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Breakfast and a Walk Around the Resort
May. 15th, 2026 08:24 amMexico Quickie Travelog #9
Cabo San Lucas · Wed, 13 May 2026. 8:30am.
After a morning dip in our private pool we went down the hill for breakfast. When we arrived just after 7am there were already a few other people dining there— but only a few. I wondered if I misremembered the breakfast buffet's hours.... If it started at 6:30 we could've eaten half an hour earlier! But if we'd done that we wouldn't have had #LaVidaPiscina at dawn. Yeah, eating breakfast earlier wouldn't have enriched our lives today. I'll stick with believing breakfast starts at 7.
As a Hilton Diamond elite I get breakfast for free at this property. It's just a continental breakfast, though... which is coffee, juice, muffins, cereal, and yogurt, or something like that. I guess that's a fine breakfast if you like cereal and yogurt. We like pretty much nothing on that spread. So we chose option (B), which is to upgrade to the full breakfast buffet. With tax and service charges it was a bit over $60 for the two of us. That's way more than we'd normally spend on breakfast, but we figured a) we're on vacation, and b) we'd try it today. If it sucks we don't come back tomorrow.
Well, the breakfast buffet was delicious. It was so good I forgot to photograph it until I was almost done. 🤣 On the plate you see the remnants of a shredded beef quesadilla (left), a pork tamale (right), and a pork huarache (back). All were made fresh in the hotel, as was the avocado salsa in the small cup on the right. The butter in the dish at the back was likely store-bought. 😅 Oh, and the pineapple-orange juice in my glass was fresly squeezed.
After breakfast we walked around the common areas at the resort. The cafe is down by the beach along with most of the facilities, so we figured as long as we're down here we might as well check them out.
This is the adults-only pool. The water feels not quite warm enough to enjoy. Actually, I think the water's the same temperature as the plunge pool on our balcony, but down here there's more of a breeze whipping off the ocean. That makes it feel colder when any part of you is wet and not in the water. We could sit out here at the loungers and enjoy the view... but we can also do that from the relative privacy of our own balcony.
The room we have, as nice as it is, is actually the basic accommodations at this resort. A few notches above our room is a bi-level casita like this, with 2-3 bedrooms and a full kitchen. It also has a much larger "private" pool. We were offered this kind of digs as a paid upgrade but figured it wasn't worth it. First, we don't need the extra bedrooms or the full kitchen. Second, that pool is nice and big but it's not really private. Down here on the main level, in the open, everyone can see you in your pool. In our pool we have relative privacy. In fact, as the resort seems to be at less than 20% occupancy right now, we've enjoyed total privacy as nobody has been on any of the, like, three other balconies that have line-of-sight to ours.
So, which one is ours? Here's a view from one of the pools just off the beach:
Yeah, we're all the way at the back! That's different from our previous visit two years ago, when we were closer to the ocean. But, you know, it doesn't feel like we're out of the action. The only action we really want anyway is spending all day in our private pool. Speaking of which... it's time for #LaVidaPiscina for the next 3 hours!
Cabo San Lucas · Wed, 13 May 2026. 8:30am.
After a morning dip in our private pool we went down the hill for breakfast. When we arrived just after 7am there were already a few other people dining there— but only a few. I wondered if I misremembered the breakfast buffet's hours.... If it started at 6:30 we could've eaten half an hour earlier! But if we'd done that we wouldn't have had #LaVidaPiscina at dawn. Yeah, eating breakfast earlier wouldn't have enriched our lives today. I'll stick with believing breakfast starts at 7.
As a Hilton Diamond elite I get breakfast for free at this property. It's just a continental breakfast, though... which is coffee, juice, muffins, cereal, and yogurt, or something like that. I guess that's a fine breakfast if you like cereal and yogurt. We like pretty much nothing on that spread. So we chose option (B), which is to upgrade to the full breakfast buffet. With tax and service charges it was a bit over $60 for the two of us. That's way more than we'd normally spend on breakfast, but we figured a) we're on vacation, and b) we'd try it today. If it sucks we don't come back tomorrow.
Well, the breakfast buffet was delicious. It was so good I forgot to photograph it until I was almost done. 🤣 On the plate you see the remnants of a shredded beef quesadilla (left), a pork tamale (right), and a pork huarache (back). All were made fresh in the hotel, as was the avocado salsa in the small cup on the right. The butter in the dish at the back was likely store-bought. 😅 Oh, and the pineapple-orange juice in my glass was fresly squeezed.
After breakfast we walked around the common areas at the resort. The cafe is down by the beach along with most of the facilities, so we figured as long as we're down here we might as well check them out.
This is the adults-only pool. The water feels not quite warm enough to enjoy. Actually, I think the water's the same temperature as the plunge pool on our balcony, but down here there's more of a breeze whipping off the ocean. That makes it feel colder when any part of you is wet and not in the water. We could sit out here at the loungers and enjoy the view... but we can also do that from the relative privacy of our own balcony.
The room we have, as nice as it is, is actually the basic accommodations at this resort. A few notches above our room is a bi-level casita like this, with 2-3 bedrooms and a full kitchen. It also has a much larger "private" pool. We were offered this kind of digs as a paid upgrade but figured it wasn't worth it. First, we don't need the extra bedrooms or the full kitchen. Second, that pool is nice and big but it's not really private. Down here on the main level, in the open, everyone can see you in your pool. In our pool we have relative privacy. In fact, as the resort seems to be at less than 20% occupancy right now, we've enjoyed total privacy as nobody has been on any of the, like, three other balconies that have line-of-sight to ours.
So, which one is ours? Here's a view from one of the pools just off the beach:
Yeah, we're all the way at the back! That's different from our previous visit two years ago, when we were closer to the ocean. But, you know, it doesn't feel like we're out of the action. The only action we really want anyway is spending all day in our private pool. Speaking of which... it's time for #LaVidaPiscina for the next 3 hours!
