Ah, Los Cabos: Where Dreams Go to Lounge and Celebrities Go to Hide!
Ah, the glamour of travel! Picture this: you’re just trying to catch a flight to Los Cabos, the fanciest of beach resorts, and bam! You’re busy juggling late flights and gadgets like a circus performer while your luggage takes its sweet time. Welcome to the world of air travel, folks, where every connecting flight feels like a game show, and you’re always the contestant who forgot the answer!
For those of you who don’t know, Los Cabos lies at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula, where the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez intertwine like an ill-fated love story – one half romantic, the other a bit tempestuous. The scenery is wild, with cacti reaching for the sky and deserts that could host a nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough. So, what’s between Cabo San Lucas and the more chill San José del Cabo? About 30 kilometers of pure holiday bliss!
Golfers Anonymous and Water Sports Enthusiasts: Your Mecca Awaits!
If you fancy yourself a golfer or an enthusiast of wet and wild adventures, Los Cabos is a playground dressed as a deluxe resort. Top-notch golf courses await your swing; from dune buggy rides to nightlife that feels like a party on steroids—there’s something for everyone. And let’s not forget the infamous beach duo: “Lover’s Beach”—perfect for romantic escapades—and “Divorce Beach”—where you might want to re-evaluate some life choices while nursing a piña colada.
As if Los Cabos wasn’t already a magnet for resort junkies, think about this: you’re enjoying live jazz while gazing at the famed rock formation “El Arco,” which looks like a postcard waiting to be sent home. It’s a must-see—a place where everyone pretends to be an art student, pretending to take cultured selfies!
Whale Watching: Because Why Not Raise the Bar?
But wait! The fun doesn’t stop there! Imagine lounging like a royal while whales are doing backflips outside your hotel. Yes, that’s right: during winter months, majestic gray whales stop by to show off their acrobatics, adding flair to your tropical vacation without you even having to lift a finger. Just roll over, sip your cocktail, and let nature do the entertaining.
A Tourist Boom: From Tuna to Tinned Dreams?
With the region’s rapid development—from a mere 350,000 to a whopping 800,000 residents—Los Cabos has turned into the 51st state of America. It’s as if Mexico took a cue from Hollywood and decided, “Hey, let’s sell some margaritas to the Kardashians!” and suddenly, the population exploded!
But here’s the kicker: while high-end hotels and upscale living are on the rise, locals are increasingly being squeezed out of their own paradise. Even Daniel Garcia, a hospitality guru at the Waldorf Astoria, admits that tourism is a double-edged sword—a chance for luxury and living the high life but at the expense of the local populace. If only we could summon the spirit of Hemingway to write a sad tale about gentrification alongside his usual boozy escapades!
Celebrity Spotting: Is That Tiger Woods or Just Your Drunk Uncle?
Speaking of lavish living, Los Cabos is a celebrity hot spot. Not to be outshone by the competition, Tiger Woods—yes, that Tiger—opened his upscale sports bar in the area, designed to bring an air of casual sophistication to all those slightly inebriated tourists. After all, nothing says “I’m rich and I golf” like Wagyu steaks and fine wine while overlooking an 18-hole course he designed. And let’s just say that if George Clooney ever decides to collapse on someone’s beach chair, you’d want to be the one who takes that selfie!
Arrive in Style, Because Who Wants to Take the Long Way?
Good news for all the Europeans out there longing for sandy toes and gentle waves—you can now fly direct from Frankfurt to Los Cabos starting November 3rd! Yes, no layovers or being crammed between a kid who likes to kick your seat and an elderly gentleman who can’t seem to grasp that mints aren’t a full meal!
Ready for the Adventure?
So, whether it’s for the shimmering beaches, luxurious hotels, whale watching, or the chance to rub shoulders with the rich and famous, Los Cabos is THE destination. Just remember: take your time. Because in Los Cabos, the only thing that moves fast is the pace of your margarita consumption! Cheers to that!
(Source: Andreas Jaros at kurier.at, 19.10.2024)
And for more insider tips, check out visitloscabos.travel. Because let’s face it, if they didn’t charge you for the Wi-Fi, I wouldn’t even need to say that!
Sometimes you have to earn places you long for. The combination of late arrival and baggage claim at a snail’s pace in the rain Mexico City means: Goodbye connecting flight, no onward travel possible that day, stranded. Bitter consequence: After a good night’s sleep, checking in early in the morning at two o’clock for the last stage, which increases the punishment by changing trains Guadalajara.
Sometimes you can only get to Los Cabos the hard way. But it was worth it: The two caps (= Los Cabos) at the southernmost tip of the Baja California Peninsulathe two seas that wash around it, the rougher Pacific and the comparatively gentle one Sea of Cortezwildly romantic coasts, plus a Wild West landscape with meters high Cacti, mountains, desert foxes and an excellent range of hotels in the approximately thirty kilometer long tourist corridor between Cabo San Lucas and the more tranquil one San Jose del Cabo are already doing something.
