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LOS CABOS ACCOMMODATIONS Ask our Mexico Specialists to arrange your accommodations in Los Cabos! ON THIS PAGE: Before the Transpeninsular Highway was completed in 1973, Los Cabos remained the backwater that Steinbeck encountered. It wasn't until the mid-1990s that the Mexican government began developing the region for tourism. Since then, resort hotel, golf courses, and condo complexes have quickly brought the 21st century to La Frontera. Sadly, some of the new architecture along the shoreline is less than considered. However, a few havens of style have kept the neighborhood from going to the coyotes. ESPERANZA The Technicolor sunsets look digitally enhanced at this lavish 96-room resort on Punta Balena, or Whale Point, which lives up to its name when the humpbacks arrive for the winter season. What Esperanza lacks in shoreline - it has two tiny coves - the resort compensates for with rare tequila tastings. Baja lime-scented bath products, and a spa where garden paths are illuminated by candles after dusk. Esperanza's huge, airy rooms blend folksy (woven Guadalajara carpets, paintings by emerging Mexican artists) and modern necessities (wide-screen TVs). Ask us to book a top-floor room: the private terraces have infinity-edge hot tubs and unobstructed views of Land's End. HOTEL TWIN DOLPHIN Even after 26 years, this white-on-white retreat remains the most unpretentious in Cabo San Lucas. Isolated on 135 acres of the Sonoran Desert, the hotel has an angular Frank Lloyd Wright starkness to its open-air lobby, lounge, and 50 one-story casitas. Despite some cracked walkways and tattered slipcovers 0 the hotel will soon be undergoing a renovation - such icons of cool as Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and designer Kate Spade are regulars. LAS VENTANAS AL PARAISO The 61-suite "window to paradise" has a muted Mex-Med vibe. A Zen-inspired raked-sand entrance opens to beach views from the restaurant, private rooftop patios, and infinity-edge pools, where butlers clean APF smudges off your Silhouettes. Suites have pebble-inlaid headboards, hand-carved cedar doors, wood-burning fireplaces, and telescopes for star-gazing. At night, waiters set up tables in the al fresco restaurant with embroidered Otomi cloths from Guadalajara. (Order pastry chef Steven Lindsay's silky Baja lime pie - it's worth every calorie.) CASA NATALIA Nathalie and Loic Tenoux have fashioned a contemporary enclave facing a quiet square in historic San Jose that's for people who don't require ocean views or 24 hour butler service. What you get instead is a courtyard shaded by palms, with cascading waterfalls and terraces swathed in bougainvillea. The 16-rooms have regional flair, with embroidered pillows, Talavera pottery, and hand-hewn beams. ONE & ONLY PALMILLA Things will change radically when the Palmilla reopens this coming February as the 172-room One & Only Palmilla. So what does an 180-million makeover from legendary hotelier Sol Kerzner get you! Adam Tihany designing a sea-foam Fantasy for Charlie Trotter's C Restaurant, which will have an ambitious Caribbean-Mexican fusion menu. Kerzner has also tempted away Edward Steiner, the managing director who helped put Las Ventanas on every Hollywood Palm Pilot. Expect greatness. PUEBLO BONITO SUNSET BEACH The newest member of the PUEBLO BONITO HOTELS & RESORTS collection, is the first property to open in Cabo Pacifica - a 500-acre area of Los Cabos that eventually will house nine luxury resorts, residential complexes and a championship golf course. The resort, which opened in March 2002, is expanding in phases. Completion is targeted for 2007, at which time it is slated to have 700 rooms and suites, five swimming pools, a range of dining options and a European-style spa. Rates start at $195 per night for a junior Suite. 'Stay and Save' rates, including a 4th NIGHT FREE when paying for 3 nights, or a 6th and 7th NIGHT FREE when paying for 5 nights are offered through Dec. 22, 2004, starting at $165 per night. 'Stay and Save/ rates also include a $20 FOOD/BEVERAGE CREDIT per room per day and SPA ADMISSION daily. A MASSAGE for two is included on 7-night stays. Thanks
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