Where to Stay

Best Hotels in Todos Santos: Where I'd Stay the Night

By Cabo Wander

Friends who've done Todos Santos as a day trip from Cabo always come back with the same question. Should we have stayed the night?

Yes, I think so. Stay one night if you're going for dinner, and two if the hotel itself is the point. Go Thursday to Saturday, between November and June, when the kitchens are all open. And pick where you sleep by location before anything else, because the three things people stay over for are in three different places. Dinner on foot is in the center of town. The ocean view is a couple of miles out on a dirt road. The swim is fifteen minutes south at Cerritos. No single hotel gives you two of them.

Here's the part I'd want a friend to hear early. None of the hotels in Todos Santos or Pescadero has a beach you can swim at. Every "beachfront" hotel up here is on open Pacific, so every one of them is a pool hotel. The only spot on this coast where regular people get in the water is one corner of Cerritos Beach.

So here's my short answer. Hotel San Cristóbal is the best hotel up here, if you have a car and can go on a weeknight. Guaycura is the one I'd book to walk to dinner, and it's the right pick for most people coming up from Cabo for a single night. Todos Santos Boutique Hotel is the in-town splurge, La Bohemia is the room under US$200, and the Hotel California is a photo.

I've sorted the hotels by where they are, and inside each group they're in the order I'd book them. I'll say plainly where I know less about one, because for a few of these I do.

Every price in this post is my rough estimate for two people per night with the tax already in, as a wide round range. They're planning numbers, so price your own dates. Late summer is the low end and late December through March is the top. Everything here sells the room without meals unless I say otherwise.

If you're weighing a night here against a night in one of the two Cabo towns, the small hotels down there are in the best boutique hotels in Cabo.

The Quick Version

• Best hotel, with a car: Hotel San Cristóbal, Sunday to Thursday.
• One night, walk to dinner: Guaycura, upper floor. Todos Santos Boutique Hotel if you'll pay about double for a much nicer room.
• Under US$200: La Bohemia.
• An ocean view for less: La Poza, knowing there's a lagoon between you and the sand.
• Families, or two nights of doing nothing: Villa Santa Cruz.
• Spa and never leave: Kimpton Mas Olas in Pescadero.
• You want to get in the ocean: The Cerritos Beach Inn, fifteen minutes from dinner.

Day Trip or Sleepover?

Stay over if you want the evening. The town is at its best after the day-trippers have had to leave, and that's the one thing a day trip can't give you.

A day visitor has to be back on the highway well before dark, so dinner, the plaza in the evening, a sunset on the Pacific and the winter turtle release all belong to people who are sleeping here. From roughly December to March, volunteers release sea turtle hatchlings at sunset on the beach at Las Tunas, and it's over right as it gets dark. If lunch and a walk are all you want, the day trip does that fine, and I've laid out the whole day in my Todos Santos day trip post.

I'd send couples up here for a night, and anyone who plans trips around food, and people on their second or third Cabo trip who'd rather have one quiet night than a seventh day by the same pool. Surfers and people learning to surf should stay at Cerritos.

There are a few people I'd talk out of it:

• Anyone who wants to swim in the ocean. The coves near Cabo are closer and safer, and I rank them in the best swimmable beaches in Cabo.
• Families with kids under about ten. Several of these hotels set a minimum age, there are no shallow pools, and there's no swimming beach. Villa Santa Cruz and the Cerritos hotels are the exceptions.
• Anyone who doesn't drive and wants anything outside the center.
• Anyone coming from August to mid-October. A good many restaurants close for weeks, and the low hotel rates are low for that reason.
• Anyone who wants a night out. Most of the town is done by about nine.

One more thing before you price it. Todos Santos is not the cheap alternative to Cabo. There is a value end, and I'll get to it, but a room with an ocean view starts around US$450 at every hotel except one.

