La Merced is a three-star hotel in Colima. Guests have access to wifi and air conditioning. 708 guests rate it 4.2 out of 5. Observed 2026 prices moved between US$41 and US$48 per night. Most rooms can be booked with free cancellation, and every booking removes a tonne of CO₂.
About Colima: Colima is a small, unhurried state capital living in the shadow of two volcanoes. All hotels in Colima →
Rooms and rates
Across our 2026 scans we logged 11 priced stays for La Merced: rates ran from US$41 to US$48 a night depending on the date, how far ahead you book, and occupancy. As with most hotels in Colima, midweek nights tend to come in cheaper than weekends, and booking two or more weeks ahead widens the choice of rooms with free cancellation. The price you see after tapping “Check availability” is the live app.impt.io rate for your exact dates, not an estimate.
Location
La Merced is at Benito Juarez 82, Colima, Mexico. The nearest city with a bigger hotel scene is Manzanillo, about 63 km away — compare Manzanillo hotels too if your plans are flexible. This page's “View on map” link opens the exact spot in Google Maps, so you can measure the journeys that matter to you.
The facilities, in detail
Practical services include 24 hour front desk and laundry service. In the room itself: air conditioning, bathroom, free wifi, hairdryer, safe and shower. The full list of 22 facilities is below; double-check the ones that are deal-breakers when you book, as hotels adjust what they offer by season.
Good to know before you book
The booking flow is three steps: dates and guests in this page's widget, the live price on app.impt.io, and instant confirmation. Most rooms are offered with free cancellation until a few days before arrival — the exact deadline is shown next to each rate before you pay. Every confirmed booking also removes a tonne of CO₂ through IMPT's carbon-removal projects, at no extra cost to you. When comparing, note that the three-star rating reflects the hotel's declared standard; the guest reviews on this page tell you how it actually feels to stay.
Colima for hotel guests
The centre, around Jardín Libertad and the cathedral, crosses on foot in twenty minutes and holds the few hotels with any character. Everything else lines the through-avenues — Camino Real, Constitución, the road out to Guadalajara — where work trips sleep. Our 2026 scans found just 8 hotels here with a real price: from US$34 a night, with a typical rate of about US$71. Most visitors use the city as a base for Comala, the La Campana ruins and the volcano viewpoints, and that is exactly what it does well. All hotels in Colima →
Facilities
Guest reviews
4.2708 reviewsFront desk is not well trained. When I arrived, the clerk said, you can't register until three our check in time, she should have said, I'm sorry, but your room is not quite ready, it will be ready in about 15 minutes. Similarly, I was five minutes early for breakfast and couldn't get a cup of coffee. Breakfast time is 7:30am, that's the latest I've ever encountered, usually at six , occasionally at seven. Better training, customer relations is an imperative. Forgot about loud talking. Night crew converses in very loud voices. One night, a guest told them to shut up. No common sense.
Everything about this place is fine except one - if you make a reservation ahead of time through Google Maps, it's about 500 pesos. If you walk in off the street, it's 900 pesos for a queen bed because, as the desk clerk stated, we didn't make a reservation (1000 pesos for a king). Decent hot breakfast comes with the room. Secure parking, A/C, hot water included, and wifi was average.
Great little hotel near the centro with great friendly staff with a buffet style breakfast. Very good and would definitely be back.
Planning your trip to Colima
When to go
November to February is Colima at its best: dry, 30-32°C by day, nights around 14-16°C, and air clear enough to see the Volcán de Fuego and the Nevado from most rooftops. Pack a long sleeve — evenings cool off more than the latitude leads you to expect.
March to June is the hot, dry stretch. May often runs 35-38°C and the countryside turns brown. Air conditioning stops being an extra here; check whether the room actually has it or only a ceiling fan, and whether using it costs anything on top.
From June to October it rains most afternoons, hard and brief, and the sierra goes green. That is the good season for the lakes and the bad one for dirt roads. It is also cyclone season on the Pacific: remnants reach Colima and can close stretches of highway for a day or two.
Two dates fill what little inventory exists: the Feria de Todos los Santos, late October to mid-November over in Villa de Álvarez, and the charro-taurine fiestas in early February. With eight hotels scanned in the city, those weeks genuinely sell out. Book several weeks ahead or plan to sleep elsewhere.
Getting there and around
Colima's airport sits at Cuauhtémoc, some 20-25 km from the centre, and handles only a handful of flights, mostly to Mexico City. For real choice, fly into Manzanillo, ninety minutes away by toll road, with domestic service and some seasonal international arrivals.
