Barcelo Takes Plunge with New Room Types at Los Cabos Resort

The Barcelo Los Cabos Palace Deluxe, facing a half-mile of wide, sandy beach at the tip of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, is one of several new resort developments in the area.

The 619-room, $85 million hotel, just outside San Jose del Cabo, incorporates features that Barcelo Hotels & Resorts plans to expand to other properties, including two new types of guestrooms: family suites and swim-up suites.

Barcelo acquired the old Grand Baja Hotel several years ago and tore down much of it, keeping just one tower, Tower B, now under refurbishment, and developing a new resort around it.

Two new towers feature 34 rooms on ground-level floors that are swim-up suites: Guests can dive from the patio of their room directly into a swimming pool or relax in chaise lounges at water’s edge.

The family suites consist of two rooms and one bathroom. One contains a king-size bed, sofa bed and terrace; the other has two beds and a terrace. The family suites were unveiled at Barcelo’s Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, property in December.

At the Los Cabos resort, most of the 97 family rooms are located in Tower B, next to the children’s water park, and are expected to open sometime in mid-March.