Welcome to Maria Cristina Hotel, your best option to stay in Mexico City.

This historic hotel is located in the heart of the capital, a few steps f the most beautiful and important avenua in the country: Paseo de la Reforma, which is the perfect starting point to discover this wonderful and Cosmopolitan city. The most important suburbs near by are Condesa, Polanco and Towndown..

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Hotel name

If we had to rename this hotel with an amazing name, we would have named it “Hummingbird Hotel” due to the abundance of these attractive and mischievous birds arrive to trees and they drink in their artificial red drinkers. We could named it too “The two fountains hotel” for its beautiful fountains that are melodious in two interior yards. Also “The Garden Hotel”, for its cozy grass or lawn, nourished by magnificient ash trees or maybe, “ The Miners Hotel” because its origin ir related to this activity. As it is located in a suburb where the name or rivers predomínate, it could have been called “Mesopotamia Hotel” or “Artists and Bullgifhters Hotel” because of the number of them that come frequently, but, Why change its name if it already has one and also it’s nice? Maria Cristina Hotel, hotel with history.

1938

The edification began in the 30’s and in 1938 it was fully built. The engineers are E. Cusí and E. Lavín, as well as the architect C. Fabre, materials manager the entreprenuers Cadranell and Zozaya, most of them with Catalan and Basque surnames, according to the wrought iron plate, in the floor at the entrance to the main door of the building.

1957

With enormous walls and interior patios, which have withstood endured quakes or earthquakes of 1957, 1974 and that of 1985, totally unscratched. This is one of its features: its capacity of security against earthquakes and its great possibilities of evacuation and refuge. Wide stairs and spacious garden give all the possibilities to protect yourself against the unfortunate and dangerous natural phenomenon. In the entrance hall, you can still see the hatches through which you enter the underground tunnels that go through the basement of the antique part of the hotel in a terrific maze.

1971

In this year, began the expsansion at the back of the building, set above the parking lot. The works are concluded in 1975 the offer reaches 150 rooms. Also in this area are the three largest suites at the foot of the garden: an authentic luxury with very Hispanic names: The Altamira, The Alambra and The Alcala.

1979

In 1979, it changes ownership, after a time of defaults and economic problems. In this way, the hotel rescued from debt, changes hands and style, latinizing again. It goes from Anglo-german decoration to something more Spanish-colonial.

Location

Emblematic place in one of the best neighborhoods in CDMX, the perfect place to stay, located one block from Reforma, the financial and tourist area but in a peaceful and quite environment in CDMX

Before

Emblematic place in one of the best neighborhoods in CDMX, the perfect place to stay, located one block from Reforma, the financial and tourist area but in a peaceful and quite environment in CDMX

After

Emblematic place in one of the best neighborhoods in CDMX, the perfect place to stay, located one block from Reforma, the financial and tourist area but in a peaceful and quite environment in CDMX