Casa Alegria Palmilla | 5-Bedroom Ocean-View Villa with Gym, Los Cabos

In Caleta, the quiet heart of Palmilla — and you can walk to everything

Casa Alegria sits inside Caleta, the gated enclave at the centre of Palmilla, a few minutes from the One&Only. It is a Spanish Colonial house with a Tuscan hand: stone columns, arched loggias, vaulted ceilings, oversized windows and a courtyard with its own colonnade. What it is not is a beach house — and we will say that plainly, because the address is worth more than the label.

What the address really gives you is that you can walk. Palmilla Beach is about five minutes on foot — the cove with calm turquoise water where people actually swim, snorkel and paddleboard, which most of this coastline does not allow. The Shoppes at Palmilla, the California Ranch Market for groceries and wine, the coffee shops and the restaurants are all walkable too. In Los Cabos, where almost everything needs a car, that is genuinely rare.

The short version: five bedrooms, all en-suite, five and a half bathrooms, room for fourteen guests, two connected pools with a waterfall, an elevated jacuzzi over the sea view, an outdoor gym and a private three-hole putting green.

Two pools joined by a waterfall

The terrace is laid in Cantera stone and the water is the centrepiece: an upper pool and a lower pool connected by a river-rock waterfall, with an elevated jacuzzi set above them looking out at the Sea of Cortez. Around it, eight loungers, a grand palapa with hammocks swinging in the sea breeze and a leather lounge underneath it, a fire pit, an outdoor sound system, and a Cantera table that seats eight for dinner in the open air.

At night the whole thing is lit and the facade reflects in the water. It is the reason half the photographs of this house are taken after sunset.

Two things this villa has that almost nobody else does

⭐ An outdoor gym. Not a treadmill shoved in a spare bedroom — a shaded, open-air space with a treadmill, an exercise bike, a yoga mat, an exercise ball, cushioned seating and privacy curtains. You train in the shade with the garden around you.

⭐ A private three-hole pitch-and-putt green in the grounds. For a group that came to Los Cabos for the golf, having somewhere to practise your short game between rounds — drink in hand, nobody waiting behind you — is not a small thing.

The kitchen was rebuilt, not refreshed

The kitchen is a new Italian Scavolini: a large centre island with seating, a Viking refrigerator, new stainless appliances, two sinks, a wine fridge and custom wood cabinetry. The dining furniture was replaced with it — a wood table for six under a large chandelier. A sliding glass door opens onto a second, fully equipped outdoor kitchen with a built-in grill, so a chef can cook out there while everyone stays at the table.

Five bedrooms, five en-suite bathrooms

• Master — king bed; en-suite with bathtub and shower.
• Bedroom 2 — king bed; en-suite with shower.
• Bedroom 3 — two queens and two twins; en-suite with shower.
• Bedroom 4 — two queens; en-suite with shower.
• Bedroom 5 — king bed; en-suite with shower.

Nobody in this house shares a bathroom. Every bedroom also has its own safe and its own stereo, and two of the suites open onto terraces with the Sea of Cortez in front of them.

Golf at Palmilla — what you can actually play

You can play Palmilla, and the course is the Ocean Course — the public one. It is nine holes, so a full eighteen means going round the same nine twice. Many guests are perfectly happy with that; some would rather not, which is why we say it before you book instead of after.

Since 1 January 2025 the Arroyo and Mountain courses are reserved for club members and One&Only Palmilla resort guests, so those two are no longer open to villa guests. If you want eighteen holes on a single layout, Club Campestre San Jose, Cabo del Sol and Puerto Los Cabos all take outside play and we will hold the tee times before you land.

And what the house gives you for nothing is the three-hole pitch-and-putt green in the garden — all week, drink in hand, nobody waiting behind you.

Inside

An 80-inch screen with surround sound in the living room, high-speed internet, zoned air conditioning throughout, an ice maker, a wine fridge, washer and dryer, and two ESPN channels carrying NFL and college football through Dish Network — which matters more than it sounds if your trip lands on a Sunday in the autumn.

What we can have ready before you arrive

A private chef or a Mexican cook, a butler for the day by the pool, groceries in the refrigerator, golf carts to move around Palmilla, transport from the airport, spa treatments at the house, boats and tee times. Tell us what the trip is for and we will put it in the right order.

Honest answers before you book

Ask us anything before you book

Blue Desert Cabo manages Casa Alegria and answers directly — no call centre and no form that disappears. Tell us the dates, how many are coming and what the trip is for, and we will tell you honestly whether this is the right house for it.