8/10 Good
Edward Emmett
Business traveller
20 Nov 2024
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Hotel Principado is a small, simple hotel near the Zona Rosa in Mexico City; For the past fifteen years I have visited there at least twice a year and absolutely love it. I've known four of the staff members for all those years and they treat me like family when I come to visit. It's a lovely, shady old fashioned neighborhood lined with trees and walking distance to anything you might want or need. In fact, it's walking distance to some of the finest restaurants - like the Casa de Mariachis where there is an 8PM Cultural Floor Show that can't be beat - after enjoying a delicious meal of Mexican BBQ and side dishes. Chapultepec Palace is within walking distance and in all these years I've never seen everything in that palace or its surrounding park. The hotel is simple, no a/c because you don't need it and a lovely dining room and restaurant. There is a business area where you can use a computer or sit and read. The street food surrounding the hotel is more than delicious and two blocks away is Bellinghausen a restaurant founded by a German Chef in 1915 and it's the kind of elegant that has gone right out of fashion - fabulous meals and the finest service in Mexico. Hotel del Principado has become my home away from home. Yes, it could use a coat of paint, but, I wouldn't stay anywhere else!
Edward Emmett
Stayed 6 nights in Nov 2024