The 19 Best Hotels in Mexico City
Proyectos: Condesa DF, Carlota, Umbral
Publicación: Condé Nast Traveler
Umbral
Located in the heart of Centro Histórico, Hotel Umbral is an ideal outpost for art-driven travelers who seek to experience Mexico City’s aesthetic delights of past and present. The property is set within the renovated 19th-century Edificio España, and guests can see some of the original building’s most prominent features, including the stairway with stainless steel railings and a skylight-capped atrium with glass mosaic flooring. Of the hotel’s 59 guest rooms, 12 are suites that come equipped with plush sofas and vinyl record players for guests to enjoy during their stay. Each room also features artwork sourced from some of Mexico’s most interesting creatives, such as David Troice, Andrea Bores, and Disciplina Studio.
Carlota
This 36-room design hotel near Mexico City’s Paseo de la Reforma is packed with personalized touches. Room service comes courtesy of chef Fernando Martínez Zavala, who focuses on seafood-forward dishes. You won’t soon forget the impressive design and the small details in the bedrooms, like Mexican candies and L’Occitane bath amenities. But light sleepers, take note: The pool restaurant/bar is at the center of the property and stays open until 11 p.m. In other words? Pack earplugs.
Condesa DF
Mexico City’s first design boutique hotel was cool before the capital was hot. Before international chefs made pilgrimages to Pujol to eat grasshopper and self-proclaimed foodies posted photos of mouthwatering tacos al pastor. And the fact is, 20 years in, Condesa DF is still—if not the shiniest or most elegant hotel—the coolest. In large part, this comes down to excellent design. Grupo Habita (the homegrown hospitality brand behind low-key Oaxacan beach retreat Hotel Escondido and retro-hip The Robey in Chicago) took a neoclassic, 1920s apartment building with arched windows and French balconettes and tapped Mexican architect Javier Sanchez and Iranian-French designer India Mahdavi to transform it. The pair created a space so contemporary it still feels trailblazing. Sleek metal shades close off the guest rooms from the open-air atrium. Mod, Jetsons-like furniture (a white semicircle-shaped leather couch, lacquered tables that look like Bishop chess pieces) paired with bold but spare hits of color, like turquoise walls and lemon-yellow chairs. The hotel, encircled by palms and pines and just a few steps from Parque España, one of the city’s prettiest squares where creatives stroll with their dogs mid-day and teenage couples steal kisses, is itself a retreat from the constant whirl of the surrounding megalopolis while still being in the middle of one of its liveliest neighborhoods. Of the five different room types, the corner suites with wrap-around terraces stand out, especially in the spring when the jacaranda trees erupt in a riot of purple. The vintage 1950s Chevy, which is permanently parked in front, is the sign that you—along with stylish Capitalinas dressed in oversized Carla Fernandez tunics who come to nibble some of the city’s best sushi on the now iconic rooftop bar—have arrived
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