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After months of preperation and planning you are almost there. The plane has landed, you've gone through Customs and Immigration, and you've got your luggage. It's time to get to the hotel and start your vacation. You are this close to your Cabo getaway. Do yourself a favor...don't take the normal exit out of the airport to your hotel. Take the new Cabo shortcut.
Shortcut? What shortcut? The truth is that most Cabo visitors have no idea that there are two completely different ways to get from the Los Cabos International airport to their hotel. But taking the correct exit from the airport can make all the diffrence in the world in starting off your Cabo getaway with the right attitude.
It all started a couple of years ago when Mexico's President Vicente Fox hosted the International Summit in Los Cabos. The resort had everything going for it to impress the leaders of the free world. Great weather, spectacular beaches, azure ocean waters and a selection of hotels to match the best in the world. Only one problem remained.
The 10 mile drive from Los Cabos International Airport to the Los Cabos Corridor runs smack dab through the hustle and bustle of the main congested road used daily by all of the local workers going to and from the hotel zone. Did the President of Mexico really want all of his esteemed guests to sit in traffic behind cement trucks and school buses on the way to their exclusive hotels?
Enter Plan B. Some smart city planner gained major kudos by suggesting an alternate route to the toursit areas via a new road from the airport to the Los Cabos Corridor. Instead of dropping all of the airport traffic into the bowels of the daily worker traffic, the new road would wrap around the airport to the west, run along the base of the mountains, and then terminate on Baja Highway One just north of the One and Only Pamilla Resort.
Indeed it was a great way to welcome the other heads of States. But even better was the fact that, when all the dignitaries had gone home, the road was still there for the rest of the world (including you and me) to use for years to come.
Taking this new road is easy, fun and (almost) cheap. Instead of leaving the airport to the east towards San Jose del Cabo, follow the signs to the toll road just a few hundred yards north of the main airport parking lot. The road is new, the scenery is beautiful, and there is no traffic to contend with. Why didn't somebody think of this years ago?
The toll station is near the very end of the road, where it drops off at the Hotel Zone. The toll is under $3 dollars and well worth missing all of the congestion on the regular road that leaves the airport through San Jose del Cabo. From the point where this new road meets the old road the traffic is running strong and visitors are just minutes from their hotels and their welcome margarita!
Carlos Fiesta's Hot Tip
Taking the toll road shortcut is a no-brainer for those who are renting a car at the airport to go to their hotel. For those who are taking a shuttle bus to the hotel zone it's a good idea to ask the van driver if he will be taking the toll road. If he will not, find a driver who will. It's worth it.
CABO SAN LUCAS AIRPORT TO HOTEL SHORTCUT
