Best Hotels with Activities in Guadalajara

Guadalajara pairs Mexico's second-largest city with an old-world centre built for walking with kids: the Cathedral and Teatro Degollado sit a few blocks from shaded plazas where torta ahogada stalls do a brisk lunch trade. Families base themselves in Andares or Providencia for glass-fronted malls and quiet, tree-lined streets, or in Tlaquepaque, the artisan town on Guadalajara's southeastern edge, where courtyard hotels sit steps from pottery workshops and mariachi plays most evenings on the plaza. Days run mild year-round at roughly 1,566 metres of elevation, so afternoon hotel pools get real use rather than sitting empty. The trade-off: this is a driving city first, so the smart move is picking a base near the sights a family actually plans to walk to, not the map's centre.