New Year's at the Brand New Park Hyatt Cabo Del Sol

Kung-Gene Chu

09 Jan 2026 • 10 min read

Sunrise from the lobby

All eyes are on the newest Park Hyatt opening, the Park Hyatt Cabo Del Sol. Originally scheduled to open in July 2025, it kept being delayed and delayed until it finally opened the first week or so of December. I was starting to get worried for our New Year’s Eve stay, but thankfully it just squeaked in. It was a nice stay, but with just a few weeks under its belt, they are still working out stuff.

ROOM

The Park Hyatt Cabo Del Sol is brand new, and the rooms reflect it. They are the typical Park Hyatt modern, clean rooms. I booked a regular award room and upgraded it with a Suite Upgrade Award to a Resort View Suite. It was humongous, with our own private plunge pool, a huge main bathroom and a secondary .5 bathroom. It comes with a minibar where snacks and non-alcoholic drinks are included; shades of the Andaz here, and hopefully will stick around, vs being an newly-opened hotel benefit.

The bathroom is humongous! And comes with Le Labo Bergamote toiletries

The terrace and pool were great - lots of space, and could even see the ocean despite the name. I did yoga on it every day. That said, the privacy could have been better - we could see people coming and going on the path in front of our room, and I’m sure they could see us, even in the room with the clear shades drawn. One time, someone even threw a ball onto our deck and came over to retrieve it. And our terrace was actually relatively private, compared to the rest of the terraces in the resort. I’m hoping that as vegetation grows in, all the terraces feel a bit more secluded, but you could lose the sliver of ocean view that the resort view terraces have. Probably a worthwhile trade off, though.

Sunrise at our plunge pool terrace was amazing

As you can see, though, it's not very private; this was private compared to the others we saw

The Park Hyatt originally put us right next to the Kids Club, and the loud screams of the kids necessitated a call to change rooms. They replaced us with someone with kids, and why they didn’t have this arrangement before does make me wonder about how thoughtful (or not) the hotel is, in not considering this at all.

FOOD

As a Globalist, breakfast was included, and we were very excited to see what this entailed. It turns out, you can order anything you want on the menu, and we took full advantage; our check every day was between $250-$300, but completely taken off the final bill. This is available to Globalists, and those with Guest of Honor certificates, so I highly recommend you try to get a GOH certificate if you’re not a Globalist.

Breakfast menu - a nice mix of western and Mexican options

The food was all made to order, and you had a great selection of western and Mexican dishes. My favorite part about breakfast, though, was honestly the wide selection of juices. We tried all of them, from the mixed juices to the wellness shots, and they were all amazing. The only disappointing breakfast beverage was perhaps the hot chocolate; I wouldn’t recommend that at all. Service was great the first two days; the third day it was a little off, but overall they were very accommodating and friendly; you could order 1-3 tacos, get half portions of eggs benedict, etc, which allowed us to try many different items.

Outside of breakfast, we had lunch at Costamar, the PH’s “Beach Club.” Food is extremely expensive on site; $30 for a plain salad and $47 for a burger, plus 15% service charge. So outside of a huge breakfast, we generally ate out of the resort. My wife had the thought of ordering from the kid’s menu when she wanted something to eat but wasn’t starving, and honestly, it was a pretty large amount for a significant savings. Tacos were about $20, vs $37 for adult tacos, and it was 3 tacos of adult taco sizing.

For New Year’s Eve, we didn’t want to deal with Ubering to Cabo proper, so we ate at Costamar (taken over by Silán, a third restaurant yet to open) at night, which had an a la carte menu (compared to $200 per person for the Mesa Madre / main restaurant prix-fixe). The food was delicious; overpriced, sure, but we felt it was worth it given it was NYE. It cost around $20 for appetizers and $60 per main dish.

POOLS

The main pool, with Mesa Madre in the way back

You come to Cabo for sun and pools, as you can’t really go into the ocean, sadly. The Park Hyatt has a main pool area that is divided into several pools; a shallow kid’s pool, a combined larger pool, and then a relatively ocean-front adults only pool. Given the proximity, even if it’s adults only, you still hear a lot of noise from the kids, and they often went into the adults only pool, despite complaints. This was pretty frustrating and annoying. Similarly at Costamar, which is for adults and kids 12 and up; they didn’t enforce this at all, with kids around 6-8 yelling and screaming in a very small pool area.

Golf carts and players on a private strip in between the main pool and the ocean

Kids shouting and playing notwithstanding, the pools were fine. Costamar’s pool is very small, but feels a bit more rugged as you can walk up right to the ocean below it. On the other hand, the main pool is much larger but has a private golf course right in front of it. You’re prohibited from stepping foot onto it, or even the path that bisects the Park Hyatt from the golf course. To me, this was a really annoying feature and with the golf carts, manicured turf, and people separating you from the ocean, honestly pretty unacceptable. I also wish the pools were a bit deeper; they were all relatively shallow.

Costamar's ocean was accessible and no golf carts to be had, but the pool is much smaller, and children 12 and over are allowed - the resort allowed any child in, though

SERVICE

As soon as we arrived, the service was personal, welcoming, and very friendly. How much of this is Park Hyatt, and how much of this is the resort only being half full? Hard to say, but given previous Park Hyatt experience, I’m hopeful it’s the former. Staff was responsive on WhatsApp, and we had both a personalized concierge and a general number to text.