Kirche in San José del Cabo
For golfers and water sports enthusiasts
The golf courses are first class, the entertainment ranges from riding in the dune buggy to partying in the booming disco club. The range of water sports on offer is also exuberant. Funny: It’s tempting – after a short transfer with SUP, kayak or water taxi Medano main beach – a “Lover’s Beach” and, just around the corner, a “Divorce Beach”, where the surf turns wild and rough and the fun stops.
For Europeans, the hardships of travel are the most obvious Rock terraces of “Monalisa” Shake yourself out of your tired limbs: At sunset you drive to this sublimely located event location – the last few meters on a dusty slope – to watch the local area glowing red in the distance in the mild light with vino, pulp and live jazz, fascinated Landmark “El Arco” to stare.
This is a rock formation that reflexively draws comparisons to Capri’s iconic Faraglioni causes. But there is also great cinema on offer below “Monalisa” when the surfers catch the wave Beach Monuments ride towards.
Whales come to calve
You can’t really imagine an even more harmonious ambience – to be proven wrong in the winter months: Then, as an added bonus, they catapult themselves Grauwaledie for calving stop by the area, out of the water. A spectacle that can also be admired from numerous hotels – you don’t even have to get up from your lounger.
Around a hundred resorts have settled in Los Cabos, and recently things have become more and more high-end, a nod to the almost exclusively American audience. “Over fourteen Ultra luxury hotels We currently have two of them Four Seasonsand St. Regis, Soho House, Park Hyatt and Aman are already in the starting blocks,” reveals Sandra de la Garza from the tourism association.
Rapid development
Twenty years ago things looked different. “When I was from Mexiko City came to Los Cabos,” recalls Daniel Garcia“there were 350,000 inhabitants. Now we are at around 800,000”. After the pandemic, the next construction boom began: houses, apartments, hotels.
Daniel Garcia, Butler im Waldorf Astoria
“Life is still good, but the locals are increasingly running out of living space,” says Garcia, a story that is well known in holiday destinations. “But we are totally dependent on tourism,” says the 39-year-old Mexican, who works in the industry himself. “There used to be a tuna factory as an alternative, but that has long since closed.”
The region has essentially become the 51st US state. What Mallorca is to the Germans is Cabo to the Americans. Out of California It’s only a two hour flight, it would be about a thousand miles by car San Diego.
Spoiled Hollywood and sports stars, tech billionaires, music celebrities and liquid mere mortals are only too happy to be seduced by the high standards and a decadent “anything goes” attitude.
Von George Clooney bis Tiger Woods
Recently, a tiger has even made its home in the species-rich natural paradise: Tiger Woods has with the “Woods Cabo” like in his homeland Florida an upscale sports bar opened with the Moroccan top chef Larbi Dahrouch behind the stove and a menu with Wagyu steaks, sushi and the finest wines. From the restaurant the view sweeps over the 18th hole of “El Cardonal”, the first championship course designed by Wood’s company TGR. Of course, the golf superstar also owns a villa in this exclusive resort community called Diamante. Just like many other high-profile people. Cabo fan, but now has no permanent place to stay George Clooney. The actor used to reside in „El Dorado Golf & Beach Club“ door to door Buddy Rande Gerberhusband ofEx-Supermodel Cindy Crawfordin the “Casa Amigos” complex – named after their tequila brand at the time.
Arrival From November 3rd, 2 x weekly direct flights from Frankfurt, condor.com
Beaches 25 bear the Blue Flag seal of quality. The most beautiful for swimming: The 3 km long Medano Beach, the horseshoe-shaped Santa Maria Bay, Palmilla, Chileno. Snorkeling: Playa Los Arbolitos in Cabo Pulmo. Surfing and bodyboarding: Cerritos near the worthwhile excursion destination Todos Santos
Hotels
- Montage: Chic, modern with 174 rooms, suites, residences. 40 gardeners make the barren desert soil bloom. Dream spa and fine bathing bay with coarse sand (Santa Maria). montage.com
- Palmilla: The “Hollywood Hotel” (actress Lucille Bremer played a leading role as a decoy around the opening in 1956/57; since then it has had guests from Hemingway, John Wayne to Sylvester Stallone) is a green oasis and was the first luxury residence in Los Cabos. oneandonlypalmilla.com
Nightlife At “Cabo Wabo,” founded by Van Halen’s Sammy Hagar, the lively house band plays cover versions of rock classics to the jeering of well-oiled US tourists. A must, especially on weekends. cabowabocantina.com
Information visitloscabos.travel
Direct flights from Frankfurt
And best of all: The hot celebrity spot will be accessible to guests from German-speaking countries faster than ever from November 3rd: Condor will then fly non-stop from Frankfurt to Los Cabos twice a week.
(kurier.at, By Andreas Jaros)
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19.10.2024, 5:00
