The Gran Melia Mexico Reforma is well-located in Mexico City for Zona Rosa and Centro Historico visits, Polanco is a little further away. I travel to Mexico often and have fond memories of the Gran Melia - but now it is time for the hotel to refurbish the rooms. As a previous reviewer noted, the rooms have not changed in many years.

The grand bathrooms with the nice Jacuzzi has old fixtures that are loose, the wallpaper needs a rework. But these are quibbles.

The Melia is a wonderful hotel overall, with a fantastic staff, and handles the international traveler very well. As often as I visit Mexico, I still only know very little Spanish, but that is not a problem whatsoever in the Melia.

It's fun, and travelers should try the hotel.

Location, views, breakfast - all just great.
We stayed here for the first time 11 years ago and the rooms havn't changed ever since- they need a refurbishment.
Otherwise it' s a great place.

Date: 5 March 2008
Gran Melia Reforma Mexico City

Stayed at this hotel in Mexico City with a travel group from Ireland for three nights in February. The decor was great and rooms clean, comfortable and of a very high standard. We were booked as a group on a Breakfast and evening meal basis - spoiled for choice at breakfast but dinner could have been better. We decided to eat in the restaurant on our last night 'a la carte' and all of the group could not speak highly enough of the food, service, etc. I would certainly recommend this hotel to friends for its ambience, courteous staff , comfortable rooms and great leisure centre.

Ger (Dublin, Ireland)

We just returned from 9 nights at the Gran Melia Reforma in MX City. What a great hotel to stay at. The service is supreme. They were so very helpful with 1/2 of our group of 10 being non-Spanish speaking. The conceirge was so helpful, kind and courteous to us at all times. We used the Turi-bus part of the time which is only 2 blocks away, and we were in walking distance of the Belle ARtes Theatre and Alameda Park. We love walking so we also walked to and from the Zocalo area a couple of times, (which is about 3/4 of a mile from this hotel). We ate most breakfast's at the Sanborn's, 1/2 block from the Gran Melia. The best sites we visited were the Teotihuacan pyrmids, we took a tour to Taxco and Cuarnvaca (sp). A big tip to leave you with is that if you have a group, it's much better to have your travel agent arrange a driver and van for just your group, which cost us about $300 total, (or $30 each for 10) for a 10-12 hour day. By doing that you have more flexibility about when, where, and how long to stop and spend your time at each stop. Our tour to Taxco was on their schedule and their stops, such as the jewelers where it was obvious they were getting a commission from........and not near enough time for when we wanted to do. All in all we had a great trip to such a beautiful city!
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