The hotel is currently in the process of making over each room with a different artist’s touch. Already half-way through completing them all, I had the chance to stay in one that had been transformed by Scarlett Bailey who left behind life-size metallic gold cacti painted along the wall. I later learned that the towering murals were inspired by the cacti she saw while driving to the East Cape during her stay in Cabo. Other rooms include colorful paintings of octopus, recycle-themed media and one of the most recent additions, a maze-like wall mural by Ernesto Ríos made up of smoke from burnt matches taped to the wall. 

Aside from the visual art, El Ganzo has an underground recording studio, entered via trap door in the hotel lobby area. After descending down a narrow wooden set of stairs, a full-size recording studio comes into view and is where musicians-in-residence spend most of their time. Their recorded sessions are then played on a loop on the guest room TVs and before they go, they perform a live concert on the rooftop stage for guests to enjoy all night long—literally. Since there’s no homes nearby, and frankly not much else, bands can play long into the night.