6 Best Hotels in Chiapas and Tabasco, Mexico

This old-fashioned hotel—really two perfectly preserved 18th-century colonial homes—has beautiful courtyards, gardens, and sunlit nooks throughout. Rooms have high ceilings and wide windows; some have fireplaces. Ask for one of the rooms that number in the 300s, which are in an older wing and have high wood-beam ceilings as well as working charcoal stoves. The bar, reached through a set of swinging doors, stocks more than 175 brands of tequila.

High, beamed ceilings ennoble the guest rooms in this inviting late-19th-century building that once was a hospital. Most of the rooms wind around a central courtyard. For more solitude, request one of two rooms in the exterior courtyard. The lounge overlooks a plant-filled patio where breakfast is served. You're just a block from the town's shopping strip.

A few blocks from the main square, this high-rise that's a bit past its prime has rooms with balconies overlooking downtown. The cafeteria serves a scrumptious breakfast buffet of Mexican favorites.

This small hotel is made up of small cottages with palapa roofs grouped around two pools. Rooms are sparsely decorated, but the bright colors are cheerful and the rooms are clean and spacious.

Quirky furniture and the only replica of the tomb of Pakal make this hotel unique. A newer section of the hotel has simple rooms without the character of the older ones, which have painted murals and an area where you can watch the street in hip chairs with treelike sculptures around you.

Billed as a hotel and spa, this is an old, but extremely well-kept hotel. You might fancy yourself in a miniature tropical paradise: the hotel is built around a lush tropical garden complete with a pair of toucans. Get a room in the back facing the garden, and you will awake to a rooster crowing and a view of palms.