Stay
When to come to Los Cabos
The best-weather months have the coldest water. The warmest water is hurricane season. Here is the Los Cabos year with real numbers, month by month, and what each one is actually good for.
The Journal
Stories from Los Cabos.
Guides, recommendations and reporting from the people who live here. No sponsored posts, no press-trip copy.
Weddings & Events
What a Los Cabos wedding actually costs
"How much is a wedding at Esperanza?" has no answer, and the vendors quoting you one are guessing. Here is how a Los Cabos wedding budget is actually built: the four levers that move it, the costs that only appear once your guest list is real, and the one question to ask a planner about their own fee.
Experiences
A Cabo itinerary that accounts for the drive
Four days in Los Cabos, arranged so you cross the corridor twice instead of eight times — plus the three beaches you can actually swim, the one evening that is worth planning a day around, and what to cut for three days or add for five.
Stay
Is Los Cabos expensive?
Yes, and the usual advice — eat tacos, skip the resort bar — is aimed at the smallest line on the bill. The published numbers show what where you sleep, when you come and what the tax line adds are actually worth.
Local Services
Is there Uber in Cabo?
Uber and DiDi both run in Los Cabos. The airport is a federal zone where neither holds a permit, and in March 2026 the government agreed with the taxi concessionaires to keep it that way. What works on arrival day, and what works for the rest of the week.
Home & Living
Almost nobody in Los Cabos is from Los Cabos
Six in ten people here were born somewhere else — most of them in another Mexican state, some of them in another country. The retiree from Vancouver and the family from Guerrero came in the same decade, for the same reason. What that costs, what it pays, and whether it can hold.
Home & Living
The season Los Cabos started building for the people who live here
In fifteen weeks Los Cabos opened an overpass, its first Home Depot in San José and four Inditex stores on the corridor. Read together they say something the hotel pipeline does not.
Stay
Choosing where to stay in Los Cabos
Cabo San Lucas, the Corridor, San José, the East Cape and the Pacific side suit completely different weeks.
Wellness
A local guide to wellness in Cabo
Los Cabos has two wellness economies. Only one of them is used by the people who live here.
Experiences
Private yacht vs catamaran in Los Cabos
The choice is not luxury versus value. It is stability, shade, group size and what you actually want to do on the water.
Home & Living
How to protect a Cabo home from the coastal climate
Coastal Baja is hard on buildings in a specific, predictable sequence. Knowing the order tells you where to spend.
Eat & Drink
Where locals eat in Los Cabos
Los Cabos was built in fifteen years by people who arrived with better food than the place had. The restaurants everyone names were designed for visitors. Here is the context, and what we think comes next.