Les Meilleurs Hôtels de Luxe à Oaxaca

The most architecturally magnificent hotel in the city, Quinta Real occupies the 16th-century Convent of Santa Catalina de Siena with rooms carved into the former nuns' cells, a pool in the former orchard, and corridors lined with religious art from the colonial period. Sleeping inside one of Mexico's finest baroque convents at this price point is extraordinary value.

• Colonial convent
• Most architectural
• Historic value

The hotel that put contemporary Oaxacan cuisine on the international map — its courtyard restaurant, run by chef Alejandro Ruiz, is one of the most important culinary addresses in Mexico. The rooms continue the design philosophy: clean whitewash walls, handwoven textiles from Teotitlán del Valle, and ceramics from the artisan villages around the city.

• Landmark restaurant
• Indigenous craft design
• Culinary

A carefully converted colonial casa with elegant rooms, a courtyard plunge pool, and a restaurant that specialises in Oaxacan regional dishes using the city's extraordinary market ingredients. The rooftop mezcal bar with its views over the green-stone basilica is exceptional at sunset.

• Rooftop mezcal bar
• Colonial courtyard
• Regional cuisine

Another extraordinary convent conversion — this time the 16th-century Convent of Santa Catalina — the Camino Real offers gracious colonial spaces, a beautiful cloister pool, and the kind of atmospheric grandeur that makes guests feel they've stepped into a Gabriel García Márquez novel.

• Convent
• Cloister pool
• Colonial grandeur