So I'd be crazy to give this place less than a 3 star review because it is INCREDIBLE value! I seriously can't believe how inexpensive it is!!!! So even though it wasn't a great experience, it still gets 3 stars for amazing value: It was only $54 for a 90 minute massage!!!
However...Being real here - I get a lot of massages and my true opinion is it would be only 1 stars if it wasn't so cheap! BUT because it is so cheap and such amazing value = it gets 3 stars!
When you arrive there you check in on the ground floor by the restaurant and then wait. Even though I was with my husband and we made our appointments together they tell you (this is in the email confirmation too) that it's not guaranteed that you'll be next to each other. Even though there was an empty massage table by mine where my husband totally could have been, instead they put my husband in a different row which didn't make sense to me. We ended up waiting a little while (they also tell you that even though you have an appointment time, they run on their own schedule so show up early and allow up to an hour extra - luckily we didn't have to wait that long and we were taken pretty much on time after arriving 25min early). When you go upstairs they give you a basket and a towel and you take off all your clothes (other than your underwear) and put your clothes in the basket and then wrap the towel around you then you walk out and find your massage therapist who leads you to a table and helps you lay down via wrapping your towel around you so you don't accidentally flash all the strangers also getting a massage right next to you!
So there are 3 different sections in the roof top area (2nd floor) of Sand Bar and the restaurant is below. Each section has about 9 massage beds arranged in 3 rows of 3. Maybe it was because I was the center of the center (think the middle space if it was a tic tac toe board) but as I lay there in the middle and felt everyone walk around me, it felt like I was going to be featured on the Nightly News for being a victim of a '2nd floor building collapse' because every time anyone walked by me the entire floor shook as if each person was 800lbs and as I peered down through the face hole in the massage table I could literally see the floor shaking! It felt mega-unstable like it could collapse! Not relaxing!!!!!
The ambiance had potential since there was a nice breeze being outside in the nice weather on the 2nd floor and even though you're outside crammed in like a sardine next to all the other people which I thought would be weird - the other customers were super polite like no one was loud or taking or anything - so that part was ok.
The other bad part about the ambiance was because it is the middle of March and even though my kids aren't on spring break for a couple of weeks, I guess some colleges were on spring break because in addition to the club music blasting away (which honestly wouldn't be so bad - I don't mind listening to Pitbull while getting a massage Lol) but what was really annoying and intolerable was the man at the club next door with the whistle on the megaphone shouting "Arriba, Abajo" and trying to get everyone to do shots, and yelling out "let's get all the pretty ladies on the dance floor" and "Shots Shots Shots" and "Let's give a shout out to all my friends from TCU, Let's give a shoutout to all my friends from UofT, Let's give a shout out to....etc. etc. etc. then more "Arriba, Abajo, Alcentro Aldentro" then a push up contest where he continued to shout into his megaphone "Up Arriba, Down Abajo, Up Arriba, Down Abajo, Up Arriba, Down Abajo, Up Arriba, Down Abajo, for like 10 minutes straight" then he'd start blowing his whistle again into the megaphone. So annoying!!! And this was literally the middle of the day at 12:30pm it wasn't like it was nighttime or anything! Omg I had a headache after laying there for 90 minutes!
The massage itself was bleh. I kept having to move my legs and arms to jostle my massage therapist awake because she kept getting distracted (or maybe she was dozing off?!) and she'd stop massaging me and she'd just have her hand resting on my body, not moving. If I was paying more than 60 cents a minute for this massage ($54 for 90 minutes!!) I would have complained. Instead, I just kept moving my arms, & moving my legs to let the massage therapist know, "Hey I'm awake and you're supposed to be giving me a massage here lady!" Even when she did massage me there was zero technique and zero pressure.
However, like I said - it was $54 for 90 minutes so at the end of the day I just sucked it up since even the $18 each way for the Uber here from my hotel it all still was less expensive than the $375/90 minutes massage offered at my hotel.
I will not be returning here and I will either pay up for the massage at my hotel or just not get a massage the next time I'm in Cabo (or try somewhere else) since even though it was incredible value, I did not enjoy it at all :-( read more