The Leeson Lodge

Recent Reviews: 245

• User:garypachecoXX

  Trip type: Couples

  Great Colonial Mansion

  07 Feb 2026

  Hotel Casa de Sierra Azul is a beautifully restored colonial mansion in the heart of Oaxaca's city center. The location could not have been better for exploring Oaxaca and meeting up with our early morning tour operators. The hotel has a beautiful courtyard that stayed nice and cool during some of the warmer days of our stay. Our room, a superior king, was very large with ample storage. It also included a coffee maker and housekeeping every day, as well as a daily dose of Oaxacan chocolates. We did not eat any meals at the hotel and there are numerous great restaurants and cafes within easy walking distance. Unlike some other reviews, we did have hot water, though water pressure was low and the hot water took a while to arrive. I suggest you turn on the hot water in the shower while you brush your teeth, and it will be ready when you are ready. Our room, set in the back, was private and quiet, considering there were a number of kids staying at the hotel. I don't think I would opt for a room off the courtyard unless you are an early riser.

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• User:KhotsoHorseTrails

  Trip type: Couples

  Wonderful stay.

  04 Aug 2024

  Had a great welcome and service from all the staff. Rooms are super clean and comfortable, we really enjoy relaxing in the beautiful patio, it is very tastefully decorated.Location is perfect.Will definitely come back and recommend Casa Sierra Azul. Lulu and Steve

• User:jonquixote69

  Trip type: Couples

  Horrible Management

  01 Aug 2024

  The Hotel is nice, a little old and in disrepair. For the room rate we paid the amount of deferred maintenance was frightening. Sadly, we had a horrible experience with the hotel management. The regular hotel staff is great and super kind. The staff was actually embarrassed and quietly apologetic for Hotel’s Managements behavior & intransigence. Angel Ramirez Hernandez was polite while being gleeful pleased about being as unhelpful as possible. The Management style & management cultural is not client centered. It’s pay services attitude not a client service attitude. Once they have your money, they take pleasure in being unhelpful, dismissive, and saying No. Don’t stay here.

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• User:Vnicoloff

  Trip type: Couples

  Beautiful Design & LOCATION!

  31 Jul 2023

  Location is a few blocks from the busy zócalo and zona peatonal. Full of action, restaurants and shops. 24 hr. Front desk service and complimentary, free valet parking. Two stories, first floor with a centrally located courtyard and restaurant, 2nd floor also has spacious patios with umbrellas. Room was spacious with a large shower and big screen smart tv. Loved the place and the friendly staff.

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• User:MikePrinceton

  Trip type: Friends getaway

  Some good and some pretty bad

  18 Mar 2023

  The hotel has some good things to offer. The central courtyard has maintained its feeling of antiquity and is thus quite beautiful. And the few fully modernized rooms on the top floor are attractive and comfortable. But for us, the bad outweighs the good.We were a group of seven, and had reserved four rooms. The dates for one of the rooms had to be changed after we had reserved, and one of our party called to make sure that everything was in order (she speaks near-native Spanish) and she was assured that it was.When we arrived, we found that our reservation had been totally bungled. Two of us had reserved modernized rooms with a terrace; we got one of those, while the other party was put in a dark, rather dank room in the corner of the first floor. The third party landed in a room somewhere between these extremes. And the fourth room had only been reserved for one night and not the four we had booked; that person had to find another hotel. When I showed the manager our reservation numbers, he claimed that our friend who had spoken with him on the phone had made these changes and in fact *cancelled* one of the rooms. To add insult to injury, one of our party was told on the morning of our next to last day that they would have to change rooms because another party had reserved their room. They weren't happy, but they complied. When we all returned from a day's activities, it turned out that the hotel staff had asked the *wrong party* to change rooms and now wanted my wife and me to make yet another change. This is where we put our foot down.The helpfulness and friendliness of the staff is very mixed. The bartender is charming, and one of the ladies at the front desk is helpful. But, in general, the staff is neither helpful nor notably friendly--judge by the standards of most Oaxaca hotels and restaurants.If you do go, insist that you stay in one of the modernized rooms on the top floor. And get your reservation in writing!With a professional management, some needed renovation, and better staff training, this hotel might live up to its four star rating.Just for reference, we are frequent visitors to Mexico; we have been to Oaxaca for three of the last four years.

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