Reviews of the Rooms at Rui Palace Cabo

The Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas is a beachfront 5-star luxury all-inclusive resort on the beautiful white sand El Médano Beach (Playa El Médano) on the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula. At the Cabo San Lucas Riu Palace y'all'll savour outstanding views of the famous rock formations across Cabo Bay, while enjoying high-quality Mexican, American and international cuisine at the wide selection of restaurants, or a premium drink from one of the many confined.

Despite beingness one of the best spread-out resorts in Cabo San Lucas, information technology is a family-friendly Cabo resort. The Riu Palace maintains a wonderful balance of being a relaxing, luxury all-inclusive resort, while being welcoming for kids of all ages.

Whether or non you are traveling to Cabo San Lucas with kids, you won't get wrong staying at the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas all-inclusive resort. Below we share everything you lot need to know before booking your stay at the Cabo Riu Palace, along with our experiences at the resort.

Notation: In that location are 2 Riu Palace all-inclusive resorts in Los Cabos – the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas (the resort being reviewed here) and the adults-only Riu Palace Baja California. Unless we specifically mention the Riu Palace Baja California by name, we are referring to the family-friendly Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas all-inclusive resort.

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Description of the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas Hotel

As yous enter the main lobby of the 4-story spread-out Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas hotel, you can instantly feel the course and composure you will enjoy during your stay at this 5-star Cabo resort. The towering ceilings, a glass pyramid (reminiscent of The Louvre) and elegant artwork throughout the entrance hall is a just small taste of what is to come.

At the all-inclusive Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas resort, you will savor a broad selection of à la card restaurants and buffet restaurants, a generous number of bars, daily activities for adults, fitness enthusiasts and kids alike.

The natural beauty of the Baja California Peninsula is what draws many visitors to Cabo San Lucas. The beauty of the surface area is enhanced throughout the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas resort with 32,000 k² /38,270 sq yds of gardens, featuring thousands of bougainvillea flowers in bloom, alpine cacti and towering palm trees flowing with the current of air.

Unlike other so chosen all-inclusive resorts around Cabo San Lucas (where not everything is actually included), the Riu Palace is a true all-inclusive resort. During your stay, you'll savor complimentary and unlimited drinks and dining at every on-site restaurant and bar. The merely services which incur an boosted fee are spa services and/or excursions (glass bottom boat, whale watching, etc).

Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas Location

The Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas all-inclusive resort sits on an enviable piece of beachfront property on Cabo San Lucas Bay (Bahia de Cabo San Lucas). Facing southward-e you'll enjoy sunrises over the sea and sunsets backside the rocky hills near the famous Cabo San Lucas arch. Humpback whales can commonly be seen from shore equally you walk on the white sand El Médano Embankment for miles in either direction.

The all-ages Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas in Los Cabos is the eastern-most all-inclusive hotel along El Médano Beach. It's 4.5 km / 2.eight miles from town, 40 km/25 miles from the Los Cabos International Airport and 500 m / one,650 ft from a bus stop.

Riu Palace Los Cabos Civilities

Equally yous'd look from a 5-star Cabo all-inclusive resort, there are plenty of hotel amenities to pamper guests during their stay.

• Fast and free wifi throughout the resort
• Free sun loungers on El Médano Beach (in a segregated area which keeps the beach vendors abroad)
• Free dominicus loungers around the swimming pools
• Many of the sun loungers come up with a sun umbrella or awning to block the powerful Mexican sun
• ii free gyms, sauna and whirlpool bath (for guests who are eighteen+)
• An ATM to withdraw Mexican Pesos
• Renova Spa with beauty salon, massages and spa treatments (additional charge)
• Pacha discotheque (located at the Riu Santa Fe resort next door)
• Gift shop
• All accommodation, taxes and tips included

Hotel Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas Room Amenities

The U-shaped, iv-story Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas is a huge all-inclusive Cabo resort with near 700 hotel rooms. All guest rooms at this luxury Cabo resort accept:

