This place is so magical, I debated leaving a review so as to alert others to the gem & thereby make less likely our ability to reserve it next visit to Coayacán.
This isn’t some out-of-town investor festooning their pad with kitschy Mexicana crafts; it’s the real deal, a generations-old shelter for authentic artists, and none other than the nation’s first woman muralist, Aurora Reyes (who’s original artwork, family pictures, resplendent mosaic work & photos with her longtime childhood pal Frida Kahlo cover the walls, where a lesser Air BnB might instead hoist a pinche television set.
The tiny garden is solace; a comfy hammock an equally superb place to nap as to write a poem. (Aurora’s own poetry is in books on the shelves upstairs.
Vintage, in a real way, heaps charm into the stay: the compact, boxy marble sinks to the old-school bathtub jacuzzi. Every window throughout the home frames blooms of vivid vegetation, host to butterfly & calibri alike.
Solace & divine authenticity!