Xalapa
Pleasant and colorful, this small orange hotel lures you in with its appealing plant- and tile-filled lobby. The inward-facing rooms are on the small side…
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Toluca
Toluca's first hostel opened in 2019 bringing budget basic digs with cute spaces for socialising. Creaky wood is used throughout – in beds, flooring and…
San Cristóbal de las Casas
A neat small hotel in the heart of the Real de Guadalupe travelers' scene. The rooms, which are set around a couple of pretty little patios and a lovely…
Dolores Hidalgo
The reception feels a bit like a doctor's surgery, but this super-clean and well-managed place offers comfortable if rather dated rooms. It's conveniently…
Oaxaca Coast
Santuario La Escobilla's clean, sturdy, well-kept cabañas are set in a neat garden and equipped with electric light, fans, mosquito nets and hot-water…
San José del Cabo
There are views of the pueblo from some of the contemporary-look rooms at this long-standing popular choice. Plus there's a good restaurant and helpful…
Zona Rosa & Reforma
A good-value option in the pleasant and central Cuauhtémoc neighborhood, the Bristol caters primarily to business travelers. Carpeted rooms are done in…
Guadalajara Region
This 15-room budget hotel with tiled floors and vaulted brick ceilings ticks all the boxes: scrupulously clean, friendly to a fault and very affordable…
Veracruz
This welcoming hotel offers spacious, bright and pleasant rooms looking out across the main square – great for catching the town's atmosphere, but not so…
Cobá
Clean and friendly, the Sac-Be is actually two sister properties on the main strip heading into Cobá. Rooms sleep up to four people. There's also an…
Chiapas
With great plaza views from the 1st-floor terrace, the colorful Hotel Central has smallish rooms with cable TV and fan. Ask for one of the upstairs rooms;…
Cuernavaca
Cheap and central on the same street as the Cathedral, Las Hortensias has small, sparse rooms and a lush garden. Street-side rooms are noisy, so bring…
San Miguel de Allende
This place is a bit like an old aunt – slightly dated, but charming and hospitable. Its bright and airy rooms face on to plant-filled patios. A reliable…
Veracruz
This impressive 16-room hotel in the middle of town is a welcome addition to Cosco's accommodation options, offering sparkling clean, brightly painted…
Chiapas
Situated on the pretty Jardín de la Marimba and near a number of good coffeehouses, this small hotel has slightly aging rooms featuring folksy decorations…
Chiapas
A basic but adequate campground with bathroom facilities, a short walk from the river and the crashing waterfalls of el Aguacero. You'll need your own…
Acapulco
A five-minute walk from La Quebrada, this sweet, family-run hotel may be basic, its rooms straight out of the 1980s, but the central location is good and…
Puerto Vallarta
One of the better budget hotels along this street, which isn't saying much for the others. This family-run place offers darkish, fan-cooled rooms, some of…
Valladolid
This old dame is larger than she looks but is pretty old-fashioned in a '70s kind of way. It's central, though. The airy lobby-restaurant overlooks the…
Oaxaca Coast
The San Pedro, 300m south of the main bus station, has pleasant, spacious, air-conditioned rooms with tiled bathrooms behind a sandy yellow facade. The…
Teotihuacán
The rooms at this centrally located, family-run, budget posada are smallish but clean and all have a TV and private bathroom. There is only one twin…
Central Pacific Coast
The nicer of the village's two lodgings, with austere but clean en suites and powerful air-con. Worth staying overnight if you're looking to do a dawn…
Bahías de Huatulco
A friendly little budget spot just south of La Crucecita's Plaza Principal with six smallish but neat and well-kept rooms all with hot-water bathrooms and…
Tapachula
A block away from Parque Centenario, the location's the winner here, but the rooms themselves are clean, comfortable, cheap and slightly old-fashioned…
Puerto Escondido
Las Olas has good, clean, excellent-value rooms, with pretty tiling and craft details, and a pool. Second-floor choices have ocean-view hammocks, and…
Guadalajara Region
Tlayolan Hotel is two minutes south of the main plaza. It has a gamut of 75 rooms from plain and cheap to smart and more expensive, so take a look at both…
Central Pacific Coast
Rooms here have a kitschy quality with ceramic floors, built-in concrete beds and bench seating, exposed roughly hewn cement walls, and lots of bright…
Veracruz
Perfectly serviceable cheapie off the main plaza, with compact rooms, some with partial views of the square. The popular cafe downstairs fills up with…
Central Pacific Coast
Nothing spectacular but serves its purpose as a clean budget option conveniently located near the three bus terminals. There's a restaurant here too.
Veracruz
This family-run cheapie gets mixed feedback from its guests. It's adequate for an overnight stay, but there's a 10pm curfew and the place is crying out…
Tabasco
This small guesthouse offers the best sleep in Frontera. It's above a shop just back from the waterfront and has simple, but clean rooms with lots of…
Cancún
Rooms are anything but colonial, but they're pleasant enough and they overlook a leafy central courtyard with a gurgling fountain. The hotel has a small…
Veracruz
On the outskirts of town, this ashram has yoga, meditation and walking trails through its lush grounds. The dorms are basic and all food served here is…
Toluca
The modern, sleek, 85-room Fiesta Inn has airy, comfortable rooms, a small gym and a cafe-bar-restaurant in the lobby. There’s another branch near the…
Tabasco
Locals rent a variety of fairly basic rooms (many without hot water) through the town's Hotel Communitario network. Ask in the office on the town plaza.
Central Pacific Coast
This property could definitely use some love, but the pool, restaurant and oceanfront rooms make it one of the better options in town.
Northern Central Highlands
This place has great-value, spacious rooms with large pieces of mirrored furniture and cable TV just a stone's throw from the main square.
Tapachula
A rather uninspired hotel but the average rooms are well-priced and clean. Rooms 12 through 16 have dynamite views of Volcán Tacaná.
Mazunte
Friendly El Agujón has 13 small, rustic, clean cabañas and rooms on the hillside just above its restaurant.
Mérida
The main things going for this spot is its location – in a beautiful old colonial building right on the main plaza – plus its big breakfast buffet. Rooms…
