Ultimate Travel Guide to Los Cabos

Travel insights from Los Cabos Tourism Board

The Travel Agent’s Ultimate Guide to Los Cabos  

Bienvenidos a Los Cabos, one of the fastest growing tourist destinations in Mexico, where locals welcome life as it comes and international connectivity continues to expand. In a place where good things naturally come together, like the desert and the sea, it makes sense that connections, networking, and fun in the sun come a little easier, too.

Los Cabos Basics

  • Getting there – Los Cabos, aka Mexico’s premiere luxurious destination, is comprised of two towns, Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo. Travelers can easily fly into Los Cabos International Airport (SJD), which is approximately a two-hour flight from San Diego, Los Angeles and Phoenix. It’s the sixth busiest airport in Mexico and located 8 miles north of San Jose del Cabo and 23 miles from Cabo San Lucas.
  • Location – Los Cabos is dubbed “Land’s End” since it’s located at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula, surrounded by the Sea of Cortes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
  • Climate – Los Cabos is a desert with very little rain (less than ten days a year), very little humidity and wonderful landscapes where you can see that unique contrast of the desert meeting the sea. The sensational sun rarely disappears in Los Cabos with an average of 80 to 90 degree-days almost year-round.
  • Currency – When it comes to dinero, travelers have a variety of options. The peso is the official currency of Mexico, however, a majority of tourist establishments are happy to accept U.S. dollars and most major credit cards.
  • Language – Nosotros hablamos español, Spanish is the official language of Mexico and Los Cabos. Forgot to brush up on your speaking skills? No worries, English is used in all tourist locations.

Lodging  

Whether you’re traveling with a group of 10 or 10,000 people, Los Cabos offers a variety of venues ideally suited for your next visit. With 40 hotels featuring over 10,000 rooms, Los Cabos has a place that feels like a palace or your home, for every occasion. With many all-inclusive resorts, travelers can choose from traditional or modern and luxurious approaches during their stay. Travelers can discover the hotel that suits their style along the three main areas in Los Cabos: Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo or the Tourist Corridor, which connects the first two areas.

Food

Deciding between fresh seafood and authentic Mexican dishes is hard, but Los Cabos makes it easy with their delectable dining scene. It’s not just the tacos, burritos and quesadillas that come to mind. Since this is a rural region, acres galore of farmland implement the farm-to-table approach to its gastronomy. Plus, there are international options from Italy, Peru, China and many others that help cultivate and celebrate the cultural connectivity Los Cabos is known for. Their gourmet experience is as authentic as the laid-back culture that’s reflected wherever you go.

Fun

If you haven’t visited Los Cabos, it’s waiting to welcome you with warm elegance and unique, memorable experiences. Here are a few must-dos:

  • Adventure – ATV adventures take you along remote trails that offer breathtaking views beyond what you’ll see downtown, which are amazing, too. The Baja Ranch Tour and Camel Safari are as essential as the famous El Arco, which is Los Cabo’s most famous natural landmark. Like most Mexican dishes, it’s always a good idea to add in that sauce to really spice it up. So, toss in a full-day trip to a coral reef at Cabo Pulmo, a Mexican National Marine Park. Another way to naturally experience life at sea is by going whale watching along the Baja Peninsula.
  • Beaches – Los Cabos has 19 blue flag certified beaches, topping the list in Mexico. Many hotels have swimmable beaches and Los Cabos also offer public beaches or beach clubs in case your hotels doesn’t.
  • Unique Attractions – There are luxury sailing, snorkeling and cruise experiences in Los Cabos, which makes exploring the surrounding waters so easy. Horseback riding, walking through art galleries while simultaneously dancing to street performer’s music and shows is something unlike anywhere else in the world. Los Cabos is also dubbed the capital of golf in Mexico, so naturally that is another must-do when visiting.
  • Shopping – Visitors have many options in Los Cabos, from luxury labels and department stores in the city center to little beach-side weekend markets. Puerto Paraiso Mall has three levels featuring over 100 shops and businesses along with a movie theater, providing entertainment for the whole family. The flea market at the Marina has a variety of items available like handmade Mexican crafts, straw hats and jewelry.

