Driving directions from Los Cabos to La Ventana? Airports, shuttles, car rentals, etc.

Flying into Los Cabos (SDJ) is usually cheaper than flying into La Paz (LAP) for your La Ventana vacation. Los Cabos is a two hour drive from La Ventana and La Paz is a short 40 minute drive. When you are booking your flight you might want to see what deals you can get on your car rental because some of the big airlines have 10-30 USD a day rentals if you pay for it when booking your flight. If you are not renting a car then you can reserve an airport shuttle through Playa Central. Prices are listed at the end of this blog post.

Driving directions to La Ventana from Los Cabos? 

As you take a right out of the airport to get on the highway (Mexico 1) follow signs to La Paz. All Baja roads are two lane roads and the only hazards are surprise por holes, cattle in the road and sharp curves, so keep an eye on the road especially at night.

Once you are out of the airport and on this road headed to La Paz you will only have to make 3 turns to get to La Ventana, and have 2 hours ahead of you:

• 1st Turn: Once on Mexico 1 you will drive about an hour and drive through Los Barriles, which is another windspot in the Baja. Keep straight, the next town you drive through is San Bartolo which is an oasis with lots of fruit trees and small shops on the road side that sell regional candy and fresh fruit. You will keep straight until you find yourself at a small town called San Antonio, another oasis, you will see a gas station (Pemex)to your left and see a sign to La Paz indicating to go straight, BUT this is where you will take your first right! (Toward Los Planes). 

• 2nd Turn: Now you will be driving through San Antonio, and you will wind through this small town and then be on a straight road that goes through some hills, please WATCH for pot holes as the summer rains will wash out part of the roads and there is not good signage. You will drive about 30 minutes and be surprised by a T section in the road, again, not good signage so keep your eyes open! Once you reach this T intersection you will take a left. 

• 3rd Turn: Drive for about 10 minutes until you reach another T intersection where you will take a right. The signs are marked toward "El Sargento", as soon as you trake this right you will see your first sign that says "La Ventana" (this is where you can pull over safely and take a photo of yourself under the La Ventana sign full of surf and kiteboarding stickers). Now you can cruise until you arrive to La Ventana. Playa Central will be on your right, we are the big yellow building on the beach with a sign that says "Playa Central". See you here!

Shuttle Prices from Los Cabos Airport:

One Way:

One Person: $95 usd

Two People: $ 150 usd

Three People: $ 180 usd

Four People: $ 220 usd

Five People: $ 250 usd

Six People: $ 280 usd

Seven- Nine People: $300 usd

Round Trip:

One Person: $170 usd

Two People: $ 280 usd

Three People: $ 300 usd

Four People: $ 220 usd

Five People: $ 250 usd

Six People: $ 280 usd

Seven- Nine People: $300 usd

To reserve your shuttle please e-mail jessica@playacentralkiteboarding.com and send us your flight information. Fore more visit www.playacentralkiteboarding.com

La Ventana SUP Series

As you guys might know, most people who live or visit La Ventana are kiters, windsurfers, mountain bikers, fishermen, and overall active people who love the outdoors. Stand Up Paddleboarding has grown as a sport in the past years and every day you see more and more SUPers enjoying the beautiful bay of La Ventana.

 Group shot of the SUP racers and Jessica, from Playa Central. 

Warren Bruce on the right, thank you for sharing the stoke and encouraging everyone to
participate in this 1st SUP race at Playa Central. Cheers! 

One of our friends from La Paz, Brian Harker, from Harker Boards Co., hosts SUP races in La Paz and invited Warren Bruce and everyone at Playa Central to participate a SUP relay race last October. We had so much fun doing it that we decided it had to be done in La Ventana too. Warren Bruce is an all around athlete who likes to share his passion for sports, and together Playa Central and Warren put on the 1st race of the La Ventana SUP Series 2012-2013.

As you can see some people used race boards and other used fun boards.
All boards and levels of paddlers are bienvenidos! 

A special thanks to the five participants who raced today, here are their names in the order they finished, fouth place tied:
1. Doug Hopkins, from White Salmon, WA.
2. Warren Bruce, from La Ventana, Mexico.
3. Pablo Martinez, from Colima, Colima, Mexico.
4. Norm Beddows, from Calgary, Canada.
4. D. Larkman, from White Salmon, WA.

We had a beach start, and racers headed North to go around Captain Kirk´s buoy and back down to Playa Central, making the race 2.1 Km, or 1.3 miles. 

Una, dos, dos y medio, y TRESSSS!

Tired boys! Good job guys! Hugs, Jessica. 

This was a great start for the series.  We are excited to see how much it grows and hope to see more women in the race too. As more people participate, we will have a fun board and a race board category, and get some cool prizes. Today the only prize we gave to all racers were little SUP cookies made in Playa Central´s wood oven.

SUP cookies for everyone! Made by the best bakery in Baja! AKA, Playa Central :) 

Thanks to all of the racers that came out today for the 1st race and congradulations to Doug Hopkins for his 1st place. Playa Central likes to bring the town together for some healthy fun and we hope this will encourage more people to try out the sport! For SUP lessons or rentals please e-mail jessica@playacentralkiteboarding.com