ACCOMMODATION: The hotel offers 439 extra-spacious guestrooms and suites in an 11-story building of glass and stonelike masonry. Decor features blond-wood furniture, rose-and-cream walls, rose drapes, and pink-and-gray bedspreads and matching upholstery on bamboo chairs at desk/dining tables. Televisions offer English-language channels, pay movies, and Internet access through wireless keyboards (surcharge). Dial-up Internet access is also available. Each room or suite includes two dual-line telephones plus a telephone in a marble bathroom. Water is purified.

ROOM AMENITIES:

• Cable/satellite TV   • Pay movies   • Climate control   • Internet access - TV   • Multi-line phone   • Internet access - surcharge   • Coffee/tea maker   • Housekeeping (daily)  • Bathroom telephone   • Hair dryer   • Child care (in room, surcharge)   • Window opens   • Desk   • Iron/ironing board   • Smoking rooms   • Cribs (infant beds) available

• Premium TV channel(s)   • Air conditioning   • Blackout drapes   • Voice mail   • Internet access - dial-up   • Minibar   • Wake-up calls   • Turndown service   • Complimentary toiletries   • Massage - available in room   • Electronic/magnetic keys   • Clock radio   • Television   • In-room safe (accommodates laptop)  • Rollaway beds

RESTAURANT: Restaurant Plaza - Glass-walled dining room with green wrought-iron furniture and gray marble floor. Also, lobby seating with blond-wood furniture and bar. American/Mexican breakfast and á la carte service daily. Lunch buffet Monday-Friday and á la carte service daily. Á la carte dinner service daily. Lunch/dinner menus of sandwiches, soups, appetizers, burgers, pasta, steaks, seafood.

Al Vino - Low-beamed ceiling, wine-cellar decor. Extensive wine list. Menu with paired wine suggestions. Starters such as citrus-shrimp salad, three-chile soup. Main courses feature seafood, steak.

Lobby Bar - Bar and lounge seating. Pianist Monday-Saturday evenings. Large-screen television. Glass wall along sidewall, black marble wall opposite. Chrome-slat ceiling. Low light. Appetizer menu, cocktails.

RECREATION: The hotel features a 35-by-20-foot swimming pool and a 20-by-6-foot "in-place" swimming pool with artificial current, both located on the roof and both heated. Running paths lie within the central gardens of Paseo de la Reforma, one block from the hotel. Chapultepec Park, a half-mile away via Paseo de la Reforma, contains a lake where rowboats can be rented and a water park.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.

• Swimming on site
• Rowing or canoeing nearby
• Running track/path nearby