Condesa DF - Mexico City, Mexico     

If you like to dance all night, this is probably your kind of boutique hotel. The building itself is gorgeous from the outside and really cool from the inside. Location is great. Always a short taxi ride to anywhere. Staff was very friendly and had great recommendations. During the day, the cafe in the atrium is a really nice open lunch place. At night it becomes a really fun bar and all the hip urban natives are there to be seen. At sunset it's fun to head up to the rooftop for drinks...again to be seen. There's a club in the basement where I met a some travelers too. Noise...suprisingly not as loud in our room but then we were out of our rooms at night most of the time. There's a set of ear plugs. Our room had an ipod. The beds were comfortable. The bathroom was nice. Our room has 2 queen beds and was not small at all. Hints: Sunday nights...nothing is open but hotel bars and restaurants . We hightailed to the W hotel in Polanco to check out the scene. It's suggested not to catch any taxis off the streets at night. Make sure to make arrangements or get them from hotels, etc. We felt pretty safe there the whole time. Also we booked via Hotels.com. They screwed up our reservations. We changed the reservations but somehow Condessa didn't get the right one.

My wife and i booked this hotel since we wanted to stay at a boutique hotel with "character". We travel a lot and wanted this to be a relaxing place to be for 8 nights. We found this hotel reception area to be a 2 star it remainded us of the youth hostels in underdevelopped countries...we found staff not that helpful, once we went shopping and the hotel did not help us getting change for the taxi ( taxi charged us 70 pesos and i had a 200 pesos bill i was told" try the restaurant" and at the restaurant i was told "try reception". In the meantime taxi waiting.........Found hotel blinds to be dirty and a terrible smell coming from the washroom.......we had a terrace suite that was exremelly small .the tv was as large as a regular laptop.Front desk taxi fares quoted for hotel taxis are not respected by the taxis all times charging a lot more.We found that by crossing to the park you can get a taxi ( there is a taxi station right acrooss the hotel) for about a third of the price charged by the hotel taxis. On the positive side food is very good and buffett breakfasts very good also.Ambience in the hotel is actually not good.....we found it to be missing decor.......one of the most frustrating experiences is if you take the wrong elevator......if you do that the hotel has closed access to elevators and rooms from second floor up and you have to come down all the way and do it all over again..... In conclusion we were going to stay for 8 nights and left after the third.moved to the four seasons hotel and for less money had a great time in terms of quality, service decor and comfort level! but then again, it would not be fair to even compare the four seasons hotel with this more expensive and less comfortable hotel ...no comparisson please.......