Luxury Historic Home with Pool in Colonia Santiago - Centro (SUMMER DISCOUNT)

Conveniently located, close to many attractions. Pool was s welcome relief in the warm afternoons

Just like the photos!

Property manager, Lilian, greeted us and showed us the home and rules. The property was decorated to perfection, pleasing to the eye and comfortable. The ability to open doors to the pool and patio was perfect for enjoying music and cooling breezes. Restaurants were awesome, some foodie, some divine and traditional cuisine: the newly named Viva Merida, La Recova, La Negrita Cantina. Visited Progreso for sun bathing and eating twice at Crabster. All fantastic experiences. Thursday evenings on Santa Lucia Square are filled with music and dancing. Reserve your favorite restaurant there many weeks before. Amenities are close by, supermarkets and pharmacies. Paseo de Montejo is notable avenue of restaurants, shops, museums and architecture. Mayan monuments are close by. Chichen Itsa is 2 hrs away with lots of walking. GO EARLY TO BEAT HEAT AND CROWDS. Uber is everywhere and safe. All in all, Casa de Los Monos(house of the monkey) was extremely relaxing, immaculate, and difficult to leave at the end of our stay!! Thank you, Melanie!

Our stay of five days at Casa de los Monos was even more special than I had hoped or expected. First of all, the house is drop-dead gorgeous. The location is perfect. The accommodation is extremely comfortable too. After a hot day outside, the pool is inviting and refreshing. The kitchen has all you need, if you choose to cook. The bedrooms are inviting and very comfortable. Honestly, it's hard to think of anything wrong with the place. Here are a couple of things to consider when booking: if you book the house with the three bedrooms, be aware that the third room is up a set of rather steep and narrow stairs. There are also a few stairs that step down into the bedroom. No big deal for anyone reasonably healthy. The trade off is the great, private patio outside the room. One other small thing is the traffic outside. At times it can be very noisy. The two intersecting streets at the corner where the house is located can be busy. However, if you are inside with the windows closed and the A/C on, most of the noise is unheard, and most of the noise is during the day. Melanie, the owner is extremely responsive to questions and concerns, as are the local contact people in Merida. We would stay here again in a heartbeat. Thank you, Melanie!

Me and my wife love Merida like a second hometown. This was our first stay at Casa de los Monos and it helped further our love affair with the city and its people. This house is amazing and comfortable and joyous.

One of the benefits is the location. It's nestled into the local community, but is still only a block from Santiago, where you can enjoy dancing and food and buy groceries. It's an easy walk to Lucia, my favorite park, and the main square. And after those walks when we'd come home hot and sweaty, it was an easy change into our swimsuits and a leap into the pool to cool off and swim some laps or just float around. There was some occasional bus traffic on the street, but by the evening it all calmed down and was peaceful with only the sounds of the bands echoing from nearby Santiago, as the moonlight reflected off of the pool and shimmered on the garden wall.

There are air conditioning units in pretty much every room in the house, but we never turned them on. Instead we opened the windows in all of the sliding doors and let the breezes cool off the house. It was remarkable how much cooler the house was, with its high ceilings and large doors and windows, than the streets outside. The only time we used the AC was at night in the bedroom when it was time to sleep, and even then we often turned it off in the night at some point.

The owner, Melanie, was amazing at communicating everything and getting us prepared. And Katia met us at the house, gave us her phone number in case we needed anything and showed us around the house. She even ordered a taxi for us on our final morning when we had to get up early to (unfortunately) leave. We were so well taken care of!

Every day felt like home here and we felt honored to have been allowed to stay in such a wonderful place. If there is a heaven, I hope it's at least half as nice as Casa de los Monos.