Option 01 · Mexico · Pacific Coast · ★ Top Pick

Los Cabos

Your Secrets Moxché format — swim-out suite, butler, all-inclusive ease — upgraded to a two-Michelin-star resort, on a coast that stays flawless in a record seaweed year.

Guaranteed clean beach From Ottawa (YOW) · 2 stops Arrive 1:43 PM 2-Michelin-star on-site
Why it wins

The surest "everything works"

Cabo sits on the Pacific and Sea of Cortez — completely outside the Atlantic sargassum belt — so the beach is a non-issue this summer. It's also the only option here pairing an all-inclusive, butler-serviced, swim-out-suite resort with a genuine two-Michelin-star table. Add yacht days to El Arco and cliffside dining over the ocean, and it's Moxché's DNA at a higher tier.

Flight (live)
2 stops
YOW 5:10a → SJD 1:43p (via YYZ + DEN) · ~CA$3,670 RT
Format
All-inclusive
Butler · swim-out / plunge suites
Hotel (live)
CA$1,653
Grand Velas · per night · Jun 18 · AI
All-in · 4 nts
~CA$13k
2 guests · ex-flights (on points)

Real photos of Los Cabos (Wikimedia Commons). For hotel & restaurant photography, use the links below — each opens the official site.

Highlights

The defining moments

Stay

Grand Velas, swim-out suite

Forbes 5-star, adults-only, all-inclusive. Plunge-pool terrace, personal butler, nightly turndown — the Moxché feeling, dialed up.

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Dine

Cocina de Autor

The area's only Michelin star — a 10-course tasting by two-star chef Sidney Schutte, right inside the resort. Book on arrival day.

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Do

El Farallón & a yacht day

Tables carved into the cliff over the Pacific at the Waldorf, plus a private charter to El Arco & Lover's Beach with champagne stops.

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Where to stay

Three ways to do it

HotelFormatWhyEst. / night
Grand Velas Los Cabos All-inclusive · butler · plunge-pool suitesForbes 5-star; Cocina de Autor (2-star) on-site — the direct Moxché upgradeCA$1,653 (AI lead-in)
Waldorf Astoria PedregalRoom only (EP)Cliffside, every room a plunge pool, El Farallón on-site$1,600–3,500
One&Only PalmillaRoom only (EP)The icon — sits on the only swimmable Corridor beach$1,800–3,800
Day by day

The itinerary

Thursday · Arrival

Land ~1pm, swim-out & champagne

Butler settles you into a plunge-pool suite. Pool and beach to ease in. Sunset dinner at Cocina de Autor — the 10-course Michelin tasting (reserve day one; seats are limited).

Friday · Sea day

Private yacht to El Arco

Charter from Cabo Marina to the Arch and Lover's Beach — champagne and swim stops. Dinner at El Farallón, tables in the cliff above the Pacific, Champagne Terrace first.

Saturday · Slow luxe

Beach, pool & spa

Lean into the all-inclusive — cabanas, long lunch, spa ritual. Evening out at Flora Farms (open-air farm dinner) or Acre (treehouse + mezcal scene).

Sunday · Sea of Cortez

Beach club & a final tasting

Calm-water beach club; late lunch at SUR Beach House. Final dinner at Mezcal (Montage) — oceanfront, Michelin-recommended.

Monday / Tuesday · Home

Late breakfast, evening flight

Afternoon connections get you home to Ottawa the same evening.

Costing

What it runs

Flights · YOW→SJD (live)
~CA$3,670
per person RT · 5:10a→1:43p via Toronto + Denver · ≈ 183,500 Avion pts (all-biz ~CA$4,364)
Hotel · Grand Velas (live)
CA$1,653
per night Jun 18 (Sun 21 = $1,452) · all-inclusive lead-in suite
All-in · 4 nights · 2 ppl
~CA$13k
ex-flights · room ~$6.3k AI + yacht day + spa
Book the flights → opens Google Flights pre-filled: YOW → SJD, depart Jun 18, return Jun 22.
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Live findings · pulled June 16, 2026

No nonstop from Ottawa or Montreal — so we fly out of Ottawa and connect (no point driving 2 hrs to YUL when there's no direct flight). Best earliest arrival: dep YOW 5:10 AM → arr SJD 1:43 PM, 2 stops (Toronto + Denver), ~CA$3,670 round trip; an all-business routing (6:25 AM → 1:43 PM via Chicago + Denver) runs ~CA$4,364. It's a long travel day with an early start. The CA$1,653/night Grand Velas rate is the all-inclusive lead-in suite; the swim-out / plunge-pool category runs higher — confirmed at booking.

One honest note

Shopping is the weakest of the five here (resort boutiques + Puerto Paraíso mall, no true luxury row). If a shopping-and-supper-club day is what you're most craving, St. Barths is the one.

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