Playa El Tecolote — Attraction in Baja California Sur

When you are in Cabo, don't go to the local beaches. With heavy construction year round as Cabo expands, the beach closures will be more common place. Do yourself a favor and rent a car for the days or a week you are in town. You will not regret it.

For the weekends, it can get very busy even during off season. During tourist season, it gets even crazier. From Cabo to La Paz, give yourself 2 to 3 hours of travel time, based on how crazy you feel like driving. If you drive like the locals, you will get there in 2 hours. If you drive like a conservative driver, count on 3 hours. The beach opens around 10AM. Get there by 10AM when it opens. Any later, you will fight for parking spots and incoming traffics.

The beach itself has fine sand. Sand at Cabo beaches are way to harsh and coarse. If you plan on going on tours, they will take you to beaches that may be softer than the ones in Cabo free beaches. Most free beaches and resorts are quite rough. The water in La Paz is slightly clearer than Cabo. We have our own snorkle gears, and we can barely see past 3 meters below water. In La Paz, we can see down to 9 meters. Can you see fishes? Yes you can. They will swim up to you and enjoy any fiesta you can provide them, such as the clams or crackers. Are there turtles? Didn't see them. Are there birds? Plenty of them. Flies do count into the mix as well.

If you don't have the locals to help you out in getting a good price for the tour, be ready to drop at minimum $1600 (pesos) or $90 (dollars) per person for the 4-ish hours of the Isla tour for just being a tourist. If you book through a tour elsewhere, well, get ready for a nice price jump to include a shuttle there and back. Do yourself a favor and get a car, some rental gears, and enjoy the time around the beaches and local food stands at your...

Can’t wait to return! We drove out hoping to get into balandra but it was at capacity and we couldn’t enter. Went to playa El tecolote instead and enjoyed the beach. We stayed for a couple of hours and sat at one of the tables under an umbrella at one of the restaurants (on condition that you at least order some drinks, which was absolutely fine cause that’s not a bad deal for some shade and a table with chairs). Also ordered some food which was aight but the serving size could have been bigger. But I get it cause for that price point and location they gotta keep folks ordering food if they are trying to chill at the beach under their umbrella and chairs all day. There are musicians who are going around playing banda and corridos. If you are on a budget, you can ear hustle for $free.99 or you can ask them to play your favorite jams and shoot them some cash. Next time I’m definitely planning on staying longer and taking more cash so that I can ask the local musicians to play more of my jams while I just hang out in the water soaking...

Great beach you can go to the center or it’s a little bit more lively or you can go all the way to the left-hand side there’s multiple entrances. The main road is maybe the more easy and less confusing one but either way highly recommend that you go to the furthest left side possible where there’s one little restaurant with excellent food. This beach is great! Whether you have a pretty sturdy ox of a grandpa that’s 81 or a 3 1/2 year-old boy the waves are gentle but extremely fun for either of those ages or anything in between highly recommend you use sandals or water shoes only because a very tiny on the front of the beach as you enter, the water has quite a bit of rocks, but it’s only a short distance and once you make it past the rocks, it’s all smooth sandwith bare feet and it would just be more convenient if you had sandals...