• Shopping in Cabo San Lucas, the prime shopping destination in the region, is going to spoil you. Amble around the marina, mall and downtown area to browse souvenir shops or check out specialty stores selling Cuban cigars, jewelry, and other sought-after goods.
• Do some beach-hopping to get a bronze tan and/or scout beach bars before New Year’s Eve parties kick off. Medano, Santa Maria, Lover’s, and Chileno beaches are some of the beaches to check out.
• Whale watching is another reason why people head to Los Cabos around New Year. You can either go to a beach (Santa Maria, for example) or book a guided tour to see these giant cetaceans in action.
• A relaxing sunset cruise is an ideal prelude to the New Year’s party that awaits you once your boat anchors in the marina. As the sun descends beyond the horizon and soft light baths the coastline, enjoy the moment with a specially-selected drink at hand. It’s also a good way to end New Year’s Day when anything more active might prove problematic.

Cabo New Year’s Eve Celebrations

You can choose among many events to bid farewell to the old and welcome the New Year in Cabo. Enjoying an evening dinner at a restaurant or having a party at a nightclub or a beach bar are some options that won’t disappoint. Of course, lighting a candle on the beach and watching the starry sky before grand fireworks go off may be just the ticket for romantic couples.

Partying in Los Cabos

Partying is a trademark of this north-western region in Mexico, and not only for a New Year’s Eve. And many party enthusiasts travel to Los Cabos – Cabo San Lucas, in particular – for this very reason. In short, many visitors agree that the local party scene is among the best, if not the very finest, they experienced.

Note that parties may be a part of the holiday package if you book one. If you search locally, there are two criteria you might wish to take into consideration:

• If a party comes with a hefty price tag, it’s likely a luxury event that caters to travelers visiting the region.
• Affordable parties typically attract locals, but they are happy to have tourists joining them.

Finally, you can look for a party everywhere since they take place at beach bars, clubs, restaurants, resorts, spas, and town piazzas.

Cabo’s New Year Events

Various events take place around Christmas and New Year’s in Cabo, and these are some of them:

• Feasts with specially-selected menus are available at hotels and restaurants, many of which are world-class eateries. For example, you could have a welcome cocktail, a five-course menu, and a midnight glass of champagne on offer. Classic, festive, or some other music accompanies the event.
• Dancing the night away at nightclubs and bars is another popular option for welcoming the New Year in Los Cabos. As a bonus, you may enjoy performances by DJs, acrobats, and other special guests.
• If you are for something less common, why not try meditation on New Year’s Eve? Along the way, you might let your creativity run loose with something such as mala making.

In addition, you can enjoy grand fireworks taking place at midnight. Medano Beach in Cabo San Lucas is ground zero for the most spectacular fireworks and parties in the region. Even if you opt for another place to celebrate the arrival of the New Year, there are many fireworks shows you can watch along Cabo beaches, both from land and aboard a boat.

New Year’s in Mexico

If you travel to Los Cabos for New Year, you may welcome it the way the Mexicans do. So, consider practicing some of the following New Year traditions in Mexico:

• According to beliefs, wearing brightly hued underwear may bring you luck next year. Choose red to attract love, yellow to have more money or green for better health.
• Another way to ensure better finances and additional love is to have a glass of sparkling wine or Champaign with a ring in the glass. But, there’s a catch!!! You must leave the ring in the glass afterward, or the ritual won’t work.
• You’re likely to find grapes at your party. When midnight comes, eat 12 of them while quietly calling out what you want. The grapes represent 12 wishes and the 12 months in which they will be granted.
• Staging and watching grand fireworks is another big tradition in Mexico and Los Cabos. This practice is believed to scare evil spirits and bring luck in the New Year.
• If you wish to have more fun travel moments in your life, try this – walk a suitcase around the block or place it in the middle of the room for people to walk around it.
• Eating lentils is another way to ensure good fortune in the coming year. Eat a tablespoon of cooked lentils and offer your companions and relatives a handful of raw lentils as well to share the wealth.

Do one or a few of these handy New Year’s rituals while you are in Los Cabos and chances are you will live to see a few more Los Cabos beach holidays in your future.

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Anyone who visits a Cabo beach will experience a bejeweled experience of scene and sun along the luscious Baja coastline. And clubs at those Cabo beach locations will offer some added rare experiences of the Baja beyond the beach. Along with all the magnificent activities and joys to be found in the Baja, consider these seven “day” clubs on your next vacation in Los Cabos. The fun need not come out only at night!

