Hotel Colonial

Frommer's Review

What, you ask, in a cheap hotel could possibly qualify for a Frommer's Mexican Moment? Well, first of all, the hotel hasn't changed in 50 years; it exudes an air of the past long since disappeared with the coming of globalization. The rooms have the original tiles -- once made in Mérida, but alas, no longer -- beautiful things with lovely colors in swirls and geometrics; each room has a different pattern. And then there's the plumbing, which, in my room was so bodacious in design and execution that to hide it within the walls would have been pure Philistinism. Remarkable, too, are the bathroom fixtures, the four-color paint job, and the '40s-style furniture. Sure, you have to make sacrifices for such character -- the rooms and bathrooms are small, and the mattresses aren't the best -- but even character aside, this hotel is cleaner and more cheerful than any in its class.

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