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christinebaden · Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Cairns, Australia

hello all,
well, I was not sure about Mexico for a while as I had put in an application to Australian Volunteers Abroad. Seems that you need a degree to teach with them....argh! So, I am now back on track, and getting excited.
I am heading to Guanajuato after looking around Mexico City for a while.
Will go to a Spanish school first.
The further I am away from the completion of the TESOL course the less familiar I feel with the teaching experience. But I am coming with an open mind and if it isn't meant to be, well, I will have an adventure in Mexico.
My EU passport arrived last week, so if it doesn't happen in Mexico, maybe I can go to Spain.
Packing up the house, finding a home for the dog, doing my tax and the thousand other things I need to do before leaving the country indefinitely is keeping me more than occupied and I wonder how I will do it all in the time frame. Working at it though.
Anyone have any suggestions about a hotel in Mexico City close to the Zoccolo, that is not too noisy and perhaps has a view? Not expensive? etc.
I did see the Hotel Isabel on a Pilot Guide video, has anyone been there?
Well, hope to see one or some of you in Mexico City.
Bye for now,
Christine

Kitegirl · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 101 Location: Lugdunum Batavorum

Isabel is nice if you can afford it - we could only afford a room on the top floor - lousy! It's where all the Equadorians and other street sellers live. Lovely people, but insist on playing cards and giggling in the hall all night. Continuous requests for them to shut it resulted in them moving into the rooms but closing the door was taking it too far. Frustrated we went to the manager so they all fled but as soon as he was gone, you can imagine.
My favourite is Zamora, cheap, awesome location and the nicest people. I always went back to them.
I suggest you check out the Lonely Planet site - there's a Mexico thread with a very good search engine.

http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/categories.cfm?catid=17

UPDATE - woops. Major blooper. The noisy hotel was the one on Calle Bolivar - sorry, stayed in so many hotels, each one more than once. Isabel was lovely.

Julieanne · Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 120

Christine,
Hotel Nikko is nice and sometimes they have deals. It is in Col. Polanco, very centralized.

MELEE · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:12 pm Post subject:

HOTEL NIKKO!!!!
I believe Christine said she wanted something inexpensive!

My old boss's son works at the Nikko as a bilingual desk clerk and they have deals along the lines of US$150 on weekends for rooms that cost US$160 during the week. Rolling Eyes

If you want to check it out here's their webpage http://www.hotelnikkomexico.com/nikko_espanol.html

I and most of my collegues usually stay in one of the various hotels between the Caballito and the monutmento de la revolucion when we are in Mexico City. Hotels such as the Frimont, the Oxford, the Carolton, or the Texas which run around 100 pesos a night. They are clean and safe and this area is equidistant between the Zocalo and the Zona Rosa so we can usually run all our errands on foot. (plus there are two cinemas near by--ahhh the thrills of the city Laughing

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Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Melee, good call on the hotels al centro. I've stayed in Oxford and put teachers up in some of the others you mentioned. Oxford is quite nice for 125 pesos but can fill up quick though, so you best call them. 5566-0500.

Hotel Canada is quite nice too, down near the Zocalo. It's at 300 pesos per night. 5518-2106

DO NOT STAY at hotel Pennsylvania. The price looks nice but the prostitutes in the lobby give this place away.

Ben Round de Bloc · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1946

moonraven · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 3094

For 5 or 6 years I have been staying at the Hotel Lafayette when I am in Mexico City (I live about 2 hours away in Cuautla, Morelos.) It is clean, safe and the management is friendly. For 1 person it's 150 pesos a night. The location: 16 de septiembre y Motolin�a in the Centra Historico--a black from a Sanborns, 3 or 4 from the Z�calo, and if you are a junk foodie there is a McDonald's a block away. (I have never been to a McDonald's, but there you have it.)

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

For the price of the hotel, the hookers are probably in line with the local economy. You get what you pay for. Hotel Nikko at $300 usd per night...what kind of prostitutes do they get?

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