La Aurora Hotel Colonial is a three-star hotel in Valladolid. The hotel offers a pool, a restaurant and breakfast. It scores 4.2/5 across 773 guest reviews — a very good rating. In our 2026 scans, rooms ranged from US$72 to US$101 per night depending on dates and occupancy. It is right in the centre of Valladolid. Most rooms can be booked with free cancellation, and every booking removes a tonne of CO₂.
About Valladolid: Valladolid is the smart base for eastern Yucatán: a small grid-plan colonial city with Chichén Itzá 45 minutes away and cenotes in every direction — one of them, Zací, inside the city itself. All hotels in Valladolid →
Rooms and rates
Across our 2026 scans we logged 11 priced stays for La Aurora Hotel Colonial: rates ran from US$72 to US$101 a night depending on the date, how far ahead you book, and occupancy. Rates in Valladolid 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
La Aurora Hotel Colonial is at Calle 42 No 192 X 35 Y 37 Col Candelaria, Valladolid, Mexico. That puts it right at the heart of Valladolid's hotel cluster. The nearest city with a bigger hotel scene is Chichen-Itza, about 37 km away — compare Chichen-Itza 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 bars, breakfast, minibar, restaurant(s) and room service. On the wellness side there's jacuzzi, outdoor pool, solarium and swimming pool. Practical services include 24 hour front desk, concierge, free car parking, laundry service, luggage storage and parking. In the room itself: air conditioning, bathroom, free wifi, hairdryer, minibar and safe. The full list of 49 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 three-star rating reflects the hotel's declared standard; the guest reviews on this page tell you how it actually feels to stay.
Valladolid for hotel guests
The charming hotels cluster around the main square and along the Calzada de los Frailes, the cobbled street running down to the Sisal convent: coloured townhouses with courtyards and small pools. A few blocks off the centre, prices fall fast. Our 2026 scans logged 26 hotels with a real price: from US$17 a night and a typical rate of about US$70 — sleeping here costs a fraction of the Riviera Maya. Honestly: the heat is truly Yucatecan — March to June melts — and the trick is the early start: ruins before the coast buses arrive, cenotes at opening time. All hotels in Valladolid →
Facilities
Guest reviews
4.2773 reviewsI stayed at this open-air hotel while in Valladolid. I was happy to get to my room and turn on the AC. I had a good time sleeping. I didn't get a chance to use the pool, but the restaurant on the roof was nice. The staff were very friendly, and I got as much bottled water as I needed.
We had a wonderful experience, the location is great it's downtown, the place was amazingly clean, there's a rooftop restaurant and two rooftop spa pools. They are not heated pools but the sun warms them up pretty well. There is also a larger swimming pool down in the courtyard, we came for 3 days we ended up staying for 8:00. It was an easy walk down to the colectivo, down to the Town center square Church and to the convent. It's 5 minutes away from the famous street Calle de Faissel as well. If you get a chance, a block away right behind Subway there is a restaurant there that has the most a…
This was my second time staying at this hotel. The rooms are a little rough around the edges, but overall an excellent value and I would stay again. We stayed here during hurricane Beryl and it was still a pleasant experience. Great location and housekeeping. The hotel is well decorated and the courtyard pool was fabulous. The roof is very nice with 2 small pools and a restaurant. The bathroom showers could be better set up and maintained especially some non slip tape on the floor. Water got everywhere and the tile was very slippery with bare feet. My kids said there wasn't much water pressur…
Planning your trip to Valladolid
When to go
November to February is the weather you want: 28-32°C by day, evenings that ask for sleeves, cenotes with no queue if you arrive early. It is also the busiest stretch — year-end, Holy Week, the Chichén Itzá equinoxes — when the courtyard houses in the centre fill up. The odd norte brings two grey, windy days; they pass fast.
March to June the heat takes charge: 38-40°C at midday and humidity that gives nothing back. It is not undoable, just a different schedule — ruins and cenotes early, pool from one to five, town again at dusk. In exchange, that is when our scans found the softest rates in an already cheap city.
June to October it rains: short, violent afternoon downpours that leave the cenotes fuller and the countryside green. Inland, hurricane season reads as rain rather than swell, though a distant storm can cost you two days. Bring repellent — once everything is wet and green, the mosquitoes turn up at sunset.
Given a free choice, November and February are the rounded months. And a warning about the equinox: the serpent's descent is real, but you watch it among thousands of people with every hotel in town full and dear. If you are here for the ruins rather than the rite, shift your dates a week.
