Camino Real Polanco
http://www.orbitz.com/hotel/Mexico/Mexico_City/Camino_Real_Polanco.h10150/
Hotel Overview
great hotel, room for improvement
I have been at the Camino Real hotel in Polanco Mexico City many times before and my experience has...
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OscarElz
- May 9, 2013
Family get together in Mexico City
The hotel is beautifully designed and well maintained. There are restaurants for every taste, and...
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J Weldon Smith
- Mar 15, 2013
Award-winning hotel offering art, luxury, and a convenient location
Five-star Camino Real Mexico City, designed by distinguished Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta, sits only three blocks from the city's grand boulevard, Paseo de la Reforma, and the museums of Chapultepec Park. Guests enjoy six restaurants, two lively bars, and an Internet café, plus a heated outdoor pool and fully equipped fitness center. The property received the Successful Pinnacle Prize for its quality and service.
Highlights
- 5-star hotel and AAA Four Diamond Award winner
- Member of Leading Hotels of the World
- Camino Real Club Lounge, with complimentary continental breakfast
- Fully equipped fitness center
Rooms
Camino Real Mexico City offers 712 rooms and suites, situated around a large inner garden. Rooms feature floor-to-ceiling windows or balconies with two double beds or one king bed. Amenities include a mini bar, satellite television, wireless Internet access, and electronic safe. Spacious bathrooms, fashioned from red marble, feature a vanity mirror, hairdryer, and other luxury bathroom amenities.
Camino Real Club rooms offer private check-in and personalized steward service, including a welcome cocktail, wake-up calls, light pressing, and shoeshines. The rooms also provide access to the Camino Real Club Lounge, with complimentary continental breakfast, evening cocktail hour, and concierge service.
Features
Camino Real features an unusual blend of modern and pre-Hispanic architecture. Guests marvel at the hotel's signature wave fountain outside the main entrance, as well as the massive Rufino Tamayo mural in the lobby.
A heated outdoor pool, located inside the garden courtyard, provides an oasis of tranquility. The fully equipped fitness center adjacent to it offers garden and pool views.
Blue Lounge welcomes guests for power meetings and casual gatherings, while the outdoor Moonbar, set within a triangular garden, offers a relaxing setting with waterbeds, sofas, and candlelight.
Dining
Dining options include the acclaimed China Grill and landmark the Centro Castellano, featuring a Segovia-style wood-fired oven used to prepare house specialties. These include suckling pig, lamb, prime cuts of beef, and seafood. This restaurant, founded in 1949 in Mexico City's Historic Center, opened in Camino Real México in March 2001.
Guests enjoy Italian fare and wood stone pizzas at Bice, continental breakfast at Café Tamayo, and Mexican and international fare at La Huerta. Maria Bonita, named for Mexican movie star Maria Felix, also features Mexican cuisine.
Transportation
- Benito Juarez International Airport (9 mi/15 km)
- Town car available
Nearby attractions
- Chapultepec Park (0.5 mi/0.8 km)
- Museum of Anthropology (0.4 mi/0.7 km)
- Polanco shopping district (0.6 miles/1 km)
Business
- 20 meeting rooms accommodate 10 to 1,600
- Business center
- Ballroom
- Secretarial service
Camino Real Polanco Rooms
- Camino Real Club Room
- This guest room features two double beds or one king bed. At Camino Real Club, our guests will enjoy a private check-in and personalized steward service that includes: Welcome cocktail, baggage keeping, light pressing, wake-up service with coffee or tea, orange juice, and your favourite newspaper, turndown service, shoe-shining, bathrobe and slippers during your stay. In the Camino Real Club Lounge you will also be able to enjoy: complimentary continental breakfast, confirmation of your business appointments, concierge service and fax services.
- Deluxe Room
- This guest room features two double beds or one king bed. This room also includes a mini bar, 3 phones with two lines, TV with On Command and wireless Internet service, laptop connection, electronic safe box, worktable, easy chair, coat hanger, peepholes and locks on doors, spacious bathrooms with a vanity mirror, scale, hair dryer, and bathroom amenities.
Amenities
- Wireless internet
- Outdoor pool
- No smoking rooms/facilities
- General
- No smoking rooms/facilities
- Concierge
- Elevators
- Activities
- Outdoor pool
- Fitness center or spa
- Dining
- Bar/Lounge
- Restaurant
- 24 hour room service
- Services
- Business center
- Laundry service
- Babysitting/Child services
- Safe deposit box
- Meeting/Banquet facilities
- Conference facilities
- Doctor on call
- Gift shop
- Currency exchange
- Internet
- Wireless internet
- Parking
- Parking
- Accessibility
- Handicapped rooms/facilities
Hotel Map
- Area served
- Mexico City, Mexico.
