Calle Cholula 21 · Hipódromo Condesa · Mexico City

A house that runs hot up top and calm down below.A 13-room hotel in La Condesa

Cholula Condesa is a 13-room hotel in a 1930s house in Hipódromo Condesa, Mexico City. Up top, a sauna and a cold plunge among plants. Downstairs, Calma, the house restaurant.

The story of the house

A guest in a towel opens the door of the sauna, a black timber tower on the roof

Above · The roof

Climb. Sweat. Plunge. Come down.

On the roof there is a sauna and a cold plunge among plants and trees, with loungers to rest on. Every guest can use it.

From 8:00 to 10:00 it is free for guests. At other times, Monday to Friday until 18:00, a two-hour session costs US$80 and includes fruit and an herbal infusion. Book it at reception.

La Vuelta

The morning ritual: an optional lap of the Avenida Ámsterdam oval, then sauna, cold plunge, rest and breakfast at Calma.

7:30The lap. Optional. Walk out of the door at Cholula 21 and do one lap of the Avenida Ámsterdam oval, the old racetrack. Walk it or run it.
8:00Sauna and cold plunge. Climb to the roof. Heat, then the cold plunge, then heat again. Among plants and trees.
9:00Rest. On the loungers on the roof, until your body slows down.
9:30Breakfast at Calma. Come down to the ground floor. Calma serves from 8:00.

Suggested times. From 8:00 to 10:00 the roof is free for guests.

The roof: hours and prices

Two guests with drinks on the roof loungers, the sauna tower behind them

The roof: the black sauna tower and two loungers on gravel, beside plants

A guest in a long robe on the white stair, seen from below

Go up for the heat. Come down calm. The house does the rest.
La Vuelta · for every guest

A guest with her eyes closed in the cold plunge

In between · The rooms

Thirteen rooms, three floors, one light well.

Each room is named after a Mexican plant and has a code that tells you where it is: the number is the floor, the letter its place on the floor. Floor 1 is the ground floor, floor 2 wraps the light well, floor 3 is on the roof.

See all 13 rooms

Room 3A · Floor 3 · Rooftop

Maguey

On the roof, with a terrace

The maguey gives aguamiel, its sweet sap, and pulque.

See Maguey

The house

A 1930s building, opened up through the middle.

Two curved bay windows on the façade, a light well crossed by steel bridges, a white spiral stair and restored Tiffany lamps. Francisco Pardo (architecture) and DÉCADA (interiors) reworked the house. AD México featured it on 20 September 2025.

The story of the house

The light well, crossed by steel bridges, seen from the second floor

The white steel stair climbing through the light well

In the press

AD México featured the house.

Architectural Digest México featured it on its Instagram account: September 20, 2025

See the post on Instagram

Below · Calma

Breakfast and lunch at street level.

Calma is the ground-floor restaurant. It serves breakfast and lunch from 8:00 to 17:00 and is open to everyone, not only guests. It is the last step of La Vuelta.

Visit Calma

Calma’s dining room: wooden tables, green chairs, lit shelves and a curved window

Eggs in a clay dish next to the Calma menu

Outside · Hipódromo

A lap of the old racetrack.

Colonia Hipódromo was laid out in 1926 over the Jockey Club’s racetrack. The oval is still there: today it is Avenida Ámsterdam, the lap that starts the morning.

Hipódromo: history and guide

Two runners at dawn on the tree-lined median of Avenida Ámsterdam (illustrative image)

Book

Pick your dates. Come up.

Check-in from 15:00, check-out by 12:00. Adults only, no pets. If you would rather book by phone or email, write to us.

13: rooms on three floors around a light well
8:00–10:00: sauna and cold plunge free for guests
8:00–17:00: Calma, breakfast and lunch, open to everyone
18+: adults only

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