Acapulo Hotels
Acapulco – the original beach resort of Mexico
There are a broad range of hotel accomodation options available in Acapulco, many of them are located on or near to the beach and surrounding areas. The city is tourist magnet, especially during the Spring Break season when many college students travel to the city for what is generally known to be a four day party. During the rest of the year the hotels of Acapulco cater to Mexican and international tourists from the wider region, the USA and the rest of the world.
There is the Grand Mayan, one of the most popular establishments with 451 rooms. The Las Brisas is another with 263 rooms.
Other more sought-after hotels include:
Etel Suites with only 12 rooms
Camino Real Acapulco Diamante (157 rooms),
The Fairmont Pierre Marques (335 rooms),
Mayan Palace (360 rooms),
Fiesta Inn Acapulco (224 rooms),
Elcano Hotel (180 rooms),
Quinta Real (81 rooms),
Fairmont Acapulco Princess (1,017 rooms),
Villa Vera Hotel Spa and Racquet Club (75 rooms),
Bambuddha Hotel (13 rooms),
Fiesta Americana Condesa (500 rooms),
Sands (90 rooms),
Emporio (419 rooms),
Boca Chica Hotel (40 rooms),
Ritz Acapulco (240 rooms),
Hotel Los Flamingos (47 rooms).
Acapulco hotels may experience localized downturn following street violence
Acapulco is the second most popular holiday sport for US college students on Spring Break, because of this it has developed a reputation for sun and sand fun, beach tanning and seaside resorts, surrounded by some of the best clubs in Mexico. This makes it all the more unfortunate that recent events may detract from the city’s overall charm.
In April 2010 as many as six people were killed when a deadly gunfire battle erupted between feuding drug lords, according to Mexican police. The shooting, which lasted only a few minutes but inflicted a deadly impact, broke out on one of the main hotel-lined boulevards in the otherwise sleepy town.
One local woman and her eight-year-old daughter were among those killed. The shooting took place directly next to the Hotel Playa Suites, a luxury resort complex on the beach where tourists from around the country and the world were staying.
No tourists were killed in the incident, which broke out when police intervened in a shootout between two cars, but it will undoubtedly rattle an industry already hampered by a recession and ongoing drug wars between rival gangs and police in the Latin American country.
About Acapulco hotels and safety: Tourists in Acapulco are largely safe from the political and socio-economic issues with which Mexico is dealing, within the hotel environment guests are entirely secure as drug violence is tourist parts of the city is rare, let alone in any of the hotels. Acapulco remains as safe an environment for tourists as any major city in the developing world.
Despite drug violence, Acapulco hotels are gearing up for busy 2010
There are five hotels that have recently undergone extensive renovations and upgrades, or have been built from scratch, and now offer the kind of luxury and services that have until now been lacking in Acapulco, a largely budget-oriented student playground.
On the back of significant growth in the hospitality industry throughout 2009, several resorts have been opened or revamped in preparation for a change of image for the trendy seaside resort town. They are the exclusive Banyan Tree Cabo Marqués, which opened in January 2010 and is the city’s first all-villa luxury getaway. The Boca Chica hotel had its 36 rooms renovated to model, with great authenticity, the original glamour of the 1950s, the The Fairmont Pearl which has undergone a renovation that saw all 310 of its rooms upgraded and modernized. The Hyatt Acapulco reopened in 2010 as the Grand Hotel Acapulco & Convention Center, the first stage in a comprehensive renovation and the Hotel Encanto was opened after a $20 million investment in the complex.
The resort is made up of 47 luxury villas, each with their own pool and designated by their level of luxury. The Presidential Villa, for example, is situated within its own expansive garden and overlooks the Acapulco coastline. The four restaurants offer, local, western and Thai cuisine.
Owned by Grupo Habita and located in the Traditional Zone of Acapulco, this famous hotel has undergone a multi-million dollar renovation that has seen the internationally renowned architects Frida Rojas and Jose Escobedo resotre the hotels rooms and public spaces to the iconic magnificence of the 1950s when the hotel was the hang out of some of the most famous people in the world.
This towering hotel on the Fairmont Princess property with its 310 rooms operates as a separate entity to Fairmont’s Acapulco Princess & Pierre Marques properties. It will offer world-class amenities such as the award winning Willow Stream Spa, a golf course and several high-end restaurants.
Grand Hotel Acapulco & Convention Center
With 14 ballrooms, a banquet hall, 23-stories of hotel rooms and amazing views of the city and bay, this new development is the first stage of a massive overhaul of the old Hyatt Acapulco. Already 200 new rooms have been opened, a new spa has been built, the pool areas have been overhauled along with all the hotel’s public spaces. By December 2010, it is anticipated the hotel will have two floors designed for the exclusive use of over 18-year-olds and 600 new luxury rooms.
A lovely little boutique hotel in Acapulco’s Punta Diamante district, the Hotel Encanto has 44 beautiful rooms, a spa with 8 treatments rooms, an extensive pool area and 22 suites with pools on the private balcony.
With all these expansion projects taking place, boosting the 17,000 rooms already available in Acapulco, the hotel industry seems to be indicating a strong vote of confidence in the longevity of the hospitality sector of Mexico in general and Acapulco especially.
Despite the bad press of late, the city’s location on the stunning Caribbean, the proximity to major tourist markets such as the USA and the relative safety and calm of the city means that Acapulco retains its holiday charm and magnetism.
Hotels in Acapulco benefit from MTV Spring Break party
Acapulco hotels are feeling the immediate effects of Spring Break as rooms fill up, but MTV’s presence for the holiday also provides welcome publicity and a high-profile boost for the industry after a slow start to the year.
Acapulco was invaded throughout March, as it is every year, by students on Spring Break, predominantly from the USA and this year MTV were on hand to reaffirm their commitment to their primary market demographic while providing the hotels of Acapulco with a welcome publicity boost to jump-start the local hospitality industry out of a sluggish beginning to the year.
MTV took up residence at the Playa Suites Hotel in Acapulco from the 14th to 18th of March and played host to a number of concerts, street parties, contests and other musical events.
A casting call on the MTV website for Spring Break took auditions for students who thought they were unique enough to be followed by a camera crew throughout Spring Break while cameras filmed the city’s beaches and boulevards to be broadcast across the world.
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