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Even with coronavirus vaccinations on the horizon, you won’t want to share any midnight hugs and kisses with strangers, or impair your judgment with too many cocktails or glasses of Champagne. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have a good time, or even go to a great party.

Just understand that safety protocols will be a part of the festivities.

With that in mind, here are a few of our favorite New Year’s Eve parties in Los Cabos this year, each promising scenic surroundings and satisfying conditions in which to welcome in 2021.

Remember: it’s an absolute necessity to make reservations in advance. Seating is limited for all these year-ending/year-welcoming celebrations.

Grand Solmar Land’s End New Year’s Eve Celebration

No property in Cabo San Lucas is closer to Land’s End than Grand Solmar Land’s End Resort & Spa, which is artfully built into the southwest corner of the half-mile headland and offers magnificent views of pristine beach and crashing Pacific Ocean waves. The incredible setting will be on full display this New Year’s Eve, when the luxurious resort will offer a 5-course tasting menu at La Roca, its signature beachfront restaurant.

The menu will include an organic salad, seasonal pumpkin soup, fresh catch of the day, braised short rib, and of course plenty of chocolate delights for dessert; as well as pairings of beer and cocktails. Just as importantly, perhaps, Grand Solmar will also be offering entertainment, notably fireworks. The latter is a major attraction considering the traditional fireworks show over Playa El Médano has been cancelled out of respect for the many lives lost during the pandemic.

Tickets are $139 USD for the New Year’s celebration, scheduled from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Call (624) 144-2500 for reservations.

Disco Classy New Year’s Eve Celebration at Sunset Monalisa

While it’s true no property is closer to Land’s End than Grand Solmar, it’s likewise true that no property offers a better vantage for views of the evocative granite monuments at Land’s End than Sunset Monalisa. The restaurant’s breathtaking setting overlooking Cabo San Lucas Bay and Land’s End has made it a romantic dining favorite for decades; particularly, as its name suggests, during sunsets, when the sky is painted more spectacularly than any Leonardo da Vinci canvas, even the immortal Mona Lisa herself.

The views aren’t as impressive, obviously, after dark, and without the traditional fireworks display over Playa El Médano, Sunset Monalisa has had to get a little more creative this year to offer the usual wow-factor celebration. Thus the tagline: “Follow the call of the disco ball” for this year’s Disco Classy theme.

The 7-course dinner menu from Chef Jacob Ramos is very impressive, as is the $262 USD ticket price for caviar oysters, diver scallop, white truffle, duck and foie gras, lobster, wagyu beef, and a chocolate and strawberry finish. Plenty of disco music, mixology and sparklers can also be expected during the 70s style year-ending dinner fête.

Call (624) 145-8160 or email reservaciones@sunsetmonalisa.com to reserve your spot.

Wild West New Year’s Eve Celebration at Anica

The Grand Solmar brand expanded beyond Land’s End this year with the opening of Grand Solmar Rancho San Lucas, a stunning Pacific Coast resort and residential development located just north of Cabo San Lucas, and featuring its own Greg Norman designed golf course.

Local residents who haven’t visited this showpiece property yet should make a point of doing so, and New Year’s Eve is the perfect opportunity since signature restaurant Anica is playing host to a Wild West themed celebration.

Anica, of coure, is already a feat of styling thanks to its high ceilings, rustic chic accents, and amazing terrace sunset views. Expect an even more visually stunning backdrop once the designers cowboy it up! And expect the food to be even more delicious than usual, thanks to a special Chef Ricardo Cordova crafted menu featuring the following options:

SALADS

• Grilled organic Todos Santos vegetable salad
• Mixed greens, carrot, zucchini, tomato, bell pepper, and broccoli with chile vinaigrette
• Potato salad with carrot and bacon
• Mushroom salad with sundried tomato, organic lettuce, bleu cheese, and rosemary vinaigrette

SOUPS

• Cream of sweet corn soup with sautéed poblano peppers
• Cream of pumpkin soup with Spanish chorizo & mussels
• Cowboy-style rib soup with shredded beef and vegetables

FROM THE GRILL

• Beef ribs with red wine reduction and rosemary Marinated goatling with ancho chile brine
• Marinated barbecue-grilled beef
• Picaña with mushroom sauce
• Barbecue pork ribs
• Thyme-marinated leg of lamb
• Roasted chicken with adobo sauce
• Suckling pig with pickled vegetables

SIDES

• Grilled corn on the cob with butter
• Grilled vegetables with olive oil
• Mashed potato with bleu cheese, truffle oil, and parsley
• Sweet potato purée with agave honey
• Risotto with Miraflores artisanal cheese dirty rice

DESSERTS

• Pumpkin tart
• Apple tart
• Chocolate cake
• Sweet potato mousse

The party will take place from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., and will include entertainment and a fireworks display. Ticket price is $149. Call (624) 143-0900 to reserve or learn more.

