La Casa de Maty

We stayed in Casa de Maty on a Tuesday and Wednesday evening. At first, despite having just changed our reservation to pay more for an upstairs room, they tried to put us into a first floor. Although they speak no English, by using Google translate, we were able to get an option to two upstairs rooms. We picked the nicer of the two and everything from there went uphill. ||||The fireplace and the location right on the main plaza made the hotel first rate to stay in. Although, breakfast is not included, we went upstairs the first morning just for convenience. Skip Meson De Los Encinos and go somewhere else, for better price and quality of food.||||They help you with the fireplace and you can help yourself to extra firewood. The location was great and the facility was very clean and the staff were very pleasant.||||Parking can be a challenge, since you are subject to free public parking on the square in front of the hotel. ||||The shower was really modern and nice ( as compared to those in other rooms we saw). The bed was unbelievably comfortable and the blankets were fabulous. ||||I do not recommend coming to Tapalpa on weekends since it is flooded by people from Guadalajara. Also, many restaurants and shops are only open on the weekends to cater to the tourist crowds. |||| We hope to return to Casa de Maty again. Just be prepared to be language challenged if you are not fluent in Spanish.

Casa de Maty is a beautiful hacienda style hotel right on the town square. Wonderful and attentive staff who were very helpful . ..... even though they only speak Spanish they understand some English as we communicated easily even with our poor Spanish:) Felt like a very authentic experience as the room seemed to maintain its original style while upgrading with modern amenities. Room had brick walls, huge wood beamed ceilings, fireplace in corner, wooden shutters ....typical Mexican charm. Bathrooms were updated with porcelain tile floors, vessel sinks and rain shower heads. Beds and pillows were extremely comfortable with heavy lush comforters....which I imagine are very nice in winter months!! Flat screen TVs with lots of stations....even a couple in English. Wonderful grape vine lights at night, lovely flowers and a fountain in the center courtyard that added to the ambiance. There is a bar with pool table and a game room. Super convenient as it is right on the main square across from Cathedral. Our room was in the back on ground floor and was remarkably quiet given that we were in the center of town! I would definitely stay here again. Price was reasonable and non-negotiable. It was off season so we got in without a reservation....I am sure during their tourist season you would have to have an advance reservation.

First of all if you do not speak Spanish you can be really out of luck here because NO ONE speaks english- no one. Not necessarily a bad thing because this is Mexico after all, but just a heads up for Gringos. Another caveat is that we found the restaurant upstairs is terrible. I had a filet of beef that was like shoe leather.||||The hotel however is quite lovely. The theme is rustic and this is carried over the rooms which are spare and lack any decoration. They do have small little wood stoves for heat which come with cut wood but no kindling to start a fire. You have to buy kindling on the streets where numerous people go around selling bundles. Beds comfortable but hard, if you don't like that. ||||Best of all you can't beat the location which is right on the plaza about as central as you can get. The only drawback is that you can't drive up to the hotel. Find a parking spot and walk to the hotel and then bring the valet back to your car to take it to free parking. Leaving, we had to walk three blocks to where the valet brought the car. So if your walking is impaired this is not a good choice for you.

A very nice hotel, rustic yet modern room and on-suite. Fireplace in the room was a great touch and somewhat necessary at almost 8,000ft in elevation. Fronting onto the square is a key benefit. Weekends are more interesting and weekdays it was very quiet!||Motorcycle friendly - we parked in the lobby for secure overnight parking.

Rustic and informal. Easy place to stay if you are a hiker or a birder. Received nice welcome. The staff is friendly and helpful. Great central location on the main plaza. The restaurant upstairs, La Troja, overlooks two churches and community activities. Was there on a weekday so it was quiet. Because Tapalpa is a "pueblo magico" it could be noisy on a weekend with Guadalajara visitors, or not.

Mi girlfriend and I went to Tapalpa to gather info about places for our future wedding. We choose this hotel because is right on downtown. Its location was more than perfect to go everywhere. ||||The hotel facilities are beautiful. Typical Mexican small town resort. Clean! Full of flowers, old wooden furniture, a fire place on each room, I mean, classic, cannot be more Mexican than that. ||||The personal was great! Eva Maria helped us in any way beyond her duties, before arrival I asked to buy flowers and leave them in the room as a surprise for my girl and the flowers were beautiful, she helped us to get all info and places available for our wedding. Give us info for restaurant, etc.||||As you can read in other reviews for this hotel, WiFi is not very good. But who cares? This hotel is made to run away for that kind of urban stuff. So I did not pay attention to this. But if you needed for work, well WiFi signal is intermittent and slow.||||Overall the experience is great! We had a great time and were attended like kings. Hotel is beautiful and coffee in the morning was great! Our stay was on dia de muertos festival and they were having a typical Mexican altar for the dead, and it was beautiful.||||Try this hotel. If you don't want to be Inna cabaña, this is your best choice!

We spent only one night. We were wonderfully received by Sra Antonia Cordoba, front office, and checked in to an amazing rustic and perfect room. Every aspect was complete, and the special treat was the fireplace, which the night manager lighted for us, leaving abundant firewood for hours of beautiful light and warmth. The king bed had more than ample blankets, the shower was hot and abundant, and no aspect was missing, even a lovely wood kleenex holder. Both of us have many years of experience in high quality hotels around the world but would not trade this night for any of them.

We loved this room-it was so romantic and lovely. In addition to the fireplace, there is a huge woodpile with all the wood you want! We camp out a lot so that was an added treat as the evenings would cool off just a little. It was like a room in Taos or Santa Fe NM with high ceilings and lots of woodwork and a nice big window. We read about it in the Lonely Planet and they were right-the LP rarely lets us down. It's a little hard to find. This is a great town as are most all of them. We were on a 7 city loop from Guadalajara and back touring the Mexican highlands. It was such a fun trip! Note: there was no coffee or breakfast included but we had our own coffee packets and just went out. No problema!