If what you really want is a Pacific sunset and whales from the balcony without the hour's drive, the big resorts just over the hill from Cabo San Lucas do that, and I cover them in my guide to the Pacific side of Cabo.

One Night or Two, and Which Nights

One night is enough for the town. You get there by lunch, walk, eat dinner, have breakfast, and stop at Cerritos on the way home.

Book two if the hotel is the reason you're going. That's San Cristóbal, Villa Santa Cruz, Mas Olas and Paradero. One night at a US$600 pool is mostly check-in and check-out, and you'll leave feeling like you paid for a room you barely saw.

The nights matter as much as the number. Thursday through Saturday, everything is open. Restaurant closing days are scattered across Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and a Monday and Tuesday stay can leave you with a short list for dinner. Which kitchens take which day off is in where to eat in Todos Santos.

Here's my tip. San Cristóbal's rate is a lot lower from Sunday to Thursday, and the town is fully open from Thursday to Saturday. Thursday night is where those two overlap, so that's the night I'd build a stay around.

By season, November through April is when everything is open, the whales are offshore and the turtle releases are on. Nights are cool and an unheated pool is cold. The Pacific side gets windy from late winter into June. May and June are quiet and warm with long days. July to September is hot and humid with a lot of the town shut, and places reopen through October. One week in January there's a music festival that fills the rooms, and the first days of November do the same. The rest of the calendar is in the best time to visit Cabo.

Here's how one night goes from Cabo San Lucas. Leave around 9:30 and you're in town by 11. Your hotel will hold your bags, because check-in is usually somewhere between two and four in the afternoon. Park once and leave the car. Walk the center, then go back out around five when the tour groups have gone, because that's the town you didn't see on the day trip. Book dinner for seven. The next morning, check out and spend the late morning at Cerritos, when the water is flatter, and you're back in Cabo by mid-afternoon.

Expect an early night. The latest bar I know of closes at 11. In the center you'll hear traffic, then dogs, then roosters. Out at Punta Lobos you'll hear surf. I'd pack earplugs for either one.

With two nights and a car you have a full middle day, and La Paz is about an hour farther up the same road. What's worth doing there is in my post on a La Paz day trip from Cabo. And if you're here for a week, a night or two up here is a nice second base, which is the kind of split I plan out in my 7-day Cabo itinerary.

Pick the Location First

"A hotel in Todos Santos" covers four different trips. A listing uses the same town name for all of them, so check the map pin before you fall for a photo.

In town. This is the small grid around the plaza, where the old brick sugar-era houses are. From a hotel here you walk to dinner and to everything else in the center, and you don't need a car to stay. You have no beach and no ocean view, and the walkable hotels are the noisy ones.

Out on a dirt road. These are the hotels on the beaches and the hill around the edge of town, from a few minutes to about fifteen minutes away by car. This is where the ocean views are. The beaches are for walking, sunsets and whale spotting. You need a car, the last stretch is unpaved and unlit, and the hotel's own restaurant may be your only dinner unless you drive that road at night.

Pescadero. A farming village about fifteen minutes south, with a big spa resort on the beach and a design hotel in the desert. Both are places you check into and stay put. Neither works as a base for the town, because nobody walks anywhere from them.

Cerritos. The surf beach a little farther south, with the one swimmable corner on this coast. The hotels are simpler, there's building going on all around, and dinner in Todos Santos is a fifteen-minute drive.

Bottom line: decide whether you came for dinner, the view or the water, and that picks the area for you.

Out of Town, on the Beach or a Dirt Road

This is where the best hotels are, and it's also where you most need a car. Find your hotel in daylight the first time. The dirt roads out here have forks and very few signs, and after dark they're hard to follow.

Hotel San Cristóbal

San Cristóbal is the best hotel in Todos Santos, as long as "in Todos Santos" can mean a couple of miles south of it. It's 32 rooms around a really good pool at Punta Lobos, on the beach where the town's fishing boats run up onto the sand.

