Customer Travel Tips for Cabo San Lucas
Customer Travel Tips for Cabo San Lucas
Read a selection of great customer tips provided by HostelBookers customers like you
27 May 2015
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Take a local bus to Playa Chileno for amazing snorkelling just off the beach. The beach itself is beautiful too.
Liked: Amazing trip to see sea lions, fish and pelicans everywhere. Great beach.
Disliked: Lots of brash Americans and lots of people trying to sell you stuff.
27 Jan 2015
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Visit La Paz and other towns of the beautiful Baja California but NOT Cabo San Lucas...
Liked: Nothing
Disliked: Everything
06 Jan 2015
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Don't go to any restaurant that lists prices in American dollars
Liked: Climbing on the rocks at the beach
Disliked: Soooo many tourists, it was more like the US than Mexico
03 Jan 2015
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Squid row
Liked: Fun parties
Disliked: No
02 Jan 2015
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Beach / sunbathing
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Go elsewhere, or book a high end hotel if possible, and use a service other than this one.
Liked: Whale watching, scenery, weather
Disliked: The nonstop hucksters trying to extract money from tourists for junk that nobody wants. Also, don't get suckered in to the high pressure resort sales tricks that catch you upon arrival at the airport, just past baggage claim.
30 Dec 2014
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
City break
Customer Travel Tip: We took the public bus from airport for only 32 pesos and the ruta del desierto bus back to airport for 65 pesos. Much cheaper then using a shuttle/taxi.
Liked: The weather was perfect over Xmas.
Disliked: You do get harassed quite a bit by people to buy tours, shop in their stores/restaurants, etc.
14 Aug 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Beach / sunbathing
Customer Travel Tip: If your shopping always bargain the price down.
Liked: The beaches.
Disliked: People trying to sell drugs.
13 Aug 2014
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Beach / sunbathing
Partying / nightlife
Sightseeing & culture
Visiting friends or family
Customer Travel Tip: Stay somewhere in walkable distance from downtown.
Liked: I love Cabo San Lucas. The people I have met there and continue to meet. The weather, the beaches, the nightlife. I could settle there permanently.
Disliked: I went in late July-August so the heat and humidity was intense! I wish I could figure out the local bus system.
24 Jun 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Beach / sunbathing
Relaxation / spa
Customer Travel Tip: Look up how to get to the airport and back from where you are staying (i ended up taking the public bus back to the airport) before you arrive. ATM's can be found at the marina entrance of the large shopping mall. Most people speak english. It does get cold at night so bring a warm jacket and pants for night (if you are not going out dancing but will still be outside)
Liked: The ease to get around, lots of things in walking distance. The night life is awesome and pretty safe. Most things are relatively cheap, and lots of water excursions. Lots of people who are also traveling.
Disliked: People call at you to purchase things like jewellery and excursions (which is to be expected, just keep walking). Lots of tourists (if you are not into that) and lots of things geared to tourists.. its pretty americanized (but the upside of that is that its quite safe!)
24 Feb 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Beach / sunbathing
City break
Events / festivals
Customer Travel Tip: Walk into downtown.. better shopping, food, etc
Liked: Weather Safe Easy to get around... Even on foot
Disliked: Beach was crowded
05 Jan 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Beach / sunbathing
Customer Travel Tip: Better go to San Jose
Liked: The weather
Disliked: public transportation
02 Jan 2014
Customer Travel Tip: Cabo is a busy place, if you want something quieter, try San Jose del Cabo with similar beaches and hotels.
Liked: Friendly people who enjoyed tourists.
Disliked: Trinket sales and excursions promoted on the Marina or beach area far too frequently!
30 Dec 2013
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Beach / sunbathing
City break
Customer Travel Tip: Go to La Paz if you wanna a real Mexican experience
Liked: The arch
Disliked: Too much people. No close good beaches, except Love Beach
06 Dec 2013
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Customer Travel Tip: Take a shuttle from the airport - its only 15 usd and was air conditioned and comfy.
Liked: Relaxing on the beach
Disliked: The baby lions being used as a money making tourist attraction.
14 Nov 2013
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Romantic getaway
Customer Travel Tip: Visit Madono Beach and do the sunset catamaran cruise.
Liked: Location, weather, scenery, activities and shopping.
Disliked: Aggressive vendors. Expensive taxi from the airport.
23 Oct 2013
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Beach / sunbathing
Customer Travel Tip: Do stuff
Liked: Everything is downtown and close
Disliked: I don't know
01 Oct 2013
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Family Holiday
Customer Travel Tip: Don't go if you are looking for a Mexican experience. We used it as a late-night arrival place on our way to an all-inclusive. We traveled to the all-inclusive the next day, thus saving ourselves a full day's cost at the all inclusive, as they charge by the night, not by the day.
Liked: Very little.
Disliked: It is a cruise ship stop and everything is geared toward that clientelle. There was virtually no evidence of local culture; it did not feel at all like a Mexican town.
29 May 2013
Travel Type:
As a family with children
Trip Type:
Relaxation / spa
Shopping
Sightseeing & culture
Visiting friends or family
Customer Travel Tip: If you are in a travel budget Is worth attending one of the timeshare presentations to get inexpensive activity packages.
Liked: Beach and bars, and safe to walk in downtown in the middle of the night
Disliked: Ladies with tons of kids in the middle of the night in downtown asking for money.
28 May 2013
Customer Travel Tip: Use prepaid vouchers and rent a car if you plan on getting around much.
Liked: Many very kind people and many fun activities.
Disliked: Some very pushy vendors and some rude inconsiderate drunk people.
25 May 2013
Customer Travel Tip: Don't be afraid of the bus system on Tourist Corridor. Cheap, easy and frequent, but sometimes the driver needs reminding to drop you off.
Liked: Fabulously clean ocean water and stunning rock formations. The locals are patient and try to understand even if you don't speak a word of Spanish. Street vendors sell super ripe fruit. Beer for 1 buck.
Disliked: Massive, opulent Mega-Malls block both visual and actual access to the water. Shockingly uneven sidewalks make walking dangerous and only for the athletic. Extreme wealth and extreme poverty within inches of each other.