Mexico City, Mexico

Condesa DF

Price per night from$294.75

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (including tax) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (USD294.75), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

Floral Mex

Setting

Posing by the park

A calm and cool hideaway in manic Mexico City, Condesa DF hotel is a park-side pad with an art deco edge. The polished and playful interiors have a charmingly split personality, with bold floral prints alongside bright-white walls, flowing curtains and acrylic furniture. At treetop height, the terrace bar is where hip locals gather for cocktails.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

40, including 16 suites.

Check–Out

Noon, but flexible, on request.

Prices

Double rooms from £278.97 ($352), including tax at 19.5 per cent.

More details

Rates include Continental breakfast. Or, tuck into chorizo-stuffed molletes, chicken chilaquiles, eggs, chorizo, potatoes and zucchini flowers from the à la carte menu.

Also

Condesa DF lives for the weekend. Mexico City’s movers, shakers and taste-makers flock to its bar on Friday and Saturday nights to enjoy the hotel’s cocktail wizardry and unflagging party spirit.

At the hotel

Library, boutique shop, free Wifi throughout, free valet parking. In rooms: flatscreen TV, Malin+Goetz toiletries.

Our favourite rooms

The views from Corner Suite 03.02 make it our top choice, but the gorgeous stone-clad wet rooms and huge shower roses in the Balcony and Patio rooms make both tempting options too. If you can, go for a room with outside space – the serene and leafy setting is a rarity in Mexico City, it’d be a shame to waste it.

Poolside

There is no rooftop pool.

Spa

There's a sauna and hydrotherapy pool.

Packing tips

You'll live in flowing linens, so pack light and leave room for handicrafts you find along the way.

Also

No smoking allowed here.

Pet‐friendly

Up to two well-behaved dogs are welcome in most rooms for US$50 (plus tax) a pup a night. See more pet-friendly hotels in Mexico City.

Children

Condesa DF is couples-focused, but little Smiths are very welcome to join.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Book one of Condesa’s private dining rooms for uninterrupted intimacy, or ask for one of the tables against the wall with their comfortable cowhide banquettes.

Dress Code

Upscale boho.

Hotel restaurant

El Patio is the hotel's locally-loved restaurant that muddles Mexican and French influences to great effect. And, rooftop restaurant La Terraza, which has impressive views of Parque España and Chapultepec Castle has a sushi bar overseen by Morimoto-schooled chef Keisuke Harada, who's also conjured up a menu of Japanese dishes with a Mexican accents. 

Hotel bar

The rooftop terrace bar nestles among the treetops, a triangular space of dark wooden decking under a canopy of purple-blossomed jacaranda. There’s a bar by the atrium too.

Last orders

El Patio is open from 7am to 11pm on weekdays; 8am to 11am, Saturday and Sunday. La Terraza opens from 2pm to 11pm, Sunday to Wednesday; until 1am, from Thursday to Saturday.

Room service

Meals and snacks are available 24 hours a day.

Location

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Address
Condesa DF
102 Avenida Veracruz, Colonia Condesa,
Mexico City
06700
Mexico

Planes

Bénito Juárez International Airport is Mexico City’s main gateway, served by direct flights from London Heathrow and London Gatwick. It also has routes serving other destinations throughout the US and Europe. It's a 30-minute drive to the hotel.

Trains

Mexico City’s metro system is quick and cheap, with line 5 linking the airport to the city centre, but it can be overcrowded – a taxi is the best option for hassle-free journeys. If you do decide to brave the metro, the hotel lies between Chapultepec and Jaunacatlán on line 1 (change at Pantitlan).

Automobiles

Taxis to the city centre from the airport cost around US$20 – look for the authorised taxi stands inside the terminal to avoid being overcharged. Heavy traffic can add up to half an hour to the journey, so allow plenty of time. Cars can be rented at the airport but Mexico City’s chaotic and congested roads are not for the faint-hearted.

Worth getting out of bed for

Tequila is just half the story – Mexico’s unsung national beverage is mezcal, distilled from agave leaves. Corazón de Maguey, to the south of the city, has styled itself as a 'cathedral to mezcal' and its brilliantly hued interiors make an excellent photo backdrop (before the shots, mind). Try the house brand Alipus. A bonus of trekking here is that you can swing by Frida Kahlo's former home close by to browse the museum within. Later, take a walk in pretty and peaceful Parque Mexico in the heart of the district to de-fug your head. Pre-Colombian pyramid complex Teotihuacán is an hour's drive outside the city – it's worth the effort to scale its main monument and get a glimpse into life in an ancient civilization.

Local restaurants

Contramar has become one of the most popular spots in the city. The light and airy dining room extends onto a verdant patio, and specialties include spicy fish tacos and soft-shell crab. On the other end of the scale, El Califa on Altata is an authentic late-night tacqueria that does the tastiest tacos in town.

