Las Ventanas al Paraiso, A Rosewood Resort
Las Ventanas in Cabo San Lucas makes a first impression on arrival like no other hotel in the area. It’s safe to say even jaw drooping!
Exclusivity is part of the appeal of this exotic desert resort, where pool boys spritz sunbathers with Evian spring water, ballboys chase after tennis balls and clean sunglasses, and pets enjoy their own spa treatments. Personal butlers cater to all guest rooms regardless of size.
Developed about a dozen years ago by Javier Burillo Azcarraga, a Mexican national, and currently owned by Ty Warner, the reclusive creator of the Beanie Babies toys, Las Ventanas al Paraiso is one of the original boutique luxury properties in Los Cabos.
Las Ventanas has a unique Mediterranean-Mexican-style architecture that blends in well with the desert beach surroundings and the local culture.
The palapa style reception area shows a lively design incorporating small waterfalls, fountains, reflecting pools, stone retaining walls, a stone bridge and four pools. Telescopes are set up for watching passing whales.
The ocean-view restaurant, simply called The Restaurant, serves all meals and competes with the C at the One & Only Palmilla for the rank of top hotel restaurant in Los Cabos. Its menu is a mix of Mediterranean and Mexican dishes.
The Sea Grill, catering largely to the pool and bar crowd, serves lunch and dinner from 10 am to 10 pm in an ocean=view setting at the water's edge. Private dining on the beach is popular, especially among honeymooners. A special table is set up right on the sand.
A tequila and ceviche bar is one of Las Ventanas’s most popular features, and guests with a more sensitive palate can quench their thirst in the more than 2,400-bottle wine cellar. Even diners can partake in the wine experience by booking a table in La Cava and being surrounded by the hotel's cellar.
The Las Ventanas spa features eight treatment rooms and a sand pavilion on the beach. The gym provides cardiovascular machines, free weights and steam rooms, and attendants hand out cool damp towels while guests work out.
The gracefully curved infinity pool overlooks the ocean, and guests reclining on the cushioned lounge chairs under canvas parasols are supplied with personal iPods or small TVs, chilled bottled water and lemon-scented washcloths. The resort's oceanfront setting inspires fishing, diving, sailing, kayaking, sailboarding and yachting (although swimming in the rough water is not an option).
An independently run Robert Trent Jones, Sr., golf course is next to the premises, and a fitness center and two lighted, recently renovated tennis courts are on-site. The property's luxury tennis program provides world-class pros and even staffers to chase and clean balls upon request.
Although all accommodations are called suites, only luxury suites have separate bedrooms, and their sitting areas are in fact just furnished balconies. The majority of units are studios. All feature artistic decor, Conchuela limestone floors, air conditioning, terra-cotta wood-burning fireplaces, large flat screen TVs, dual-line phones with voice mail and data ports, CD and DVD players, king or two queen beds, welcome tequila, minibars, complimentary wireless high-speed Internet, safes, irons, ironing boards and hair dryers.
The pebble inlay of the floors is repeated in the headboards, and baths display hand-painted ceramics. Baths sport marble floors, bottled water, sumptuous bath sheets, deluxe toiletries, magnifying mirrors and hair dryers.
Garden-view rooms are huge, measuring 960 sq ft, and feature marble showers and private patios. Ocean-view rooms cost 25% more for better dead-on views of the crashing surf, and another 10% jump in price bumps guests up to the prized choice for those that can afford it, Oceanview Rooftop Terrace rooms, which feature large terraces, telescopes and whirlpools on private patios.
Also available are ocean-view and oceanfront one-bedroom suites, which come with private infinity-edge pools or whirlpools. Unlike those at the Twin Dolphin, units here have phones with data ports and TVs with DVD players. Former residences have been converted into two- and three-bedroom suites, and spa suites come with saunas and in-room treatments offered.
Housekeeping is top-notch, and room service delivers 24 hours a day. Turndown service arrives nightly and replenishes the bowl of fresh fruit regularly. Pets are welcomed with their own menu including the option to hire a dogwalker or order Fido's own private cabana.
Las Ventanas, whose name name translated means windows to paradise, has been described as "relentlessly romantic," so single travelers be forewarned. Most package deals and special services at the resort cater specifically to couples and honeymooners thanks to the new Those traveling to Las Ventanas alone may feel a bit self-conscious but will probably get even more attention from their exceptional staff.
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