Incredibly beautiful and large apartment! Just stunning!
Bring your own light if you need to do your makeup and an extension cord if you want to do your hair in front of the mirror. The blow dryer provided is for the birds, bring your own.
The space is so stylish and huge! Absolutely wonderful. Great for low light photos. Very quite at night and conveniently located to metro. Directions always drop you off across the street from apartment.
Don’t forget to check out the rooftop patio on your first day/night, we did and regretted it.
Use the mosquito net!!! Even if windows are closed, it’s there for a reason!
Communicate all your needs ahead of your trip as it’s tough to get a quick response.
This is not a place you’ll want to cook really, so if you’re thinking about that, go elsewhere.
Wifi is great! We used our T-Mobile internet mostly though, because Pandora wouldn’t play in Mexico, knowing it was in Mexico from the wifi.
Not much drawer space in master bedroom.
We brought our bitty boomer for music, the place has great acoustics so you don’t need anything louder than that. The outlets don’t hold anything too tight so they’ll unplug easily so you might want to bring something for that.
Some non apartment suggestions but definitely things we wish we would have known:
I’d suggest Uber to everywhere that is farther than 10 minutes. DONT rent a car unless you’re going far or only rent it for that day.
Uber is inexpensive and after being harassed by police in car rental, paying them, paying for parking and the time it takes to walk to your parked car. It isn’t worth it.
We never had to wait longer than 5 minutes for an Uber and even at 1 am.
DONT trust maps, if you’re looking for specific stores, we learnt the hard way trying to walk to a Telcel and Adidas stores that were no longer where they showed up on our map. Call the stores ahead of time to verify their location.
Arrange a Covid test appointment AHEAD of traveling, this took an entire day out of our schedule! Just because the pharmacy number you called said to go to said pharmacy, doesn’t mean that’s where you need to be. We were given the wrong pharmacy location and had to walk another 30 minutes to actual pharmacy.
3-5 blocks in Mexico to a native there is actually more like 8-10 blocks for my Mexican American ass. So UBER! saves a lot of time and stress.
Any address you receive, there will be 3-5 matching locations on a map so make sure to get the zip code and match the city and ZIP to your address.
Exchange your cash in your home country, rates are higher locally. Some will take USD If you’re in a pinch at a 20 pesos/$1 exchange rate, which is fair. Anything you’re buying in pesos, just divide by 20 to get your USD cost.
Don’t buy all your souvenirs from 1 vendor, you’re going to find cooler stuff for cheaper no matter where you go. It’s bound to happen and you want to help more families. :)
The place is beautiful and the pics don't show you how big the place is. You can see the place in my CDMX highlight in my IG: @crazy.nyla
XOXOX