What I love is that it's a hotel with something to watch. The fishermen work right in front of the loungers, whales pass offshore from mid-December to April, and a hiking trail up the headland starts outside the gate. If the whales are the draw, you'll get much closer from a boat, and that's in whale watching in Cabo. The restaurant, Benno, is one of the better tables around and takes people who aren't staying. It serves breakfast and dinner and no lunch.

You can't swim at that beach. This is a pool hotel, and the pool is listed as heated, which I'd confirm for a winter stay. There's no gym and no real spa.

The room advice here is the opposite of what you'd expect. The ocean-view rooms are the upgrade, and they're also the rooms where the surf keeps people awake. If you're a light sleeper, ask for the pool or garden side. The king rooms are the entry price, and the rooms with two queens run about double.

Plan on about US$450 to $1,000 a night for two. A weekend night costs about 60% more than a weeknight, so go Sunday to Thursday. Breakfast is extra, there's a nightly fee for a dog, and there's a fee for checking in late in the evening. Rides arranged through the hotel cost close to double what they should, and that's the main reason to bring a rental car. Parking is free.

It takes guests from about 15 and up, so confirm the age when you book. It also hosts weddings, so ask whether one overlaps your dates.

I'd book it for a couple with a car and one or two weeknights. If you want to walk to dinner, book Guaycura.

Villa Santa Cruz

Villa Santa Cruz is the one for two nights of doing very little, and it's the rare top-end hotel up here that welcomes kids. It's a family-owned estate on the beach about ten to fifteen minutes north of town, with villas, beachfront bungalows and four tented suites right on the sand, each with a soaking tub and a fire pit.

Breakfast is in the rate, which almost nobody else up here does. There are two pools, stables, a farm, and two restaurants. One of them, The Green Room, is the feet-in-the-sand sunset table that people drive out from town for. In winter you're also the closest hotel to the turtle release.

The beach is for walking and sunsets, and you can't swim at it.

Plan on about US$580 to $1,600 a night for two. I've seen a two-night minimum, so confirm it, and either way I wouldn't do one night at this price. Check-in is on the late side, at four.

The road in is dirt and bumpy. The hotel runs a daily shuttle into town, and I'd still want my own car. Without one, you're eating every dinner on the property. For this kind of money I'd also ask about late checkout before you book, because it may not be flexible.

The tented suites are the rooms people come for. I couldn't find out how well canvas holds up in the summer heat, so ask before you book one in a hot month. Like San Cristóbal, it hosts weddings, so ask about your dates.

I'd book it for a couple or a family who want the hotel to be the whole trip. For a one-night taste of the town, it's the wrong pick.

La Poza Boutique Hotel & Spa

La Poza is the best value out of town, at roughly a third of what San Cristóbal charges. It gets far less attention than the famous names, and I think that's a mistake.

It's 13 suites beside a lagoon behind the beach, seven to nine minutes from town on dirt. Five of them are geodesic domes with a fire pit at the door. There are kayaks for the lagoon, a lot of birds, and a saltwater pool in the gardens. The sand is a ten-minute walk or paddle away.

I also like that it's honest. The hotel says in writing that the currents in front are very strong, and it sends guests to Cerritos to swim. Almost nobody else on this coast will tell you that.

Now the catches. The road is bumpy and hard to follow after dark, and I couldn't confirm that the restaurant serves dinner. It does breakfast and lunch. So ask, because if there's no dinner you're driving that road at night to eat. Some of the bathrooms are dated, and the spa and the breakfast are priced higher than the room would make you expect. Quiet hours run from 9pm to 9am and they're enforced. In Todos Santos that's pretty much when things go quiet anyway.

Plan on about US$205 to $440 a night for two. The minimum age is 15.

Book a waterfront King Dome if the dome is the fun of it, or a King Suite with a hot tub if you want proper walls. I don't know how the domes do in summer heat, so ask.

