I can’t speak highly enough of this hotel. After travelling by luxury bus from Mexico City to Oaxaca, then a bumpy, noisy taxi ride from the bus station to the reasonably busy street of Garcia Vigil, we were greeted at the hotel Casa Oaxaca’s doors and were instantly bathed in tranquility and grace.
Casa Oaxaca has been operating as a boutique hotel for about 10 years – not that you’d know. Everything is kept up to a high standard, meticulously maintined and presented, it could have been opened a few months ago. Check in was efficient and welcoming, and we quickly found ourselves in a beautiful, spacious king room that opened directly onto the hotel’s internal courtyard. The room included a huge suede armchair, a desk with a huge timber slab top, a couple of chairs, a bookcase filled with useful reading material about Mexico, and an elegant, large green marble bathroom. Formerly a Spanish colonial house, it retains the elegance and grace of its history but with all of the conveniences of modernity. Each of the seven rooms/suites have been thoughtfully decorated in a paired down Spanish colonial style so their appearance is at once stylish and restful.
Oaxaca itself is a rich treasury of indigenous Mexican history, overlayed with the Spanish colonial era. The hotel’s brochure, not exaggeratedly, states that “Casa Oaxaca reflects that culture. It is your haven during your stay. A meeting place between past and present.
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Check out the hotel’s website for more information about it’s facilities at:
www.casaoaxaca.com.mx/
The address and phone details are:
García Vigil 407 C.P. 68000, Oaxaca, Oax.
Tels: (951) 51 44173, (951) 51 69923
We loved the amenity of the courtyard, where you could have breakfast, lunch and dinner at your own pace. The restaurant , it’s menus and service are excellent. Then, from the front door, it is a block to the cultural centre of the beautiful church of Santo Domingo, which includes the Museum of Oaxaca’s cultural history, the library of Francisco de Burgoa and the famous Ethno-Botanical Gardens of Oaxaca. Definitely worth a visit – you’ll spend all day there easily. Santo Domingo faces onto Alcala, a pedestrianised street of some eight blocks in total, that takes you down to the Zocalo (city square).
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