• Turndown service
• Bathroom with shower and double wash basin
• Hairdryer
• 110 V electricity (the aforementioned as Canada and the US)
• Free Wi-Fi
• Fundamental Air-conditioning
• Ceiling Fan
• Minibar (stocked with bottled water, sparkling water, Pepsi, Pepsi Light, 7-Up and Dos Equis lager beer)
• Liquor Dispenser (stocked with premium liquors such as Smirnoff Vodka, Bacardi Rum, Jose Cuervo Tequila and Presidente Brandy)
• Coffee Maker
• A apartment screen TV with satellite channels
• Sofa or sofa bed
• Electronic in-room safe
• Iron and ironing board
• Balcony or terrace

Types of Rooms at the Cabo Riu Palace

In that location are 4 types of hotel rooms available for guests of the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas all-inclusive resort:

ane. Standard Double Room with King Size Bed

This is the standard hotel room at the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas. With a unmarried king-size bed (200 ten 200 cm), this is the perfect room for couples traveling to Los Cabos.

The Standard Double Rooms come with two view options: garden view or sea view. Given that the standard rooms at are the about affordable rooms at this luxury all-inclusive Cabo resort, your bounding main view likely won't be the best available. Don't worry though every bit you'll be soaking in so much stunning body of water scenery from many restaurants and locations effectually the resort, we imagine you won't even miss the ocean view from your room.

ii. Inferior Suites

The Inferior Suites at the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas offer two dissimilar bed configurations:

• 2 beds (125 x 200 cm) which are pushed together. Note, these beds are slightly narrower than a standard double bed.
• 1 male monarch-size bed (200 x 200 cm)

The junior suites come up with an integrated sitting expanse with a sofa, which is 2 steps lower than the chief areas of the hotel room. Junior Suites come with either a garden view, partial sea view or sea view option. Note, that "sea views" doesn't necessarily hateful body of water-forepart views.

This is the room blazon we rented at the Riu Palace Cabo. Nosotros were very lucky that our body of water-view room turned out to be an ocean-front room.

3. Swim-out Junior Suites

These footing-level suites at the all-inclusive Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas offer guests a terrace with access to a pocket-size private puddle. Guests must be xviii+ to stay in a swim-out suite.

4. Jacuzzi Suites with Sea View

Twice the size of the other hotel rooms, the jacuzzi suites are the best rooms at the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas resort. Featuring a male monarch sized bed and an integrated lounge area, you'll love coming dorsum to your jetted tub subsequently a fun solar day in Cabo San Lucas.

Notation, that some Jacuzzi Suites with Sea View have a hydromassage bathtub inside the room, while others have a jacuzzi on the room'southward terrace. If you have a preference, let the resort know at the time of booking and they volition try to accommodate your asking.

Swimming Pools

Every bit you tin can encounter from the aeriform pictures of the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas all-inclusive resort, in that location are enough of pools on the belongings. The two circular pools furthest from the bounding main are purely decorative though, which leaves the two larger pools closer to the body of water every bit the only ii pools you can swim in at the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas.

The two swimming pools are very large though, measuring 867 g² each (well-nigh 70% the size of an Olympic swimming pool). The stop of the pool nearest the hotel antechamber is wide-open circular swimming surface area with a fountain in the eye. The end of each swimming pool nearest the ocean features shallow in-h2o lounge chairs and an infinity pool edge overlooking the white sand El Médano Beach and the Cabo San Lucas Bay.

The Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas swimming pools are a uniform depth of 145 cm (4'ix") which is a very comfy depth for well-nigh adults to stand in, keeping just their head and shoulders to a higher place the surface.

For anyone considering staying at the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas with kids, there is a very small (14 thousand²) kids pool near the western-almost swimming pool. You'll likely want to spend time in the main swimming pools, and then you may wish to bring floatation devices for kids even so learning to swim. The pond pool h2o was besides deep for our 6 and 8-year-erstwhile kids.

