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Flight Attendants Change Hotels After Death at Mexico City Hilton

This is just the kind of awful news you don't want to wake up to on any morning let alone a Halloween Monday morning--a US Airways flight attendant was found dead in his hotel room at the Mexico City Airport Hilton.

The AP reports that Phoenix-based crew member Nick Aaronson, 33, was found early Saturday morning naked in his hotel bed with his hands tied behind his back. His body showed signs of a beating and the Daily Mail reported his luggage was scattered throughout the room. Mexico City police are investigating the incident, which they are treating as a homicide and there have been reports that Aaronson's mother said an arrest has already been made.

Meanwhile, AFA 66 flight attendants' union put a statement on their website saying they did not believe a security breach had happened yet they have moved their crews to another hotel for layovers until the matter is resolved.

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Westin Has One More New Hotel Up Its Sleeve, This Time in Mexico City

Where: Javier Barros Sierra 540, Lomas Santa Fe, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico, 01219

If our story yesterday on two sun-drenched but far-flung Westin Hotel openings this summer had you fantasizing about using your SPG points for a vacation, you may want to consider something a little closer to home (well, at least for us North America folks.)

The Westin Santa Fe Mexico City has opened today in the city's downtown Santa Fe neighborhood. Billed as a "chic urban retreat", the hotel is located close to the Expo Bancomer Convention Center, several corporate offices and the and shopping at Centro Comercial Santa Fe.

So it's not quite the resort getaway that we looked at yesterday in Greece and Thailand but the hotel does boast a counter current swimming pool, a Heavenly Spa and Pimzini, a formal Italian restaurant. And don't forget the Westin goodies that you always find up in the rooms. Currently rates are rather reasonable at $155 a night for a room with two double beds. King rooms are just $170 a night.

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Edition Hotel to Open in Mexico City's New Business District, Santa Fe

Picture it--December 2009. HotelChatter was up late at night agonizing over our end of the year awards and when it came to Worst Hotel Hype, we had to go with Edition Hotels. That's because nearly two years after announcing the Bill Marriott-Ian Schrager partnership, no Edition Hotels had opened yet. Numerous locations had been tossed about but nothing seemed concrete.

Then all of a sudden, the Edition floodgates opened in 2010. Waikiki is on for September/October, Istanbul, Barcelona, Bangkok and Mexico City are all confirmed and a location has just been set for Miami. What a difference a new year makes! And the news doesn't end there. We've got a hot tip about the Mexico City Edition Hotel.

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Edition Hotels May Open in Mexico City Next

While we are eagerly anticipating the Waikiki Edition which is still on track for a July opening, we've just got word that the next Edition Hotel to open may be in Mexico.

A tipster let us know that the hotel is looking for a director of sales in Mexico City. Sadly, we don't have much more to go on but we've been hearing a lot of good things about the cosmopolitan hotel scene in Mexico City these days. So this destination is 1,000 times more exciting than Waikiki.

Keep it up Bill and Ian! We want to see even more exciting destinations opening soon!

Heard any news about Edition Hotels? Let us know because the wait is nearly killing us.

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The St. Regis Gets Some Mexican Flavor With New Hotel

Where: Paseo de la Reforma 439, Mexico City, Federal District 06500 , Mexico

Instead of getting that emergency dental surgery you so desperately need, head to Mexico, where the government will pay for your procedure and you can use your root-canal money on the newly opened St. Regis Mexico City.

And at $199 a night, you might have dough left over to treat yourself to a massage at the Remède Spa or to have a private dinner on the hotel's helipad (seriously). But be sure to save some money for Internet access, since it’s not free here.

Renowned architect Cesar Pelli -- whose credits include the Petronas Towers in Malaysia and the World Financial Center in Manhattan -- designed this 492-foot luxe hotel, which boasts floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Plaza of Diana and the city's first panoramic indoor pool. But hotel officials say that the 189-room tower will retain some local flavor:

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Christmas in Mexico City? :: Consider the Marquis Reforma

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

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.

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Relive The Matador Movie at Camino Real in Mexico City

Where: Mariano Escobedo 700, Colonia Anzúres, Mexico City, Mexico, 11590

The Camino Real Hotel in Mexico City may not stack up to the Four Seasons for service or the Casa Vieja four boutique hipness, but it's got something they don't: a starring role in a movie.

If you saw 2005's The Matador, starring Pierce Brosnan as a crumbling assassin and Greg Kinnear as a suppressed Mid-Westerner with lots of problems of his own, you spent a lot of time in this hotel. It's sleek, modern, minimalist, and has a reputation for being filled with politicos striking secret deals.

According to this interview with Greg Kinnear, they didn't shut the hotel down during filming and everyone just carried on. So when you see Pierce Brosnan walk into the lobby wearing nothing but a Speedo and cowboy boots, "only about half of those people who look horrified are actors."

If you're design-conscious, stylish, or need extra security because of your position determining the fate of the world, we hear this is a good choice. Just wear some real clothes while walking through the lobby.