- Nearby airports
- Benito Juarez International Airport.
- Area description
- Area attractions include the Anthropology Museum, Basilica de Guadalupe, Folkloric ballet, Xochimilco, Templo mayor, Dolores Olmedo Museum, Chapultepec Castle, National Viceroyship Museum, Children's Museum, Polyforum Siqueiros, Plaza de la Constitucion, Cathedral, and National Palace. Our concierge will be happy to assist our guests.
Nearby points of interest
- El Zocalo: 3 mi
- Constitution Square: 3 mi
Meeting facilities
- Meeting Info
- The hotel features a fully equipped business center specially designed for our business travelers. The business center has 4 meeting rooms for 6 and up to 18 persons. Secretarial personnel is available on request as well as professional translators.
Dining
- Cafe Tamayo
- Enjoy the best gourmet coffees and pastries. Rufino Tamayo's beautiful mural will enable you to get closer to Mexican culture. Continental breakfast is served in the mornings.
- Bice
- The best Seafood and Italian Cuisine. Opens 24 hours a day.
- Token Caf
- You will enjoy a cozy atmosphere with a state of the art internet service and wide range of coffee selection.
- La Huerta Cafe
- It offers Mexican and international dishes and is open 24 hours a day. This is the ideal place for informal get-togethers and has buffet and a la carte service.
- China Grill
- The restaurant will be close around three months.
The informal and cozy ambiance is complemented by modern music. The menu comprises international cuisine with an Asian touch. The dishes are served in large portions, with the idea of sharing in mind. This is a way of promoting a sense of brotherhood. The beverage bar is recognized by its creative and uncommon cocktails, with a large variety of Martinis, from the "Hot Passion" to the "Saketini". You do not need experience. The China Grill's Sushi Bar is an experience in itself. The sushis are very original and are served in a large shared table that allows for the best encounters. - Centro Castellano
- Featuring traditional Spanish cuisine. It has a Segovian style wood oven. Its specialties are dishes prepared in the wood oven, such as suckling pig, lamb or veal breast. Seafood dishes are also its specialty. This restaurant was founded in 1949 in the Historic Center of Mexico City, and has been located in the Camino Real Mexico since March, 2001. The restaurant's ambiance and decor are those of a Spanish inn.
Hotel Policies
- Check-in:
- 1500
- Check-out:
- 1300
Terms and conditions
Rates quoted in currencies other than the hotel's base currency are subject to the rate of the international exchange. Rate may change throughout stay. Rate may reflect average nightly rate. Extra charges may apply. Incidental charges, such as room service, are not included in the rate.
The amenities and/or facilities may not be located at the hotel, but within a reasonable distance, and additional charges may apply for use.
Guest Reviews (70)
Ratings and reviews for Camino Real Polanco
- All travelers (70) 3.9 / 5
- Business (33) 3.9 / 5
- Couples (14) 3.5 / 5
- Families (10) 3.8 / 5
- Friends (5) 4.6 / 5
- Singles (7) 4.3 / 5
- Amenities:
- 4
- Room cleanliness:
- 4.4
- Hotel staff:
- 4.3
- Room comfort:
- 4
- Location:
- 4.5
- Value:
- 4
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Reviewer score
Would not recommend
Anonymous
Terrible Internet service every time
The TV did not work when I arrived. A main ceiling light flickered for three days. Each tiny bottle of water in the room costs $3.50. Worst of all - the internet service was terrible. I have stayed at this hotel four times and the internet service is always bad and unreliable. Technicians come check the connections and can never fix it - even their Ethernet is bad. I'm taking this hotel off my list because of this.
Hotel features (5 = best, 1 = worst):
- Amenities:
- 2
- Room cleanliness:
- 3
- Hotel staff:
- 3
- Room comfort:
- 3
- Location:
- 4
- Value:
- 2
Trip purpose:
Business
Reviewer score
Would not recommend
Anonymous
Really a bad choice
The hotel was really really bad in every single aspect. First they got my reservation wrong and did not have king size beds. I had to talk to the general manager who finally got us a room, the noisiest room in the whole hotel. There was no hot water and at the time of check out they had several extra bogus charges they wanted me to pay. Had to talk to the general manager again so they could eliminate them. Anyway the worst hotel to stay in Mexico city although the location is good
Hotel features (5 = best, 1 = worst):
- Amenities:
- 1
- Room cleanliness:
- 3
- Hotel staff:
- 1
- Room comfort:
- 2
- Location:
- 4
- Value:
- 1
Reviewer score
Would not recommend
grapesandolives
couple's getaway
We had $800.00 USD cash, stolen from our room safe. Hotel management was unconcerned and never contacted us in any manner to show they cared in any way. We will try to go to the corporate level to further the investigation and get some type of compensation, even if it's a "we are sorry".