There are two slightly shallower (3'11") circular whirlpools in each pool, with benches all around. The whirlpool baths are heated in wintertime.

There are over 700 lounge chairs around the all-inclusive hotel pools and beach, and then you lot should have no trouble finding one. Many of them are situated under structures where you can pull a shade over top, providing welcome relief from the tropical Mexican sun.

Mid-day, the resort staff puts up a volleyball net across the pool. You'll often observe an impromptu game of puddle volleyball going on throughout the 24-hour interval, specially as hotel guests first to get some drinks into them.

The Riu Palace Cabo Beach – Playa El Médano

The Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas is ideally situated in the heart of a very long & beautiful white sand beach. While the hot Mexican sun may accept y'all tempted to leap into the beautiful waters of Cabo San Lucas Bay, just yous must resist. A dangerous undertow exists here, and so the crimson warning flag is well-nigh always flight.

No matter, the El Médano Beach is stunning with exceptional views of Mt. Solmar and the nearby stone formations well-nigh the Cabo San Lucas Arch. Notation, that you lot can't quite see the arch from the Riu Palace Los Cabos embankment though – information technology's tucked away backside one of the rock formations.

Embankment walking is ane of our favorite activities in the world, and we were delighted to discover that El Médano Beach is walkable for several kilometers in each management. Walking to the westward takes you past several resorts until you achieve the Los Cabos Marina and beyond to the town of Cabo San Lucas.

The walk along the undeveloped land to the east is very enjoyable as there are less people, meaning yous can find more treasures in the sand. Beware of dead puffer fish on the beach every bit their scales are very spiky and the poison on them is very dangerous.

We walked east to the rocky outcrop at the east end of El Médano Embankment almost every twenty-four hours. The beautiful beach walk to the rocky outcrop took us about 30 minutes each way and was a fun place to hang out and let the kids play in the sand.

As you spend time on this beautiful Cabo embankment, proceed your optics on the water for humpback whales. Nosotros saw several humpback whales spouting during our stay at the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas. The best way to spot whales is to scan the water surface, looking for their h2o spouts. In one case you see a spout, spotting their bodies emerging from the water becomes much easier.

We spotted humpback whales from the shore on El Médano Beach nearly every twenty-four hour period of our stay in Los Cabos. Some of the humpbacks were very close to shore, and nosotros even had a few playful ones who breached over-and-over. It was a thrilling moment and was a definite highlight of our family vacation to Cabo San Lucas.

The Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas is ideally situated for sun worshipers. Sitting on a beautiful white sand beach facing south-east, sun bathers will enjoy direct sunshine from the moment the sun rises over the Bahia de Cabo San Lucas in the morning, to the moment it dips below Mt. Solmar in the tardily afternoon.

There is a large surface area of sand and palm trees adjacent to El Médano Beach in the Riu Cabo San Lucas hotel. In that location are plenty of comfortable lounge chairs and hammocks to sit and sun bathe here in the occasional shade from the towering palm trees. This sandy beach area within the Riu Cabo resort is attractive equally the touts selling souvenirs, hair braiding, etc. on the public beach are not allowed in, so yous can sunbathe in peace.

nine Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas Restaurants

One of the main reasons we chose to stay at the Riu Palace all-inclusive in Los Cabos was for the nutrient. We've stayed at many Riu hotels in the by, and the food is nigh always excellent.

There are 9 dining options for guests of the Los Cabos Riu Palace to relish. If for some reason this isn't enough, y'all as well have access to all the restaurants and bars at the Riu Santa Iron and Riu Palace Baja California. (Notation, this excludes dinner at the theme restaurants and no kids are allowed at the Riu Palace Baja California).

The Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas hotel states that appropriate attire is required for dinner. Nosotros asked them to elaborate on this and they said, "The dress code to our restaurants is coincidental. Jeans, dress shorts and nice sandals can exist worn, just no swimwear or sleeveless shirts."

