La Paz · Baja California Sur · Mexico
Where the desert meets the Sea of Cortez
CostaBaja Resort & Spa sits on its own bay at Km 7.5, with a marina, a Gary Player golf course and the best sunsets in Mexico. And if it isn’t the right fit, we’ll help you find the one that is — every stay in La Paz, compared.
Welcome to CostaBaja
The best hidden treasure in Mexico
Welcome to CostaBaja Resort & Spa where the desert meets the sea. This beautiful property faces the majestic Sea of Cortez, offering an exceptional blend of beauty and peace. CostaBaja Resort & Spa provides a wide variety of activities for every personality, taste and age. You can enjoy such unique scenery, relax at the owner’s exclusive Beach Club, work out while overlooking the sea or revitalize your senses at a world-class spa.
Sail through turquoise waters and revel in its biodiversity or simply enjoy your favorite water sport. Delight your palate with a wide variety of sumptuous dishes at Gourmet Restaurants overlooking the marina. Take a stroll down the Malecon (waterfront walkway) and discover the essence that makes La Paz such a wonderful place. Finally, end the day by witnessing another magnificent sunset.
The resort
Five things worth the trip
Rooms & Suites
Five categories of room and suite, all with balconies, from garden-side deluxe to a 39 m² Super Suite facing the Sea of Cortez.
Espíritu Spa
Aromatherapy, local healing herbs, Bach flowers and chakra balancing, with rituals built around Baja’s own damiana.
El Cortés Golf Club
The only Gary Player Signature course in Mexico, with sea views from seventeen of the eighteen holes.
Steinbeck’s & Mosaic
An open-air grill over the marina, an all-day indoor-outdoor room, and a swim-up bar at the main pool.
Blue Cortés Beach Club
Infinity pool, kids’ club, tennis and a beach bar on flat, shallow water made for paddle boards.
Whale sharks & sea lions
Snorkel with whale sharks in season, or swim with the sea lion colony at Los Islotes off Espíritu Santo.
Other top hotels in La Paz
Not sure CostaBaja is the one?
We’d rather you found the right room than the room we happen to own. These are the highest-rated alternatives across the city — boutique houses downtown, beach clubs on the Pichilingue road, apartments with kitchens and hostels on the Malecón. Check live rates for any of them.
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Hotel
Baja Club Hotel
A restored 1910 merchant's mansion on the seafront with a five-storey addition behind it, rooftop pool and one of the better restaurants in the city.
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Hotel
Casa 1880 — Adults Only
A colonial house on Independencia turned into a small adults-only hotel, courtyard planting and a plunge pool at the centre of it.
HP
Bed & Breakfast
Hacienda Paraíso de La Paz Bed & Breakfast
A walled hacienda-style guesthouse with a garden courtyard, run at the scale where the owner still cooks breakfast.
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Hotel
Hotel Catedral La Paz
Modern build a few steps from the cathedral, with a rooftop pool and bar that looks straight down over the old town roofline.
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Hotel
Hotel Indigo La Paz Puerta Cortés, an IHG Hotel
The IHG-flagged operation inside the same Puerta Cortés development, overlooking La Paz Bay and the golf course.
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Hotel
Hotel La Posada & Beach Club
One of the oldest beach hotels in La Paz, low-slung and shaded, with its own stretch of sand and a long-standing restaurant.
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Hotel
La Posada Hotel Boutique
The boutique wing of the La Posada property, fewer rooms and a quieter aspect on the water.
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Hotel
Orchid House Baja
Ten suites on the Coromuel side of the Pichilingue road, sized for people who want the coast to themselves.
PC
Resort
Puerta Cortés Residences by Lumina
Multi-bedroom residences on the same development — the option when a suite is not enough room.
PC
Resort
Puerta Cortés Vista Mar by Lumina
Serviced residences inside Puerta Cortés with kitchens, terraces and access to the marina and club facilities.
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Hotel
República Pagana — Adults Only
A design-led adults-only house downtown with two restaurants, two bars and a rooftop terrace five minutes from the Malecón.
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Hotel
Araiza Palmira Hotel y Centro de Convenciones
The convention hotel on Boulevard Alberto Alvarado — large, well-equipped and used for most of the city's business events.
The destination
La Paz is not Los Cabos
It is the state capital — a working city of a quarter of a million people wrapped around a bay so sheltered the water goes flat most evenings. There is a cathedral built in the 1860s, a fishing fleet, a university, and a five-kilometre promenade where the whole town walks at dusk.
Offshore is the reason everyone comes: the Sea of Cortez, which Cousteau called the aquarium of the world, and Espíritu Santo island, an hour out, with a sea lion colony on its northern tip. Whale sharks feed in the bay from October to April.
La Paz was a pearl port long before it was a resort town. Steinbeck sailed in here in 1940 and left with two books.
Where to stay
Pick the part of town first
Centro Histórico
The cathedral, Plaza Constitución, the art museum and the oldest streets in the city. Everything is walkable and the Malecón is three or four blocks downhill.
Malecón
Paseo Álvaro Obregón — the five-kilometre seafront promenade where La Paz takes its evening walk. Rooms here trade quiet for sunsets and street food.
El Esterito
The residential stretch north of downtown, still on the water but calmer. Good value, small guesthouses, easy taxi rides both ways.
Fidepaz & airport side
The newer commercial side of town near the highway and Manuel Márquez de León airport. Business hotels, reliable parking, quick exits.
Marina Palmira & Lomas de Palmira
Km 2.5 on the Pichilingue road. Sailing marinas, sportfishing fleets and the hotels that serve them, about ten minutes from the centre.
Pichilingue & the beach corridor
The road north past Caimancito, Coromuel, Balandra and Tecolote, ending at the ferry terminal. Dive operations and beach hotels, few shops.
Questions
Before you book
Where exactly is CostaBaja Resort & Spa?
The resort sits at Carretera Pichilingue Km 7.5, inside the gated Puerta Cortés development on the road that runs north out of La Paz toward the ferry terminal. It has its own bay, its own marina and the El Cortés golf course on the hillside behind it. Downtown La Paz and the Malecón are about ten minutes by car; the airport is about twenty.
How far is the resort from Balandra and El Tecolote?
Roughly 25 minutes by car, continuing north on the same Pichilingue road. Balandra is the shallow, sheltered bay everyone photographs; Tecolote is the wider, sandier one with palapas and boat operators. Balandra now caps daily visitor numbers, so arrive early in high season.
Is there a beach at the resort itself?
Yes. The shoreline in front of the property runs out to sea over dozens of metres of shallow, waveless water — which is why paddle boarding and kayaking work so well here. Guests also have access to Blue Cortés Beach Club, with an infinity pool, kids’ club, tennis court and a beach bar.
Which room should I book for a sea view?
Three categories face La Paz Bay and the Sea of Cortez: the Sea View Deluxe King, the Sea View Deluxe Double, and the Super Suite Sea View. The standard Deluxe rooms and the garden-side Super Suites look over the manicured gardens, the pool or the golf course instead.
Do all the rooms have balconies?
All rooms and suites have balconies with sliding glass doors and blackout blinds. Suites have larger terraces. Every category includes wireless internet, air conditioning, pillow-top beds, a flatscreen TV with satellite channels, a coffeemaker, safe, hairdryer, bathrobe and room service.
Can I bring my dog?
The published pet policy allows guide dogs and assistance animals. If you are travelling with another kind of pet, contact the hotel directly before booking — policies at individual La Paz properties vary widely, and several of the apartments and guesthouses in our directory are more openly pet-friendly.