Approach again in 2008 we launched our Mexico Metropolis part and on the time we solely featured 5 motels. Mexico Metropolis has come a great distance since then and it’s now routinely touted in magazines as one of many hottest locations within the Americas. Again after we posted our first opinions there have been only a few leisure vacationers at these prime luxurious properties. It was principally enterprise vacationers. Greater than a decade later, a number of vacationers have found the town’s wonderful meals, tradition, and artwork.
Mexico’s capital is now so common that you will discover a luxurious lodge for nearly each kind of traveler — worldwide chains with dependable manufacturers and repair, small boutique properties with personalised service, artsy motels with a stream of who’s who strolling via the door, or locations that make you’re feeling like you may have your personal metropolis condominium plus concierge service. Right here’s a breakdown by neighborhood of the most effective locations to remain in Mexico Metropolis.
Reforma Avenue
Mexico Metropolis’s most iconic avenue is bordered to the north by the Cuautemoc neighborhood and the Juarez neighborhood to the south. Each of those neighborhoods (particularly Juarez) have a rising checklist of implausible consuming, ingesting, and buying choices. If you wish to really feel like you’re within the massive metropolis and be proper on the heart of its beating coronary heart, a lodge on Reforma is an efficient possibility.
The most effective luxurious motels within the metropolis is among the oldest—the 4 Seasons. That was joined later by a St. Regis and extra lately the Ritz Carlton and the most recent big-name model Sofitel, all of that are proper on Reforma Avenue. For an impartial lodge that’s shut however set off of the hustle and bustle by a couple of blocks, attempt the artsy and complex Volga lodge that opened up in 2023 or the industrial-chic Carlota in Cuauhtemoc or the art-centric Stara Hamburgo in Juarez.
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Roma /Condesa
The Roma and Condesa neighborhoods are at present at their very top of recognition. Hip, artsy, and residential, these neighborhoods are Mexico Metropolis’s Brooklyn, Wrigleyville, or Boys City. Keep right here for the nightlife, all of the unimaginable eating places, and likewise all of the greenery — there are unimaginable quantities of inexperienced house and parks in each. As a result of these neighborhoods are extra bakeries than enterprise, you’ll find principally small, intimate motels right here with personalised service and a sense of actually dwelling within the metropolis.
For the artwork and design-obsessed La Valise in Roma is the place, with funky in-house designed furnishings, native artists displayed on the partitions, and beautifully enjoyable and decadent extras like beds that roll out onto the patio for sleeping under the celebs. San Fernando in Condesa is simply steps from Parque Mexico and is designed to provide the feeling of proudly owning your personal artwork deco condominium within the metropolis. Condesa Df from the parents at Habita, is among the bigger lodge choices, on a sleepy, tree-lined road on the border of Roma and Condesa. Andaz Condesa, an idea lodge inside an architectural treasure is the newest cool Condesa lodge with a full spa and a number of other eating places on-site.
Polanco
Polanco has lengthy been Mexico Metropolis’s most stylish and prosperous neighborhood, although a number of different areas might now compete for that title particularly when you take a look at costs alone. Regardless, this neighborhood with its charming streets named for writers and poets, its parks and inexperienced areas, and its eating and buying scene that features a few of the greatest names within the biz, continues to attract the crowds, each native and worldwide.
A number of strong choices for luxurious motels have existed in Polanco for over a decade, like Las Alcobas, which has nice eating places downstairs, very good rooms, fashionable public areas, and is on the primary upscale buying road in Polanco, Avenida Masaryk. There’s additionally fairly a pleasant JW Marriott in Polanco, with extra character than most in that chain as a result of it initially opened as a Mandarin Oriental. The W Mexico Metropolis can be right here, near Reforma, the huge Chapultepec park, and the Museum of Anthropology. Polanco’s newest luxurious lodging is Casa Polanco, which in order for you a boutique expertise with nice private service, is correct subsequent to Parque Lincoln and inside strolling distance of a lot of the neighborhood’s prime eating places.
Centro Historico
Mexico’s Metropolis’s historic downtown is nice for feeling the heart beat of the town and there’s a rising nightlife scene, nevertheless it hasn’t reached a essential mass of eating places and bars but to compete with different areas. In the course of the day it’s one of many busiest and most full of life locations, with a continuing stream of each locals and vacationers and plenty of the town’s historic buildings and museums to go to. Getting out and in of the Centro in cabs could be tough so use public transportation to make your life simpler.
There are fewer lux choices within the Centro due to the draw of different extra high-end neighborhoods like Roma or Polanco, however they do exist. The Umbral downtown is a really luxurious possibility with quite a lot of eating choices and a cool rooftop bar with pool. Then there may be the Downtown lodge which is a luxurious stand-by and one of many first motels to carry the next degree of vacationers again into the Centro. Circulo Mexicana is one other good luxurious possibility, however in a very tough location to get an Uber or cab out and in so count on to regulate.
Different neighborhoods
We’ve added a couple of others over time, together with one property out in San Angel. It’s necessary to take note of neighborhoods right here and what you’re planning on doing most of your time. Whereas the town has gotten cleaner and safer since we first began writing about it, the visitors is as brutal as ever, if not worse. Be part of the locals on the subway if you wish to get the place you’re going a lot quicker.
See all our opinions of the most effective luxurious motels in Mexico Metropolis. Up to date in June 2024.
Article by lydia-roma
Affiliate editor Lydia Carey is a author and translator primarily based in Mexico Metropolis. She is the writer of “Mexico Metropolis Streets: La Roma,” and provides native excursions when she’s not strolling her canines or consuming road meals.