Merida, Mexico

Hotel Sevilla

Price per night from$283.14

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

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (USD283.14), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Casona-coated Brutalist

Setting

Mérida's old town

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Short of booking a room at nearby Mérida Cathedral (spoiler: you can't), Hotel Sevilla — a block from bustling Plaza Grande — is about as central an old town crashpad as you’re likely to find. Not that you’d know it from the inside, where shady arcades flank time-worn courtyards and sunlight dapples concrete walls. The result: a disarmingly tranquila retreat, complete with spa and pool, that feels far from the sensory fiesta just the other side of those weathered walls.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

21, including six suites.

Check–Out

Noon. Check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates include a buffet breakfast served in the restaurant.

Also

There’s an elevator but, unfortunately, no wheelchair-accessible rooms at Hotel Sevilla.

At the hotel

Free WiFi throughout. In rooms: air-conditioning, TV, free bottled water and organic bath products. Suites also include Bluetooth speakers, coffee machines, minibars, bathrobes and slippers.

Our favourite rooms

Go big or go home: the Historic Corner Patio Suite fine-tunes the art of relaxation with its statement pink hammock. You also get a Juliet balcony with views of Mérida old town, a dining area (with eye-candy locally made table and chairs), plus upgraded amenities like a coffee machine, a minibar and a Bluetooth speaker.

Poolside

Inspired by the water cisterns of Yucatán’s great haciendas, Hotel Sevilla’s pool is flanked by artfully weathered walls, tranquil terraces and great fronds of sub-tropical foliage, and invites drowsy sunlounger sessions punctuated by refreshing dips whenever the Mexican sun gets too spicy.

Spa

Switch into full relaxation mode with the spa’s indulgent roster of massages, scrubs, mud facials and herbal cleanses. Try the hot-marble bed, a modern take on the traditional temazcal (Mexican sauna) and access the main pool direct from the terrace.

Packing tips

Hotel Sevilla’s cool, cloistered corners are catnip to contemplative readers, artists and thinkers. Pack accordingly: Yucatán-set novels, books on ancient Maya civilisations and a sketchbook should have you covered.

Also

The retro ‘Hotel Sevilla’ signs used in the reception area and over the day-beds in the bar are from the casona’s first outing as a hotel in the mid-20th century.

Pet‐friendly

Dogs are welcome at Hotel Sevilla on request in any room and in the hotel's communal spaces; a nightly charge of US$50 for each pup applies. See more pet-friendly hotels in Merida.

Children

Welcome, though there are no specific facilities that cater for little Smiths. Children aged 12 and over are charged as adults.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Close to the edge of the terrace for a better chance of peeping down through the leaves into the courtyard below.

Dress Code

None, but bright color blocks and tropical prints are sure to make holiday selfies pop against those cool concrete walls and swoon-worthy stone arches.

Hotel restaurant

A beautiful Brutalist spiral stairway leads up to the first floor, where checkerboard tiles and festoons of lush foliage set the classical tone. It’s here that you’ll find the restaurant – or bistrōt – which is open 7.30am–10pm for all-day dining. Staples of the daytime menu include tacos, guac and a smash burger with manchego. But you’re unlikely to eat the same thing twice at dinner: the evening menu, showcasing Yucatán dishes made using seasonal local produce, changes daily. 

Hotel bar

The breezy bar leans into its Brutalist inspiration, with solid concrete features softened by blush-pink cushions and the encroaching garden foliage. Here, ceiling fans whir lazily overhead as bar staff mix tequila- and mezcal-laced cocktails flavored with seasonal Yucatán fruits, herbs and spices.

Last orders

The restaurant opens for breakfast at 8am until noon; for lunch it’s 1pm until 7pm; dinner hours are 8pm until 11pm. The bar pours from 7pm until 1am.

Room service

You can order dishes to your room during kitchen hours, from 8am until 11pm.

Location

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Address
Hotel Sevilla
Calle 62 No. 511 Centro
Merida
97000
Mexico

Hotel Sevilla occupies a colorful corner of Mérida's old town, a block from the central Plaza Grande with its soaring laurel trees, palatial city hall and 16th-century cathedral.

