21 Best Hotels in Guadalajara, Mexico

Modern and eclectic, the rooms and suites at Baruk Hotel Guadalajara are spacious, but keyless (though they can certainly be locked). The restaurant is open all day, there's a small pool (not big enough to swim in), a gym, and on-site parking. 

Gracious gardens, tinkling fountains, bright colors, and arched windows give the traveler a sense of sleeping in a Mexican hacienda while also enjoying the comforts of home. The hotel's basic rooms are cheerful and tastefully decorated with blonde-wood furnishings, and the grounds include two patios for guest use. A small, upscale bar provides drinks, quick food options, and flat-screen TVs for watching sports. Continental breakfast is included, and four of the eight rooms have a kitchenette.

The dramatic glass facade of this high-rise faces the Minerva Fountain and Los Arcos monument. Four glass-enclosed elevators ascend dizzyingly above a 14-story atrium lobby to the guest rooms, which have dignified modern furnishings, small marble bathrooms with bathtub, and, for the most part, arresting views (Rooms 1211–17 have the absolute best). The lobby bar has live music every night. Executive-floor rooms come with continental breakfast and canapés in the lounge, and there's a fully equipped business center.

This AAA Four-Diamond award-winning hotel is located within Guadalajara’s World Trade Center and just across the street from Expo Guadalajara, the city’s convention center. Hilton Guadalajara offers 450 guest rooms, a two-level presidential suite, seven master suites, and four executive rooms. Even though this is a business-centered hotel, featuring nine meeting rooms and an auditorium, it’s also a great option for families as it boasts a heated outdoor pool, solarium, fitness center, spa, cantina-style restaurant, and buffet dining.

This branch of the reliable chain sits in the heart of historic Guadalajara. Though the hotel's public areas could use some updating, it has a grand entrance—with a restaurant and a men's shop—and rooms have nice touches like plasma TVs. The bathrooms have glassed-in showers, but no tubs. The breakfast buffet is a good deal, and the restaurant serves national and international dishes.

This author-themed hotel with very well appointed rooms is in a great location and includes parking and breakfast. It's great value for money.

Elegant with its postcolonial architecture, this hotel is on a calm side street a block from Teatro Degollado. Hand-carved furniture and doors and wrought-iron railings adorn the public areas and the rooms. Standard rooms are small, making suites worth the extra cost. Balconies overlook the courtyard pool from some rooms.

This brand-new hotel offers pleasant and comfortable accommodation in an otherwise unassuming town. 

Chic and trendy, Krystal Guadalajara features modern and comfortable rooms at a great location with a small mall, restaurants, and many services within walking distance. 

After being abandoned for 30 years, this downtown hotel—originally a 19th-century rooming house—has been transformed into one of the city's most luxurious lodgings. No wonder it's the choice of celebrities from movie stars to soccer stars. Demure guest rooms have crown moldings, blond-wood floors, and gold-and-beige furnishings with an old-world style. Café tables on the rooftop terrace make for a casual retreat. The lobby and restaurant are much more formal.

At this modest hotel two blocks from the Minerva Fountain, the rooms are on the small side. Stay on the upper floors in the rear for the quietest rooms. One suite has a sauna. The expansive, café-style restaurant specializes in Argentine-style cuts of beef. The huge indoor pool is good for swimming laps.

El Tapatío's colonial-style architecture, country-style design, expansive gardens, and spectacular panoramic views of the city create an unparalleled atmosphere. Its location on top of a hill midway between Tlaquepaque and the airport makes it a kind of intimate retreat within the city. With 123 guest rooms and a swimming pool, pool bar, gym, tennis court, children’s playground, and impressive nightclub offering the best views of Guadalajara’s skyline, El Tapatío is a great option for large families, groups, events, weddings, and conventions.

One of the newest and trendiest hotels in the city, Hotel Riu enjoys a great location just 1½ km (1 mile) away from the Gran Plaza shopping mall and 3 km (2 miles) from Expo Guadalajara. It’s definitely one of the best business hotels in town, with Wi-Fi access throughout the property, 16 conference rooms, two restaurants, and a lounge-bar, swimming pool, spa, and fitness center.

Built around a Mediterranean-style villa nearly a century old, this hotel has well-maintained grounds with plenty of places for picnics or for the kids to play. One of the two swimming pools (the biggest in the area) is filled with water from the nearby hot springs; it's usually open only on weekends and holidays. The simple, clean rooms all have patios or terraces. Popular with Mexican families, the hotel has packages that are often good deals. For about $20 more than a standard room you can get a suite with larger terrace or balcony, a kitchenette, and king-size bed.

On a quiet street several blocks from the shopping district is this bed-and-breakfast with clean and cheerful rooms overlooking a garden. Upstairs rooms have private terraces. There's an open-air reading area, and complimentary continental breakfast is served in the courtyard.

Well-kept gardens framed in bougainvillea define this inviting inn. Rooms are large, with high ceilings and local crafts. Villas share a courtyard and have tile kitchenettes. The bar has jazz or Caribbean music some weekend evenings. Out in the garden restaurant strands of tiny white lights set the mood for an evening meal.

A 10-minute walk from Tlaquepaque's center, this intimate B&B is near lots of shopping. The restored 19th-century hacienda has thick, white adobe walls, exposed-beam ceilings, and plants in huge unglazed pots. Smokers should request a room with private balcony; smoking isn't allowed anywhere inside the hotel. Room rates include a full, hot breakfast.

Three of the four rooms in this restored mansion face the shore; all have high ceilings and whitewashed oak furniture. Rates include an English-style breakfast (with a continental breakfast on Sunday).

One block from Tlaquepaque's main plaza and shopping area, this B&B has rooms of varying sizes and degrees of natural light; suites are spacious and face out to the pool. There's remarkable tile work in the master suite. Hearty continental breakfasts—with fruit, cereal, toast, and sweet breads, plus juice and coffee—are served in an inner courtyard. Tasty pizzas are baked in the brick oven at the hotel's Mexican-Italian restaurant (closed Monday). If you stay three nights or more, they'll shuttle you to and from the airport or bus station.

Stone-and-brick walls, colonial arches, and objets d'art fill this luxury hotel's public areas. Suites are plush, though on the small side, with neocolonial-style furnishings, original art, and faux fireplaces. Master suites have separate seating areas with love seats and marble-top desks. For a bit more, the Grand Class suites have luxurious touches like round whirlpool tubs. The wood-floor gym is outfitted with the latest equipment and plasma-screen TVs.

Staying in this neighborhood full of restaurants and nightlife yet away from the gritty historic center might be just the ticket. The spacious rooms, hunting-lodge-like sitting area with fireplace, and candlelit, tree-shaded garden will make you want to book an extended stay. Private dinners in the garden can be arranged in advance and make for Guadalajara's most romantic dining.