May 21-28 we spent a week at the Melia Cabo Real in beautiful Cabo San Lucas, at the tip of Baja California Sur. The resort had everything we could ask for: excellent food, beautiful rooms, great service, stunning pool, and plenty of cold jugo de piña (pineapple juice) for the kids and draft Corona for the grown ups. If you have kids and are looking for the perfect family vacation spot, this is it. There’s a kids club open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., that also has an evening activity planned each night.

We left the resort only a few times, and would have been fine not leaving at all, but wanted to explore the destination a little. We booked the dolphin encounter, which was a big hit with the parents but not super popular with our sons, Owen and Wyatt. It was a windy day, and the dolphin tank was quite cold. I think the boys are smiling like this because they’re glad it’s over.

One morning we took a glass-bottom boat from the harbor out to El Arco (the arch) and Lover’s Beach. This iconic stretch of sand sits is at the very tip of Baja and straddles the Pacific and the Sea of Cortez. It’s kind of an adventure to get to since there’s no dock—you literally jump off the boat at the surf break and run up on to the beach.

On another evening, we had dinner at The Office on the Beach[The Office on the Beach|http://www.theofficeonthebeach.com/]. The restaurant was great and the view of the bay and the arch amazing, but that stretch of Cabo is like stepping onto the set of MTV Spring Break, which made me appreciate even more where we were staying.

Our last excursion was a quick snorkeling trip in Chileno Bay—tons of fish and great water clarity. As good as anything we’ve seen in the Caribbean or Hawaii.

We were all a little misty-eyed to leave the Melia but we will be back!