Name: Posada Don Mario
Address: Cosijopi 219, Centro Historico, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 68000, Mexico
Rating: 8

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I was able to Facebook message and email them in advance to ask lots of questions.  We requested a driver to pick us up, we didn't land till 11pm and our driver was there waiting on us ready to go.  The night clerk didn't speak English, but with a phone app we got it all figured out easy enough.  They had free hot breakfast included and arranged tour though El Andador (great guides, but bring snack  I got food poisoning the last tour and threw up the whole plane flight back home- 10 hours) at a better price than booking through like Viator or AARP beforehand.  Rooms were very clean, but got a little stuffy, we opened the room door an hour before bed and sat on the patio reading so it could air out.  Toilet was also an issue, water was not flowing very strong.  The patio area was amazing on the ground level and very calming on the top in the evening.  WiFi worked well and they had drinks and snacks to buy at the front. We will defiantly stay here again.

Very Accommodating Hotel

This is an intimate, welcoming and affordable place to stay in Oaxaca. The rooms are clean, comfortable, and cozy. There is a public balcony, a third floor terrace in addition to a lovely breakfast area. The staff is friendly, helpful and patient with non-native Spanish speakers. In addition, many of the staff speak English and can give directions and assistance in either language. The breakfasts are fantastic -- fresh, different every day, with juice, protein, coffee or tea and fresh fruit, tortillas and bread with excellent home made jam. The hotel itself is a 10 minute walk on well-lit streets to the Zocolo. There is wifi. The hotel staff can arrange competitively priced tours of the area. The owner is a wonderful woman who is on-site all day and well into the evening. She works with her staff, serving breakfast, welcoming guests, offering advice about the area, and good conversation. Posada Don Mario is mi casa in Oaxaca.

Excellent accommodations in Oaxaca

We returned for 3 weeks after staying here last year for 2 weeks.  It is a simple Posada with features that we prefer - open shared terraces on the 2nd and 3rd floors with comfortable furniture, a small balcony in our 3rd floor room (Sol) with great views of the mountains, cleanliness, friendliness of most staff, small and intimate, location in a quiet neighbourhood but just a short easy walk from the main walking street, quirky colourful decor, and price point.  Breakfast is different daily but not generous in portion size.  The third floor is difficult to access if you have mobility issues.  Not all staff members speak English.

Open spaces with wonderful views

To begin with this Posada  is in a great location, a few blocks away to the main square as you walk along the "Andador turístico" (tourist walkway) it is really a nice walk all the way to the main plaza. 

Rooms are clean, they have rooms with private bathrooms and some rooms with shared toilets, however, there is  a Cantina next to the Posada, and at nights if you stay in the rooms on the ground floor very close to the main entrance of the Posada this can be a  problem as it gets very loud and the walls are not thick enough to block the noise. 

They also offer breakfast which is a plus. Nice coffee. 

The staff is always nice and friendly, their prices are also good. They offer tours to the main sites of this beautiful city. If you have only a couple of days in the city, I do recommend using their tours, otherwise you will be paying public transport to take you to all the sites and most of them are outside the city. 
Free wifi, and also nice patio tables and chairs just to have a quite time.

Good value

Posada Don Mario would have been a great place to stay for my friend and I for our 5 nights stay in Oaxaca except the bar next door in combination with the street noisy made for sleepless nights. We stayed in 3 dofferent rooms, slept with ear plugs and and were still kept awake. 
The breakfasts were great and so was the location so it was extremely dissapointing we didnt get one good nights sleep while we were there. The staff was trying to be accomodating but they should warn future guests about the noise next door.

Extremely noisy

We decided to stay at the Posada Don Mario because of it’s location, price and they accepted pets.  What I didn’t realize....probably my fault....was that we would be required to take our dog with us every time we left the hotel.....that meant that we had a very tired dog and could only visit the museums by taking turns.....could not eat at many restaurants we would have liked to try.  The room was comfortable and nicely decorated and they did have a fan since it was quite hot in the room otherwise.  The breakfast was tasty most days but it is not too generous.....just giving you one egg  with your breakfast. Without pets and I think we have rated higher.

Clean and nicely decorated but not the easiest with pets

Matress is really bad, not the most clean place too. Very noisy at night, you can listen to other rooms and if somebody is showering the noise is too much. Tours offered are nice, girls in reception super nice and helpfull. The lady from breakfast shares bad energy all over, almost like if she is doing you a favour. Location is great, it is by far the best thing. For around 65 usd I was expecting a bit more. 