Here are your nine dining options at the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas:

1. Mar de Cortés Buffet Restaurant

The Mar de Cortes restaurant is the chief cafe restaurant at the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas. This restaurant is where guests will savour the breakfast buffet as well every bit their dinner cafe.

The setting for the Mar de Cortes eating house is stunning. Located ii stories above the beach level, guests will enjoy dining on either a large outdoor terrace overlooking the bounding main, or within an airy primary indoor dining room.

The views from the Mar de Cortes outdoor terrace are but astonishing. Looking directly due south-due east where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Bounding main, the deep blue water extends to the horizon. To the west, guests of the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas are treated to an amazing view of Mt. Solmar and the rocks which make up the famous Arch of Cabo San Lucas (although you can't quite see the Cabo Arch from the resort).

Breakfast Buffet

If you dine at the Mar de Cortes restaurant for breakfast, you'll love watching the sun rising over the Gulf of California equally you relish your start cup of coffee of the solar day. We love that the Riu Palace Cabo has a full brand-to-order taco station available for breakfast – we'll eat authentic Mexican tacos iii meals a 24-hour interval, thank you very much!

Aside from the tacos for breakfast, you lot'll enjoy more traditional American breakfast fare, such every bit pancakes, waffles, salary, pastries, fruit and cheese. There is also an omelet station and a large selection of fresh fruit juices and smoothies.

Dinner Cafe

Diners at the dinner cafe will love the wide selection of international foods on offer at the Mar de Cortes. Nosotros were very excited to see a large sushi brandish greeting united states of america equally we entered the Mar de Cortes on our offset night (although the sushi at the Misaki Japanese eatery was far superior).

And, of course, we also loved the freshly cooked, authentic Mexican tacos at the taco stand. (Nosotros mean it – tacos for every meal!). There are a broad variety of other Mexican dishes which we highly recommend y'all effort, but there is also a good selection of American, Japanese, and Italian dishes on offer.

For dessert, there is a large selection of freshly cut fruit, a huge tabular array of single-serving desserts (cakes, pastries, etc.). There is also a chocolate fountain and a creperie station (we highly recommend the dulce de leche crepe if yous have a sugariness tooth and are looking for a local favorite).

ii. Misaki (Japanese Cuisine)

E'er since our daughter tried sushi on our family trip to Kyoto, our entire family loves sushi, so nosotros were thrilled to discover the Riu Palace Los Cabos has a Japanese restaurant. Misaki has two main rooms to dine in, the indoor room is tastefully busy in the Japanese style, but we recommend you effort to get seating in the outdoor courtyard, where a peaceful fountain flows in the heart of a bamboo garden. A wonderful setting for an excellent Japanese meal.

Diners at the Japanese restaurant will be treated to an aperitif of gyoza dumplings. In that location are many appetizers to choose from. 3 of us ordered a sushi plate, which consisted of 6 sushi rolls of the chef'southward choice (they were all delicious!).

Celine ordered salmon tartar, which was amazing! The salmon tartar consists of raw salmon chunks served on top of a bed of avocado. It's a delicious combination!

For our main courses, the kids had a 2nd serving of sushi, while Celine had pork noodles, which were very rich and quite succulent. I had seared tuna served on a bed of rice. The tuna was also very practiced, but the noodles was the clear winner.

The Japanese cuisine was and so practiced at Misaki, we decided to eat there a second time. Celine ordered the fish and shrimp tempura, which was splendid. As yous'd expect, the fish was delicate and delicious, and the tempura batter was light and a wonderful compliment to the fish.

Dessert as Misaki was our quaternary and final course of the evening. Our daughter and I had mochi (as she had read nearly it in ane of her Pinkalicious books), while our son had matcha tea sponge block and mango ice cream. Celine loved her passion fruit mousse with kokosnoot.

iii. San José Italian Restaurant

The San Jose Italian eating house at the Cabo San Lucas Riu Palace has quite perhaps the nicest setting for any restaurant on the property. Located very close to the sea, the outdoor terrace at the San Jose Italian restaurant is breathtaking. With rounded pillars and spectacular views of Mt. Solmar, you won't exist able to take your eyes off the scenery.

