Oaxaca, Mexico

Otro Oaxaca

Price per night from$404.60

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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 (USD404.60), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Brutalist beacon

Setting

Santo Domingo shadow

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Otro Oaxaca may have a cool façade, but its spirit radiates a warmth as soothing as the city’s sun and gilded neighbor, Santo Domingo Church. Inside, splashes of color soften contemporary rooms, and hand-crafted furnishings come coated in characterful quirks. Map out your El Centro itinerary up at the rooftop pool, before fueling up at the alfresco restaurant for between-boutique roaming. Mezcal-laced cocktails await your return, and a subterranean spa means healing is at your feet. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

16, including four suites.

Check–Out

Noon, and check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability and an additional charge.

More details

Rates include a Continental breakfast, served daily at the restaurant.

Also

Unfortunately, Otro Oaxaca isn’t suitably equipped for guests with limited mobility.

At the hotel

Co-working and communal area, book collection and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV, Bluetooth speakers, air-conditioning, minibar, free bottled water and organic bath products.

Our favourite rooms

The Town House is the natural draw for its fourth-floor terrace, plunge pool and split-level living. But there’s an equally enticing charm to the Deluxe room, where a concrete-cast bath tub makes evening soaks an alluring affair.

Poolside

Make for the rooftop, where terry-lined sunloungers and made-for-two day-beds rest between a sun-steeped infinity pool. Backdropping its shimmering form are all-encompassing views from the Sierra Norte mountains, across Santo Domingo Church and out to Cerro del Fortín.

Spa

There isn’t always space for solitude in a city, but despite its central locale, Otro Oaxaca’s subterranean spa makes time to reset a priority. Its 20-foot plunge pool has been carefully designed to emulate the region’s calming cenotes, with an herb-infused steam room, ice-cold tub and two treatment cabins as its remedial partners. The spa can be booked privately until 8pm, after which it’s open to all guests.

Packing tips

Your taste buds: you’ll want to show them everything this food-famed city has to offer.

Also

Otro Oaxaca is the sister stay to Smith-stablemate Escondido Oaxaca, which sits five minutes down the road in a historic building, designed by Alberto Kalach.

Pet‐friendly

Pups are welcome to join you in all rooms for a nightly charge of $50 each. See more pet-friendly hotels in Oaxaca.

Children

Little Smiths are welcome, though there aren’t any dedicated facilities for them.

Sustainability efforts

When it comes to sustainable design, Otro Oaxaca is leading by example. Its Brutalist exterior is carefully structured to respect the city’s historic architecture, using hand-crafted materials like artisan-made resin, red earth from the surrounding valleys and recycled wood. Interiors are filled with furnishings carved by close-to-home creatives; and at the restaurant, dishes are made with locally and sustainably sourced ingredients.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Beat the Oaxacan heat with a seat under one of the terrace’s trees.

Dress Code

Beam with bright hues to counter your Brutalist surroundings.

Hotel restaurant

The hotel’s restaurant is your laidback hangout, with low-slung tables that sprawl out onto a tree-shaded terrace, and local crowds — your sign its fare is worth staying for. Nearby suppliers deliver their home-grown ingredients fresh each week, before head chef Saúl Carranza and his talented team spin them into the inventive mod-Mex dishes that don its seasonally switching menus.  

If Saúl is hosting one of his chef’s table dinners during your stay, be sure to bag one of the 22 spaces: he serves his flame-grilled favorites up on the rooftop, against sweeping views of the city and its embracing mountains. 

Hotel bar

Naturally, agave-based spirits fill drinks menus at the restaurant’s bar. Take your mezcal neat as a soothing nightcap, or sample its fruity notes in one of the barkeep’s craft cocktails. Similarly spirited tipples are poured on the first-floor patio, too.

Last orders

Breakfast is served between 7am and noon; lunch service starts at 1pm and flows into dinner, which finishes at 10.30pm. The rooftop serves from 5pm to 10pm.

Room service

Available from the restaurant’s menu between 9am and 10pm.

Location

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Address
Otro Oaxaca
Calle Macedonio Alcalá 505 Ruta Independencia Centro
Oaxaca
68000
Mexico

In an enviable location along Oaxaca City’s Calle Alcalá, Otro Oaxaca watches over the storied Santo Domingo Church and its historic El Centro home.

Planes

Oaxaca International Airport is your closest landing strip, with private transfers available — for an additional cost — to make the 20-minute drive to Otro.

Automobiles

Oaxaca City is walkable and well-connected, but if you are bringing your car, valets are available to park your wheels within walking distance for free.

Worth getting out of bed for

Otro Oaxaca puts you along the city’s social spine, with Calle Alcalá’s dining hotspots, artisan boutiques and color-splashed architecture mere minutes away. This pedestrian-only promenade also brings a thriving art scene, with talent-led workshops, museums and galleries down most side streets. The Graphic Arts Institute of Oaxaca, set behind an unassuming florid façade, is well-worth a wander for its print-focused exhibitions. 

Staff are on-call to arrange day-trips, if you’d rather veer from El Centro’s crowds. The Hierve el Agua waterfall and Unesco-recognised Monte Alban ruins make strong starting points. If you’re mad for mezcal, palenque and distillery tours can be arranged on request, and they’ve a pick of cooking classes and food tours if you’d rather sopa de guías over spirits. 

Local restaurants

At lauded Levadura de Olla, head chef Thalia Barros Garcia has concocted widely adored menus that pay flavorful homage to her home region of Sierra Sur. Behind the lofty stature of your neighboring Santo Domingo Church, sits two-story Casa Oaxaca El Restaurante — a decades-old spot where flame-grilled, locally sourced fare and a sun-flecked rooftop still draws similarly stylish crowds. Equally expansive, Los Danzantes has been long been regarded Oaxaqueños’ go-to for its contemporary Mexican (and Michelin-winning) menus. 

Local cafés

After-dark dancing is fueled by tacos and tostados from Lechoncito de Oro, which starts serving as the sun sets and closes when it begins to rise. For all-day bites, Onnno Lonchería is loved for its well-stuffed sandwiches, salads, fluffy bakes and energy-boosting coffees. 

Local bars

Mezcal is a must when in Mexico, and its smoky flavor takes all sorts of forms at Mezcaloteca, a bar-slash-library with over 100 options to pick from and a rotating roster of education-led tastings. If you’d rather your spirit be mixed, creative cocktails are infused with local ingredients at Selva. 

Reviews

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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 Brutalist base in Central America and unpacked their huipils and barro rojo ceramics, a full account of their Mexican break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Otro Oaxaca… 

The Santo Domingo Church is El Centro’s cultural icon; and sitting to its side, in all its Brutalist glory, Otro Oaxaca is set to garner a similarly stellar reputation. 

Each space at this 16-key hotel has been thoughtfully designed with local talent at its forefront. Rooms are parted with swathes of organic suede, warmed with hand-crafted furnishings and encased in a contemplative sort of serenity. The underground spa features a cenote-like pool and herb-scented steam room; and up by the rooftop pool, seek out solace with all-round views of the Sierra Norte mountains. 

But in Oaxaca City, calm is countered with that idea-provoking kind of chaos, courtesy of Calle Alcalá’s bustling social scene and revered restaurants. Mole and mezcal may set off your senses, but be sure to save space for Otro’s eatery, as much an ode to the region as the rest of this boutique base.  

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