Confession time: MySweetCharity’s Queenie managed to visit the site of Capella Pedregal. TACA had no connection with the visit. With this in mind, understand that this post will be as objective as a three-hour massage by Pedregal’s Irene.
Cabo San Lucas with Kent Rathbun & Marco Bustamante (Value: $38,000)
San Lucas Cabo has become the playground of the smart, stellar and so-well-to-do. If you’re looking for the tourists with the cameras slung around their necks and the madras walking shorts or the Galveston Island fare, you won’t want Capella Pedregal. But if you want a retreat where you just might be sitting infinity-poolside next to Will Smith and avoiding the paparazzi hoi polloi, this is the place for you.
Just to enter the property is oh-so much more than a walk up a couple of steps to a mansion. Think a quarter-mile tunnel through the property’s mountain that leads you to the extraordinary tiers of guest rooms with fireplaces, infinity plunge pools, marvelous showers and your own “personal assistant.”
And then there are the grounds with the two infinity pools bordering the very point where the Pacific Ocean meets up with the Sea of Cortez. As for the staff, you’ll swear you want to adopt each one of them. Just watching them readjust the umbrellas poolside as the sun moves to protect guests is a sight to behold.
Oh, what about the 12,00-square-foot spa with its own salt water pool (shades of San Simeon!) and private rooms for personal treatments including chime massage (has to be had to be believed), men’s facial massages, etc.? You simply will experience a new definition of pampering. Each sessions starts with a relaxing foot massage/soak.
And then there’s the food and more food and more food and more food. Under the direction of Marco Bustamante, food is everywhere from stellar in-room service to dinner at the foot of the cliff with the waves of the Pacific bounding and dancing for your entertainment at sunset.
Did we mention the million-dollar wedding that had the dinner in the tunnel? Oh, shoot! There’s just not enough space in the website world. You’ll have to ask Capella Pedregal General Manager Peter Bowling, who will be at Friday night’s auction. Be careful or you’ll insist that he take you home with him.
Or, you can bid on the package for eight that includes a “hands-on” cooking class with Dallas fav Kent Rathbun and Pedregal’s cutie Marco. Then your party will dine at the oceanside El Farallon.
Thanks to American Airlines, round-trip, coach-class air transportation is provided, but you may only want a one-way ticket.