Planes

It’s a 20-minute cab ride from Mérida International Airport to the hotel. A one-way ride will cost you around US$15–20, depending on traffic. Alternatively, private transfers can be arranged through the hotel (price on application).

Automobiles

Narrow roads, one-way streets and limited parking can make driving in Mérida a chore. Besides, the compact old town and leafy plazas are well-suited to exploring on foot. You can pick up a rental car locally if you fancy getting out of town and seeing a bit more of the Yucatán Peninsula.

Worth getting out of bed for

Mérida's magical old town is a mecca for snap-happy sightseers, no filter required. Start on Plaza Grande, where Mérida Cathedral is all reclaimed Mayan building materials, soaring Renaissance arches and Moorish stonework flourishes. Pause for a well-earned gelato beneath the plaza’s towering laurel trees before crossing to check out the pristine colonial palace that’s now home to City Hall and eyeballing the intricate statuary that clings to the 16th-century facade of the Museo Casa Montejo. Tip: the broad balcony at City Hall (which, with its checkerboard tiles and sequential stone arches, looks not unlike a supersize version of Hotel Sevilla’s own upper floor) is a great spot for views back across the plaza to the cathedral. 

Elsewhere, Paseo de Montejo is Mérida's answer to Paris's Champs-Élysées: visit on Sunday mornings when this sprawling, tree-lined boulevard is partially closed to traffic, the better to ogle its eye-popping European-style palaces and mansions. 

A day trip to the well-preserved Mayan site at Chichén Itzá is likely top of your hit list, but the (closer and less crowded) ruins at Uxmal pack a similarly substantial punch. 

Local restaurants

Tucked behind an unassuming facade on a humble side street in Mérida's Itzimná barrio, Arcano, with its scarred stone walls, candlelit sculptures and lush garden patio, feels like a real find. But it’s the artful steak and seafood dishes you’ll still be talking about long after dessert. 

A little closer to Hotel Sevilla on the edge of Parque de Santa Ana, Huniik occupies a maize-hued townhouse that looks almost as edible as the sophisticated Yucatecan cuisine on the menu. Each evening, just 16 diners are treated to a tasting menu of 12 immaculately presented courses. 

Local cafés

Bean-obsessed Mexico is one of the world’s largest coffee producers, so you’ll rarely have to wonder where your next cup of joe is coming from. Both La Abadia Café and Italian Coffee are easy wins if you’re looking for a nearby brew to take on a stroll round Plaza Grande. A little way north of the square, Mercy’s Coffee & Co is a solid sit-down espresso joint that also happens to do a fine line in pastries, waffles and breakfast bowls. 

Local bars

If you’re going to acquire a taste for mezcal, there are probably few better places to do so than at Mérida's La Fundación Mezcalería which, as well as boasting a soberingly long list of the good stuff, is also reassuringly close to Hotel Sevilla . 

A mite further north along Calle 64, Dzalbay Cantina serves up live jazz, soul and blues with a side of Mexican bar food, Yucatán craft beers, cocktails and — yes — mezcal, in a powder-blue corner building. 

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this colonial casona on the Yucatán peninsula and unpacked their souvenir bottles of mezcal and tequila, a full account of their colorful city sojourn will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Hotel Sevilla in Mérida… 

A fixture of Mérida’s old town for more than 400 years, the aristocratic mansion that houses Hotel Sevilla has been rebooted for the 21st century. The makeover takes its cues from 1950s Brutalist architecture: there’s a monolithic concrete bar; a stairwell moulded from the grey stuff rises with surprising elegance from a cenote-style water feature; and sunlight plays over great slab-like walls.  

Yet for such an apparently severe reno, the result feels surprisingly light-touch, sitting rather well alongside original stone walls, footworn floor tiles and shaded arcades, plus kitschy elements such as the original old-school ‘Hotel Sevilla’ sign hanging in reception. 

It’s old, it’s new; it’s Spanish colonial, it’s mid-century modern. And yet, as you ease into the pool — inspired by the cisterns of great Yucatán haciendas — submit to a mud facial in the spa, or dine on modern Mexican cuisine on the checkerboard terrace, historical context loses relevance. The whole place has a charm that’s timeless. 

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