642 guest rooms in a four-story, pale-yellow building with a Spanish castle design. Sitting areas include sofa beds or loveseats. Wood-paddle ceiling fans provide cooling in addition to suites' air conditioning. Decor features tile floors, dark-wood furniture, orange-tone fabrics, and white walls, ceilings, and crown molding. Tile bathrooms include twin-sink granite vanities. Rooms include 24 hour room service.
Unique amenities include Riu's renowned mini-bar and liquor dispenser, while some suites boast hydro-massage bathtubs and a jacuzzi on the terrace.
Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas has so much to offer guests. The location is only a short cab ride into Cabo San Lucas so you can enjoy town by day or by night and it has a great view of the Land's End arch. The beach isn't swimmable here but you'll find plenty of activity, as well as a few quiet places, around the pool. Don't miss the Japanese restaurant!
Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas impressive architecture and 642 deluxe guestrooms are set in a spectacular enclave facing one of Los Cabo's famous landmarks. This fabulous resort sets a new standard for All-Inclusive holidays, with luxurious facilities and a full range of sports and leisure alternatives, not to mention gourmet food, elegant furnishings, and Riu's personal, exclusive service.
A lobby featuring a multicolored marble floor, carved-beam ceilings, and a dome with a massive wrought-iron chandelier exemplifies the decorative Spanish style offered by this resort, which attracts families and couples. Wireless internet access is complimentary in the lobby.
Sunbathing terraces with padded lounge chairs and flowering gardens, two mirror-image complexes feature heated freeform swimming pools with infinity edges, semicircular jetted sections, and in-water lounges. One pool is for activities; the other is a "quiet" pool. Each complex also includes a heated swim-up-bar pool with infinity edges, semicircular jetted sections, tables, and stools.
Although it's ideal for strolling and sunbathing, the beach in front of the resort is not safe for swimming because of powerful undertows. Medano Beach's safe-swimming and water-sports area south of the resort can be reached by walking 400 meters (437 yds) along the beach.
A health-and-beauty spa with five twin-bed treatment rooms includes women's and men's saunas and two open-air spa tubs accommodating up to six guests. An Internet/game room contains four computers with high-speed connections (surcharges), table games, and coin-operated video games. An ocean-view fitness center contains cardio and weight machines.
The majority of amenities, activities, and gratuities at the Riu Palace are included in the room rate; guests will not be charged extra for the majority of amenities and activities (scroll down to the All-Inclusive Details section for more information).
ALL-INCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Meals and snacks at all resort restaurants
- Unlimited alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, including domestic and international-brand drinks at all restaurants and bars
- Room service Continental breakfast from 7 AM to 10:30 AM (available by request and with 24 hour's advance notice)
- In-suite minibar with soft drinks, beer, water
- In-suite liquor dispenser with tequila, rum, vodka, brandy
- Land and Water Sports
- Introductory scuba-diving lesson in pool
- Snacks 24 hours a day
- In-room safe
- Gym, table tennis
- 1 floodlit hard surface tennis court, 1 volleyball court
- Sauna and jacuzzi
- Taxes and gratuities
DINING / BARS:
EL MEDANO - Air-conditioned dining room with high, decoratively painted ceilings, draped windows, arches, wrought-iron chandeliers, dark-wood trim, white table linens. Also, open-air terrace seating. Breakfast and dinner buffets daily. Themed dinner buffets twice weekly.
SAN JOSE - Freestanding, beachfront, orange-adobe, open-air restaurant with raw-log ceiling beams, white table linens. Italian buffet lunch, Mexican a la carte dinner. Dinner reservations required. Dinner dress code: Long pants, no T-shirts or sandals for men.
MISAKI - Japanese, fine-dining, air-conditioned restaurant with high ceiling, polished-wood floor facing enclosed, bamboo-lined, open-air courtyard around running-water pond. Open for a la carte dinners only. Reservations required. Dress code: Long pants, no T-shirts or sandals for men.
MAR DE CORTES - Open-air spot serving Continental breakfast, buffet lunch, snack foods in late afternoon. A la carte steakhouse at night. Dinner reservations required. Dinner dress code: Long pants, no T-shirts or sandals for men.
KRYSTAL - Gourmet fusion cuisine restaurant.
LA VENTANA - Lobby bar/lounge with terrace providing panoramic view of Sea of Cortez and Land's End rock formations. Red-brick domed ceiling. Sports on plasma TVs. Coin-operated pool tables. Pianist nightly. Open 21 hours for drinks. Open midnight to 5 AM (hours subject to change) for snack foods.
LOS CABOS - Open-air theater bar. Open early evening to late night.
LA PLAZA - Open-air theater bar. Open early evening to late night.
BAJA NORTE - Pool bar with swim-up side under cupola. Open mid-morning to late evening.
NAJA SUR - Pool bar with swim-up side under cupola. Open mid-morning to late evening.
PACHA - Air-conditioned disco with bar open late night to after midnight.