Business

Los Cabos is evolving as a world-class venue for business meetings and events with a keen eye for modernity and state-of-the-art infrastructure. The Los Cabos International Convention Center (ICC) was designed with sustainability and easy access in mind, featuring 67,758 square feet of meeting space for a capacity of 8,000 people, three exhibition areas, 11 breakouts and 1,008 solar panels. The exterior beauty of Los Cabos is portrayed in the interior of this convention center. This green facility has one of the largest green walls in the world at 29,000 square feet that acts as an insulator to prevent overheating during the summer heat Mexico is known for.

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Travelution Fam Opportunity Oasis Sens Grand Oasis and Pyramids Resorts

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Your Travelution Inc specializes in training and teaching brand new travel agents the foundational skills to be a professional and successful travel agent.

Part of the many things that set Travelution apart from many host travel agencies is our focus on ongoing live events and educational fam experiences for all of our travel agents so they can learn the resort properties and the cruise lines by experiencing them first hand.  By personally experiencing the Vip Resorts and VIP Lifestyle Tranvelution travel agents can much successfully sell and represent a broad range of properties.

In the first year since Your Travelution Inc launched, we took our travel agents to 5 different countries with educational fam events sponsored by Club Med Sand Piper Bay, Go Go Vacations at the Waikiki Marriott, Lifestyle Resorts in Puerta Plata, Dominican Republic, Seminar at Sea by Carnival Cruise Lines and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines with stops in Nassau, Bahamas, Grand Cayman Islands, Montego Bay Jamaica, and Cozumel, Mexico.

As a result of active engagement and hands-on experience with so many resorts and cruise lines, Travelution travel agents are better prepared and out-producing many seasoned agents and quickening the learning curve substantially.  95% of Travelution travel agents are booking travel within their first 2 months.

Many travel agencies only allow the “seasoned agents” to attend fam events.  We at Travelution believe the best “seasoned agents” started as brand new agents going on their first Fam trip or first Seminar at Sea.

Brand New Agent Immersion has certainly proven powerfully successful with brand new Travelution travel agents  Inocencia and Jerome Chisolm,  with Signature Cruise and Travel, who never booked travel before and who have just finished their first full year with over 600,000 in travel sales with 5 separate group cruises and dozens of all-inclusive resort reservations.

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Travelution immediate plans include two fam opportunities in Cancun Mexico where we will learn all about the Oasis Resort Properties and the Moon Palace Resort Properties from May 29th to June 6th.

Oasis Sens Resort, the Pleasure Resort,  will be our home base where Travelution travel agents experience the incredible all-inclusive restaurants, drinks, entertainment and fun while we tour 6 Different Oasis Resorts including Oasis Sens, Oasis Palms, Grand Oasis Resort, Pyramids, Oasis Tulum and Oasis Oh.

Some of the restaurants Travelution travel agents will experience at Oasis Sens in Cancun have been written up in culinary magazine and received top honors like Benazuza where food creation is elevated to a true sensory experience.

Here is a recent April 2017 Tripadviser write-up.

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It’s not often that a high end “foodie” restaurant is so good that you visit three times in eight weeks. More importantly is the intangible feeling of magic, where the food, the service and the setting all combine perfectly.

We go to super high end restaurants all over the world, and we will be back. Kudos to Benazuza for giving us three of the most memorable eating experiences we have had. Well done!

Travelution travel agents will get to experience a one of a kind cuisine and combined entertainment experience visiting the Oasis Sens“The Black Hole” a true “dining in the dark” sensory entertainment experience.  We won’t give away all the secrets but they don’t call Oasis SensThe Pleasure Resort” for nothing.

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Here is a Black Hole Trip Advisor write-up 6 days ago.

