Hotel Los Olivos Spa — Hotel in Oaxaca

Fooled by the nice pictures on Hotel.com as well as the opportunity to enjoy relaxing spa-facilities we booked 4 days at Los Olivos. However, we soon came to regret this due to more reasons.||||1) The hotel is extremely noisy. One thing is that the walls are paper-thin, another is that the hotel staff starts up with very noisy activities at 7 in the morning. Laughing and talking just outside the rooms, sweeping with a stiff broom on rocky-parts, rolling trolleys around on bumpy paths etc. ||Sadly, this is not all. During our stay we experienced a) that maintenance workers started extremely noisy work at as early as 7 in the morning - ripping out bricks and tiles slamming hammers into walls and floor as well as using of power tools. This heavily influenced the comfort of the hotel and ruined sleep for us! b) The hotel keeps cats that cries and fights every night making extreme noise and discomfort due to the unpleasant sounds. ||||These experiences are just plane unbelievable to us and thus we can conclude that we leave this hotel tired, unrested and unhappy.||||In the following some other areas of interest is shortly covered.||||2) The hotel staff (half of them friendly) showed poor knowledge of the area and sights around Oaxaca. Thus we acted on poor advise and found us spending many hours in a car for almost no reason.||||3) The distance to the city-center (the Zocalo) is app. 10 minutes by taxi and equivalent longer by foot. The price pr. taxi is about 35/40 pesos.||||4) The hotel only has few and rather poor facilities. The restaurant is not good at all and actually quite expensive. Especially compared to the cheap and nice alternatives just around the corner. An important aspect here is, that although you pay to stay at the hotel you still have to pay for the Spa-faciilities, which are not cheap at all. This was very disappointing to us.||||Summing up on the above we cannot recommend Los Olivos to anyone and especially not, when we know that there are much better hotel alternatives in Oaxaca. We stayed 1 night at Hotel Fortin to almost the same prize (incl. a great breakfast at H. Fortin!). We tried to cancel our pre-booked rooms at Los Olivos (we had already stayed there one night), but experienced that we could not get a refund. Everything was much, much better at the other hotel and we later learned that much better alternatives were available at almost the same price in Oaxaca.||||Don not book your Oaxaqueñian nights at Los Olivos Spa. You will be...

I moved to this Hotel from "La Casona de dos Patios" in the downtown historic center. I regretted my move and I will tell you why. This location is not near anything of walking distance, other than a Supermarket. The restaurant was extremely slow, I waited nearly 25 minutes for a cappuccino two days in a row and when I asked for espresso the second day, they said that had none, so, I am now wondering how they made the cappuccino?! It was was good, but, the long wait left me too disturbed to enjoy it when it arrived. My room, 132, nearest the pool, had no A/C as I knew ahead of time but what made matters worse, the ceiling fan was useless for directing air to the bed. I was able to roll my "wheeled bed" under the the fan, but still, it was a unique kind of fan in that, even on max speed, would not extinguish a light flame on a candle. Also, if wifi is important to you as it is to me, check out the signal all over the room. I had to go to the pool to make video calls or to stream videos and even then...

Hotel was just a short walk from where our son was staying in Oaxaca, which was a great bonus for us. Rooms comfortable and clean. Staff friendly and helpful. Stayed for a week, then went on a road trip, then returned for just one night before our departure. First room we stayed in was very dark, and looked out onto a wall (base of staircase) - Needed to have light on all the time. Although the hotel had some lovely gardens, we couldn't see them from our room at all. ||||We were surprised to find that not only did the hotel not serve alcohol: they didn't permit it on the premises either. Could find nothing about this in the information about Los Olivos.||||Very good breakfast, with lots of delicious choices! Ate at the hotel once in the evening. Quite austere dining room with fluorescent lights and bare tables: not very welcoming. We preferred eating in the city centre, where there are some excellent restaurants. City centre easily and cheaply reached by...