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La Ventana · Baja California Sur

Stay for less.
Ride more.

A small local marketplace for La Ventana and El Sargento. Homes for the season, kite lessons on the sandbar, gear, trucks, and a hand when you need one. No corporate middleman, no stacked service fees.

Live in La Ventana

Free

for owners who list direct. You set the price and keep every peso of it — no commission, no listing charge, no cut of the cleaning.

Small fee

for guests, shown as its own line before you pay — and well under what a booking site like Airbnb adds on top.

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Reviews from guests who actually stayed — written after the key went back.

Seasonal

By the month, October to May

All 7 seasonal houses

Stays

Places to stay in La Ventana

All 2 stays

Experiences

Lessons and days on the water

All 5 experiences

Gear

Kit, ready when the wind is

All 4 listings

Services

A hand while you're here

All 3 services

Around the bay

What the town is actually like

59 places we send people to: where to eat, where to launch, which dirt road is worth the drive. Not a directory of everything, just the ones worth knowing about. Open a category to see them on the map.

Every place in the guide. Open a category to narrow the map.

Why La Ventana

Made for adventure, year-round.

Wind from October through May. Big whales in winter, orcas through the summer. Mobula aggregations in early summer that you can swim through. Yellowtail, roosterfish, dorado, marlin and tuna across the rotating warm months. Sierra de la Laguna trails when it's cool. Jacques Cousteau called the Sea of Cortez “the world’s aquarium.”

The season in La Ventana · Oct to SepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSep

Windsports

Kite · Wing · Windsurf

Early · 18–22 ktPeak · 20–25 ktLate · 15–20 kt

Mountain biking

Sierra de la Laguna

Cool season

Whale tours

Orcas · Humpback · Blue · Sperm

Humpback · Blue · SpermOrcas · peak

Mobulas

Resident year-round

Year-roundPeak aggregations

Fishing

Top sportfish

YellowtailRoosterfishDoradoMarlin · SailfishYellowfin tuna

Rough guides, not guarantees — the bay keeps its own diary. Ask Diana what a particular week usually looks like.

Booked direct

You talk to the owner of every listing.

The one who owns the house, teaches the lesson or drives the truck — their name, their phone number, their answer. Ask what the wind is doing this week, whether the truck takes a board bag, if you can leave your things somewhere before check-in. Nobody in the middle passing the message on, and nobody deciding it from an office that has never seen the bay.