

Click here for reservations, or get in touch with the Fathom Travel Concierge, and we can plan your trip for you. Rates change seasonally and start at $525. Not only did Montage do an excellent job integrating the hotel into the natural landscape of the Bay, but it enhanced the public access and facilities to the beach, encouraging community and reinforcing the understanding that in Mexico, everyone owns the beach. Not only was our stay at Montage relaxing and luxurious, but I am happy to report that Montage has skillfully preserved that peaceful, secluded feeling that should have been its responsibility in developing such a private cove.

This fall, I went for a visit to find out. And when I heard that Montage was developing the property, I was pleased because of the company’s good reputation, but curious how a hotel on the beach would impact the relaxed feeling of Santa Maria Bay. Then on a visit to the area in 2017, I noticed access to the beach had changed and there was action on the flat slab of dirt where the hotel had been. For ten years, the property just sat there, as if the development had been abandoned. When I stayed there right before it was demolished, I had trepidations about what would happen to Santa Maria Bay and the Twin Dolphins property - specifically, whether it would sadly go the way of all the mega-resorts in Cabo. Adjacent to Santa Maria Bay was the old-school Twin Dolphins Hotel, a luxe haven for hippies and travelers that opened in 1977 and was torn down for redevelopment in 2006. There were no facilities and no restaurants, which meant it was a peaceful place to relax in the shade of an umbrella, float in the crystal waters, and make friends with the fish. Back then, the small, crescent-shaped, white-sand beach was a haven for locals and people in the know. I have been visiting Los Cabos regularly since 1980 (my family had a second home there for twenty years) and grew up taking the public bus to snorkel at Santa Maria Bay. SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico – Montage has hit it out of the park with Montage Los Cabos, the boutique hotel company’s first international outpost, located in a quiet cove in a previously undeveloped bay on one of only swimmable beach in the area. Jessica Cantlin, who's been traveling to the area for decades, checks out the latest from Montage. Los Cabos earned a spot on our Top Places to Travel in 2019 in no small part because the hotel scene there just gets better and better. The balcony at Marea overlooking Santa Maria Bay.
