the last fling before the ring.

For ten guests, everything switched on — welcome decor, a private chef dinner, the barman with the margarita buffet, round-trip airport transfers, the villa stocked before you land, three hours on a yacht and a night out — the weekend comes to $4,432 with tax, or $443 per guest. Take only the chef and the airport rides and it is $893, $89 each. The villa is yours and is not in these numbers.

That is the number the menu above shows you, live, before you commit to anything. Set your dates and your headcount, tap the pieces you want, and the per-guest split updates as you go. Nobody has to work it out on a group chat at midnight. Tax of 8.9% is already inside the figure; gratuity is not.

Less than you think. We have put a chef in a villa with eight hours' notice. What genuinely needs months is the handful of dates the whole town wants at once — December 31 above all, and the week around it. If your weekend falls there, write to us now, not in November.

Three or four. Two is an expensive way to spend most of your time in a van, and past five the group starts splitting up. Three nights is what the menu opens on because it is what most groups end up choosing: a welcome dinner, a day on the water, and one night out.

September and early October. The town is at its emptiest and the prices are the lowest of the year. It is also hurricane season, and we will say so plainly rather than let you find out in August — it is a real trade, and worth making with open eyes. From November the town fills up and does not empty again until after Easter.

Villa, for a group. A hotel gives you rooms; a villa gives you a kitchen, a pool and a table long enough to seat everyone, which is where the weekend actually happens. One thing worth knowing before you book: a few communities — Montecristo and Novaispania among them — do not let outside chefs in and require you to use their own. Beautiful houses, but the kitchen is not yours. Ask us before you sign, and we will tell you what a given address allows.

San José is quieter, closer to the airport and better for a group that wants long dinners; Cabo San Lucas is the marina, the clubs and the noise. Round-trip airport transfers are $220 per vehicle to San José and $240 to Cabo San Lucas — one vehicle carries up to eleven of you with luggage, and past eleven it is a second vehicle. Twenty dollars across a weekend: choose on how you want the nights to feel, not on the transfer.

Yes, and you should tell us the real number early. The chef, barman, grocery, yacht and decor packages are priced up to twelve, and airport vehicles carry eleven with luggage, so beyond that we add a second chef, a second vehicle, or a bigger boat. None of it is a problem. All of it is easier with notice.