Expected more 

I stayed here last summer and had a pleasant, problem-free stay.  So when I needed to return to Oaxaca, I had no hesitation in rebooking it. 

Maybe the management changed, but it’s not at all the same.  When I arrived, there was a kerfuffle with my reservation. No biggee, we worked it out. In the morning, where previously they had offered a simple selection of toast and cold cereals, they now included a cooked breakfast. The waitress was surprisingly rude, telling us that we either eat breakfast now or forget it. It was 830 am.  When it came, it was literally inedible—quite an accomplishment in Oaxaca!  The so-called enfrijoladas consisted of two tortillas with runny beans poured over them. We bailed. 
That evening (after the earthquake) the neighborhood disco cranked it up.  Impossible to sleep. I went to the reception desk and there was NO ONE THERE!
The following day, I mentioned to the clerk that the housekeepers had forgotten to provide the little bottles of water in our room. He informed me that water was provided on the first night only, and that I would have to buy some. I have NEVER been in a Mexican hotel that didn’t somehow provide water for their guests.  This is just being ‘codo’(cheap).  
This morning we had no water at all. They explained that they were waiting for the water truck —in other words they had neglected to keep their tank full, despite having relatively few guests. 

At that point, I blew off my last night and found a better hotel at a better price. I shall mot be returning

Used to be good. Not any more

While this hotel was a great location, I had a scary and ultimately extremely disappointing experience with this hotel. Oaxaca City is a truly incredible place, and the one drawback to my stay was the experience here. 

I stayed several nights at Posado Don Mario, and because the hotel isn't staffed during the night (which I completely understand!) each guest is provided a key to enter through a side door at night. I did so easily, and without issue, every night of my stay until the final stay, when I returned home from a friend's house and was not able to enter the hotel through the side door with my key, as I had on previous nights. 
Several people in the street came to try to help and use the key, all of them informed me it was not working because the door seemed locked from the inside. I knew how to open this door from my previous nights at Posado Don Mario, when I entered it without any problem, and I could also feel that the door had been locked from the inside. This is simply unacceptable. Whether the lock on the door was messed up or someone had bolted it inside, the hotel needs to take immediate action to ensure this does not happen again. 

I stood and knocked for about half an hour in the middle of the night, and I rang the bell repeatedly. No one came to help me. I was standing at the door until midnight and it felt like a dangerous situation and I was very scared. I am a woman traveling alone and I did not know where else I could go in the middle of the night to safely sleep, therefore I remained alone in the dark knocking for a long time, hoping that someone would come and open the door. One of the hotel staff had been sending personal texts to me at the phone number I was asked to give upon check-in (this was also problematic and very unprofessional). I was able to access the wifi and send him several texts about the situation and that I would have to find somewhere else to sleep. I informed him later that I slept at Casa Angel and paid 378 pesos to do so. He made no offer of a refund. 

The situation was distressing not only because it was unsafe and I did not know where to go, but because my cell phone was dying, my charger was in my room, I had none of the clothes or things I needed to sleep (it was very cold), and because I needed to retrieve my passport at 6 AM to take a COVID test in order to make sure I could fly to the US the following morning. Because I could not enter the building, I did not know if I would be able to retrieve my passport in time to make my test appointment and therefore to take my flight. I was up all night freezing, and worrying.

I essentially paid Posado Don Mario to be locked out of this hotel and stuck out on the street at night without my belongings and then walked somewhere and paid again to sleep in a bunk bed instead of my own room. I shared all of this information with the hotel via email seven weeks ago and have heard no reply.

Very disappointing experience

We booked a room for three people and were offered two rooms without windows and with barely working fans. One room had a jerry rigged electrical cord from the toilet running through the middle of the whole room. After two unbearably hot and sleepless nights we had to go to another hotel and our money was not refunded.  Rooms were dingy, beds super hard but the worst is the lack of ventilation. Since we had to pay for our whole stay at check in time and their cancellation policy is five days prior we got no money back although we left a week early. They do have a nice roof deck and staff were friendly enough but they didn’t have any extra normally working fans. Staff also don’t speak any English so unless you speak Spanish they cannot help with much. There are probably better rooms in this Posada but since one has to pay up front you never know what you will get. After our experience I would never recommend this place, they are not cheap and what they offered us was an unacceptable accommodation.

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