3 Best Hotels in Gracias, Western Honduras

They are a little spare, but clean rooms at Hotel Erick have a few niceties like cable TV. The friendly owners will let you store your gear here while you explore Parque Nacional Celaque.

A hub of activity, this clean and comfortable hotel is a good in-town option. The restaurant ($) doles out plentiful portions of platos típicos (typical dishes), heaping helpings of poultry, and huge bowls of hot vegetable soup. To escape from the midday heat, sip fresh juices made from local berries on the shady balcony overlooking the town. Owner Frony Miedama can set up trips to Parque Nacional Celaque and rents a cabin there called the Cabaña Villa Verde.

One of the highlands' loveliest hotels evokes Gracias's pre-independence heyday as the seat of the Audencia, but the building itself is only about a decade old and lovingly constructed in accurate colonial style. Rooms contain hardwood furniture, high-beamed ceilings, and flat-screen TVs.