The best surf & design hotels · Los Cabos
Hotel San Cristóbal
Hotel San Cristóbal is at the end of a dirt road. That is not a complaint — it is the first thing the hotel tells you about itself. Punta Lobos is where local fishermen have launched their pangas into the Pacific every morning since before the hotel arrived; at 6:30am, stick-and-line crews are already in the water. The hotel arranged itself around that fact. Named for Saint Christopher — patron of travellers, surfers, and sailors — it was built by Bunkhouse with local Todos Santos residents trained in every role from chef to sommelier to assistant general manager. Spend three days here and you feel like you've walked into a family reunion and been included. A Michelin Key.
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The hotel
The design
Lake Flato Architects. Tivoli radios. Furniture from Guadalajara. A chapel that gets used.
Designed by Lake Flato, drawing from Baja's mid-century vernacular without pastiche. Mexican ceramics, woven textiles, custom furniture from Guadalajara. A chapel on the property that functions as a genuine gathering space. Thirty-two rooms around a 2,200-square-foot pool facing the Pacific.
The design
Lake Flato Architects. Tivoli radios. Furniture from Guadalajara. A chapel that gets used.
Designed by Lake Flato, drawing from Baja's mid-century vernacular without pastiche. Mexican ceramics, woven textiles, custom furniture from Guadalajara. A chapel on the property that functions as a genuine gathering space. Thirty-two rooms around a 2,200-square-foot pool facing the Pacific.
The surf
Punta Lobos. The fishermen are in the water before you are.
The same stretch of water where the pangas launch every morning holds the surf. The East Cape points are within reach; the Pacific swell runs consistently from late spring through autumn. San Cristóbal is the quiet end of the peninsula — an hour from the corridor, which is exactly far enough.
The surf
Punta Lobos. The fishermen are in the water before you are.
The same stretch of water where the pangas launch every morning holds the surf. The East Cape points are within reach; the Pacific swell runs consistently from late spring through autumn. San Cristóbal is the quiet end of the peninsula — an hour from the corridor, which is exactly far enough.
