Family Travel
Los Cabos for a Multi-Generation Escape
Three generations, one villa, and a destination that lets everyone have a different holiday inside the same week.
The Magnara Desk · 30 March 2026 · Facts reviewed 1 August 2026
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The multi-generation trip fails, when it fails, for one reason: everyone is forced to do everything together. Los Cabos is good at this trip precisely because it does not require that. The anglers leave at dawn and are back by lunch. The golfers get their round in before the heat. The grandparents get the shaded terrace, the teenagers get the pool, and everyone reconvenes at the long table at seven.
The villa is the operating system
For a family of ten or twelve, the house needs more than bedrooms: staff who handle breakfast without a plan, a pool with both sun and shade, and a location on a swimmable stretch — which on this coast is a specific question to ask, not an assumption to make.
Split mornings, shared evenings
The pattern that works: fishing or golf at first light for those who want it, nothing before ten for those who do not, one shared boat afternoon at a protected bay mid-week, and dinner together every night — twice out, the rest at the house with the chef.
The one excursion
Todos Santos, an hour up the Pacific side, gives the week its single change of scene: galleries, an old mission town, lunch in a courtyard, and the drive itself along the desert coast.
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