Approach again in 2008 we launched our Mexico Metropolis part and on the time we solely featured 5 lodges. Mexico Metropolis has come a good 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 evaluations there have been only a few leisure vacationers at these prime luxurious properties. It was largely enterprise vacationers. Greater than a decade later, a number of vacationers have found town’s superb meals, tradition, and artwork.
Mexico’s capital is now so common that you’ll find a luxurious resort for nearly each sort of traveler — worldwide chains with dependable manufacturers and repair, small boutique properties with customized service, artsy lodges with a stream of who’s who strolling by way of the door, or locations that make you’re feeling like you could have your individual metropolis residence plus concierge service. Right here’s a breakdown by neighborhood of one of the best 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 listing of improbable consuming, consuming, and procuring choices. If you wish to really feel like you’re within the massive metropolis and be proper on the middle of its beating coronary heart, a resort on Reforma is an efficient possibility.
The most effective luxurious lodges 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 unbiased resort that’s shut however set off of the hustle and bustle by just a few blocks, attempt the artsy and complicated Volga resort 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 the moment at their very peak 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 unbelievable eating places, and likewise all of the greenery — there are unbelievable quantities of inexperienced area and parks in each. As a result of these neighborhoods are extra bakeries than enterprise, you can find largely small, intimate lodges right here with customized service and a sense of actually residing 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 celebrities. San Fernando in Condesa is simply steps from Parque Mexico and is designed to provide the feeling of proudly owning your individual artwork deco residence within the metropolis. Condesa Df from the oldsters at Habita, is among the bigger resort choices, on a sleepy, tree-lined road on the border of Roma and Condesa. Andaz Condesa, an idea resort inside an architectural treasure is the most recent cool Condesa resort 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 may now compete for that title particularly if you happen to have 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 procuring scene that features a number of the greatest names within the biz, continues to attract the crowds, each native and worldwide.
A number of strong choices for luxurious lodges 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 principle upscale procuring 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 large Chapultepec park, and the Museum of Anthropology. Polanco’s newest luxurious lodging is Casa Polanco, which if you need 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 town and there’s a rising nightlife scene, however it hasn’t reached a vital mass of eating places and bars but to compete with different areas. Through the day it’s one of many busiest and most full of life locations, with a relentless stream of each locals and vacationers and plenty of town’s historic buildings and museums to go to. Getting out and in of the Centro in cabs might 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 very luxurious possibility with quite a lot of eating choices and a cool rooftop bar with pool. Then there’s the Downtown resort which is a luxurious stand-by and one of many first lodges to carry a better stage 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 anticipate to regulate.
Different neighborhoods
We’ve added just a few others over time, together with one property out in San Angel. It’s vital to take note of neighborhoods right here and what you’re planning on doing most of your time. Whereas town has gotten cleaner and safer since we first began writing about it, the site 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 sooner.
See all our evaluations of one of the best luxurious lodges 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 offers native excursions when she’s not strolling her canine or consuming road meals.
