The evening starts with a blindfold — or simply darkness. Waves crash somewhere beyond the table. A sommelier named Consuelo talks you through a glass of wine you can't see, asking what you smell, then what you taste, while a hand guides yours to the stem. This is Dining in the Dark, and it's the signature opener of the Travelty Experiences programme at Grand Fiesta Americana Los Cabos, an all-inclusive luxury resort on Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
Travelty is Fiesta Americana's resort-wide activities concept, and it runs at properties across the brand's collection. Rather than the usual poolside bingo roster, it leans into sensory and cultural formats: food and wine sessions, wellness rituals, and hands-on cultural experiences. At the Los Cabos property, guests can book one experience per evening of their stay.
A writer for Matador Network recently tested the format over three nights, and the arc went roughly like this. Night one: dinner served in complete darkness, with smell and touch doing all the work your eyes usually handle. Night two: a guided tasting of Mexican spirits — a chance to get past the tequila clichés and understand what else the country distills. Night three: a harvest ritual that began with stomping grapes at golden hour and ended, reportedly, with one of the best desserts the writer had ever eaten.
What makes this interesting for travellers is the shift in what an all-inclusive can be. The unlimited-food-and-drinks model is easy to sleepwalk through; the Travelty approach builds a reason to show up somewhere specific each evening, with an experience you couldn't replicate at home. Dining in the Dark works precisely because a resort can control the environment completely — no phone glow, no street noise, just the ocean and your plate.
It also fits Los Cabos well. The destination at the southern tip of Baja California Sur has grown into one of Mexico's most polished resort corridors, strung between the Pacific and the Sea of Cortez, and the competition among properties means the bigger names keep adding reasons to stay on-site rather than just using the resort as a beach base.
Who's it for? Couples and food-focused travellers, mostly. If your idea of a good holiday involves a proper tasting or a meal with a story attached — but you also want a swim-up bar and someone else handling the logistics — this sits comfortably in the middle. If you'd rather spend every evening off-property exploring San José del Cabo's galleries and taco stands, the evening experiences may feel like a nice bonus rather than the main draw. Either way, it's worth checking what's on the Travelty calendar before you book, since the line-up shapes how your evenings will look.
