travel42 Hotel Review: Quinta Real Oaxaca

Quinta Real Oaxaca travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

At Plaza la Bastida on a pedestrian-only street, five blocks from the Zocalo (the city square), this is a brooding colonial crypt with a clever yet light-handed contemporary bent that won't spoil it for traditionalists.

The 16th-century Convent of Santa Catalina de Siena in which this hotel resides is a tourist attraction in its own right, especially its ancient fountain, community wash basins, faded frescoes and other original artwork (the value of which ...