We spent three nights at this wonderful hotel and found it thoroughly enjoyable. Very friendly, welcoming, and helpful staff. Immaculate hotel, quiet and very comfortable. We stayed in room 106, which faces the pedestrian street to the side of the building. Always a nice breeze coming in the balcony doors, and the church bells were not the big deal that some reviewers have made them to be. The small rooftop pool was delightful, and sunset views from the roof were very nice. Hotel staff were very nice when I did my usual job of speaking poor Spanish, and helped us out with English when necessary. They directed us to 3 markets in town, advised where to find the best prices, and helped arrange a tour and taxis.

I would absolutely stay at the Hotel Ceballos again highly recommend it

This hotel is dead center in the town square - wonderful dining al fresco and is very clean and comfortable. The Volcano Colima is in view - awesome

For some reason, which at first we did not understand, the Hotel Ceballos did there best to get us to go away. First, as we were already underway on our travels we received an e-mail demanding that we deposit $1,000 in the hotel's BanaMex account that day, or our previously confirmed reservation would be cancelled. Fortunately (?) we intercepted that e-mail in an Internet cafe in Guadalajara, next door to a BanaMex branch, and were able to comply with that demand.

We arrived at the hotel late on the appointed afternoon. First, having been assured that all of the hotel's rooms contained two beds, we were shown to a closet at the end of a long hall, containing a single small bed completely unsuitable for two aging adults. When we threatened to spend the night on a couch in the lobby instead we were shown to a more satisfactory room, but told that we might use that room for only one night, as the conference would be arriving the next day.

Aha! That's it. The hotel can make more money from that room selling it to the conference than by honoring their commitment to us. We were only too happy to comply.

There is little left of architectural or cultural interest in Colima. The hotel provides adequate breakfast facility, but no good place for dinner and we could not find a good restaurant in the area. The New York Times calls the Hotel Ceballos "The place to stay in Colima," and as far as we could tell that is correct. That being the case, unless you have a conference to attend we suggest that you simply skip Colima.

The first thing I should say is that I got a suite. It cost about double what a regular room did but after reading about some of the small rooms I decided to splurge. The room, although not a true two room suite, is huge. At least 24X20 with 14 foot ceiling, elaborately coved. We have two small balconies overlooking Constitucion Alley. The noise mentioned by others, was not evident here. I suspect because we are away from street noise. We watched the chess players and all the activity from above last night. Very cool.

The bath is large, it has its own balcony (making three total). The service has been great,our in room safe didn't work and it was fixed within five minutes of reporting it.

The hallways are beautiful stone arches and balconies.

Yup the church bell rang at 7.

Now the only two down things I can think of. the rooftop pool wasn't open and our air conditioner system was kind of noisy.