5 of 5 bubblesFirst of all thanks goes out to Axel Rose for getting us the reservation for this very sought after restaurant. Alex was our host and server and it was awesome. The lights are out so wear black. The food is great and there is plenty of it! I don’t want to spoil it so that’s all you get for details.
The week after our Travelution educational Fam at the Oasis Sens the Travelution Agents will be visiting the Moon Palace Resorts in Cancun but we will save those spectacular fam details for the next write-up.
At Travelution, experience matters and we give it to you!  We hope you will consider Your Travelution Inc as your travel host agency to begin your exciting journey in travel.
To learn more about becoming a Travelution travel agent, please contact us 904-999-1290 or email support@yourtravelution.com
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Carnival Cruise line Hosts Travelution Seminar At Sea

Carnival Cruise Lines recently hosted a Seminar at Sea for Travelution Travel Agents. carnival_travelution_group

From November 13th to November 19th 2016, Travelution travel agents got to experience their first Seminar at Sea.

A Seminar at Sea combines the excitement, adventure and experience of a cruise vacation with a cruise educational experience.    Travelution Travel Agents got a chance to cruise from Miami to Montego Bay Jamaica, to the Grand Cayman Islands to Cozumel on a 6 Day Adventure.

The Carnival Cruise line BDM Business Development Manager, Kirsten Sanchez accompanied the travel agents where they toured together, ate together and trained together.

One of the most important part of the Travelution Seminar at Sea was to allow the Travelution travel agents to personally experience the cruise product with enthusiasm so they can enthusiastically sell the Carnival product to their travel clients.

Some of the highlights of the Carnival Cruise included a snorkel adventure in the Grand Cayman islands where they swam with stingrays and even kissed them.  The water was amazingly turquoise as far as the eyes could see just like we moved into paradise. stingray_encounter_2stingray_encounter_001

In Montego Bay Jamaica we enjoyed the a popular turquoise beach, historical sites like Rose Hall and shopping adventures together which concluded with a local food favorite Jamaican jerk chicken.   In Cozumel, we got to experience more snorkeling and aqua sports with delicious traditional Mexican all-inclusive food, Margaritas and the famous shopping that Cozumel is known for.

Over sixty of the Travelution travel agents participated and created memories that will last a lifetime.

Your Travelution Inc has a strong focus on training and personal experience and Travelution Travel Agents get to follow their passion of travel, more than they ever dreamed of with a family of Travelution Travel Agents who share the same passion for travel.

Next Up for Travelution Travel Agents- a Fam Trip to Puerta Plata, Dominican Republic in January.  Hope to see you there!

 

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Royal Caribbean Invites Top Travelution Agents to Inaugural Launch of The Harmony of the Sea

Travelution Travel Agents have had a very busy and exciting November and December full of cruising the high seas. harmony_of_the_sea_ino

During Cruise World– a top travel agent event where the top cruise lines and suppliers come together with thousands of agents, Travelution agents were given a special invitation and honor to join the highly coveted Inaugural Launch of Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Sea.

Dave Manning and Faraday Hosseinipour, owners of Your Travelution Inc and top producing travel agents Inocencia and Jerome Chisolm of Signature Cruise and Travel got to experience the largest most spectacular ship at sea first hand and got to experience the awe and amazement with everything the Harmony of the Sea has to offer.  From the Abyss, which is the largest and highest cruise slide in existence, to the top of the line flow-riders, rock-climbing, zip-lining, water-slides, carousels, boardwalks and bionic bars-everything about the Harmony of the Sea was first class!

The Harmony of the Sea, the largest ship at sea, was built with 7 distinct neighborhoods.

Central Park offers trendy restaurant choices and shopping to your hearts content.  Royal Promenade is the perfect neighborhood for a pub-hop, restaurants and more shopping.  Royal Pomenade features the Bionic Bar– where you can have fun ordering your custom drinks with a bionic bartender.  The Boardwalk features the spinning carousel and arcade.  Johnnie Rockets is a favorite hamburger spot before you watch a show at the aqua theater with aerial aquatics in the deepest pool at sea.  The Pool and Sports Zone will keep you busy for hours with the fast paced action, exciting water slides, flow rider, miniature golf, basketball and more.  Vitality Spa and Fitness serves up an amazing spa experience and a fitness room and class selection that won’t have you breaking from your fitness routine.
Entertainment Place keeps you entertained serving up comedy, a Vegas Style Casino-Royale experience and broadway quality productions like Grease. Youth Zone offers everything the kids could possibly want to keep them entertained for hours!

