Laid-back hotel featuring an informal restaurant & a bar, plus an outdoor pool, gardens & mini-golf. Set among gardens in a modern mission-style building, this unpretentious hotel is 2 km from both Parque Benito Juarez and toy exhibits at Museo del Juguete Antiguo México. The bright, relaxed rooms with colorful accents and tile floors feature free Wi-Fi and flat-screen TVs. Suites add sitting areas; some also have dining tables. There's no air-conditioning. Room service is available. Parking is complimentary. Breakfast is available for an additional fee in a warm, casual restaurant. Other amenities include a laid-back bar, a solar-heated outdoor pool and a hot tub, plus a game room, mini-golf and 2 meeting rooms.
Salida Real a Querétaro 1, Zona Centro, Centro, 37774 San Miguel de Allende, Gto., Mexico Get directions
"This incredibly pretty pueblo is Mexico’s artistic epicenter. But UNESCO-protected San Miguel, two-and-a-half hours northwest of the capital, had been resting on its Crayola-colored laurels, overlooking the trends of its creative counterparts around the globe. Enter first-time hoteliers Mariana Barran de Goodall and Taylor Goodall. After getting married here four years ago, they bought a 300-year-old former mayor’s residence in the cobblestoned center and transformed it into a guesthouse with cheerful touches to appeal to cool-hunting travelers. A lovely courtyard filled with bougainvillea, towering palms, and a cobalt-blue-tiled fireplace opens up to a salon with a mezcal bar and a café. Four stately ground-floor rooms have bronze four-poster beds decorated with Oaxacan textiles, paintings from the couple’s private art collection, and vintage furniture sourced from Europe. Upstairs is the fifth room, with a mural by Argentine artist Lucas Rise, steps from the rooftop restaurant Bar Margaret, which serves Latin-Southern small plates such as shrimp and grits topped with pico de gallo and a curated wine list heavy on labels from nearby natural wineries. Hotel Amparo knows exactly how to honor the history and artistry that have been the calling cards of San Miguel for decades, while making it modern. FLASH POINT Locanda will open in a parlor off the entrance by midsummer, with a rotating menu of handmade pastas and Sicilian wines. +52 1-415-152-0819; hotelamparo.com. Doubles from about $200." - CNT Editors
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