Hotel features (5 = best, 1 = worst):
- Amenities:
- 2
- Room cleanliness:
- 4
- Hotel staff:
- 1
- Room comfort:
- 3
- Location:
- 3
- Value:
- 1
Reviewer score
Would not recommend
Prof Mr R
Big disappointment
Unfriendly service, unwilling-to-help staff. Lots of confusion with reservations. Check-in past hotel posted time. Billing errors. Safety box in one room was not operational. Light bulb broken in another room. Overall, a sad experience.
Hotel features (5 = best, 1 = worst):
- Amenities:
- 2
- Room cleanliness:
- 3
- Hotel staff:
- 1
- Room comfort:
- 1
- Location:
- 4
- Value:
- 1
Reviewer score
Would not recommend
Witz
Terrible stay
Arrived at hotel after long day of travel to Mexico City. Waited in line for what seemed to be an eternity at 9 PM. When we finally arrived to our room we didn't know if we were on the highway or indoors. I have never been in a room that was worse. Not only are the rooms outdated by 30 years, but our room was located at the intersection of two major roads. All night heard the cars/horns. Couldn't sleep a moment. Next day we tried to explain the problem and the staff at the front desk were useless. Finally a manager helped transfer us to another room, but it took hours. I would never recommend this hotel to another traveller.
Hotel features (5 = best, 1 = worst):
- Amenities:
- 2
- Room cleanliness:
- 2
- Hotel staff:
- 1
- Room comfort:
- 2
- Location:
- 4
- Value:
- 1
Trip purpose:
Business
Reviewer score
Would not recommend
Anonymous
Close to everything
The Camino Real, Mexico DF gave us a room that was less than what we paid for. The matresses were very hard. Our room was as far as one could get from the desk and was on the street side with accompanying Mexico City traffic. This will be our last stay at this Camino Real.
Hotel features (5 = best, 1 = worst):
- Amenities:
- 5
- Room cleanliness:
- 5
- Hotel staff:
- 2
- Room comfort:
- 3
- Location:
- 3
- Value:
- 2
Shopping tip:
Long walk from hotel
Several beautiful shopping malls are about a mile from the hotel. The hotel is adjacent to the Polanco area of the city, which is very nice.
Reviewer score
Would not recommend
Anonymous
Poor beds diminish experience
This hotel had large, clean, lovely rooms in one of the best locations in Mexico City. Unfortunately, the bedding was truly terrible. The beds we experienced were very hard and yet sagged under one's body weight. The result was poor sleep and significant back pain. Further, the pillows were rather uncomfortable. My pillow was rumpled, I assume due to laundering, and was thus even more uncomfortable than the other pillows. But excepting this problem, the hotel was quite nice.
Hotel features (5 = best, 1 = worst):
- Amenities:
- 4
- Room cleanliness:
- 5
- Hotel staff:
- 5
- Room comfort:
- 2
- Location:
- 5
- Value:
- 4
Reviewer score
Would not recommend
bigan
Noisy
All the rooms on the side of the hotel where I stayed were right on a busy street. The noise from the bars across the street were extremely noisy and the traffic (including horns) from the street were non-stop even in the middle of the night. There was zero noise insulation in these rooms. It was like the windows were wide open. The hotel really needs to install some type of noise barrier.
Hotel features (5 = best, 1 = worst):
- Amenities:
- 3
- Room cleanliness:
- 4
- Hotel staff:
- 4
- Room comfort:
- 1
- Location:
- 4
- Value:
- 3
Trip purpose:
Business
Dining tip:
Short walk from hotel
Many places to dine in the area.
Reviewer score
Would not recommend
gigimala
Not a great experience
The hotel it self was not bad but the room smeled like tobacco and they were not too clean. Great location but not forth the 4 stars.
Hotel features (5 = best, 1 = worst):
- Amenities:
- 1
- Room cleanliness:
- 1
- Hotel staff:
- 3
- Room comfort:
- 2
- Location:
- 3
- Value:
- 2
Reviewer score
Would not recommend
Anonymous
Business trip
I stay at this hotel quite often and haven't been happy for some time now. Rooms are in need of renovation and cleaning standard is not the same. During this last stay, 3 light bulbs were burned out, safe was broken, door lock was broken, carpet stained.
Hotel features (5 = best, 1 = worst):
- Amenities:
- 2
- Room cleanliness:
- 2
- Hotel staff:
- 4
- Room comfort:
- 2
- Location:
- 5
- Value:
- 2
Trip purpose:
Business
Sightseeing tip:
Short drive from hotel
Good location, drive distance from shopping and good restaurants.