Glitz & Glam New Year’s Eve Celebration at Brigantine

Set just off the lobby at Playa Grande Resort & Grand Spa, with its gorgeous rotunda and skylit oculus, Brigantine is the family-friendly resort’s signature restaurant and ace party setting, notable for elegant terrace seating perfect for fireworks viewing.

Live music, entertainment and fireworks are all included in this year’s glitzy and glamorous New Year’s themed bash, which is priced at $150 USD. An open bar is included, so guests have five hours to eat drink and drink their way happily into the New Year.

The food is buffet style, with stations featuring caprese and Waldorf salads, fresh catch of the day with capers and meunière sauce, clam chowder, pineapple pork, pork loin with plum sauce, spring rice, toasted vegetables, sweet potato purée, potato au gratin with garlic octopus, tres leches cake and eggnog, berry cheesecake, chocolate cake, fruit tart, sweet corn flan, pumpkin tart, and pomegranate mousse.

Call (624) 145-7500 to find out more.

Other New Year’s Eve Events in Los Cabos

Bar Esquina at Bahia Hotel and its Médano Beach based SUR Beach House are both hosting New Year’s Eve Celebrations. Contact carlos@baresquina.com for reservations at the former, cesar@surcabo.com for reservations at the latter. Luxury resort Grand Velas is also hosting a New Year’s Eve celebration with dinner, live music and fireworks. Call (624) 104-9800 for more details.

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Saludos from Co-Founders…

Chris Sands – Writer  and Michael Mattos

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A legend has been reborn, although to be fair, it never really went away. Its enchanting glamor and shimmering tropical luminescence simply dimmed for a moment, in deference to a once-in-a-generation hurricane and a subsequent rebranding effort.

“It,” of course, is the annual White Party, which for the better part of a decade has been the definitive expression of the upscale Los Cabos lifestyle:  beautiful people sipping Champagne and showcasing elegant all-white wardrobes;  backlit by designer décor and breathtaking natural surroundings; swaying rhythmically to a vibrant, insistent soundtrack courtesy of some of the world’s best DJs; enraptured by a magnificent midnight fireworks display over the glittering moonlit waters of Bahía Cabo San Lucas.

Think walking a red carpet is glamorous? Try descending a broad, spiraling Art Deco style staircase into an expansive outdoor patio area, where a dazzling white carpet bottlenecks briefly for local paparazzi to snap glamor shots before unfurling around an exquisitely appointed poolside nightclub overlooking the longest and most beautiful beach in Los Cabos.

Born on the Costa del Sol,  in the blue-blood party milieu of Marbella, the White Party made its way to Los Cabos via Nikki Beach Club, which for years lent its haute couture, poolside party venue to the local smart set, as well as the hip scene makers who flew in from Los Angeles and Las Vegas for the nightclub’s signature rite of Spring.  But the Nikki Beach era White Party  wasn’t just the social event of the season, it was the social event of the year, a Gatsby level gala that merged the high fashion of a trunk show in Milan with the entertainment value of a 1970s era New York disco.

Hurricane Odile forever changed the local landscape when it made landfall in September 2014. Nikki Beach, damaged beyond repair, gave way in the rebirth to Blue Marlin Ibiza, yet another legendary beach party brand from the sun-drenched shores of Spain…this time from the island of Ibiza, which along with Mallorca and Menorca is part of the Balearic chain popular with summering European tourists.

The one constant in Los Cabos White Party lore has been ME Cabo, the Art Deco inspired masterpiece of a resort that overlooks Médano Beach.  ME Cabo’s unique amenities and stylish services have inspired such loyalty among its young, moneyed clientele, that even with an 18-month hiatus post-Odile for major repairs and renovations, the property scarcely skipped a beat. Blue Marlin Ibiza has already proven in its brief lifetime that it cedes nothing in the way of barefoot cachet or bikini chic to Nikki Beach, and the club completely owned its new space as the White Party staged a triumphant comeback in 2016.

Spoiler Alert!  That comeback was merely prelude to a complete return to swank, swaggering glory in 2017, as you’ll see in this spectacular new video from CaboViVO.

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Saludos,

Chris Sands and Michael L. Mattos

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