The staff are fantastic, especially the men and women who take care of guests at the pool-genuine and quick to offer a tidbit about where to eat in town or what their favorite mezcal is. There's also Paletas, which is more like a marketplace, selling handicrafts and gifts, but where you can also grab a quick cafe con leche and pan dulce if you're not feeling like a sit-down breakfast.
As is often the case in Mexico, the more everyday dishes are as good if not better than the big-ticket plates-such as the poolside Baja shrimp cocktail and tacos al pastor, alongside a Michelada (order it with Victoria beer-it's every Mexican's favorite and the staff will love you for it). Mezcal for reimagined Mexican cooking such as lobster ceviche, a beautiful local scallop tiradito with charred pepper aquachile, and nopal and calabaza salad. For sea breezes and optimal whale-spotting from your terrace, request a room close to the water. All of the rooms have ocean views and huge floor-to-ceiling glass doors that lead to large terraces with daybeds and dining areas, and outdoor showers. Buildings are low-slung and low density -which means privacy and quiet. Here, that means lots of creamy sandstone and indigenous hardwood, updated equipale chairs, and woven throws and wall hangings. Interiors reflect a new aesthetic that's coming out of Mexico City: traditional in terms of materials and craftsmanship but minimal and modern in execution. The hotel is the first international hotel from the American-based Montage group, which also has properties in Deer Valley, Big Sky, Palmetto Bluff, and Laguna Beach. The hotel looks out on the calm, cobalt-blue Santa Maria Bay with its crescent of silt-fine sand-it’s one of the rare beaches in Cabo where there aren’t crazy breaking waves and wily currents, where you can just wade right in and go for a swim. It’s a lovely backdrop for the clean-lined local wood and sandstone buildings set on 39 quiet acres of beachfront. Montage is a hotel that embraces, rather than tries to hide, the fact that it is smack in the middle of the desert, using native and drought-tolerant plants such as beautiful rock figs, all sorts of agave, and tall saguaro, instead of the area’s default unnaturally green lawns and garden flowers. In a part of Mexico packed with really great hotels, Montage Los Cabos feels both fresh and totally of place.
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