You need a car here. The hotel says so itself, in capital letters.

Los Colibris Casitas

Los Colibris is the pick if you want a kitchen and a sunset terrace for a few nights. It's a handful of casitas and suites on a hillside about a mile from the center, with wide Pacific views, a hot tub and a small café for breakfast.

The views are the reason to come, and for what it charges I think they're a very good deal. Plan on about US$110 to $265 a night for two. That's the loosest number in this post, so price your dates.

The road up is bumpy dirt, and it feels more remote than a mile sounds. The pool is the weak spot, so I wouldn't book it for a pool day. Breakfast isn't always in the rate.

It works for two or more nights with a car. For one night I'd stay in town.

In Town, on Foot

Stay in the center if dinner is the reason you came, and that's most people driving up from Cabo for a night. You can walk to every restaurant in the grid, and you don't need a car once you've parked.

Every hotel in this section has a noise problem of some kind. It's traffic, a bar or the town's dogs, depending on the block. Ask for an upper floor on the courtyard side at any of them. Parking in the center is on the street with no marked spaces, and the blocks near the Hotel California are the hardest.

Guaycura Boutique Hotel

Guaycura is the one I'd book to walk to dinner, and it's my pick for the one-night visitor. It's 14 rooms in a restored brick building right in the center, with a rooftop bar and a small pool.

The better pool is at its beach club a couple of miles away, an infinity pool beside the ocean with a shuttle running out to it. Ask whether the shuttle is free, because I've seen it described both ways. If you're coming in the fall, ask whether the beach club is open too. And go for the pool. Wherever you read that the beach out there is swimmable, I wouldn't believe it.

The weak point is noise, and it's constant. You get street traffic and the odd siren through single-pane windows, tile floors that carry sound, and the rooftop bar above the bedrooms. The ground-floor rooms have it worst.

Plan on about US$250 to $465 a night for two, with weekends higher. Breakfast only comes with certain packages. There's no coffee maker in the room, but there's a café downstairs.

Ask for an upper-floor Deluxe room away from the street. I'd avoid the ground-floor Classic rooms, which are the smallest and the loudest.

I'd book it for a couple who wants dinner on foot and a pool afternoon by the ocean. Light sleepers should drive out to San Cristóbal.

Todos Santos Boutique Hotel

This is the in-town splurge, for someone who wants San Cristóbal's polish at Guaycura's address. It's ten suites in a brick house from 1890, two minutes from the plaza.

You may know it as the Todos Santos Inn. It reopened in 2024 under the new name after a full renovation, with hand-painted murals, marble bathrooms and prices far above what the old Inn charged. It's the only hotel in the center finished to the standard of the beach hotels. The bar, La Copa, is where I'd send you for a nightcap whether you're staying or not. I'm less sure about the restaurant, which can be slow, so I'd eat dinner out in town.

Plan on about US$420 to over US$1,000 a night for two. Most of that spread is the suite you pick, and the season matters less here. The top suites have private plunge pools.

Book an upper-level Luxury Suite facing the courtyard. I'd avoid the four rooms in the Historic Building. They're on the ground floor facing the street, and you get traffic in the morning. Rooms near the lobby hear it start up early too.

I have less to go on here than at Guaycura, because the hotel is still new under this name. It's listed as adults-only on booking sites and the hotel's own site doesn't say, so ask. Ask about parking as well.

If the rate doesn't make you wince, it's the nicest room in town. If it does, Guaycura puts you on the same streets for about half.

La Bohemia Baja

La Bohemia is where I'd look for a room under US$200. It's a handful of adobe and thatch rooms around a garden, two blocks from the center, with a cooked breakfast at a shared table and hosts who'll book things for you.

The pool is about the size of a big hot tub. The town's dogs bark through the night, and the hotel puts earplugs and a sound machine in the room, which tells you they know. The rooms are listed with air-conditioning now, and I'd still confirm it before a summer night. Confirm that breakfast is in your rate too.

