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All-inclusive resorts in Los Cabos
The criterion, stated first
A resort qualifies if it is an all-inclusive in Los Cabos whose operator publishes a readable official page. Both entries sit on the same Camino Viejo a San Jose corridor, so this list is about audience and documentation rather than about location.
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Hotel Riu Palace Baja California
An adults-only resort on El Medano beach that publishes the longest transfer in our Mexico coverage: 40 km from Los Cabos International, around an hour. Four pools, seven bars, and every room category a junior suite or above.
The catch: The longest published transfer of any resort in our Mexico coverage
Skip it if: Travellers on a short stay
Hotel Riu Santa Fe
The family option on the same Los Cabos road as its adults-only Palace neighbour, with a named water park and eight named dining venues. It publishes no counts at all, and unlike the Palace it does not publish its distance from the airport.
The catch: Publishes no room count, no pool count and no room categories in plain language
Skip it if: Adults wanting a child-free resort
Riu Palace Baja California — adults-only, and the one that shows its working
Why it is here: It is the only adults-only all-inclusive we can document in Los Cabos, and the better-documented of the pair by some distance. Four pools and seven bars, counted. Five room categories, all junior suites or above, topping out at two Elite Club ocean-front grades. And it publishes 40 km from SJD with about an hour’s drive — the only Los Cabos transfer figure we hold.
The catch: That hour is the longest published transfer of any Mexican resort in our coverage, roughly triple a Cancun hotel-zone property. It publishes no minimum age despite the adults-only label, and no restaurant count. A figure appears on its page where a room count would sit; it is not credible, so we have recorded no room count at all.
Who it suits: Couples on a week or longer, who would rather know the numbers than guess them.
Riu Santa Fe — family, with a water park and nothing counted
Why it is here: The family option on the same road, with Splash Water World published on site and eight dining venues named individually — Kulinarium, a steakhouse, a grill, a taco counter and more.
The catch: It publishes no counts at all. No rooms, no pools, no restaurants, no bars. It publishes no room categories in plain language, only internal codes — the weakest room documentation in our whole coverage. And it publishes no airport distance, even though the hotel on the same road does.
Who it suits: Families who want a water park and are comfortable booking a resort that quantifies nothing about itself.
Why there are only two
Los Cabos has a substantial resort sector, much of it not all-inclusive and much of it operated by groups that do not permit automated retrieval of their own published pages. We do not write profiles from secondary sources.
Two entries is our documented coverage, not our assessment of the destination.
The transfer, once more
An hour each way is two hours of a holiday. On a fortnight that rounds to nothing. On four nights it is a meaningful share of the trip, and Los Cabos is a destination people do visit for four nights.
Who should ignore this list
Anyone who wants a Caribbean-style beach holiday. Baja is Pacific desert coast, not Riviera Maya, and we hold no verified information about swimming conditions on either property’s beach.
Prices
We do not publish prices for this resort yet. We only publish a price when we can state the amount, what it covers, the basis it is quoted on, and when we observed it.
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Sources
- RIU Hotels & Resorts — read 2026-09-13
- RIU Hotels & Resorts — read 2026-09-13
Last verified 2026-09-13.