Hotel Colonial

We came in on a Saturday morning for a late breakfast after a short fishing trip. The hotel and dining room itself had beautiful paintings, and historical statues. Great experience!

I wanted to have the experience of an old colonial hotel, so I booked this one. I wasn't disappointed!||||The room was vast, clean, decorated in a very simple way, It actually made me feel like I was traveling back in time. What was comfortable in the past isn't necessarily so today, but I enjoyed my stay there.||||The air conditioning didn't work, the wifi was extremely slow and didn't reach the room most times. But i wasn't there for that, I wanted to enjoy what the town Manzanillo had to offer.||||The hotel is well situated in the colonial part of the city. There isn't much to do around it but there are cafes and restaurants worth trying.

Great food! We had quesadillas, enchiladas, chips and guacamole, breaded shrimp, and my favourite beef fajitas. The restaurant area is clean and cool with 2 huge windows open to the street allowing a cool breeze to flow through. The washrooms are quaint individual rooms, but there was now wait when we were here. Definitely recommend!

Completed in 1942, the Colonial isn't really colonial but a good example of Moorish/Spanish revival. Very nice too! I had a spacious, comfortable room and everything worked fine.||||The restaurant downstairs is fine and since there's a shortage of good eateries in town, probably the best option.||||Not sure why the last review here was in 2017---maybe travellers don't stay in Manzanillo much. As a city it's no Veracruz but pleasant enough with busy shipping activity.

Chose the Colonial for our first visit to Manzanillo as we wanted to be in Centro to explore its Historic Centre touted by travelbymexico.com - did not find it very historic. ||The Colonial Hotel tiny lobby is basic. The addition of the elevator detracts from the talavera embellished walls and the lovely stairwell. The building street corner hosts an OXXO store with a high ceiling and nice woodwork on it (same as in the dining room). It was likely the lobby main entrance originally. ||Older style hotel lacking some of todays conveniences. Room with a double bed on the third floor was a OK size, the separate bathroom was poorly lighted and the shower never did provide hot water. The free Wi-Fi was a mix of slow & fast. There is no safe, TV with no English channels, air conditioning (it was good but not temperature controllable), a writing desk and one chair. There was two small bottles of water provided but no drink glasses. ||We stayed for two nights. On the second day we ate breakfast and dinner in the Hotel dining room Candiles. Good service and pricing. Our sea food dinner choices were excellent. Quiet, convenient and as good as we found for dining in Centro.||Not the hotels problem but across the corner from the hotel is a Telcel outlet that on our first day was blaring the most obnoxious racket at high volume interspersed by one of the staff with an amplified microphone making even more noise. This went on all day. The corner appears to be a local meeting point and some noise carried on until late. If you think it would be a problem, request an inner courtyard room. Our second night was much quieter.||If you wish to stay in Centro, the Colonia is a good option.

Very nice location downtown. An older hotel that looks great. Friendly staff. It is for being downtown...not on the beach. Reasonable price. Parking. Sunday nights the locals get together on the Zocalo to listen to each other sing.

Stayed two nights. Well located for centre of Manzanillo but not a tourist destination! There with work. Cheap but fairly basic with tv remote issued on arrival and room checked before you leave. Adjoining Candles restaurant and Oxxo store handy. No hot water on arrival but promptly sorted. Two beds, one soft, one harder. Good aircon which is needed. Some rooms better than others with more light. A bit to basic for our liking feeling tired rather than vintage. Good value and you get what you pay for here.

We arrived at main Coach station in new port area. Grabbed a taxi to old town for mex$ 70 and arrived at Emperador Hotel (an option) which seemed very closed.||We knew Colonial was nearby so taxi dropped us off (with no hike in price) to this magnificent establishment. The best in the whole town it turned out!||On entering the (now left hand arch) side entrance reception the staff were efficient but spoke little English (this place is for better off Mexicans!). Direct door to OXXO now as they took over most of lobby in corner.||We asked for a room for three and were shown a big room 214 with julietteish balcony overlooking the busy noisy street.||Hot water came slowly as a big hotel, perfectly hot in the end. An abundance of towels and soaps and shampoos. We only stayed one Thursday night so way too much! Multiples of Three of everything so great as a proper three person room.||Custom made headboards and decoration around.||Big room with only a few side lights so dim. Even bathroom was relatively dim as one light. I had problems trying to fix a slipped zip on my extendable trousers for dining in the evening (trying to make an effort as relatively posh for us!).||Walk in cupboard with sufficient hangers. Convenient chunky hooks on the wall.||Looks like hotel/tied restaurant Los Candiles is best automatically so reviewing this evening after dining there! ||Night-time proved quieter than expected although earplugs were employed it seemed quiet. AC was very efficient although the colonial room deserved a big fan for effect! Pity none was there as would have been quieter than the hard working AC unit. I did not see the bed sheet itself under the top sheet (so dim!) so slept under topshert only and was very cold at 07:00 so turned it off. Beds are big by UK single standards and firm. ||Furniture was solid as were the doors! The architecture was spooky by the AC units littering the corridors, pity as essential it seems in this humid and hot port.||Lots of shops selling tat from China, bought in via the huge stacks of containers in the port nearby bearing Chinese names. Very little 'Hecha en Mexico' sadly nowadays!||The (referred to in previous review) Bank has gone on corner, now a yet another OXXO with reception relegated to main arch on side by fab stairwell. Our corner room 214 and balcony is directly above between the crests (missed photo-op grrrr).||I have added a night-time image of the hotel from the seafront square/malecon (no competing singers just loud competing car systems on the evening).||There is a lack of restaurants close by as the eating establishments only serve locals who like basic Mexican, pizza or ice cream! ||We have just found Chantilly which is a proper restaurant )not an ice cream parlour) on the corner of the arcade near bandstand, square green umbrellas. It closes at 5pm!!!! We are having a brunch here now as free 'continental' breakfast was a disappointment (soggy university hall stylee) toast, balls of 'butter' and lots of jam OR fresh fruit with Orange Juice or bottomless coffee). Dining room makes up for it though!!|Chantilly (not listed) has great tasty food! Spicy meat, mole nacos as a Ferrocarril. Beer at 27. Coffee (Americano) was actually strong (compared to hotel restaurant)! So extra expresso to bolster it up was not required! Flying now :-)||Overall hotel was great and the only real Gringo hangout even for thrifty travellers! Lots of character. Restaurant best for a la carte. Breakfast was disappointing as described but we could have paid more for a better one.||Very few tourists so very few up to date reviews. Hope this helps!