Christmas in Mexico City? :: Consider the Marquis Reforma

Where: Paseo De La Reforma 465 Col Cuauhtemoc , Mexico City, Mexico, 06500

October 16, 2008 at 10:45 AM | by annie0007 | 0 Comments

In Tony Cohan's excellent travelogue, Mexican Days, he writes of a surreal Christmas spent in Distrito Federal, what the natives call Mexico City. He found the streets strangely, uncomfortably empty, cleared of the usual throngs. Everyone was home celebrating the festivities but him. (The passage starts on pg. 77.)

While the Mexicans are busy sequestering themselves with families and friends during the Christmas days, it might be a good time to try out The Marquis Reforma Hotel & Spa's "Winter Holiday" package, if you're not headed off to the Mexican beaches.

Starting at $170 a night (double occupancy required) and available between December 15 and January 6 (another major holiday, the celebration of "Rosca de Reyes"), the package comes with a tour of DF's most deck-out neighborhoods. And the hotel is close to some of the City's biggest sights: Chapultapec Park, and the Museo de Antropologia.

If you have serious cash to spend on indigenous arts, you can get a 15% refund on any expenditures up to $935 -- a new VAT refund for visiting gringos.

Tripadvisor reviews are generally flattering, not surprising given the hotel is ranked with Five Stars and was voted "Best Business Hotel in Mexico City" by Travel and Leisure Magazine in 2004. But a few posters had serious problems with the service, decor, water pressure, and issues with the concierges.

One post mentions:

We asked what we could do on Christmas day, knowing that everything would be closed but looking for someplace to walk. They had literally nothing to offer. Turns out there was an annual celebration in the Zocalo but they didn't tell us.

Bring your walking shoes -- and maybe Tony Cohan's book -- to while away that Christmas day afternoon.

Ed.Note: Indeed, the decor at this hotel could use some work. We perused the hotel's photo gallery and we were kinda dismayed by the room shot.

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