Buses do the heavy lifting. Guadalajara is 2.5 to 3 hours by motorway with departures all day; Manzanillo a little over an hour. Long-distance coaches use the terminal on the east side, while the suburban terminal runs short hops to Villa de Álvarez, Comala and Suchitlán for roughly MX$20-30.
The centre walks easily — five minutes from Jardín Libertad to Jardín Núñez, twenty for nearly everything else. City buses cost about MX$12 and taxis run MX$60-100 within town. Ride apps function but with thin coverage, so having the number of a taxi stand saves waiting.
Rent a car if the volcanoes, La Campana, Laguna La María or Carrizalillo are on the list. The motorways are good and tolled. Avoid mountain roads after dark: curves, livestock, no lighting and very little traffic if something goes wrong.
Where to stay, zone by zone
The historic centre — Jardín Libertad, the cathedral, the Palacio de Gobierno, Jardín Núñez — is the sensible base if you came to look around. Museums, arcades and evening cenadurías are all within walking distance. Hotels here are few and small, some in old courtyard houses, and the streets fall quiet early.
The avenues — Camino Real, Constitución, Niños Héroes and the road out to Guadalajara — hold the business hotels: modern rooms, parking, breakfast, dependable air conditioning. No charm at all, but they solve the problem when you arrive by car or the centre is full. Budget for taxis at dinner time.
Villa de Álvarez runs on from the city to the west: residential, good cheap food, and home to the fairgrounds. Comala, 10 km north, has small guesthouses and the whitewashed postcard village, but few of them publish prices online and public transport dries up early in the evening.
The numbers matter here. Our 2026 scans found 8 hotels in Colima with a real price, from US$34 a night and a typical rate of about US$71. That is a thin market: compare quickly and commit, because on fair weekends there may be nothing left in town at all.
Eating and going out
Colima cooks its own things. Sopitos and sopes at the evening cenadurías, dry pozole, tatemado of pork in adobo, and a local ceviche minced fine with carrot. A set lunch runs roughly MX$100-150; a plate of sopitos and fried tacos costs a good deal less than that.
Drinks have their own repertoire: cold tuba with peanuts, bate, the fruit punch made around Comala, and coffee from those same hillsides. On Comala's plaza the custom is to order a drink in the afternoon and let the snacks arrive with it — an afternoon plan, never a late-night one.
Nights are modest and it is fair to say so. A few bars and cantinas around the centre, more movement along Camino Real and in Villa de Álvarez at weekends, and a city that shuts early midweek. For a long night out you want Guadalajara or the Manzanillo coast.
Breakfast is easy. The central markets open early, with menudo at weekends, and the cafés around the gardens fill mid-morning. If your hotel sits out on an avenue, check whether breakfast is included — walking to find one can be further than the map makes it look.
Booking well
Start from the numbers: 8 hotels with a real rate in our 2026 scans, from US$34 and a median of about US$71. In a market this small the range explains itself — the cheap end is functional and peripheral, and above the median you should be getting parking, breakfast and a pool.
The rhythm is the reverse of a beach town. Demand is largely work-driven, so midweek fills and weekends tend to be more flexible. The exceptions are the October-November fair, the February fiestas and Holy Week, when regional visitors arrive and an eight-hotel supply simply runs out.
Ask three things before you pay: whether the air conditioning is real and in working order, whether parking is enclosed — it matters if you rent — and whether the room faces an avenue, because city buses start rolling before six in the morning.
If the city is full on a peak date, the small guesthouses in Comala work with a car, and Manzanillo is an hour away on the coast. Both mean commuting daily instead of sleeping where you actually want to be, so treat them as fallbacks, not plans.
Frequently asked about La Merced
How much does La Merced cost?
In our 2026 scans we found rooms from US$41 a night. Rates move with dates and occupancy — check the live price with the availability widget on this page.
Where is La Merced?
La Merced is at Benito Juarez 82, Colima, Mexico, in Colima. You can open the exact location in Google Maps with this page's "View on map" link.
What facilities does La Merced have?
Facilities the hotel reports include: 24 Hour Front Desk, Air conditioning, Bathroom, Cleaning, Desk and Fan. The full list (22 facilities) is in this page's facilities section.
How do I book La Merced?
Use the gold button or the availability widget: choose dates, see the live price on app.impt.io and complete the booking there. Most rooms allow free cancellation, and every booking removes a tonne of CO₂.