With so many amazing dinner options at the Riu Palace in Cabo, nosotros didn't arrive to the Italian restaurant for dinner, but nosotros ate at that place for luncheon several times.

For lunch at the San Jose Italian eating house, you'll savour a good diverseness of Italian dishes including pizza, pasta and lasagna. They too take roasted chicken, mussels, calamari and a large salad station. The tiffin food was enjoyable at the Italian restaurant, but non equally spectacular as the views.

The dinner menu at the San Jose Italian restaurant is total of amazing options including lobster ravioli, lasagna with portobello mushrooms, and much more.

4. El Médano Steakhouse Restaurant

The architects for the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas all-inclusive resort plain gave a lot of thought into maximizing the views from its signature restaurants. Guests dining at the Riu Palace steakhouse volition exist treated to more spectacular ocean views and the rocks near the Cabo San Lucas Curvation.

Lunch at the Steakhouse

The El Medano steakhouse is the most popular eating house for luncheon at the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas as information technology'southward all-inclusive cafe is much larger than the offering at the Italian eatery.

On offering at the lunch buffet at the Riu Palace steakhouse is a fajita stand, pizza, a salad bar, plenty of Mexican dishes, a large cheese display, hamburgers, hot dogs, French fries, seafood (with dishes like ceviche, etc.), pasta, various meat and fish dishes, vegetarian fare and a big fruit and dessert choice.

Dinner at the Steakhouse

I'll be honest, I was hesitant to swallow at the Riu Palace steakhouse. I've been staying at Riu hotels effectually the Caribbean area for over a decade, in large part because the food is consistently very good. The one exception to that was when I stayed at the Riu Negril in Jamaica (over a decade ago). We ate at the steakhouse in that location and to exist honest, the steak was similar eating an old leather shoe.

But looking at the carte for the El Medano steakhouse, they had filet minion… I couldn't imagine anyone butchering a magnificent cut of beef like filet minion, so we decided to give it a try.

A eating place with an enviable ocean view, you'll enjoy watching the sun set over Mt. Solmar every bit yous identify your order with your server. In that location's something on the menu for every meat lover, including several cuts of steak, ribs and even surf and turf.

Your meal will begin with a small chicken caesar salad along with a succulent crab cake. This is before long followed past a minor handbasket of freshly cooked potato wedges, served with gravy.

My married woman and I ordered 8 oz filet minion steaks, while our 8 year old daughter ordered surf n' turf and our 6 year one-time ordered ribs. I laughed when the ribs arrived. Our son unremarkably eats 3-4 rib bones at habitation, but his plate contained a full rack of ribs! Not that he minded – he loves ribs and was upward to giving information technology a go. All told, he probably ate a half a rack of the saucy BBQ ribs to himself, with the remainder of us having a os or two as well.

Our daughter's surf and turf consisted of a 5 oz filet minion steak and 4 large, barbequed shrimp. Over again, this was way too much for her, but she gave it her all-time.

I'm happy to study, the filet minion steaks were amazing, and zippo like the shoe leather steak from Jamaica. We hail from Alberta, Canada, which is home to some of the best steaks in the globe, so we have very high standards. The steaks were cooked exactly to order, the quality of the steak was very good and most of import of all, they were delicious. The big chunks of salt atop of the filet minion was the perfect touch.

For dessert, three of u.s.a. got apple pie with vanilla ice cream. It wasn't traditional apple pie, just information technology was delicious all the same. Our daughter ordered the layered chocolate cake, which was also proficient, but not every bit good as the apple tree pie.

5. Krystal Fusion Restaurant

We didn't make it to the Krystal Fusion eating place during our stay, just because in that location were as well many good dining options at the Riu Cabo San Lucas. The carte du jour at the Krystal Fusion restaurant was full of mouth-watering options, such as Iberian Ham starters, braised short ribs, creamy rice with lobster, beef filet and lamb loin.