Plan on about US$130 to $290 a night for two. It takes kids.

I'd book it for anyone who wants a friendly, inexpensive base and sleeps through a barking dog.

Hotel Casa Tota

Casa Tota is the cheap central room, and it comes with its own bar. It's 15 rooms around a courtyard pool a few minutes' walk from the plaza, with a roof terrace that has a view all the way around. It lists free parking, which is rare in the center.

The bar plays loud music until 11pm three nights a week. Every room faces the courtyard, and the concrete carries every voice. The rooms are small, the beds sit on concrete platforms, and the hot water and drains are hit and miss. Read the cancellation terms before you pay, because the window closes about two weeks out.

Plan on about US$145 to $255 a night for two.

It suits someone who'll be out until 11 anyway. For the same money, La Bohemia is the better stay.

Should You Stay at the Hotel California?

No. Take the photo and sleep somewhere else.

It's a nice-looking red building with eleven rooms, and it sits on the busiest corner in town. That's the corner where the tour groups stand from about eleven to two, where traffic runs past the windows, and where parking is hardest. The famous name doesn't get you a better night's sleep, and the location gets you a worse one. If you're set on it anyway, confirm with the hotel directly that it's renting rooms for your dates.

It also has nothing to do with the song. Three better hotels are within about four blocks.

Pescadero

Pescadero is about fifteen minutes south of town. Both hotels here are places to check in and stay put for two or three nights, and I wouldn't book either one to explore Todos Santos.

Kimpton Mas Olas Resort and Spa

Mas Olas is the resort up here, and it's the pick if a spa and a pool are the whole plan. This is the former Rancho Pescadero, which reopened under the Kimpton name in 2024. Older lists still use the old name or call it a Hyatt, so don't go looking to use Hyatt points.

It has 103 rooms on the beach, it's 18 and up, and it is VERY quiet. There's a big spa with a lap pool, an infinity pool with a swim-up bar facing the ocean, and three restaurants. The gardens are lovely, and the staff are the kind who remember your name.

The beach is two miles of empty sand, and it isn't safe for swimming.

The catch is that you're captive. The nearest restaurant outside the gate is about twenty minutes away on foot along a narrow, bumpy track, and food and drinks on the property are priced like a Las Vegas hotel. Bring a car, or plan on eating every meal there.

Plan on about US$500 to $1,050 a night for two. Ask what the service charge applies to before you book, because I couldn't pin that down.

The upper-level rooms with a rooftop hot tub are the ones to book.

I'd book it for two or three nights of spa and pool. If this is a honeymoon and you'd like an ocean swim with it, compare it with the best Cabo honeymoon resorts first.

Paradero Todos Santos

Paradero is a design hotel built around its activities, and whether it's worth the money depends on how many of them you'll do. The room comes with a daily calendar of surfing, hikes, yoga, cooking and farm sessions. The architecture is striking, and the restaurant, Tenoch, is very good.

It's adults-only, it has about 40 suites, and it has no televisions, on purpose. It isn't on a beach. It's in the farmland beside Highway 19, and you can hear the road. There's one small pool. The bathrooms are separate from the bedrooms and aren't air-conditioned, so you step outside to reach yours. In the warm months there are flies.

Plan on about US$600 to $1,150 a night for two on the room-and-activities rate, with meals extra. Check what the total comes to before you commit, because the gap between the advertised rate and the final price looked bigger here than the usual tax. There's also an all-inclusive tier that adds meals, drinks and airport transfers. Price the airport transfer on your own too, because the hotel's quote can run close to double.

Sign up for activities before you arrive. They fill, and you can be turned away on your first day.

Book an upper-level Sky Suite over a ground-floor Garden Suite, which has less privacy and less shade.

I'd book it for two nights or more if you'll be on the 7am hike. For one night, in summer, or for a pool day, I'd skip it.