Though the pool staff was not willing to call out the children at the pool, the service besides that was excellent. They were caring, responsive, and had a personal touch; they spent five minutes cleaning everyones’ sunglasses, which I’ve never seen before.

Food servers, both at breakfast and dinner, were very good, though

One annoyance; the service doors throughout the resort, both the small service doors by the rooms, and the large garage door with ramp by the lobby, were open 24/7. This seemed completely unnecessary to me, and I asked for our service door to be closed many times, and it was never done, despite assurances. Especially at night, the bright light from these doors was jarring, and it’s one of the points I think about most when I think about the hotel.

To me - this constant, 24/7 opened huge bright, barren light really took me out of the vibe of the rest of the resort

And the 24/7 open service door by our room. Some of the others were closed, some open in the other buildings I saw.

FACILITIES

A fair amount of cardio gear, incl the curved treadmill - but the Technogym treadmill models are a step or two below that of the Waldorf down the road

The lobby is magnificent, a beautiful overlook over the resort. The room was great, though it had a lack of true privacy. Mesa Madre, the main restaurant, looked great, though we always ate outdoors. Indoors it looked airy and nicely done. Costamar was beautiful. The pools, see above. The fitness center was large, but spare. They could have a lot more stuff in there, and better stuff. The Technogym treadmills were all a level below the Waldorf, for instance, and even the dumbbell rack was not fully used.

All the unused space in the gym - and you can see they didn't even fill out the dumbbell rack

Mesa Madre, the main restaurant, and where breakfast is served

The spa was unfinished. You can get treatments in a regular building, for now. There is still construction going on; we didn’t hear much noise, but you can see the unfinished buildings both from the Park Hyatt and SoHo House next door to the main pool. Once this is done, I’m sure things will look even better.

ACTIVITIES

The view from the sunrise hike on New Year's Day - pretty excellent and only us and one other couple that did it.

Unlike other resorts of this caliber, the Park Hyatt charges for practically every activity, and doesn’t have many. Yoga and meditation is $25, and not offered every day. I overheard someone who went and they were the only one; unsurprising, given that it’s normally free at this kind of place (i.e. at the Waldorf down the road, which in addition to free yoga every day, has free pilates on the weekends). The only free activity we saw was a sunrise hike, which, to be fair, was amazing, and something I’d do again if we come here. Otherwise, there was a smattering of other activities, but it didn’t seem well thought out or planned, and they didn’t offer many details. Given the location of the Park Hyatt, you’d expect more activities and more thought into this; hopefully this can develop as they gain experience, but it was sad to see so little to start. There is a Kid’s Club, and the activities there seemed like they were more fun than the adult activities - vision boards, and much more.

LOCATION

The Park Hyatt Cabo Del Sol is located relatively far from Cabo San Lucas; it’s a 15 minute drive away / $10-$15ish via Uber, or 35 min from San Jose del Cabo. This location allows it to be pretty expansive, but is also a little annoying to go outside the resort, so I’d recommend it more if you are staying on site more.

In addition; the resort is so new, the entrance street and roundabout is not located on the Uber map, so drivers would often get lost nearby and we’d have to direct them how to pick us up. Hopefully as people come and go from the resort more, they will get used to it, but it’s a definite frustrating point whenever you want to leave, or come back.

CONCLUSION

This is a Category 8 hotel, the highest in the Hyatt system, akin to Park Hyatt Kyoto, Tokyo, New York, Paris, Milan, etc. This is a high, high bar of ~40/45k Hyatt points per night (we applied a Suite Upgrade Award on top of the regular award room). The cash rate for this stay during New Year’s was $3,000 plus. So in that sense, it was worth it, but I am a bit hesitant to revisit at that points price right now given both Chase Ink changes and the work to be done:

The suites absolutely need more privacy
Staff needs to enforce rules on kids in the pools; Costamar should probably be adults only.
Facilities need to be addressed; the constantly open service doors and relatively empty gym, among others
Programming needs to be improved; both added activities and bringing classes such as yoga more into line with what the Waldorf and others offer.

That all said, the Park Hyatt Cabo Del Sol has a beautiful location, staff feels very personal, breakfast was amazing, and the sunrise hike is killer. These other issues seem relatively easy to address. Hopefully these are all worked out over the next year or two, and the hotel should be given some grace given it just opened, but right now, I wouldn’t necessarily jump to go back.

If you're interested in going and getting started in the points/miles game, consider getting a Chase Sapphire Preferred, with 75,000 points after $5k spend in 3 months and a $95 annual fee. This will almost get you 2 nights here after meeting the spend. You can also get 100,000 points after $8k spend in 3 months and a $95 annual fee with the Chase Ink Preferred, which is over 2 more nights here.

I do remain curious about the next two Mexican Park Hyatts to open, Cancun and Mexico City. Both are scheduled to open this year sometime, but I doubt we will see either before 2027, at the earliest.

COMING SOON: The rest of our NYE Cabo stay at the Waldorf Astoria Pedregal, and a comparison!