’s Beach and granite monuments specified arsenic the people formed arch known locally arsenic El Arco. 

One of my favourite ways to acquisition Land’s End is via High Tide Los Cabos’ kayak paddling circuit to The Arch, not lone due to the fact that paddling offers plentifulness of clip to admit each the unsocial features of Land’s End, from tiny beaches to evocatively shaped rocks. But besides due to the fact that it provides an arsenic gorgeous presumption of Cabo San Lucas Bay and its shoreline. It’s frankincense a memorable instauration to the section onshore and seascape.

After paddling to the arch, there’ll beryllium clip for snorkeling adjacent Pelican Rock oregon exploring Lover’s Beach and the adjacent Divorce Beach, which faces the Pacific Ocean. If this sounds similar a batch of swimming and paddling, don’t worry: the remainder of the time is overmuch much relaxing.

Once the circuit is finished, you’ll person astir an hr earlier lunch, giving you clip to locomotion on the boardwalk that rims the marina. This agelong includes plentifulness of shops and 2 existent buying centers — the Puerto Paraíso and Luxury Avenue malls — truthful if you’re funny successful souvenir shopping, this is simply a bully clip to bash it. Walking the magnitude of the marina boardwalk takes astir 30 minutes, truthful if you get tired, conscionable hail a h2o taxi to instrumentality you implicit to Médano Beach.

Afternoon: Playa El Médano

(Gobierno de Baja California Sur)

The two-mile agelong of aureate soil that is Playa El Medano is the halfway of the societal country successful the city. It’s an enactment locus for everything from parasailing to pitchy skis, and similar the marina, it’s besides location to immoderate of Cabo San Lucas’ astir iconic restaurants and bars. Mango Deck and The Office connected the Beach are the 2 astir famous. I urge The Office for lunch. Don’t hide to effort dishes featuring section seafood; it’s a specialty hereabouts.

So, too, are pampering spa treatments. Walk down the formation from The Office to The Sand Bar and bask a one-hour, four-hand massage. It’s guaranteed to cure immoderate lingering soreness from your kayak paddle. Afterward, you tin enactment connected your tan, spell formation walking oregon bid a cubeta of ice-cold beer. Actually, clasp up connected the past one: you’ll privation to hold for the cocktail hour.

Cocktail Hour: Rooftop 360 astatine Corazón Cabo Resort & Spa

(Corazón Cabo)

One of the champion caller resorts connected the beach, Corazón Cabo, is champion known to locals for its rooftop bar, Rooftop 360, which features spectacular wraparound views of the metropolis and bay. It’s the cleanable place, successful different words, to ticker the sunset implicit Land’s End and bask a pre-prandial cocktail earlier your meal reservation.

If you determine to enactment successful CSL for the night, Corazón is besides an fantabulous accommodation option— close connected the formation and an casual locomotion to the marina oregon downtown buying and dining. It’s dog-friendly, but don’t amusement up with a Great Dane: there’s a 25-pound value bounds for furry friends.

Dinner: Los Tres Gallos

 Los Tres Gallos is simply a section instauration and has been seemingly from the infinitesimal it opened successful 2010. Named for 3 movie idols from Mexico’s aureate property of cinema — Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete and Javier Solís were collectively known arsenic Los Tres Gallos, oregon Three Roosters — it and adjacent Maria Corona are the go-to spots for accepted Mexican cuisine. 

Owner Michel Zermeño, who co-owns the edifice with his woman Fabiola Sánchez, utilized to bring his parent into the room periodically to guarantee the dishes were made with the requisite love. Everything here, including the furnishings, is handmade, and the nutrient and ambiance are superb. When I utilized to marque “best of” lists for the USA Today question tract 10 Best, I invariably rated Los Tres Gallos arsenic the champion edifice successful Los Cabos. 

I’m not the lone 1 who thinks so, either. Michelin Guide recommends it, too.

Nightlife: Cabo Wabo Cantina

 You whitethorn beryllium bushed by this point, but drawback a 2nd wind. The 1 happening Cabo San Lucas has that nary different determination destination does is simply a vibrant nightlife scene. The 2 landmark spots are El Squid Roe and Cabo Wabo Cantina, which opened wrong a twelvemonth of each different successful 1989 and 1990, respectively. Both are worthy a visit, but if you’re a first-timer, spell to Cabo Wabo. Founded by Sammy Hagar and his past Van Halen bandmates, it’s got plentifulness to recommend, from unrecorded euphony to 1 of the champion section margaritas.