Omnia Dayclub

Omnia Dayclub is surely one of the chicest beach clubs in Los Cabos. Find the sun-soaked venue and pool lounge at Vidanta Los Cabos, near San Jose del Cabo along the sublime Sea of Cortez. Escape the crowds. Choose a private cabana overlooking an infinity pool, beach beds, the sea beyond. OMNIA Dayclub adds DJ beats to the stunning shores for an ultimate daylife entertainment experience. New events, concerts and happenings are scheduled regularly with tickets available online. The pool party mixes like a Las Vegas resort extravaganza with exquisite food and drinks and trendy music.

Taboo Beach Club

Taboo Beach Club brings sprawling beach beds and lounge chairs for sumptuous sunning during the day, complimented by delicious Mediterranean inspired food, refreshing cocktails and music. The DJs come out at sunset, as the dayclub becomes a nightclub. It all overlooks Medano Beach Los Cabos and is within Los Cabos’s popular Hotel Zone, close to such important attractions as the Cabos San Lucas Marina, Marinas Sol Resort and Casa Dorada Los Cabos as well as the famed Arch of Los Cabos.

Breathless Cabo San Lucas

While Breathless is well known as an all-inclusive concept in hospitality and dining, Breathless in Cabo San Lucas goes even farther with crushing adults-only dayclub scene in Cabo San Lucas. Find it in the Breathless Resort along sweet Medano Beach by the Sea of Cortez. The entertainment moves all day and into the night with DJ pool parties, live music and performances, fashion shows and social sunset soirees on the rooftop.

Cachet Beach Club

Cachet Beach Club is another favorite located along swimmable Medano Beach. It brings views of the Sea of Cortez and makes an easy amble to the Cabos San Lucas Marina for afternoons of haute label shopping. At Cachet, guests will find beach lounge chairs, private cabanas, eclectic food and drink choices, and all in all have an enjoyable beach day with swimming and relaxing. Also find great views of the town and land’s end at the club’s rooftop beer garden.

El Ganzo

Beach Club El Ganzo at the boutique El Ganzo Hotel – a hip, old-time Mexico hang-out popular with bad boy celebrities like Sean Penn and Charlie Sheen, keeps a cool island-like beach club as its best kept secret. The location is in laid back San Jose del Cabo. It only takes a minute to ride the boat across the marina to El Ganzo’s private beach club — a secluded, swimmable beach that allows lingering until the sun sets while sampling fish tacos and sipping inspired margaritas. Watersports toys allow for moments of cooling distraction, one can simply enjoy the sweetness offruity popsicles while swinging on a hammock over the water.

Blue Marlin Ibiza Los Cabos

You don’t have to go to Spain to experience Ibiza. Find Euro-cool in Cabos at the Blue Marlin Ibiza Los Cabos. The club attracts a young and energetic international crowd given its name recognition and offers a perfect setting for those who love an endless party. A poolside bar offers generous cocktails to be sipped amid an abundant array of sunbeds surrounding two giant pool areas, and not forgetting the club’s telltale luxurious white teepee cabanas. The party spills out toward warm Medano Beach. Do note: Blue Marlin Ibiza does not allow children, so it is not an option for families. Rather, friends, solos, and couples are welcome to enjoy this sinfully decadent dayclub experience.

Mango Deck Beach Club

Mango Deck Beach Club is your classic beach club throwback that rocks in spring break style all year long. Located on Medano Beach at the tip of Baja and Cabo San Lucas with views of Lover’s Beach and the famous Arch of Los Cabos, where the Sea of Cortes and the Pacific Ocean meet, it’s the place for bikinis and see-through everything as Instagram references blow up daily. Expect lively music, beach games, and drinking contests. It is here where great memories are forgotten, bikinis get lost and what happens never happened. As long as you don’t post your mango pics to Instagram.

The scene starts early here and breakfasts and brunches are big, consisting of fat omelets, thick pancakes, packed burritos, fresh fruit plates and a variety of healthier lighter choices….

A non-stop stage show brings on the beer drinking bashes, dance contests and jello and tequila shots smack downs.  Don’t forget the sushi picks at Mango, especially their ”Forget Me Not Sashimi” plate and weekly all-you-can-eat Sunday buffets from 8 am until 1 pm.