Local cafés

Lunch with fruity zing at salad, smoothie and sandwich stop Frutos Prohibidos a couple of blocks away from the hotel.

Local bars

The Condesa area is home to some of the city’s chicest watering holes; one of the trendiest is filmstar-owned martini-heaven CFNA, located on Nuevo León.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

I love Mexico City. I love it because it’s big and brash, and a little bit mental. And that’s the point: if you want peace and quiet, go to Alaska. If it’s edge and excitement you’re after, the Distrito Federal is where it’s at. So when I find myself outside an elegant art deco boutique hotel on a tranquil tree-lined avenue, shortly after arriving at Benito Juárez airport, I feel slightly off-kilter.

As I’m waiting for Señor Smith to fly in from Cancún to join me, I have to drag my luggage into the tiny lobby of Condesa DF alone. There to greet me is a huge chocolate labrador, watching imperiously from behind reception with his paws on the counter. Is he making sure I’m dressed appropriately for this chic boutique hotel?

I walk through into a light-bathed, laurel-dotted triangular courtyard, where dressed-down chilangos are enjoying a parasol-shaded late lunch. I look up and see a Pythagorean vision of sky as blue as Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul. I’m in the centre of the atrium, and four floors of white walls, constructed from huge rectangular louvred panels, rise up around me. Oblong patterns of light are beamed onto the walls of the corridors behind. It’s beautiful and geometric. My old maths teacher would be delighted with Condesa DF.

This terrace leads onto a series of rooms, filled with mismatched, gently curving, Barbara Hepworth-esque furniture. Bold floral graphics in fresh verdant tones feature heavily, complementing the turquoise walls. Our own room continues the natural theme. Green walls segue into chocolate-coloured wooden floorboards. Huge doors slide closed to separate the bedroom from a pretty lounge, in which sit more flower-emblazoned chairs. I open my window and the sound of birdsong floods into the hotel from the palm-filled park across the road.

When Señor Smith arrives, I bounce around the room showing him all our new toys, before realising there are perhaps more important things to focus on after a spell of distance-enforced absence. When we finally make it up to the buzzing rooftop bar, there’s a slight chill in the air – but the stylish crowd of young creatives doesn’t seem to mind. We ward off the cold by cuddling beneath a blanket, as lounge music and the gentle throb of conversation provides our soundtrack. Occasionally, we stick out a hand to pick up champagne cocktails or to clamp chopsticks around morsels of Condesa DF's Mexican-influenced Japanese cuisine.

We’re on Latin time now, so breakfast is still waiting for us when we make it down to the courtyard at 11am the next morning, . Another beautiful day beams down into the atrium. With nowhere particular to be, we boutique-hop, gallery-browse and café-idle our way through this genteel, leafy neighbourhood. It’s hard to remember we’re in Mexico City – this all feels more like a romantic weekend in Paris.

In the afternoon, we brave the hot, frantic and intense city I know. Mr Smith is reluctant to leave our idyll in the suburbs, but I persuade him to come with me to the Zócalo. This bustling square has been the heart of the capital since the time of the Aztecs, and shows no signs of letting up. I drag Mr Smith through tightly packed crowds watching feather-headed dancers spin and whirl to a pounding drumbeat, to the Diego Rivera murals at the Palacio Nacional. After spending an hour or so admiring the epic frescoes, as chaotic and colourful as the culture from which they came, we head out to brave the burning sun amid the ruins of the Templo Mayor.

By 6pm, though, Mr Smith can bear no more. We jump into a green and white VW Beetle taxi and crawl along Mexico City's traffic-clogged highways, watching people weave between the cars to hawk toys and chewing gum. Stepping out of our cab beside the park, we breathe simultaneous sighs of relief; it’s hard to imagine we’re still in the same city.

That night, we treat ourselves to dinner in the hotel’s El Patio restaurant. Seated at a table in the atrium, we begin with refreshing ginger and champagne cocktails, then I move onto melting black cod in tequila miso while Mr Smith tucks into hearty braised ribs with a roasted apple purée. The food is divine; the service impeccable. We roll out of the hotel with full bellies and head to low-key local bar La Botica, which serves 15 different kinds of mescal, a local tipple caustic enough to strip paint. Bravery buoyed by the cocktails back at Condesa DF, Señor Smith asks for the strongest one they have. Several shots and some chillied peanuts later, he’s a little worse for wear.

Next morning, as we sit up in bed with coffee and pastries, we reflect on our weekend. What’s not to like about Condesa DF? Nothing. The hotel is a peaceful haven in one of the most frenetic and extreme urban environments on earth; it also happens to be a stylish and fun boutique hotel with world-class food and service. And it has a dog on front-desk duties. I wonder whether – if I tickle his tummy – he’ll let us stay for another night.

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Price per night from $294.75