Radisson Hotel Cuernavaca is a four-star hotel in Cuernavaca. Guests have access to a pool, a spa and a restaurant. It scores 4.5/5 across 1360 guest reviews — an excellent rating. In our 2026 scans, rooms ranged from US$98 to US$125 per night depending on dates and occupancy. It sits about 14 km from the centre of Cuernavaca. Most rooms can be booked with free cancellation, and every booking removes a tonne of CO₂.
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Rooms and rates
Across our 2026 scans we logged 11 priced stays for Radisson Hotel Cuernavaca: rates ran from US$98 to US$125 a night depending on the date, how far ahead you book, and occupancy. Rates in Cuernavaca move with demand: midweek stays booked a couple of weeks out are where our scans found the widest choice of free-cancellation rooms. The price you see after tapping “Check availability” is the live app.impt.io rate for your exact dates, not an estimate.
Location
Radisson Hotel Cuernavaca is at Avenida Francisco I. Madero 25, Cuernavaca, Mexico. That puts it about 14 km from the centre of Cuernavaca's hotel district, based on the coordinates in our scans. The nearest city with a bigger hotel scene is Tepoztlan, about 17 km away — compare Tepoztlan 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
For food and drink, the hotel lists bar/snack/cafen', bars, breakfast, breakfast in room and coffee. On the wellness side there's fitness center, kids pool, massage, outdoor pool and pool bar. Practical services include 24 hour front desk, 24h. security, business center, concierge, currency exchange and free car parking. In the room itself: air conditioning, bath, bathroom, free wifi, hairdryer and iron and board. The full list of 61 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
Booking is straightforward: pick dates and guests in the widget, check the live rate on app.impt.io, and complete the reservation there. 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 four-star rating reflects the hotel's declared standard; the guest reviews on this page tell you how it actually feels to stay.
Cuernavaca for hotel guests
The good part hides in gardens with pools you cannot see from the street, and the Centro — the Palacio de Cortés, the cathedral, the Jardín Borda — takes one morning on foot and stays noisy the rest of the day. The leafy colonias hold what people actually come for: Delicias and Acapantzingo to the south, Vista Hermosa and Rancho Cortés to the north, walled houses turned small hotels. Our 2026 scans logged 19 hotels with a real price: from US$47 a night, with a typical rate of about US$98 — steep for a city this size, because every weekend half of Mexico City arrives. Midweek is another story. All hotels in Cuernavaca →
Facilities
Guest reviews
4.51360 reviewsWouldn’t recommend this hotel at all. Overall, the place is nice but outdated, the rooms are very old with a lot of humidity. Service was subpar, checking took ages and checkout more than 15mins
Book a room at this VERY expensive hotel. On the day of your event, you try to take a shower... no hot water. After complaining with the front desk, and 90 minutes later, the maintenance crew is still working on the issue. Even if the problem was solved, now your schedule is completely disrupted. But of course, the hotel will probably not care. For them, an apology is enough... When a hotel charges the ridiculous fees that they do here, you would expect much, much better. Based on this issue, they should back-charge my card an amount equal to the inconvenience suffered. Probably, it's not goi…
Although the hotel grounds are nice, the location is not very ideal because it is far from Cuernavaca. Hotel staff was nice during my stay, but when I booked my room by phone, they only offered me the event promo and later on were completely inflexible when I requested to change the reservation or cancel it. It was very frustrating and I came to the conclusion that the hotel is not interested in their guests, and is only thinking of making a profit.
Planning your trip to Cuernavaca
When to go
The "eternal spring" label is half true. At 1,500 metres the city sits at 25-30°C most afternoons and cools enough at night to justify a sweater. November to February is its best version: clean skies, fresh mornings, gardens comfortable at any hour. It is also when weekend arrivals from the capital are heaviest and rooms tighten first.
March to May brings dry heat: afternoons of 30-33°C, dusty air and, some years, haze from agricultural burning that hides the volcanoes. This is the stretch when a pool stops being a photo on the listing and becomes the reason you chose the hotel at all. Jacaranda and bougainvillea in full colour go some way to compensating.
June to October it rains almost daily, but on a schedule: sunny mornings, then a hard storm between four and seven. The city turns green, the ravines run and the Salto de San Antón waterfall looks the way it should. Midweek this is the best value of the year — bring a rain jacket and avoid scheduling drives during the afternoon downpour.
Mark the dates that lift prices: Holy Week, every long weekend, 1-2 November — Ocotepec, on the city's northern edge, is known for its Day of the Dead altars — and the last fortnight of December. With so few hotels in town, Cuernavaca fills earlier than bigger cities on exactly those dates.
Getting there and around
From Mexico City the 95D toll road is the obvious route: about 85 km, an hour and a quarter in normal traffic, tolls in the order of MX$150 each way. The free road is slower and winding, and not a night-time plan. Sunday afternoon northbound is reliably jammed, so either leave early or eat dinner in Cuernavaca and drive late.
