Hilton Garden Inn Monterrey - Reviews and Deals - Monterrey

My business visitor status in Mexico from 1999 through 2000 did not allow me to rent an apartment like a resident was entitled to, so I was given an option to pick any of the hotels in and around Monterrey at my bidding. I ended up staying at the Radisson Ancira around Zona Rosa for 4 months, Hilton Garden Inn 2 months, and Fiesta Americana for almost half a year. I think Hilton's 2 is a giveaway.

There's no way anyone can't be at home at the Hilton, but the middle-tier Hilton Inn franchise is just that, middle-tier--characterless in such a historic city as Monterrey, even antiseptic in its comforts.

It has spacious and comfortable rooms with an ample kitchenette (another colleague actually cooked saffron rise in her own room at the same hotel), but the location is in a lonely part of the highway (almost 10 years ago anyway) between the city center and the Axtel office in Sta. Catarina where we worked, so the shuttle service was a big relief.

After 2 months I went back to Zona Rosa in the city center for obvious reasons, not least of them to escape from antiseptic Hilton Inn.