6. Mumbai Indian Eatery

We also love Indian nutrient, and so I'g a bit surprised that nosotros didn't make it to the Bombay Indian eating place. Although the menu at the Bombay Indian restaurant is total of classic Indian cuisine dishes, information technology didn't have butter chicken, which is pretty much the just Indian cuisine our kids will eat.

7. Cappuccino Patisserie & Ice Cream Parlor

A beautiful restaurant on the top floor of the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas hotel, Cappuccino is a coffee and ice cream shop. Guests volition savor even more sweeping sea views while they relish a high-quality coffee, espresso or tea. In addition, there are light snacks such as sandwiches and ice cream to enjoy.

If you go along your eyes peeled on the Sea of Cortes, y'all may be lucky enough to spot humpback whales as nosotros did.

8. El Pepe Taco Grill

A very popular lunch pick at the spread-out Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas, El Pepe is a poolside taqueria and barbeque stand. The primary reason it is and then pop is the wonderful smells emanating from the grill, with several cuts of meat on the grill, merely waiting to be chopped up and served into a yummy authentic Mexican taco. Choices of meat filling vary, but examples are pork belly, beef brisket and lamb.

El Pepe also serves up BBQ American food, such as hamburgers stacked high with ample toppings, hot dogs, French fries and more.

Don't be put off by the line-ups at the El Pepe lunch taqueria and BBQ – the service is quick, and you'll exist eating a delicious lunch in no time.

9. 24-hour Room Service

The Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas truly offers 24-hour All-Inclusive with around the clock room service. The room service menus are pocket-sized, only volition accept something everyone will enjoy. Room service breakfast is served from 07:00 – 11:00 (if ordered before midnight the night earlier).

Room service for the residue of the twenty-four hour period includes favorites such as gild sandwiches, Mexican-style chicken toasties, nachos and cheese, salads and a selection of desserts.

6 Bars at the Cabo San Lucas Riu Palace

We visited the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas all-inclusive hotel with our kids, and then we didn't spend much fourth dimension in the many bars at the resort. There are 6 bars to choose from:

1. La Ventana lobby bar with terrace
2. Los Cabos lounge bar with terrace
3. Lounge 24
4. Baja Sur – poolside bar with swim-up bar (18+)
5. Baja Norte – poolside bar with swim-upward bar (xviii+)
6. Beach Society Chill-out bar

Activities at the Riu Palace Cabo

The RiuFit program offered by the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas resort has a wide variety of fitness activities for guests to enjoy during their stay. The RiuFit program includes cardio exercises, toning classes, stretching and relaxation both at the gym and at the pool. Bank check the agenda for the daily schedule of fettle activities.

In addition to the fettle classes, guests can relish two floodlit hard surface tennis courts and a volleyball court.

If you've always wanted to learn how to scuba dive, you can enjoy 1 free introduction to scuba diving in the resort pool.

Entertainment at the Cabo San Lucas Riu Resort

During the day, the eastern-virtually swimming pool is a hive of amusement action, with hotel staff leading many fun activities. At night, at that place is live entertainment at the open-air theatre. There's commonly a kids show starting time at viii PM, followed past the main show for the day.

Meridian v Things to Practice in Cabo San Lucas

Guests may volume many exciting excursions through ScubaCaribe, which has a storefront inside the all-inclusive resort downward by the beach. Excursions include glass-lesser boats to the Los Cabos Curvation, snorkeling, whale watching, etc.