The small things that matter to busy entrepreneurs that you will really appreciate about Harmony of the Sea is the Voom internet that offers the fastest internet at sea.  We also appreciated the huge selection of top class restaurants and bars.

The suite class of category offers the over the top luxury experience you have come to expect on an all-inclusive luxury vacation and your personal Genie in the Royal Suite  is there to answer your every wish, as long as it’s legal.

We enjoyed the opportunity and the honor to be invited on the inaugural launching of this spectacular ship.  Please contact us to book into the Thanksgiving Holiday Harmony of the Sea Group Cruise Inocencia and Jerome have scheduled for November of 2018.  We know you will enjoy it as much as we did. harmony_faraday_and_ino

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Royal Caribbean International Invites Top Travelution Agents to Port Canaveral Space Center Fam

Travelution travel agentsts are back at at just one day after getting home from a Club Med  Sponsored Learning Event at Club Med Sand Piper Bay.  

Travelution travel agents are different and they take the business of their travel clients deadly serious!

That is why so many are having extraordinary travel success with no travel agent backgrounds or experience.

Take Inocencia and Jerome Chisolm who spent the 4 Days with Royal Caribbean Strategic Business Development Manager Kelly Sackyrd and their fellow Travelution agent veteran Ray Steen with Sandee Beach Travel.   ino_and_jerome_royal

Inocencia and Jerome Chisolm with Signature Cruise and Travel had no prior background in travel prior to Travelution.  Jerome, a hard working programmer was laid off from his job and the couple struggled to take care of their family with one income.   They relied on their faith and belief in God and each other to get past the hard times.  Little did they know that their faith and close involvement with their church and ministries across the country would develop into  enthusiastic groups of travelers resulting in close to a half million dollars in group cruises and all-inclusive get-aways.

When you ask Inocencia Chisolm what is the secret to their swift success in their travel business she says, “We open our mouths and share our enthusiasm!”

I can tell you from personal experience and being along side Inocencia and Jerome on 5 group Fams “familiarization trips” and educational travel events I have attended with this super couple- there is much more to the secret of their success.  They go to the “next level” and do it “all” for their client- whether it is going down the Abyss on Harmony of the Sea, ziplining, experiencing the flow-rider on Harmony of the Sea or kissing stingrays in the Cayman Islands.  This couple and their fellow agent Ray Steen will do it all for their clients!  The only way to fully service their travel clients is “experience the travel first hand” so theycan give an accurate description and be an informed travel adviser who their travel clients can rely on.

After 3 nights in Club Med Sandpiper Bay, the next day Inocencia and Jerome Chisolm along with fellow Travelution agent Ray Steen enbarked on a 4 day travel learning adventure sponsored by Royal Caribbean and super strategic business manager Kelly Sakyrd.    The Space Coast Fam included 2 Royal Caribbean cruise inspections on Majesty of the Sea and super ship Oasis of the Sea which has moved to the Port Canaveral Port.  The travel tribe also explored the local port hotels like Hilton, Radison, Courtyard Marriott of Cape Canaveral, Best Western Cocoa Beach,  the Homewood Suites Cocoa Beach and Surfside Hotel, a fun and trendy beach front hotel.

The NASA Kennedy Space Center visit was part of the outstandingly well planned out fam “Familiarization Trip” to not only orient our Travelution agents with the Port Canaveral Royal Caribbean ships and port hotels but with the local attractions like the Cocoa Beach Pier and Pelican’s Bar and Grill, a local favorite on the pier with great food and fun.

This is going “above and beyond” for their clients.  This is what sets Travelution agents apart- and this is how our agents take their business seriously and have fun at the same time!

Thank you kindly to Royal Caribbean and our amazing bdm business development manager for putting this amazing Fam “familiarization trip” together.  Thank you to our amazing agents Inocencia and Jerome Chisolm and Ray Steen for taking your business seriously and being great ambassadors of travel and of Travelution.

Next up with Royal Caribbean is a 50 person Ship inspection of the Oasis of the Sea on December 18th and we can’t wait!

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