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Hi my dreamers!
I hope you are fine and that your return from vacation went well!
As promised, in this last part of my 2018 Mexico travelogue, I’m taking you to California! But first, I’ll go over the previous parts if you ever missed them:
And here is the summary of this article:
- From Tulum to Cabo San Lucas
- Los Angeles or South of France? ^^
- Restaurants
- Beach club Blue Marlin Ibiza
- Boat trip
- Lovers’ Beach
- The scam before leaving Mexico
From Tulum to Cabo San Lucas
My sister and I shortened our stay in Tulum (we only stayed 3 days) due to bad weather. We decided to go to Cabo San Lucas, at the other end of Mexico, in Southern Baja California. It’s a city 5-hour flight from Cancún with a 2-hour jet lag. So we flew from Cancún with a stopover in Mexico City, where we spent the night in a so-so hostel, called Hostel Mexico DF Airport. I didn’t really like the Mexico City airport either because it wasn’t very clear, especially to collect our suitcases. It is an international airport but all the agents we asked for help, understood a little English and spoke only Spanish. Finally, when leaving the airport, a nauseating smell of garbage cans reigned throughout the atmosphere! Anyway…
Los Angeles or South of France? ^^
When we finally landed in the small airport of Los Cabos-San Jose del Cabo, we were happy because the weather was hot and sunny! I had never been to California so these landscapes with all these reliefs and all these cacti were new to me.
Cabo San Lucas is a very friendly town. It looks like Los Angeles but with its port, you could have the impression of being in the south of France. In the evening, it is very lively, like in Cancún with its nightclubs. But we noticed that in Cabo San Lucas, the prices were higher than in Cancún and Tulum.
Restaurants
Around the port, there are almost only Mexican and seafood restaurants. My sister and I wanted to eat something else than Mexican food after 2 weeks because it’s not very varied 😅. We found Da Vinci’s, an Italian restaurant that also offered dishes at more affordable prices. In addition, the staff was friendly and above all, the food was good! My sister had good pesto pasta and I tasted a pesto pizza for the first time, which I really liked!
Otherwise, in the Puerto Paraiso shopping mall, there are a few varied restaurants for a change from Mexican food (Burger King, Häagen Dazs, Subway, Asian restaurants, etc…).
Beach club Blue Marlin Ibiza
We went to the Blue Marlin Ibiza beach club which is located in a very large and beautiful hotel that offers access to a private jacuzzi on the terrace of some rooms 😮 There was music but there were few people. It was quiet and not at all festive, which I prefer.
The beach was small compared to those in Cancún 😅 What I liked least was that firstly, in our line of sight, we had two very impressive ocean liners in the distance. Second, we were bothered by merchants every 5 minutes (which was not the case at all in Cancún or Tulum). But it was sunny and warm and it was enough to be happy!
The menu presented dishes ranging from 180 pesos (about 8€) to 350 pesos (about 15€) and the list of drinks was endless. I had a huge plate of nachos covered in melted cheese and steak, accompanied by a bowl of guacamole and super spicy ceviche. The meat and the white sauce were very good. The beef entrecote tacos with tomatoes and guacamole were also very good!
Boat trip
One day, by chance, we met, surely the most French-speaking Mexican in Cabo San Lucas. He was a slightly old man, called Enrique. He is the owner of a taco restaurant on Melchor Ocampo street and he speaks French very well.
To take a boat trip, he recommended us Cabo Zaida’s Tour which is at the port. Unlike our experience in Isla Mujeres, this time we were satisfied with the excursion. For 250 pesos per person (about 11€, a reduced price thanks to Enrique, according to him), a small boat took us to different places of interest. We were able to observe beautiful fish through the window of the boat which gave a view of the depths. We were also able to see stones in Scooby-Doo shape (yes, the dog from the cartoon), a place where pelicans were, and another one where sea lions slept. Moreover, at the port, you can see some of them asking for food from the fishmongers lol. We also saw the famous arch of Cabo San Lucas, then two beaches with funny names: Divorce Beach and Lovers’ Beach!
Lovers’ Beach
We got off the boat at Lovers’ Beach. On this small beach, there is nothing so remember to buy something to eat and drink before going there.
There, we could swim on the side where the boat dropped us off because it was much less agitated than on the other side but therefore, everyone bathes in the same place. 😅 I don’t advise you to swim on the other side because the waves are quite strong. If you want to enjoy the sea quietly without being too close to people, I don’t recommend this beach 😅
On the other side, there was almost nobody. In fact, it is above all a good place to sunbathe and take beautiful photos with the impressive rock formations by the sea.
There are lots of different boats that pass by this beach so you have to remember the name, number, and color of the roof of your boat to be able to return to port. Generally, they run every hour until the last hour, at 5:00 p.m.
I liked this beach even though I didn’t swim there. It wasn’t too crowded, it was beautiful, and the shape of the rocks was fascinating.
The scam before leaving Mexico
Just before flying back to France, my sister and I had a bad experience with a transport agency called Easy Taxi Cab in Cancún because they clearly ripped us off.
We had time before taking our flight to Paris so we wanted to go back one last time to Playa Delfines, located 15 minutes from the airport. We wanted to take an ADO bus, which wasn’t too expensive but two people from Easy Taxi Cab approached us saying that the ADO bus would go through the city center before going along the hotel zone, where Playa Delfines is, so that would take an hour. They told us that with their shuttle, even if the price was higher, we would go directly through the hotel zone to get down to Playa Delfines, so we would be there in just 15 minutes. So we agreed to go with their shuttle. But the driver first went through the city center to drop off the couple who was with us on the shuttle!
In conclusion, we paid to sit for an hour on the shuttle. We did a big tour airport -> city center -> hotel zone -> airport. We had lost too much time, we could no longer make a stop at Playa Delfines.
We immediately demanded a refund from the manager of the two people who had sold us this service at the airport, but he didn’t want to hear anything. He was only blaming us, repeating that we hadn’t understood the principle of the shuttle, which necessarily goes through the city center first! So he refused to grant us any compensation!
That was a bad experience at the end of our trip but I loved everything about my trip to Mexico 😅
And you, have you ever been to Cabo San Lucas? What place(s) in Mexico would you like to visit?
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