If you prefer to volume your Los Cabos activities ahead of time, Go Your Guide has all the best things to exercise in Cabo San Lucas on offer. Based on actual invitee reviews, here are the top 5 things to do in Cabo San Lucas:

• Los Cabos: The Arch and Lover'south Beach Kayaking + Snorkeling: Savor an run a risk forth Land's Stop, where the Sea of Cortez meets the Pacific Bounding main. Snorkel around Neptune'south Finger, paddle past The Arch and visit Lover's Embankment.
• Los Cabos Beach and Desert ATV Take a chance: Explore driving your own ATV through the desert and Migriño Beach. Enjoy the dissimilarity betwixt the relaxing white sand and the barren desert, so discover the perfect identify to spot migrating whales from Jan through March.

• 4-Hr Snorkeling Cruise with Open up Bar: Snorkel in the warm waters of one of the nigh beautiful trophy in all of Cabo.
• Whale Watching Catamaran Experience: Go set for adventure as venture out into the waters surrounding Los Cabos in search of the Cabo's whales.
• Cabo Mar Mexican Flavors Sunset Prowl: Bask the all-time of Mexican cuisine on this spread-out sunset party cruise.

Riu Palace Cabo With Kids

In that location are two Riu Palace hotels in the trio of Cabo San Lucas Riu hotels. The Riu Palace Baja California is but west of the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas. The Baja California is an adults-simply hotel, which is why we chose to stay at the kid-friendly Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas with our kids.

Despite existence the premium hotel offering inside the Riu chain, the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas is very kid-friendly. A good percentage of guests hither are families with children, who wish to avoid the rowdy party scene at the adjacent door Riu Santa Iron (which has pool parties until 2am, four nights a week!)

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Kid-Friendly Nutrient

Parents of fussy eaters need not worry – there are tons of kid-friendly foods at the Riu Palace in Cabo San Lucas. For breakfast kids can relish bowls of cereal or yogurt, while pizza, hamburgers and hot dogs are available every twenty-four hours at lunch.

There are a wide multifariousness of dining options for dinner, but if yous have a picky eater, your best bet is the Mar de Cortes dinner buffet. Over again, your kids will love their favorites from home such equally pizza, hamburgers, french fries, etc.

The kid-friendly food at the Riu Palace Cabo is another reason why parents should consider a stay at this fantabulous all-inclusive resort.

Swimming Pools

The two principal pools at the Riu Palace are swell for kids, but they might exist a little too deep for kids nether 10. The water depth is 4'ix", so if your kids are shorter than that, y'all may wish to consider flotation devices for them. The whirlpools inside the principal pools are shallower, at 3'11" deep.

H2o Park for Kids

The best role most staying at the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas with kids, is that y'all get to go over to the adjacent Riu Santa Atomic number 26 and savour their super awesome mini-water park for kids (but and so yous get to go back to your much nicer spread-out hotel when you are washed).

The Riu Santa Iron mini-water park has ten kid-friendly h2o slides, ranging from ones for very minor children, to fully enclosed tubes with several twists and turns. A big favorite with all the kids are the two giant water buckets which slowly make full overhead – when they get full, the bucket tips over and drenches all the screaming kids beneath.

The h2o depth of the mini-water park is a much more kid-friendly 40 cm (1'three"), and so about every child can enjoy playing in the water. The mini-water park also has a palm tree fountain and a very shallow splash pool for piddling ones. Parents volition enjoy the shaded lounge chairs which surround the kids water park.

At one point in the forenoon, a RiuLand staff member arrived with an armful of animal balloons for the kids. A very nice care for for kids who are already losing their minds with fun!

The Beach

If you are looking for a kid-friendly spread-out resort where you can play in the ocean, you should be aware that the ocean in front end of the Riu Palace is typically considered dangerous to swim in due to undercurrents.

If you lot'd like to swim in the ocean, effort walking towards the marina and you lot may find that some of the hotels are flying yellowish flags instead. In addition, while the white sand beach is extremely beautiful, it'southward not the best sand for building sand castles – it'south not viscid plenty.

The sand quality is actually actually good for parents who don't desire their kids covered with sticky sand, but kids may exist disappointed that their sand pails don't make turrets for their castles. If you want good sand for sand castles, try walking to the rocky outcrop to the east on the El Medano beach.

