Hotel Amatlan de Quetzalcóatl

This is a small resort hotel in a mountain village with splendid views of nearby mountains, some charming cobbled streets, and little else. The hotel itself has two pools, a childrens' playground area with carousel, and the hotel also offers horseback riding from two horses stabled on the charming, well-groomed property. The restaurant offers solid, decent food, mainly authentic Mexican cuisine. If you like a low-key situation with basic creature comforts, and just letting things go with little to do, this could be paradise. Certainly nice for couples, and also families with children. It has a 1950's - 70's feel to it that is getting harder to find. The following might be a positive for some, but I felt that both the hotel and the village have a feeling of being somehow more attuned to the past than the present. But then the village has history: Zapatista (? or other) leaders died here during the revolution, pre-Columbian culture featured human sacrifice in this charged, still sacred power zone, so perhaps it's understandable that the past still haunts the present, even in a relatively modern, though clearly no longer new, hotel. The rooms are very dark during the day and the furnishings simple and some of the staff lack training - but again many will like some or all of these attributes. The internet was sometimes fine, sometimes terrible - par for the course throughout the village I gather. It comes down to personal preference: if you like this place, you will like it a lot; if you don't, there will be little niggles. I found myself warming to the place over time, liking it more and more the longer I stayed.