The Best Hotels Near Amina Wind Resort, by the Record
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The kite surfers and windfoilers are here on purpose: La Ventana's conditions are the whole point of this boutique resort, not a happy accident. Closer to La Paz than Los Cabos, it sits far enough from civilization that "off the grid" appears in the brochure without irony, though the villas have full kitchens, private patios, and, in the penthouse category, rooftop Jacuzzis. The restaurant leans into Baja peninsula cooking. Upscale adventure, not five-star coddling.
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A colonial villa from the early 1900s on La Paz's Malecón boardwalk, renovated by Grupo Habita into a boutique hotel where weathered brick walls face a crisp modern structure of balconies and patios. Garden rooms are tucked and cozy; upper-floor suites get palatial without tipping into fuss. The location is a quiet argument for skipping Los Cabos altogether, with the best of a genuinely charming city starting right outside the door.
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On Baja's quieter East Cape, where the desert slides into the Sea of Cortez, this Four Seasons resort keeps its distance from the spring-break side of Los Cabos. Rooms come with private terraces and plunge pools, the beach runs two miles, and there are six pools if you tire of the ocean. Fresh seafood at estiatorio Milos and a spa rounding out the picture. The kind of place where doing nothing feels like a full itinerary.
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Tented suites and poolside bungalows sit steps from a long Pacific beach in Todos Santos, about an hour north of Cabo. This boutique hotel was built slowly by two California couples who started with one villa and kept adding, which gives the property a handmade, lived-in quality that feels harder to fake than it looks. A roof terrace, yoga pavilion, and an outdoor restaurant on the sand round things out. It holds a Michelin Key.
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Four cottages around a saltwater pool, a few blocks back from the Baja coastline in a town that went from surf village to weekend pilgrimage faster than anyone planned. This eco-minded boutique hotel earns a Michelin Key, and the rooms, polished concrete, artisan tile, private pergolas with hammocks, look like a mood board that somehow got built. The on-site bar pours mezcal cocktails, and the gluten-free bakery keeps the wellness crowd very well fed.
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Ten rooms, each with a full-wall mural of a colonial scene that looks like time stopped mid-afternoon. This boutique hotel in the artsy pueblo mágico of Todos Santos sits just off the main drag, its public spaces wrapped in ivy-covered brickwork and its interiors done up in dark wood and gilt-framed mirrors. It holds a Michelin Key, and it makes a quiet case for the hour's drive north from Cabo.
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Three rooms in a whitewashed building off the beach road north of Todos Santos, and each one climbs to a private rooftop terrace with a sea view. This small boutique hotel, run by a Mexican couple who fell hard for Baja on a road trip, keeps things spare and pale, with wood furnishings and rain showers. The grounds are desert-garden quiet, and after dark the circular concrete fire pit under open sky is the obvious place to be.