Fodor's Expert Review ME Cabo

Meliá brand's posh ME Cabo enjoys a spectacular setting overlooking Playa El Médano, the largest and most popular beach in Cabos San Lucas. With its huge, bustling pool areas, more daybeds than you can imagine, and hot tubs under the palms, ME Cabo is a playground for adults (although children are allowed). The hotel's swim-up pool bar is the favorite in Cabo. At poolside is the fun and friendly Blue Marlin Ibiza restaurant and nightclub, serving Mediterranean dishes, along with chill music, often spun by a DJ. Rooms are ultra-comfortable, and have chic, easygoing furnishings and breezy, flowing drapes.

A wide range of creatively designed suites is on offer--though early reservations are essential here.

room

ME Cabo’s various room and suite types all share a fashion forward aesthetic, with sleek furnishings, curated paintings and photographs, and extensive minibars. All rooms have pool views, and most feature ocean views and jacuzzis.

YOU SHOULD KNOW Extras at Suite ME, the property largest and most luxurious suite, include a pool table, pinball machine, firepit, jacuzzi, and DJ and exercise equipment.

bathroom

Luxurious walk-in showers are a standard amenity but grow increasingly more expansive--with more spectacular bathroom views--in the larger suites.

lobby

Views of Land’s End are on display before guests even enter the lobby, which seems less like a check-in area than a colorful, upscale nightclub, with vibrant furnishings and staff backlit by muted purple lights. A beautiful Art Deco style staircase circles down to the poolside area.

pool

As befits a place famed for its poolside party scene, ME Cabo’s swimming area is absolutely enormous; the sprawling pool fans out in circles, giving the effect of individual “inlets” or “bays.” Sumptuous white lounge chairs, daybeds and throne-like chairs are fanned out around the perimeter, and flanked by the DJ booth.

YOU SHOULD KNOW Poolside daybeds are free during the week, but must be reserved for weekend parties and events.

spa

Meliá’s YHI Spa is named for the Australian goddess of light, but massages, treatments, and therapies are international in scope, with some incorporating traditional Mayan and Aztec rituals.

A traditional foot washing ceremony is offered before all treatments and therapies.

gym

Functional and urban style training programs are offered at the onsite gym, which is stocked with everything from exercise stations and free weights to kettle bells and medicine balls.

dining

ME Cabo’s parent company, Meliá, is based in Palma de Mallorca. This Spanish (and more specifically Balearic) heritage is reflected in the onsite drinking and dining establishment, Blue Marlin Ibiza. The restaurant serves up seafood focused Mediterranean fare at three separate locations: a chic indoor dining area, a shaded poolside bistro, and a beachfront terrace.

drinking

Blue Marlin Ibiza’s specialties are bottle service and sexy weekend theme parties featuring world-class DJ talent. Poolside sipping locales include a prodigiously stocked swim-up bar set below a VIP viewing area.