Cerritos

Sleep at Cerritos only if the water is the point. It's the one beach on this coast where regular people get in the ocean, in the north corner under the rocky point, on a small day and when the flag allows it. Everywhere else on the beach is for surfing.

The area around the beach is busy and still being built, with condos going up and beach-club music on weekends. You need a car, and dinner in Todos Santos is ten to fifteen minutes up the highway. The beach itself, the lessons and where to park are in my Cerritos Beach post.

The Cerritos Beach Inn

The Cerritos Beach Inn is the one I'd pick here, and it's the easy choice with kids. It has ten small rooms, a pool with a waterslide, a kids' pool, a rooftop deck, and a restaurant that serves all three meals. It takes pets.

It's south of the swimming corner and a short walk from the surf, so it isn't on the swim. The hotel's own site calls the water swimmable. I'd walk up to the north corner and check the flag.

Plan on about US$145 to $230 a night for two. Some rooms face the mountains and some the ocean, so ask which you're getting.

Cerritos Surf Town

Cerritos Surf Town is the surfer's choice. It's right on the sand, with board rental and lessons on site.

It's the rougher of the two. The rooms are basically concrete boxes, and in some the bathroom is divided off by a half wall. People who love it love it for the beach at the door, and in winter you can watch whales from the sand. There are villas with kitchenettes and cheaper bungalows that share a bathroom.

Plan on about US$180 to $270 a night for two in a villa. Breakfast has been included, so confirm it. Read the cancellation terms before you pay, because refunds can be hard to get.

If there are four to six of you, look at Cerritos Las Palmas too. It's six villas and suites around an infinity pool, from somewhere around US$200 to $310 a night for the whole unit. I know less about it than the other two.

The Ones I Left Out

El Perdido, in Pescadero, is a small adults-only place of thatched villas with an open-fire restaurant, a short walk from a surf beach that's for experienced surfers only. It looks beautiful, rooms run somewhere around US$400 to $650 with breakfast on top, and I don't know enough about it yet to rank it.

The budget rooms. There are a few places in and around town in the US$90 to $160 range. I know too little about any of them to send you there, so if you book one, check the map pin and call ahead in the off season.

Old names. A lot of lists for this town are out of date. If you see the Todos Santos Inn or Rancho Pescadero, those are the Todos Santos Boutique Hotel and Kimpton Mas Olas above. If a listing looks old or the hotel's own site doesn't load, call before you pay.

Getting There and Getting Around

You don't need a car to stay in the center. You need one everywhere else, and I'd want one anyway for Cerritos on the way home.

From Cabo San Lucas it's about an hour up Highway 19, a free four-lane road. From the airport it's about an hour and a half. You take the toll bypass, which wants cash in pesos, and join Highway 19 north of Cabo San Lucas. I've seen the airport run to Pescadero quoted at anything from 70 minutes to an hour and three quarters, so leave yourself room.

I don't drive this highway after dark, because livestock wander onto it at night. In winter the sun is down before six. So if your flight lands mid-afternoon, by the time you're through the airport and the rental counter you'd be finishing the drive in the dark, and then looking for an unlit dirt road to a hotel you've never seen. I'd spend that first night in Cabo and drive up in the morning. The arrival itself is in my Cabo airport guide.

Without a car, a private transfer from the airport runs somewhere around US$170 to $320 each way. Uber will take you up and won't bring you back. Taxis in town are scarce. The Águila coach from Cabo San Lucas drops you on the main street a few blocks from the plaza, so it only works for a hotel in the center.

Before you take a low rental car down the dirt to La Poza, Los Colibris or Villa Santa Cruz, read the contract. On a basic policy the tires, the glass and the underside of the car are usually on you. I explain the insurance in renting a car in Cabo.

What Gets Added to the Bill

Tax adds about a fifth to the rate you're quoted. I've folded it into my ranges, but the number on your screen probably won't have it.

