Hotel de Cortes

... of my dingy downtown hotel room and found a place at an old lady`s house in a nice part of southern Cuernavaca. While the hotel was close to the action of the town center, my room lacked any decent emnities and the hotel didn`t have any other ...

... t-shirts, mainly picnicking) were more or less equally represented on the beach. Our campsite in Puerto Escondido - the Trailer Park Palmas de Cortes - was, by day, one the best of our trip: a shady palm grove 50 metres back in one direction from ...

... 3 minutes and I gladly would have given up my seat before holding that bag on my lap anyhow.  We arrive in downtown Puerto Cortes, book a room at El Centro and head out to Pizza Hut for dinner.  Yes, another romantic Pizza Hut dinner.  But ...

... 30 minutes further beyond Ronda in threatening darkness/rain for no-admittance, then having to back-track  we spy the Cueva del Gato hotel/bar and pull in.   Hey..there's a cave and its impressive!! There are no guides. We don't dare ...

... somewhat flawed our  plans to mission in all the way the La Ceiba in a day. Instead we were now heading on a bus to Puerto Cortes, it was too late in the day to go onwards to San Pedro and La Ceiba, and it was still freaking raining.   We ...

... to offer, but basically we are just here to wait to take the boat to Belize on Monday morning. We checked into the Bahia de Omoa hotel. The owner of our hotel is German and offered us to take us to the boat on Monday, which is a great relief. Beside ...

... like boulevards when compared to the long, narrow, straight alleyways that laughingly pass as streets in Cádiz. Access to our hotel required us to worm our car through impossibly tight squeezes until finally we could deposit it in a parking garage. Yet ...

... looking the rain was getting worse so we trundled back towards the town and managed to find the large department store "El Cortes Del Ingles",  there is a large supermarket contained within this store called "Hipercor" and we found many bargains ...

... and there is a multitude of yellow buildings and vehicles displaying their famous insignia. With the large sea port of Puerto Cortes only a short drive north, San Pedro has thrived with the access to a major import export route, thereby establishing ...

... us and we didn't have to limp by in Spanish. We also decided to treat ourselves and so we stayed in a really nice hotel complete with polished wooden floors, clean walls and a private bathroom with hot shower. It doesn't sound like much but it was luxury ...

... Aztec king, Montezuma, thought that Cortes was the god Quetzalcoatl reborn, so he invited him with offerings of gold, etc. Cortes thought "Happy days", took Montezuma hostage, then later killed him. The Aztec capital was destroyed and the modern day ...

... 'n Trotski, que se han convertido en museos y que no hemos podido visitar porque hoy era 1 de mayo. De hecho, en el centro, cerca del hotel, había gente manifestándose por todos lados y mucha poli antidisturbios. A la hora de comer fuimos al mercado de ...

... en rigtig pulserende storby i LP. Desuden var det her, den foerste spanske delegation af conquistadores anfoert af ingen ringere en Cortes ham selv, gik i land og opdagede Mexico. Saa der maate jo vaere noget spaendene at se. Vores foerste indtryk var da ...

... , or body surf, with or without a boogie board on an 'inside' break.   We stayed at the Trailer Park & Cabanas de Cortes (although, there's only 3-4 cabanas that I wouldn't want to stay in). It's a small RV park (that I really couldn't ...

... I got the information.  Cuernavaca is home to several Cortes founded structures.  The larges and most grandeur is the Palacio de Cortes, not being able to remember the name I kept referring to it as "THE FORTRESS" which is exactly what it ...