Reflect Krystal Grand Los Cabos Shares the Beach with Baja’s Surf City
The constant soundtrack to a vacation at Reflect Krystal Grand Los Cabos is the unrelenting drumming of waves on the beach on the Sea of Cortez. These are muscular surfing waves.
And if you are entertained by surfers trimming a wave-face as wind-driven swells drive long speedy waves past a point break along the Costa Azul; don’t overlook Zippers Beach.
Wait. Strike that. Absolutely DO overlook Zippers Beach, from the Sky Lounge atop Reflect Krystal Grand Los Cabos Altitude Tower. It’s a skybox with never-ending tropical drinks from which to view surfers chasing waves all day. Or you can stroll to Zipper’s Bar & Grill.
It’s a bona fide beach dive popular with locals overlooking one of the best surf spots in South Baja.
It’s a waterfront shack where you can view surfers from the world over in their natural habitat.
The surf at Zippers and neighboring breaks is propelled not only by local winds, but by groundswells originating near New Zealand, passing Fiji and Tahiti before breaking on the shorelines of Los Cabos. The Blue Pacific has worked hard to push that swell more than 6 thousand miles so a surfer can ride it the last fifty to a hundred yards.
Zipper’s Bar is a great spot to squander a couple of hours hanging out beachside with amazing views in the company of locals and ex-pats.
Try the great Baja-style fish tacos, beer-battered and deep fried.
You can have the same tacos Baja-style without leaving the resort at Surfos; Spanish for surfers, which delivers to your personal camp site poolside.
Now I know what you are thinking as you first gaze from your balcony across the Sea of Cortez. You are thinking that “I am looking straight at mainland Mexico just over 200 miles distant and there are mountains on the other side and so how come I can’t see them?” I will answer you without referencing Pythagoras, about whom I forgot everything I ever knew two seconds after tossing my mortarboard.
If you are on nearby Zippers Beach, paddling out through the surf on your board, your eyes just above the sea surface can see one mile to the horizon, beyond which everything is down below the curve in the Earth.
If you are 6 feet tall standing with a mango margarita at the adults-only pool bar you can see 3 miles away.
“How about if I am lounging with a piña colada at the Sky Lounge on the roof of the Altitude Club Tower?” Nope.
You couldn’t see the other side if you were standing with a tequila sunrise at a bar on the top of that coastal mountain peak.
If Mount Everest (nearly 6 miles high) was here in the place of this mountain and there was a bar at the top, you could see 210 miles, which means you could barely make out Mazatlan while sipping your frozen margarita. Which you would have to chip out of the glass with your rock pick.
Fun Fact:
Zippers Beach is host to the Los Cabos Open of Surf, a June battle among up and coming international stars of women’s surfing. It comes with a beach party with live music, surfer girls, beach boys, cerveza and tequila!