Mexico
Mexico Luxury Travel
Mexico luxury travel gets dismissed as spring break, and that's a mistake. I'm Beverly Schulte, and the Mexico I book is Los Cabos suites with a plunge pool nobody else can see into, small hotels in San Miguel de Allende, and Riviera Maya resorts that hold up for a group of fourteen. The country is close, the flights are short, and the good properties are very good.
Mexico
Los Cabos or the Riviera Maya
This is the fork in the road. Los Cabos is desert and rock and dry heat, the water is dramatic and often not swimmable, and the resorts are adult in feel even when kids are allowed. Waldorf Astoria Pedregal, Montage, Las Ventanas. It's a two-hour drive from tip to tip and the corridor traffic is real.
The Riviera Maya is jungle and flat turquoise water, warmer and stickier, with cenotes and ruins you can actually reach. It's where I send groups and families. Rosewood Mayakoba, Banyan Tree, the Fairmont for a big family that needs range.
Puerto Vallarta sits in between and gets overlooked. It has a real town, good food, and a coastline south toward Yelapa that most people never see.
Mexico
Sargassum, and who tells you the truth about it
Seaweed hits the Caribbean coast of Mexico hardest from roughly April through August. Some resorts rake it at dawn and boom it offshore. Some don't. Photos on a booking site are from March. I check current conditions before I confirm, and if the timing is bad I'll say so and point you west to the Pacific side instead.
Mexico
Groups, weddings, and the people who have to fly in
Most of my Mexico work is group work. Twelve to forty people, a wedding or a milestone birthday, everyone coming from a different city. The trick is room blocks held early, one point of contact for questions, and a payment schedule that doesn't put the couple in the middle of it. I handle the whole roster so nobody's cousin is calling you about a flight change.
Sample itinerary
Six nights in Los Cabos, the way I'd build it
Built for two people who want quiet with a couple of good days out. It moves once, on purpose.
Day 1
Arrive SJD
Private transfer, not the shuttle, and not the timeshare desk in the arrivals hall. Forty minutes to the corridor. Dinner on property.
Day 2
Nothing scheduled
Cabo makes people want to fill the calendar. Don't. The first full day is for the pool and figuring out where the shade goes in the afternoon.
Day 3
Water day
Private boat out to the arch and Lover's Beach early, then up the Sea of Cortez side where you can actually swim. December through April you'll see whales on the way out and nobody forgets that.
Day 4
Todos Santos
An hour north, a real town, good galleries, and lunch that isn't resort food. Back by late afternoon. This is the day that makes the trip feel like Mexico rather than a hotel.
Day 5
San José del Cabo
The art walk runs Thursday evenings in season and the old town is worth an afternoon regardless. Dinner in town, driver waiting, no rental car.
Day 6
Home
Late checkout, transfer built with a buffer. SJD security backs up in the middle of the day and I'd rather you wait at the gate than at the curb.
Questions
Questions I get asked.
Related
Where this fits.
Mexico rolls up into a bigger pillar of my planning work. Caribbean and Mexico luxury travel has the wider view, and the journal has the notes I write between trips.
Begin
Start the conversation.
Tell me who's going and roughly when. I'll tell you honestly what Mexico takes to do properly, and whether I'm the right person for it.