Wandering Around the Hotel & Los Cabos
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canyonwalkerLos Cabos Travelog #5
Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos - Sat, 4 May 2024, 9pm
At lunch today— a very bougie lunch— we made plans for the rest of the day. Originally we thought we'd spend time this afternoon on the beach, but the beach here is one of those "Look, but don't go in the water" beaches. Though there's welcoming looking sand, the waves are fierce and crash on rocks at the sand's edge. It's because we're on the Pacific Ocean side of the peninsula. It was similar at another Cabo hotel we stayed at years ago. At least on Monday we're changing venue to a hotel on the Sea of Cortez, where the waves will be safer to enter.
Instead of walking on the beach after lunch we took a short tour around the hotel.
One of the restaurants at the Waldorf Astoria is this swing bar. As in, you sit on a swing. I might have tried it for the novelty, though getting liquored up on margaritas and then trying to stay balanced seems like a bad idea. Plus, the drinks here are wicked expensive. They are really good though. The complimentary margarita they brought me at check-in— the one they handed me as I stepped out of the car— was phenomenal.
One thing we wondered about our room is how much of an upgrade we got. I mean, the basic rooms here looked amazing from the photos I saw when I booked. Having a private pool on our balcony made it amazing. But on our walk around the resort we saw that most room have private pools— and some are way larger than ours. For example, the photo above shows a two-level townhouse with a plunge pool big enough for a whole family. Our upgrade wasn't to the top room type or even second to top. It's more like second to bottom. But wow, it's still amazing.
After a tour while there was still light we decided to walk out to downtown Los Cabos. For as remote as our hotel feels, with the ocean on one side and forbidding cliffs on the other, there's a tunnel through the mountain that opens onto a street just a block or two from the edge of the city marina and city center. We walked out there to visit the flea market and the city's many jewelry shops. I'm not much for that kind of shopping but Hawk loves it.
The sellers at the flea market seemed kind of tired after a long day. We'd spotted a big cruise ship in the harbor when we rode in from the airport a few hours earlier, so likely thousands of tourists had already passed through here. But the streets were at least quiet when we came through.
The jewelry in the flea market was mostly crap, as we expected. Hawk is good at assaying stones in a second or two, sorting out real stones from paste and good stones from cheap stones— plus good paste from cheap paste. 😅 The town's many jewelry stores were better quality, unsurprisingly. We visited several as Hawk was curious to see different examples of fire opals, the region's specialty. But even there there were varying levels of quality. And we did find one fire opal necklace that she liked and I thought looked amazing on her... but she was concerned about the composition of the metal in the chain.
We came back empty handed from shopping. ...Well, empty except for a few drinks and sweets to eat in the room this evening. We decided we'd just snack for dinner, seeing as our lunch was late. And very expensive.
Back at the room we spend the whole evening in the plunge pool. It's like, why even use the hotel's pools when we have a private one to ourselves? We sat for a few hours and ate the complimentary chips and guacamole the hotel brought to our room while we were out.
By 9pm now I'm feeling pretty wiped out. It seems too early to go to bed, though it's reasonable as I've been up since 5:30am.
Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos - Sat, 4 May 2024, 9pm
At lunch today— a very bougie lunch— we made plans for the rest of the day. Originally we thought we'd spend time this afternoon on the beach, but the beach here is one of those "Look, but don't go in the water" beaches. Though there's welcoming looking sand, the waves are fierce and crash on rocks at the sand's edge. It's because we're on the Pacific Ocean side of the peninsula. It was similar at another Cabo hotel we stayed at years ago. At least on Monday we're changing venue to a hotel on the Sea of Cortez, where the waves will be safer to enter.
Instead of walking on the beach after lunch we took a short tour around the hotel.
One of the restaurants at the Waldorf Astoria is this swing bar. As in, you sit on a swing. I might have tried it for the novelty, though getting liquored up on margaritas and then trying to stay balanced seems like a bad idea. Plus, the drinks here are wicked expensive. They are really good though. The complimentary margarita they brought me at check-in— the one they handed me as I stepped out of the car— was phenomenal.
One thing we wondered about our room is how much of an upgrade we got. I mean, the basic rooms here looked amazing from the photos I saw when I booked. Having a private pool on our balcony made it amazing. But on our walk around the resort we saw that most room have private pools— and some are way larger than ours. For example, the photo above shows a two-level townhouse with a plunge pool big enough for a whole family. Our upgrade wasn't to the top room type or even second to top. It's more like second to bottom. But wow, it's still amazing.
After a tour while there was still light we decided to walk out to downtown Los Cabos. For as remote as our hotel feels, with the ocean on one side and forbidding cliffs on the other, there's a tunnel through the mountain that opens onto a street just a block or two from the edge of the city marina and city center. We walked out there to visit the flea market and the city's many jewelry shops. I'm not much for that kind of shopping but Hawk loves it.
The sellers at the flea market seemed kind of tired after a long day. We'd spotted a big cruise ship in the harbor when we rode in from the airport a few hours earlier, so likely thousands of tourists had already passed through here. But the streets were at least quiet when we came through.
The jewelry in the flea market was mostly crap, as we expected. Hawk is good at assaying stones in a second or two, sorting out real stones from paste and good stones from cheap stones— plus good paste from cheap paste. 😅 The town's many jewelry stores were better quality, unsurprisingly. We visited several as Hawk was curious to see different examples of fire opals, the region's specialty. But even there there were varying levels of quality. And we did find one fire opal necklace that she liked and I thought looked amazing on her... but she was concerned about the composition of the metal in the chain.
We came back empty handed from shopping. ...Well, empty except for a few drinks and sweets to eat in the room this evening. We decided we'd just snack for dinner, seeing as our lunch was late. And very expensive.
Back at the room we spend the whole evening in the plunge pool. It's like, why even use the hotel's pools when we have a private one to ourselves? We sat for a few hours and ate the complimentary chips and guacamole the hotel brought to our room while we were out.
By 9pm now I'm feeling pretty wiped out. It seems too early to go to bed, though it's reasonable as I've been up since 5:30am.
