Need to know
Rooms
19, including five Suites.
Check–Out
12 noon. Check-in, 3pm.
More details
Rates include an à la carte breakfast, minibar soft drinks, tea time (with drinks and snacks) from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, coffee and water delivered to your room at 7am, electric bikes and one set of clothes pressed a day.
Also
The grand entranceway to the original house has some stairs, but within there’s a lift to all floors and spacious ground-floor rooms that may suit guests with mobility issues.
At the hotel
Spa and gym, library, restaurant, honesty bar, pressing service, bikes to borrow, lounging terraces, concierge, free WiFi. In rooms: TV, Bang & Olufsen speakers, minibar, Nespresso coffee machine, bathrobes, Xinu bath products.
Our favourite rooms
Stick with the classics – the hotel’s newer rooms are easy on the eye, with dark woods, parquet flooring, luxe marble and white walls, but for that true lord-or-lady-of-the-house feel, you’ll want to stay in one of the four mansion rooms. There are three Premier rooms and one Grand with a sleek modern bath tub; all are spacious and light-flooded, with park views, and each has something special: an intricate stucco ceiling, windows with Eastern-style arches, curlicued ironwork. The two ground-floor rooms interconnect, and the two on the upper floor have balconies. Of the more modern rooms, we’d pick the Lincoln Park suite with its super-sized terrace.
Spa
The spa’s glazed cabin (big enough for two) is set overlooking the park atop the new annexe, so you feel far removed from the city hubbub. There’s a small but considered treatment menu for gentle unwinding after you’ve exhausted the shops in Polanco, and ambient lamps made by respected native designer Héctor Esrawe to set the scene. And, the hotel’s gym adds a touch of glamour to your work-out, not only with its hifalutin Technogym equipment, but with its original art nouveau feature windows and chic styling.
Packing tips
A hefty credit limit to allow for temptation, and gear for going out – Polanco is party-hard with label-draped denizens and a high concentration of the city’s be-seen hotspots, so you’ll want to look the part.
Also
The concierge can help set you up with an entourage of personal shoppers, drivers and whoever else can be of service.
Children
The casa may have once been a family home, but now it's more of a love nest.