It is with pleasure that our staff strives to make you comfortable, safe and well pampered while you are visiting us here in Oaxaca. From your anticipated check-in to your reluctant check out we will await and attend to your every need. We offer full breakfast, lunch and dinner menus as well as full bar service. For breakfast, lunch or dinner, we ask you to join us in our well regarded restaurant 'La Asuncion' serving traditional Oaxacan specialties. We also invite you to relax and enjoy our roof top sun deck, cocktail lounge 'Los Chapulines', or patio. Room service is offered from 7:00 a.m. till 11:00 p.m. Free secure parking is available to guests. Internet Connectivity: Free Wireless Internet Access. Some of our specialty lunch and dinner dishes: Crepas Cuitlacoche Ensalada al Cilantro Caldo Tlalpeno Pescado al Mezcal Yes, we also serve, among other choices, eggs and bacon for breakfast and BLTs for lunch. Our employees are here to always be of service. Call on them whenever you need something. They will be so pleased to take care of it. Hostal de la Noria was the perfect home for us while we were in Oaxaca. We very much enjoyed its intimate style, its tastefully and (obviously) lovingly done appointments, as well as the friendliness and professionalism of its staff. We will happily stay there again on our next visit. are beautifully furnished with colonial style furniture. Each comes equipped with remote controlled cable television, remote controlled air conditioning, ceiling fans, direct dial computerized phones, big fluffy towels and a basket of toiletries - in case you might have forgotten something.

Our lovely 4-star hotel, the Hostal de La Noria, is housed in a beautifully restored colonial mansion in the historic center of Oaxaca near the zocalo. It has been featured in several interior decor magazines for its architectural design and attention to every detail.;Located 2 blocks from the main square,;Fifty two beautifully and individualy furnished rooms;Three floors (no elevator).;Beautiful lobby with hand carved wood furnishings;Indoor and patio restaurants;Cocktail Lounge;Roof top solarium;Room service;Free indoor parking;Twenty nine Standard Rooms: 1 double bed, 1 single and 1 double, or 1 king bed bed.;Nineteen Jr.Suites: 2 double beds or 1 king bed. Sitting area.;Four Deluxe Suites: 1 king bed, large sitting area with sofa. All our rooms offer: Air conditioning and ceiling fans Hair dryer Computerized Telephone Smoke detectors Coffee maker Remote control 25 cable TV. Each room is furnished with beautiful colonial style furniture. An excellent choice if you are looking for a safe, central location with authentic colonial ambiance, but want to keep your budget in check. Charming atrium with fountain and umbrella topped tables, rooftop sun deck, excellent restaurant and bar. Regular (Low Season) Rates for a Standard Double Room start at $150.00 (usd) per night. We have some very special rates available through the Oaxaca Hotel Group Savings Up To 40% when booked through this site. Click Here for Reservations for the Food of the Gods Festival and the Day of The Dead Festival. Travelers; Comments. Hello, and thank you for the invitation to respond regarding our stay at the Hostal de la Noria. I was very happy with the hotel and staff. It was really first rate all the way. If anything, the web site undersold the facility, and while I know you don't want to raise expectations to the point they can not be met, I am encouraging you to think again about how you can convey just how lovely the facility is and how well managed it is. When we return to Oaxaca you can be sure the the Hostal de la Noria will be at the top of our list of places to stay. Hostal de La Noria, is wonderful! It has a terrific location. We had a junior suite and the accomodations were great!. It is a charming boutique hotel decorated in colonial style which is very pretty. More importantly, the entire staff of Hostal de La Noria is warm, attentive, and helpful. The resturant is charming with good food. In addition, the waitstaff is extremely friendly and offers great service. We have traveled throughout the world and honestly, the entire staff of Hostal de La Noria is the best we have seen. I highly recommend Hostal de La Noria for an unforgetable and enjoyable experience in Oaxaca. The Hostal de Noria was beautiful. Colorful and appealing - lots of open space and rooftop sun deck. The service was excellent and the restaurant was one of the best we tried. The front desk staff was very helpful to us. We hope to return to Oaxaca someday! Oaxaca was a perfect place to spend Christmas and to introduce the Mexican culture to our children (ages 11 and 13). Our hotel was the Hostel de la Noria. It was beautiful with a great staff and a top-notch restaurant. I explored other hotels and B B's during our stay (one of my passions) and didn't find one that compared. I had searched web sites without success for two weeks trying to make reservations and finally found the Oaxaca Hotel Group. I will definitely use OHG for our next trip to Mexico! My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed our stay in Oaxaca. We were very pleased with the Hostal de la Noria--we found the staff there friendly and helpful. And as for the food--the only thing to say here is that I never had a bad meal. I would certainly use the Oaxaca Hotel Group service again and would recommend it to anybody thinking of going to Oaxaca. We were in one of the fantastic Master Suites and enjoyed it very much. Lovely property. This will be our choice of hotel on our return. Its cleanliness, service and easy walking distance to the zocalo were a treat.. Beautiful botique hotel. Excellent location. The rooms were very well appointed. The detail in design was fabulous! I adored the ambiance, the lovely staff and great food. It was like coming home at the end of the day. We also very much appreciated the professionalism of the Oaxaca Hotel Group and Oaxaca Tours. Your effort, both before and after our visit, is a rare, and much-treasured, gesture in today's 'get their money and move on' world. Thank you. Though our encounter with you has been recent and brief, it seems to us that you are doing things just right. So keep on doing what you are doing the way you are doing it. Muchas gracias. R G C.; Sitting room in the lobby at Hostal de La Noria; Magic is certainly the right word for Oaxaca. We have been to many places in Mexico over the years, beginning with our honeymoon in Mexico City 33 years ago, but none quite as magical and engaging as Oaxaca. It is a lovely, lively, human-scale city, filled with color and attractions, both people and things. We very much look forward to returning.. Zapotel Hotels in Mexico

