Santa Maria Beach

PLAYA SANTA MARIA - My favorite beach, located in a beautiful protected cove. Absolutely breathtaking taking and picturesque. Beautiful clear blue water, Rock formations. Yachts. Never seaweed. Great for swimming young and old as well as FREE SNORKELING 🤿 At your own leisure. Come one come all Best in Cabo. Not busy. Public beach. Free Parking. No pets. Bathrooms on site. Umbrella rental. Lifeguard on Duty. No food service available. Bring your own food and drink in a cooler. Locals like to pickup a pizza to go before arriving. Sand is course so wear shoes to your landing spot. Pack a beach blanket as well and a hat of course 😉🏖

It's a fantastic beach, but during spring break, all the boats come to this bay, and all we can smell is their exhaust.

Awesome Beach. Tons of fish, and birds hunting for fish. Beautiful. Great place to go snorkeling. Must stop if you are in the area. Also got to see a humpback whale cruising by.

Beautiful place to go snorkeling. The fish followed us and came really close to us. I would recommend going in the morning. The tourist boats come in around 10:30 am. It's a pebble beach, so if you have tender feet, wear sandles or water shoes

Loved every minute of being at this beach. Wear beach shoes, sand is large but not to bad!

Gorgeous beach beautiful colour water perfect for swimming. Great place for snorkeling. What can get annoying are the boats that pull in, and there’s lots of them playing loud music and unfortunately lots of screaming drunk females which can get really annoying. It’s too bad because they ruin it. The best part, you’ll see many whales (it’s February) from the beach. Bring binoculars

Felt more private since there were less hawkers trying to sell. Doesn't have soft sand, but a great beach to relax at.

Amazing beach, I highly recommend checking it out if you are ever in the Los Cabos. Very scenic, great snorkeling. I recommend bringing your own food, beverages and snorkelling gear because there is nothing in the area. We spent half the day here and it was one of our highlights of our trip.

Like Chileno Bay, this place is kept clean, there is plenty of parking, bathrooms and showers, you spend the afternoon very comfortably and there are no street vendors.

This is a hidden gem, our Lyft driver gave us the scoop on this beautiful beach.This beach is perfect for snorkeling, relaxing, and taking pictures, they do not have snorkle rentals or vendors on this beach so bring food and swim gear, there was a shack that rented chairs and umbrellas. The best place to swim and snorkle was all the way to the right and about 2 to 3 hundred feet out over the rocks and coral the water is clearer and Tons of tropical fish. Park in parking lot and walk down to beach. They have showers and bathrooms at the parking lot. Beautiful Amazing Beach. Thousands of beautiful fish that swim with you as if you have crackers in your pockets I only had videos of the fish so I couldn't post the pictures. The best place to see the fish is all the way to the right and a little ways out the water all of a sudden gets super clear

By far one of the most beautiful beaches I have ever been to!! Love it!! Clean, clear and the snorkeling is great! I will be back!! Jason W

Beautiful beach with restrooms and showers. We took a cab from the Riu for $15 - got the drivers number and had him pick us back up and into town for lunch - for another $15. Turned out to be a pretty cheap excursion. This is one of the snorkeling spots that the catamarans come to - there was at least 11 by the time we left. The water was cold so we skipped the snorkeling but enjoyed the beautiful beach and surroundings.

An amazing beach. Truly world-class for a public access beach. The parking lot is spacious with clean restrooms and fresh water showers that have great pressure! The walkway to the beach is all covered and protects from the sun well for the 400yds there’s to walk.
Beach itself is beautiful, full of marine life on the flanks and highly contrasting blues.

Breathtaking!...free beach...great snorkeling...there is very little shade and you need to bring a umbrella/palapys...there is a guy that rents them for 200-300 pesos

Playa Santa Maria is an excellent public beach for all. Many local families gather for the day. There is a big paved parking lot and a public washroom you may want to use before walking downhill to the beach. We enjoyed swimming, and the snorkeling was amazing with all the schools of fish that are looking for handouts. A beautiful beach to relax in the sun. You’ll want to bring your own beach umbrella for sun protection. ☀

The pebble type sand gets really hot so wear water shoes or sandles. Great little beach, snorkeling right off the shore, showers and bathroom. Ample free parking and shaded walk-way. A guy rents an umbrella and chair for 350 pesos. No food or drinks so bring your own! You can see fish standing in water by the right side by the rocks, don't even need to swim into the ocean!

Beautiful beach and best of all you can swim in this one. Swimming at the coast is something else with the waves, a lot of fun 🥳

Awesome beach to bring my sea gods paddleboard. Not too crowded and boat traffic is separated from snorkeling and paddleboarding.

If you’re lucky enough you get to see whales communicating with each other. Calm and clear beach.

I really loved the beach. It has free bathrooms, showers, drinking water, there is palapa for handicapped and also possible to hide in shade in the rocks on the right end of the beach if you don't bring own umbrella.
At night there is nice lighting from hotel to the bay.
Snorkeling is great-so big variety of fishes and water is crystal clear and pleasant to swim. I saw iguana, squirrel in the rocks.
Unfortunately not possible to climb the hill as it's private property 🤣