After that, here's what to watch:

• Breakfast. Only La Bohemia and Villa Santa Cruz clearly include it. Nearly everywhere else it's extra, and at the expensive hotels it isn't cheap.
• Weekends. San Cristóbal is about 60% higher. Mas Olas and Todos Santos Boutique Hotel are closer to 20% higher.
• Rides. A taxi or transfer booked through the hotel costs a lot more than one you arrange yourself.
• Captive meals. At Mas Olas, Paradero and Villa Santa Cruz, the hotel's restaurants are the only dinner you can reach without driving.
• Paradero. Check what the total comes to.
• Mas Olas. Ask what the service charge covers.

I haven't found a resort fee at San Cristóbal, Guaycura, La Poza or Villa Santa Cruz, and I haven't found a timeshare desk at any hotel in this post.

The Verdict

Stay the night. The evening is the best thing about Todos Santos, and a day trip never gets to see it.

Go for one night if you're there for dinner and two if you're there for the hotel. Pick Thursday to Saturday between November and June. And decide first whether you came for dinner, the view or the water, because that picks your location, and no hotel up here gives you two of the three.

Here's where I'd send you:

• One night, up from Cabo, for dinner: Guaycura, upper floor, away from the street.
• A couple with a car and a weeknight or two: San Cristóbal, pool or garden side. Thursday if you can.
• Money is no object and you want to walk: Todos Santos Boutique Hotel, an upper suite on the courtyard.
• Under US$200: La Bohemia, with earplugs.
• An ocean view on a budget: La Poza, and ask about dinner.
• A family, or two nights of nothing: Villa Santa Cruz.
• Spa and pool, never leaving: Kimpton Mas Olas.
• You'll do every activity on the board: Paradero.
• You want to surf or get in the water: Cerritos. The Beach Inn for comfort, Surf Town for the beach at the door.

And who I'd steer away:

• Swimmers: everything here except Cerritos, and Cerritos only in its corner. A big resort on a calm cove is a better fit, and I rank those in the best resorts in Cabo.
• Light sleepers who want to be central: it's the same problem as in Cabo. Ask for an upper courtyard room, or drive out to San Cristóbal.
• Non-drivers: anything outside the center.
• August to mid-October visitors: wait for November.
• Anyone thinking of this as their only base: it's a long way from everything else in Los Cabos, so read where to stay in Cabo first.

If you made me pick one, it's San Cristóbal on a Thursday, in a room on the pool side. If I only had one night and wanted to walk home from dinner, I'd book Guaycura and not think twice.

And the way I'd text it to a friend: stay one night, Thursday to Saturday, November to June. None of the hotels has a swim except down at Cerritos. Guaycura if you want to walk to dinner, upstairs and away from the street. San Cristóbal if you have a car, weeknight, pool side. La Bohemia if you want it cheap. Hotel California is a photo. Book dinner for 7... the whole town's asleep by 10.

Quick Answers

What is the best hotel in Todos Santos? Hotel San Cristóbal, a couple of miles south of town at Punta Lobos, if you have a car. In the town itself it's Guaycura for the price, or Todos Santos Boutique Hotel for the nicest room.

Can you swim at the beach at any Todos Santos hotel? No. Every beachfront hotel in Todos Santos and Pescadero is on open Pacific. The one exception on this coast is the north corner of Cerritos, about fifteen minutes south.

Is one night enough? For the town, yes. Book two if the hotel is the point, which means San Cristóbal, Villa Santa Cruz, Mas Olas or Paradero.

Do I need a car? Not to stay in the center at Guaycura, Todos Santos Boutique Hotel, La Bohemia or Casa Tota. You need one everywhere else, and the last stretch to most of the out-of-town hotels is dirt.

Is the Hotel California worth staying at? No. It's on the busiest, hardest-to-park corner in town, with traffic outside. It's a ten-minute photo stop, and there are better hotels a few blocks away.