One&Only Palmilla
When you book One&Only Palmilla in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico, through our Virtuoso partnership, your stay includes daily full breakfast for up to two guests and a $150 USD resort credit. You also receive early check-in and late check-out when available. No premium credit card or membership needed: request a quote and our advisor books it at the same rate as booking direct.
Special Offer
Offer 1: Book Now and Save: up to 30% off room rates plus daily breakfast. Travel through Dec 19, 2026 Offer 2: Suite Escape: up to 30% off suites, bonus USD 150 resort credit per stay per bedroom, round-trip airport transfers. Combinable with Virtuoso amenities. Travel through Dec 19, 2026 Offer 3: Villa Moments: up to 15% off villas, round-trip airport transfers, resort credit of USD 150 (One&Only Casita Suite), USD 500 (Villa One) or USD 800 (Villa Cortez). Travel through Dec 18, 2026 Offer 4: Family Retreat (Two-Bedroom Family Rooms): up to 30% off, daily breakfast, two kids under 11 stay and dine free (stays to Oct 31, 2026), daily KidsOnly activities, one 60-min couples treatment, watersports. Minimum 3 nights. Travel through Dec 18, 2026
Exclusive Booking Perks
These perks are included with your stay at the same rate as booking direct with the hotel.
- Upgrade on arrival, subject to availability (not applicable towards or within Casita Suites and Villas)
- Daily Full Breakfast for up to two guests per bedroom, served in the restaurant
- $150 USD equivalent Resort credit to be utilized during stay (not combinable, not valid on room rate, no cash value if not redeemed in full)
- Early Check-In / Late Check-Out, subject to availability
Guest feedback
9.6/10 from 223 guest reviews
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Guests liked
- Spotless / immaculate property and grounds
- Incredibly attentive, helpful staff
- Beautiful pools and beach (Playa Pelícano)
Points to consider
- High food and beverage prices
- Expensive nightly rates / value for money concerns
- Remote location — far from town and requires Ubers
Location
One&Only's philosophy of low guest density and expansive private spaces finds its expression along the rocky shores of the southern Baja Peninsula, where the Gulf of California meets the arid drama of desert headlands. This stretch of coast, thirty-two kilometres northeast of Cabo San Lucas, sits where the mountains drop abruptly into crystalline water, the light sharp and clarifying. San José del Cabo traces its founding to 1730, but the character here is defined more by geology than colonial history: volcanic rock formations, sudden inlets, and beaches where sand gives way to boulders smoothed by surf.
Palmilla Beach lies eight hundred metres from the property, a curve of sand that anchors the small fishing-village-turned-resort neighbourhood. The town centre of San José del Cabo, five kilometres north, preserves the colonial grid and low adobe buildings that recall the Spanish mission era, while the modern marina district at Puerto Los Cabos, seven kilometres south, draws yachts and sportfishing charters.
Los Cabos International Airport sits sixteen kilometres north, a straightforward transfer along the coastal highway.
On-property dining anchors the rhythm here, with Agua and Breeze serving coastal Mexican cuisine inflected by Baja's seafood abundance. Nine kilometres north, Cocina de Autor Los Cabos holds one Michelin star within the Grand Velas resort, where chef-driven Mexican tasting menus unfold beneath bougainvillea and the formal dress code signals an occasion. Book a table for the oceanfront setting and imaginative regional technique. Start with the local pescado zarandeado, grilled over mesquite, or aguachile served tart and cold with raw shrimp.
The coastline here is defined by surf breaks: The Rock and Zippers, both within three kilometres, draw experienced boarders year-round, while Costa Azul, two and a half kilometres east, is reliable for intermediate riders. Palmilla Beach offers gentler water for swimming and kayaking. Golfers find La Querencia three kilometres inland, a desert course with saguaro and sweeping views, or the Tom Weiskopf-designed Puerto Los Cabos layout nine and a half kilometres south along the bay.
Winter brings the clearest conditions, daytime temperatures in the mid-twenties, nights cooling to seventeen or eighteen degrees. The air is dry, the sky relentlessly blue. Spring heats gradually through April and May, the coast still arid and the water calm.
Summer turns humid as monsoon moisture drifts north, thunderstorms building over the Sierra de la Laguna in July and August, the peaks dark against afternoon clouds. September sees the heaviest rainfall, brief downpours that leave the desert briefly green. By November the heat recedes, the wind shifts, and the dry season returns.
Winter and spring offer the most comfortable conditions for golf and hiking, though the surf peaks in late summer and autumn when southern swells wrap into these breaks.
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