Okay, let’s get this confusion un-confused right away.

If you’ve never been to Cabo San Lucas, it’s important for you to know that there are two different towns with the name CABO in them:  Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo.  Don’t get them confused!

Cabo San Lucas is at the tip of Baja and is the “CABO” you want.  The airport is located at San Jose del Cabo (SJD), which is a town located about 25 miles east of Cabo San Lucas.  SJD has resorts, but not as upscale as Cabo San Lucas; also, the weather’s more humid around SJD.  We’d like to say that SJD has some pretty cool ambience downtown – art galleries and restaurants – but Cabo San Lucas is where most people go when they think “CABO.”

In between Cabo San Lucas and SJD is the “tourist corridor” and many resorts are located along this stretch (Hilton, Westin, One-and-Only Palmila), but they are not in “CABO” and require an expensive taxi drive to get to CABO.  If you’re staying on “the corridor,” you might get tired of having to drive 20 minutes to get to town…