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Calle 62, #439 between 51 and 53
Mérida
Mexico
97000
Tel: 52 999 924 4363
This eight-room hotel in an 1840 hacienda may be just a few blocks from Mérida's central plaza, but in the evening, when bats dart through the courtyard's colonnaded portal and stars twinkle above the palm trees, you'll feel like you're at a country estate. The sense of seclusion is reinforced by unobtrusive staff, towering ceilings, and two lovely courtyards. Yucatán's capital city has several other excellent hotels set in nineteenth-century homes but none with such contemporary style: dark-wood furniture is set on red-stained polished-cement floors, and abstract paintings adorn the foot-thick walls, painted in a traditional combination of rust and creamy yellow. Though the hotel's four larger rooms are dubbed "executive," don't expect officelike details (except for free Wi-Fi). The space that might have gone to a desk is turned over to a huge bathroom and a vast shower, all the better to enjoy local treats like natural honey shampoo and sisal bath scrubs. Perhaps the most soothing of all is the massage therapist, on call in the back courtyard every evening.
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