Hotel y Cabañas Una Cosita de Zacatlan, a two-star property, sits in Zacatlan. The hotel offers a spa, a restaurant and breakfast. 939 guests rate it 4.3 out of 5. Observed 2026 prices moved between US$62 and US$135 per night. Most rooms can be booked with free cancellation, and every booking removes a tonne of CO₂.
About Zacatlan: Zacatlán sits on the lip of a ravine, and that one fact shapes the whole stay: cold air, fog rolling up in the afternoon, and a town small enough to walk end to end. All hotels in Zacatlan →
Rooms and rates
Across our 2026 scans we logged 2 priced stays for Hotel y Cabañas Una Cosita de Zacatlan: rates ran from US$62 to US$135 a night depending on the date, how far ahead you book, and occupancy. As with most hotels in Zacatlan, 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
Hotel y Cabañas Una Cosita de Zacatlan is at 5A De Lea N S N San Josa Maquixtla Col El Posito, Zacatlan, Mexico. The nearest city with a bigger hotel scene is Tlaxcala, about 74 km away — compare Tlaxcala 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, coffee and restaurant(s). On the wellness side there's jacuzzi, massage, sauna and spa. Practical services include 24 hour front desk, 24h. security, free car parking, laundry service, luggage storage and parking. In the room itself: bath, bathroom, free wifi, iron and board, safe and shower. The full list of 59 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 two-star rating reflects the hotel's declared standard; the guest reviews on this page tell you how it actually feels to stay.
Zacatlan for hotel guests
The Centro, around the Parque Central with its floral clock, holds nearly all the lodging worth booking — small guesthouses and ten-room hotels a few blocks from the Barranca de los Jilgueros lookout. Our 2026 scans logged only 3 hotels with a real price — a thin sample, because family posadas and forest cabins dominate here — from US$51 a night and a typical rate of about US$62. The honest caveat: weekends fill up with visitors from Puebla and Mexico City, and the nights are genuinely cold. All hotels in Zacatlan →
Facilities
Guest reviews
4.3939 reviewsThe room was comfortable and the restaurant was very delicious. The personnel were really kind and caring.
Awesome place for stay, I recommend you to rent the "chalet".
Prety place Some what quiet But service can improove!
Planning your trip to Zacatlan
When to go
Zacatlán stands above 2,000 metres and you feel it the moment you step off the bus: mild days of 18-22°C, afternoon fog climbing out of the ravine, nights of 5-10°C. In December and January the small hours come close to freezing. Pack layers, a proper jacket and closed shoes; whatever the forecast says for Puebla city does not apply up here.
Rain owns May to October, mostly late in the day and usually with thick mist behind it. It does not ruin a trip — the waterfalls run full and the sierra is at its greenest — but the dirt tracks to the lookouts and canyons turn to mud, and the ravine view can vanish for hours at a time.
November to April brings clearer skies and dry cold, the better bet if you want to actually see the bottom of the Barranca de los Jilgueros. Even so, the calendar matters more than the weather: the apple fair in mid-August fills every room, as do Day of the Dead, Holy Week and the year-end break. Midweek outside those dates, the town is quiet and cheap.
Getting there and around
The usual approach is by bus from Puebla: frequent departures from the CAPU terminal and around two and a half to three hours via Chignahuapan, tickets of the order of MX$200-280 depending on the line. From Mexico City allow four hours via Tulancingo and Huauchinango; direct services exist but are scarcer, so buy your return the day you arrive.
Driving from Mexico City means the México-Tuxpan toll road as far as Nuevo Necaxa or Huauchinango, then a winding mountain highway. It is scenic and slow. The genuine warning: dense fog, rain and stretches with poor signage. Avoid driving it after dark and treat the app's arrival time as fiction.
In town everything is done on foot, with the caveat that the streets climb and drop hard. Local taxis run about MX$40-60 for a short hop. For the Valle de Piedras Encimadas, some 20-25 km out, the Cascada Tuliman or other sierra outings, you want a car, a taxi hired by the hour, or one of the tours leaving the Parque Central.
Where to stay, zone by zone
The Centro, around the Parque Central and its floral clock, is the only zone that truly works without a car. The guesthouses and small hotels are here, along with the market, the cider shops and the restaurants; you walk out to dinner and walk back. The trade-off is noise: church bells, plaza music and weekend traffic running late.
The streets along the rim, towards the Barranca de los Jilgueros lookout and the glass bridge, have rooms facing the canyon. It is the most memorable thing in town on a clear morning and a wall of grey fog when it is not. Ask specifically whether the room faces the ravine — within the same house the rate is often identical.
Outside town, on the Chignahuapan road and towards San Miguel Tenango, you find cabins with fireplaces and space around them. They work if you have a car and want forest; without one, you have nowhere to eat. Our 2026 scans picked up just 3 hotels here with a real price: from US$51, typically around US$62. Much of the family-run supply never appears in any scan.
Eating and going out
The food is mountain food and unfussy: cecina with tlayoyos, molotes, Sunday pit barbacoa, farmed trout, regional bread and sierra coffee. The municipal market and the arcades on the Parque Central cover breakfast and lunch for MX$80-150; a sit-down dinner runs roughly MX$200-300 a head.
Apples are the thread that ties the place together: ciders, fruit wines and liqueurs sold and sampled around the Centro, with a whole fair devoted to them in August. During chiles en nogada season, August and September, town kitchens put them on the menu at Puebla prices rather than capital-city ones.
Nightlife is minimal and it is better to know that upfront: a handful of bars around the plaza, cafés that shut early, little else. Midweek, many kitchens go dark by nine. If your bus arrives late, have a fallback — something bought on the road — or eat in Puebla before heading up into the sierra.
Booking well
The basic rule: Friday and Saturday are a different market. Zacatlán is a weekend escape from Puebla and Mexico City, and the decent Centro rooms sell out weeks ahead. For the apple fair, Holy Week, Day of the Dead and the year-end holidays, book months out and expect two-night minimums.
Our sample here is small: 3 hotels with a real price in 2026, from US$51 a night and a typical from-price of about US$62. Treat that as a reference point, not the full picture — a good share of the beds are posadas and cabins you only find by asking in town or calling directly.
Before you pay, get three things confirmed in writing: heating or extra blankets plus dependable hot water, parking if you are driving — Centro streets are narrow — and whether breakfast is included. Carry cash; ATMs are few and not every guesthouse takes cards. And pick a cancellable rate: in this sierra one fogged-in weekend rewrites the plan.
Frequently asked about Hotel y Cabañas Una Cosita de Zacatlan
How much does Hotel y Cabañas Una Cosita de Zacatlan cost?
In our 2026 scans we found rooms from US$62 a night. Rates move with dates and occupancy — check the live price with the availability widget on this page.
Where is Hotel y Cabañas Una Cosita de Zacatlan?
Hotel y Cabañas Una Cosita de Zacatlan is at 5A De Lea N S N San Josa Maquixtla Col El Posito, Zacatlan, Mexico, in Zacatlan. You can open the exact location in Google Maps with this page's "View on map" link.
What facilities does Hotel y Cabañas Una Cosita de Zacatlan have?
Facilities the hotel reports include: 24 Hour Front Desk, 24H. Security, Balcony, Banquet, Bar/Snack/CafEn' and Bars. The full list (59 facilities) is in this page's facilities section.
How do I book Hotel y Cabañas Una Cosita de Zacatlan?
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.