Buses depart Taxqueña every 15 to 20 minutes for something like MX$200, and direct coaches run from Mexico City airport — pricier, but worth it after a flight. Terminals are scattered across town rather than pooled in one station, so check which one your ticket uses before you budget the taxi to your hotel.
The city is cut by deep ravines and built on a slope, so two points close on the map may not be close on foot. The Centro walks well; for everything else use the local minibuses (around MX$12), a taxi or an app. Driving, the real headache is parking downtown and the one-way grid — ask whether your hotel has its own space.
On safety, the plain version: stick to the toll road, avoid rural back roads after dark, leave nothing visible in the car and take a taxi home if you are out late. The blocks around the market feel rough at night, even though by day they are the best place in the city to eat.
Where to stay, zone by zone
The historic centre holds the sights: the Palacio de Cortés and its museum, the cathedral, the Jardín Borda, the Robert Brady house, the arcades on Jardín Juárez. Hotels here are small and plain, and this is where the cheap end of our scans lives. The trade-off is traffic, noise and a district that stops feeling inviting once the shops close.
South of the centre, Delicias and Acapantzingo are the Cuernavaca people picture: high walls, bougainvillea, family houses converted into hotels of a few rooms with a garden and a pool. You are fifteen to twenty minutes on foot from the zócalo — uphill coming back — or a short taxi. Much of that roughly US$98 median sits in these streets.
The north — Vista Hermosa, next to the Teopanzolco pyramid, plus Rancho Cortés, Lomas de Cortés, Buenavista and Reforma — offers hotels with more land: real gardens, proper pools, silence and a degree or two of extra coolness. It works if you have a car or do not mind taxiing everywhere, because there is nothing to walk to.
Avenida Domingo Diez and the Acapulco road out towards Jiutepec and the Civac industrial estate carry the functional business and roadside hotels. They exist for that: work trips, one night in transit, an early departure, proximity to the malls. Nobody stays there for atmosphere, and it is fairer to say so than to dress it up.
Eating and going out
Morelos eats cecina from Yecapixtla with cream, cheese and nopales, and that is the compulsory dish. Add tlacoyos, itacates, barbacoa tacos and, if you land on a Thursday, green pozole — Thursday pozole is an institution here. The municipal market in the centre is where all of it is best and cheapest, with a full plate running around MX$80-150.
The arcades on Jardín Juárez and the terraces nearby are for sitting out the late afternoon with coffee or an ice cream while a band plays in the bandstand. The food is decent and the bill is tourist-priced: reckon MX$200-350 a head. Delicias and Acapantzingo have garden restaurants where you eat better for much the same money.
Nightlife is modest and weekend-shaped. Midweek most places shut early; from Friday to Sunday the centre and a handful of northern bars come alive. If you stay out late, take a taxi or an app back — walking home past the market blocks or along dim avenues is not worth the fifty pesos you save.
Booking well
Cuernavaca is a small market: our 2026 scans found 19 hotels with a real price, and that shows on long weekends, when the good places go weeks in advance. For public holidays, Holy Week or December, book three or four weeks ahead. For a Tuesday night, you will usually still find something on the day itself.
It helps to know what each band buys. The US$47 end of our scans means simple rooms, often on a main avenue or in the centre, with no garden attached. The typical rate of around US$98 buys the walled house with a pool and old trees that is the actual point of the trip. That gap is experience, not square metres.
Check three things before paying. The address first: several Cuernavaca "haciendas" are really in Jiutepec, Temixco or Xochitepec, twenty to thirty minutes out. Then parking, which is scarce downtown. Then events — garden hotels rent themselves out for weddings, and the music can run until dawn. Ask in writing whether anything is booked on your dates.
Two last details. In December and January mornings are cool and not every pool is heated; if swimming is part of the plan, confirm it. And in the rainy season take a cancellable rate — one heavy afternoon storm can undo the day's plans, along with any enthusiasm for driving back to Mexico City.
Frequently asked about Radisson Hotel Cuernavaca
How much does Radisson Hotel Cuernavaca cost?
Prices we observed in 2026 started at US$98 per night. These are scan observations, not a live quote: the final rate depends on your dates. Use the check-availability widget on this page to see the current price.
Where is Radisson Hotel Cuernavaca?
The address is Avenida Francisco I. Madero 25, Cuernavaca, Mexico, Cuernavaca, about 14 km from the centre. This page's "View on map" link opens the exact spot.
What facilities does Radisson Hotel Cuernavaca have?
The hotel lists 24 Hour Front Desk, 24H. Security, Air conditioning, Banquet, Bar/Snack/CafEn' and Bars. The full list (61 facilities) is in this page's facilities section.
How do I book Radisson Hotel Cuernavaca?
Pick dates and guests in this page's check-availability widget: it takes you to the live price on app.impt.io, where you complete the booking. Most rooms come with free cancellation, and every booking removes a tonne of CO₂.
