Hotel Azul de Oaxaca

The Hotel

Hotel Azul de Oaxaca opened in the early 2010s in a restored centro casona at Abasolo 313, three blocks east of the Zócalo on the Abasolo walking corridor that runs into Oaxaca's textile-and-craft district. The property is owned by a Mexican-American hospitality family and has held its position as the largest of the Oaxaca-centro small-boutique cluster (21 keys, larger than Casa Antonieta's 9 or Casa Oaxaca's 7) and the only Oaxaca-centro luxury hotel with a rooftop pool. The Mexican-blue-tile decorative register that gives the property its name (Azul = Blue) is the signature visual distinction across every public space.

The 21 keys are spread across the casona's three floors organised around a central tiled courtyard. Categories run from entry-tier Standard Rooms (28 sqm) through Junior Suites (40 sqm) to the Master Suite (50 sqm, top-floor with private rooftop terrace and direct rooftop-pool sightline). The interior register is the contemporary-Oaxacan-blue-tile vocabulary, every public space and most rooms hold hand-painted Oaxacan-blue ceramic-tile detail, the central courtyard's fountain is tiled in the same Mexican-blue palette, and the rooftop pool is finished in the property's signature blue-and-white tile. The decorative register is structurally the property's brand identity.

Operationally Hotel Azul de Oaxaca runs the small-centro boutique register with the structural distinction of the rooftop pool. The Patio Restaurant, the property's all-day venue inside the central courtyard, runs a contemporary-Oaxacan kitchen that has held a position on Oaxaca's most-considered hotel-restaurant list for a decade; dinners are typically taken in-house or at the surrounding centro restaurants (Casa Oaxaca, Catedral within 5 minutes). The Bar Azul runs the property's evening cocktail-and-mezcal programme. The rooftop pool, the property's signature daily-routine asset and the only Oaxaca-centro luxury-hotel pool, runs the all-day pool service alongside the rooftop's centro sightline.

What gives Hotel Azul the considered Oaxaca position, and the structural alternative to the higher-tier Casa Oaxaca and Hotel Sin Nombre and to the substantially-lower Casa Antonieta, is the rooftop-pool combination at mid-tier rate. The 21-key footprint is the largest of the small-centro boutique cluster; the rooftop pool gives the property a daily-routine asset that no other small-centro Oaxaca property delivers; and the centro Abasolo walking position keeps the property within 5 minutes' walk of every Oaxaca cultural institution. For a Oaxaca family stay that needs a pool, an anniversary trip that values the rooftop register, or a multi-night Oaxaca stay that prefers the central-courtyard architectural register over the alternatives, Hotel Azul de Oaxaca is the considered choice.

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