According to a survey published by Travel Leisure® magazine, Oaxaca is the very best destination in Mexico, Central and South America. Readers listed Oaxaca as one of the seven best destinations in the world, along with Sydney, Rome, Florence, Bangkok, Cape Town and New York. Christmas in the U.S. has its many, deep rooted charms, but often the holiday spirit may be lost among all the commercial tie-ins. That may be one of the reasons that people travel during the season; not to escape Christmas, but to find it. You'll discover the delightful seasonal traditions that make celebrating Navidad - a unique and quite unforgettable experience. Day of the Dead in Oaxaca. The ancient Oaxacan rituals in honor of the dead mixed religious beliefs with fable. When the Spaniards conquered the country, indigenous customs were rooted so deeply that after five centuries of colonization they continued to survive and remain as current as in their first days. Holidays and Celebrations in Oaxaca The same annual festivals and celebrations that occur in the City of Oaxaca, also take place all over the state, along with the fiesta of each local patron saint. WHERE'D MY PEOPLE GO? It's a party, said my Oaxacan host, sipping Manischewitz wine. We Mexicans love a party.. Oaxaca's very own festival: The. Things to do in Oaxaca. There are so many things to do and see in Oaxaca that it is a good idea to pre-plan a bit to get the most out of your trip, especially if you are planning to stay a week or less. Oaxaca's Historic Center extends six to eight blocks in each direction from the Zocalo. Oaxaca has virtually numberless attractions branching out from the main square. A Walk in the Clouds. MOUNTAIN HIKING in Oaxaca. The Sierra Norte or Sierra de Juarez is set in a uniquely privileged location; seven of the nine types of vegetation existing in Mexico are found here in nearly four thousand plant species. The Skinny of. The traditonal Mexican steam bath. It's a part of the movement, now so widespread in this country, to return to the healing practices preserved in indigenous medicine. Intelligence, foresight, honesty - these are the superlatives that trip off the tongues of Mexicans when asked their opinion of Benito Juarez. And in Oaxaca, one of the nation's most conservative provinces, it is his humility and roots that are most often remarked upon. Traveling by road from Oaxaca to Puerto Escondido or Huatulco can take more than 6 hours by car and up to 9 arduous hours by bus. provides morning and afternoon flights between Oaxaca City and the beach destinations of Huatulco and Puerto Escondido. Flight time is approximately 35- 40 minutes. before you go. Basic legal aspects. Customs. Touris Card. Money matters. First aid. Staying healthy in Mexico. Travel insurance. Packing tips. TSA Security Guidelines. Know Before You Go by U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security. Oaxaca's regional cuisine is considered exceptional even in food-famous Mexico. Developed over thousands of years, subtle and balanced, this food is good whether eaten on a street corner, a fonda in the market place or in a fancy restaurant in the historic center near the Zocalo. What do MARTHA STEWART, FOOD AND WINE and BON APPETIT know about that you might be missing out on? This has become a rather sophisticated dining town with restaurants in Oaxaca serving both traditional and updated versions of the world famous Oaxacan regional cuisine - which is quite vast. have been grown in Mexico for thousands of years. There are more than 150 indigenous varieties with at least sixty of these grown in Oaxaca and nowhere else. Hnads on Cooking classes with of Teotitlan del Valle. What's with the worm in the Mezcal? Once a backyard brew of dubious origin, mezcal's claim to fame is the cactus worm in the bottom of the bottle. Oaxaca's Botanical Garden. In order to demonstrate the relationship between the vegetation and the traditions of Oaxaca, the garden only brings together plants that are relevant to the region;s culture. VILLAGE MARKETS and MARKET DAYS IN OAXACA Major towns all have weekly markets or;Tianguis;, with days staggered to enable vendors and purchasers to attend different ones. No trip to Oaxaca is complete without some time spent exploring a few of the region;s fascinating villages, and wandering through several of the area;s exotic native markets.; TEMPERATURES IN OAXACA. Oaxaca sees approximately 311 days of sunshine per year. The annual average temperature is 82 degrees Fahrenheit during the day with average lows at 45 degrees Fahrenheit at night. The evenings are often cool enough for a light sweater or jacket. The rainy season lasts from mid June until mid September. Rainfall is usually a quick shower in the afternoon during siesta and occasionally during the night. With low humidity, soft breezes, and year-round spring-like temperatures anytime is a good time to visit Oaxaca. What's the story on Oaxaca's Zocalo? One of the exciting and most rewarding experiences in foreign travel is to meet people from other cultures on a first name basis. So, don;t miss out on the very thing you come to Oaxaca for - not only the sights and sounds that will surround you, but also the insights and pleasure that come from spending time with local people in a relaxed and easy way.

 Guest rooms have air conditioning
 Baby chairs and cots are provided
 Luggage storage
 Breakfast may be served in the room
 Rent-a-car service
 Central situation
 Playground for children
 Clothes dry cleaning
 Conference and meeting room
 Credit cards accepted
 Currency exchange service
 Lift
 Disabled guests are welcome
 Facsimile services
 Hairdryer
 Access to internet
 Ironing facilities
 Kitchen
 Laundry services/washing machine
 Licensed bar
 Fully stocked mini bar
 Mixed dorms
 Smoke-free guest rooms
 Parking lot
 Clock/radio
 Fridge
 Restaurant
 Around-the-clock room service
 Safe deposit box
 Sauna
 Shop on premises
 Private/Ensuite bathroom
 Swimming pool
 Tea and coffee making facilities
 Phone at reception
 Phones in rooms
 TV sets in rooms
 Patio, summer terrace