Kids Club

In addition to the beach, the pools and the h2o park, kids tin can bask the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas kids club, chosen RiuLand. Located near the kids swimming pool, the RiuLand kids club offers daily daytime supervised activities for children ages 4 to 7 and ages 8 to 12.

Holidays and Special Events

The Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas all-inclusive does a cracking job jubilant special holidays and special events. For example, during our stay at the Cabo Riu Palace in that location were ii special events and they celebrated them both.

For Super Bowl Dominicus, many of the staff members were dressed in the colors of each team and the fun events around the pool during the day had a football game theme. Well-nigh importantly, they put the large game on a large screen in the theatre to make sure that no football fan would miss the Super Basin while on vacation at the Cabo Riu Palace.

We also celebrated Valentine's Day at the Riu Palace. The resort staff were dressed up as Cupid and his beautiful administration, walking around the resort giving Hershey'southward Kisses to everyone. At dinner, the master cafe restaurant was beautifully decorated, and the number of desserts were double the normal amount. They went all-out on the fancy Valentine'south 24-hour interval desserts, helping ensure that everyone had a special dinner on a special day.

Other Cabo San Lucas Riu Resorts

In addition to the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas, there are ii additional Riu hotels in Cabo San Lucas.

i. Riu Santa Atomic number 26

The Riu Santa Atomic number 26 all-inclusive hotel is a less expensive option than the Riu Palace. Cabo San Lucas It'southward a huge Cabo resort with virtually of the hotel rooms located behind the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas, well abroad from the bounding main. The Riu Santa Fe hotel has a minor section of beachfront property, so this is where all the resort guests besiege, making it feel quite crowded.

The Riu Santa Fe is also known for its pool parties. iv nights a calendar week the all-inclusive throws a pool political party in a multifariousness of themes including a White Party, a Jungle Party, a Neon Party and a Pinkish Political party. These pool parties last until 2am, and so if you are not the blazon of traveler who partakes in tardily night parties, perhaps you may wish to look elsewhere.

We visited the Riu Santa Atomic number 26 several times to employ the wonderful kids h2o park. The beachfront pool expanse felt very busy, crowded and noisy compared to the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas. We enjoyed the kids h2o park a lot, but it e'er felt practiced to exit and render to our more peaceful all-inclusive Cabo hotel.

In addition to the mini-water park, the Riu Santa Fe has a real waterslide park called "Splash Water World". Offering several h2o slides, guests must exist at to the lowest degree one.20m/3.9ft tall to be admitted. For rubber reasons, the minimum recommended historic period is 12.

2. Riu Palace Baja California

The Riu Palace Baja California is on the western edge of the three Riu hotels in Cabo. It'southward an adults-only v-star Cabo resort, then we cannot give yous a first-manus account of this belongings. For what information technology'due south worth, it looked very prissy from the outside.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can y'all swim in the ocean at Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas?

No, you cannot swim in the sea at the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas. The water in front of the all-inclusive hotel along El Medano beach is known to take dangerous undertow. You will most often meet a red flag flight here, which signals it is dangerous to swim in the ocean.

What is the difference between RIU Santa Fe and RIU Palace in Cabo?

The Riu Santa Fe caters to a younger political party oversupply vs the Riu Palace hotels in Cabo, in large role due to the 4x per week pool parties which last until 2am. Groups of young people (21+) are not allowed to stay at the Riu Palace Los Cabos hotels, forcing them over to the Santa Fe. As a result, the Riu Palace Los Cabos hotels are much calmer and more sophisticated than the Riu Santa Fe.

What beach is Riu Palace on in Cabo San Lucas?

The Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas is located on the cute white sand El Medano Embankment.

Is Riu Santa Fe or Riu Palace better?

If you lot are looking to party, the Riu Santa Iron is the better option for you. If you lot are looking for a more relaxed, elegant Cabo vacation, the Riu Palace Cabo San Lucas all-inclusive hotel is a better choice for you.

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