2 Best Hotels in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas and Tabasco

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.