Getting there and around
ADO is the natural way in: roughly 2 hours from Cancún and 2 from Mérida, in the order of MX$200-350 depending on class and how early you buy, with departures all day. There are direct runs from Tulum and Playa del Carmen too. The terminal sits right in the centre — travelling light, you walk to your hotel.
The Tren Maya stops here as well, but the station is out of town: budget a taxi on arrival and confirm timetables before you build a plan around it, since they are still settling. By car, the toll highway from Cancún or Mérida is fast and boringly good; tolls add several hundred pesos each way.
The free 180 is the alternative: slower, thick with speed bumps and villages — Temozón, Uayma, Pisté — and far more interesting if you are not in a hurry. In town the grid is narrow and one-way; ask whether your hotel has its own parking before you circle the blocks with a loaded car.
Inside Valladolid you need nothing: twenty minutes crosses the centre on foot and Zací is three blocks off the square. For Dzitnup, Oxman, Suytun or Ek Balam there are bikes, taxis and colectivo vans leaving from the streets by the market; a town taxi runs about MX$30-60, a little more out to the nearer cenotes.
Where to stay, zone by zone
The blocks around the main square are the obvious first choice: townhouses with a courtyard, a plunge pool and breakfast under the arches, with the market, San Servacio and the colectivo stops on foot. This is where the typical 2026 rate of about US$70 lives. The cost is noise — music, bells and traffic until late, so ask for an inside room.
The Calzada de los Frailes and the Sisal barrio are the quiet version of the same charm: cobbles, coloured façades and the San Bernardino convent at the end, ten minutes from the square. Little happens there at night, which is exactly the point; if you eat late, you will be walking back from the centre.
Five or six blocks out toward Santa Ana, Santa Lucía, La Candelaria or San Juan changes the whole budget: this is where the guesthouses and hostels behind that from US$17 figure sit. They are residential, calm and fine to walk. Get two things in writing: air conditioning in the room, not a fan, and hot water.
With a car, the hotels out by the highway exits trade the evening stroll for parking and a proper pool at less money. By profile: first visit, beside the square; couples, a Calzada townhouse; tight budget, the barrios; and if Chichén Itzá is the whole point, a night in Pisté, two kilometres from the gate, buys the opening without a dawn drive.
Eating and going out
Valladolid holds its own corner of Yucatecan cooking: lomitos in tomato sauce, smoked longaniza, turkey escabeche oriental, relleno negro. Cochinita is a morning affair and it runs out; at midday the set lunch rules, in the order of MX$80-150 in 2025, and market breakfast comes in around MX$50-100.
The square's terraces and the pretty places along the Calzada de los Frailes charge postcard prices — they are fine, but two or three blocks further out the same food costs half. At night the square fills with stalls: marquesitas, corn, esquites, mamey ice cream. That is the town's social scene, and it costs coins.
Nightlife is not what this place does: a handful of bars and cantinas, kitchens closing around ten. The real evening plan is the video mapping on the convent façade — most nights, but check the time — then a loop around the square. It walks safely; carry cash, since many cenotes and stalls take nothing else.
Booking well
It is a small market: 26 hotels with a real price in our 2026 scans, from US$17 with a typical rate of about US$70. Small means the townhouses have six or eight rooms and sell out even when the town does not. Outside the big dates a week's notice does it; for equinoxes, Holy Week and year-end, a month.
Check before you pay: air conditioning in your room, whether the pool is for swimming or just cooling off, which floor you are on — top floors hold the day's heat — and whether there is parking. Ask too whether the room faces the street: the square is loud, and in the courtyards someone else's breakfast starts early.
Here a cheap non-refundable rate costs you little in money and a lot in flexibility: the real risk is not the price, it is changing route mid-trip, which happens often in this corner of Yucatán. The prices on this page are 2026 observations, per night — confirm the live rate before you book.
Two seasonal notes. The Candelaria fair, late January into early February, fills the city with visitors from the region: festive, loud, hotels taken. And when sargassum hits the Caribbean, people move inland — summer weekends here get tighter than the calendar would lead you to expect.
Frequently asked about La Aurora Hotel Colonial
How much does La Aurora Hotel Colonial cost?
Prices we observed in 2026 started at US$72 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 La Aurora Hotel Colonial?
The address is Calle 42 No 192 X 35 Y 37 Col Candelaria, Valladolid, Mexico, Valladolid. This page's "View on map" link opens the exact spot.
What facilities does La Aurora Hotel Colonial have?
The hotel lists 24 Hour Front Desk, Air conditioning, Balcony, Bars, Bathroom and Beach nearby. The full list (49 facilities) is in this page's facilities section.
How do I book La Aurora Hotel Colonial?
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.
