La Borde House — Hotel in Rio Grande City

I posted a review a few days ago but, unfortunately, I see it nowhere.||Although I am a Nashville, TN resident now, my then fiancee' and I opted to be married near the area where I grew up, and where my large family lives. We chose "LA BORDE HOUSE" for our venue. What an awesome choice it was!||You will find this property retains it's historic ambiance, with period furnishings and decor of an affluent 19th century family. The parlour is absolutely gorgeous. Each of it's seven rooms are richly decorated and take you back to a period of clawfoot tubs, tiled bathrooms and even nostalgic toilets. The beautiful indoor staircase and landings, with french doors on the north and south sides, lead to an outdoor corridor that wraps around the middle of the property, overlooking the darling tropical courtyard below. An exhilirating breeze fills the property when the north and south french doors are opened, stealing its air from the tropical setting outdoors. ||The outdoor corridors lead to several of the property's additional "apartments" that also overlook the courtyard, below. (only a few of these house year-round residents, most are available for renting) The outdoor staircases served as a great place for the bride and her wedding party to march down to the rather small courtyard. We were able to easily accomodate about 130 guests in the courtyard, where our wedding ceremony took place. ||It was also great to have a restaurant onsite (Che's). They were able to cater our wedding party, with plenty of sitting in the restaurant and in the courtyard. It was really convenient to have the restaurant onsite for an awesome breakfast and lunch. They featured homemade tortillas and an array of authentic mexican food, as well as american food. ||The courtyard tiled bathrooms were very accomodating for our guests. We were able to comfortably accomodate a live band and took advantage of the ancillary tiled bar and serving/cooking area in the courtyard. The elevator was just being installed and not yet operational, but the one bedroom downstairs was easily accessable for our one handicapped guest.||We were given the personal home telephone # for the front desk clerk to call upon our arrival---at any time of day or night, so that she could meet us and let us into our rooms. It was a holiday. She was, literally, 4 minutes away and met us promptly at 6am. The staff was wonderful and unobtrusive. It was almost as if they did not realize what they have in this hidden treasure. The price was to die for. We booked all the rooms, several apartments, and the courtyard. We had the whole place to ourselves, less the one poor resident in another area that, no doubt, had to endure our hoopla. There was not a better place in the entire RGV that would have accomplished for us what this property did.||I highly recommend this site. It is a must-stay for anyone visiting the general area. You will find the property absolutely...

The reason I gave five stars on everything was because if you're looking specifically for a haunted place to stay this is where you want to go. My family rented out almost all the rooms for a few days in December of 2023. My cousin and her daughter stayed in the Maria Tejas, and the night after everyone else had left from the night before they were alone in the house. They heard lots of furniture moving, saw one of the doors to the patio open, the opposite side of the red room in the hallway when no one had been in that area. Throughout the night they heard moaning, roaring, voices and footsteps even though they were alone. The staff left around five or six I forgot the exact time so it definitely wasn't staff that was there. The night prior to the all of the most activity my uncle in the Texian heard the toilet flushing over and over throughout the night. Which doesn't make sense because it's one of those old toilets that you have to pull down the wouldn't handle that's hanging from a chain in order to pull the toilet to flush it. Overall we did get a creepy feeling the night that I was there, and I heard someone say hi in the hallway right before we turned on the TV. My niece soon came up to the door to knock and we asked her if she had said something before she knocked and she said no. It was very strange. My sister had terrible dreams all night long as if the bed was levitating and she said It felt really real and that in her dream the ghost was saying hi, hi, hi over and over again. Again that could have just been a dream out of fear, but to her it felt really real. Definitely stay here if you're wanting some sort of experience. If you're looking for a relaxing place to stay, you probably will have a hard time...

My wife and I had the misfortune of staying at this hotel recently. There is nothing that could ever make me stay there again, not even if it was free. The hotel is run down with peeing wall paper, stained floors in the bathroom, door falling of the hinges etc. The bed was of a rooming house quality and about as comfortable as sleeping on the floor. Speaking of sleep, we were unable to have that expectation met because of loud talking, swearing, fighting drunks partying up until 3am, at which time the police finally came to settle things down. We found out in the morning that one of the people causing the disturbance was an employee of the hotel......nice touch. I would say the night we spent at "La White Trash House" was as close to hell on earth as it gets. Be warned, if you stay there you will...