Our Condominium in Edificio Taman Condesa in La Condesa

We decided to splurge and branch out on our accommodations for this 2-week trip to Mexico City.  In our previous stays in Mexico, we have stayed in a variety of lodgings: in Oaxaca, we stayed in a boarding house (with a private bathroom); in Coyoacán, we stayed in a Mexican guest house; in El Centro Histórico, we stayed at a Mexican business hotel. This time, we rented a 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom condominium with a laundry room, complete with a small apartment-size washer-dryer on the 9th floor of a 14-story condominium building in La Condesa. The name of the condominium building was Taman Condesa; it is on the corner of Calle Alfonso Reyes & Calle Mazatlan. The views from our apartment were to die for, both day & night. I felt like I was living in a high-rise in New York City. The apartment building had a 24-hour staffed secure entrance, a concierge, a gym and lap pool, a room with toys & books for children, as well as a rooftop terrace & garden. At first, I felt like we were being too extravagant, but the amenities turned out to be really nice to have; they made the journey more restful, more relaxing, and more enjoyable. The nicest thing was having our own washer & dryer, instead of hauling our laundry to the nearest lavandería every 3-4 days. We had plenty of space for the both of us, and our computers, and weren't cramped into a hotel room for 13 days, as well as access to a pool and a gym (though with our 13,000-step average, we didn't really need any additional exercise).

The cost was not that much more than the business hotel that we stayed in El Centro Histórico during our last visit. The condominium cost $1438.50 USD for 13 days & 12 nights (which comes out to $119.88 USD per night).

The Taman Condesa is located in a beautiful old tree-lined neighborhood with wide streets with promenades down the middle. There were lots of sidewalk cafés and restaurants nearby, as well as plenty of stores & shopping. Since we had a refrigerator, we even went shopping at the local Soriana Híper Tacubaya, so that we had snacks & cold drinks on hand the entire time.

A view of Taman Condesa, our apartment building, from the corner of Calle Alfonso Reyes & Calle Mazatlan

A view of our apartment building from where we caught Ubers on Calle Alfonso Reyes

A view looking up at our apartment building from inside the inner courtyard

A view of the apartment building & the inner courtyard

"Our Corner," the intersection of Calle Mazatlan & Calle Alfonso Reyes, where we had the Ubers let us off, rather than circling the block to let us off at the front door of Taman Condesa, which would take an additional 10-15 minutes in traffic

The Taman Condesa logo...my bet it is Aztec, though I never verified that for sure.

Pat, at the front door at Taman Condesa, after checking in with the building security

The patio area in the inner courtyard

The pool guy cleaning the lap pool. It didn't get much use; mostly, I think because they aggressively enforced their policies of pre-swim showers & swim caps for EVERYONE, including males (like Nazis!). They would send someone over from Security to watch you shower & wear a cap. Pat & I had to share my cap because he didn't have one, which meant one of us swam while the other waited. Pat had just finished his laps, was out of the pool, took off the cap, & handed it to me to put on, when the guy from Security came around the corner. He accused Pat of swimming without a cap. We had to have the guard feel Pat's dry hair to prove he wore a cap. If that didn't put my Spanish to the test. That was the last time we used the lap pool.

A shot of the gym just off the inner courtyard

A shot of the weight machines in the gym

A shot of the treadmills in the gym

The community room for children, complete with books & toys

A shot of the Concierge's station and the apartment mailboxes

A shot of Taman Condesa's Rooftop Garden

Pat, standing on the apartment building's Rooftop Garden, with a beautiful view of the city in the background

We had the most architecturally-stunning spiral staircase in our apartment building

This is what the staircase looked like when you looked up the staircase...& no, we never walked up 9 stories to our apartment

The elevator on our floor

Our Elevator Panel: Note: there are 15 floors (they superstitiously skip naming a Floor # 13). PB stands for Planta Baja (the ground floor); PH stands for Penthouse; & RG (which you can't see) stands for "Rooftop Garden...why they didn't consistently use the Spanish version for Penthouse & Rooftop Garden, I do not know (except that a lot of ex-pats & foreigners live & stay in La Condesa). The floors with the negative numbers (-1 through -6) belong to the parking garage. Piso # -1 is also where residents take their garbage. I was somewhere between intrigued and frightened (considering Mexico City's propensity for earthquakes) by the thought of a parking garage 6 floors deep below a 15-story high rise!

One day, after emptying our apartment garbage, I decided to take the elevator to the Piso # -6...to see what it looked like & to see if I could feel any difference in the pressure in my ears. You can see that I did, indeed, travel to the -6 floor. It was eerily quiet, but I didn't notice anything else unusual

I even took a picture of the parking garage at the -6 floor!

Every morning the cleaning staff swept, mopped, & then squeegeed the stone patio area in the entire inner courtyard

Cleaning staff mopping the stone patio area, as a dogwalker returns her charges to their apartments

Cleaning staff mopping the stone patio area, which was very large. It ran back to the elevator and past the communal room for children to read & play

Cleaning staff also mopped the front entrance & stairs each day. In addition, they swept the sidewalk in front of the building each day.

Cleaning staff wiping down the couch in the lobby area

The front door to our apartment, # A-906!!

Our living room...even with the blinds pulled, you can see what a beautiful view we had. We had cable & Mexican Netflix, thanks to the owner of the condominium. However, Mexican Netflix has different options than US Netflix. We tried to load our streaming platforms, like Hulu, Paramount+, & Apple TV +, but were unsuccessful. The TV appeared to be a Smart TV, but it would not accept our User ID's & passwords. I am not sure what the issue was with that.

As you enter the apartment, the dining room table is on the right & the kitchen area is on the left. The living room area is across the room from the dining area

Our full-size refrigerator

Our sink area. There was even a potable water spigot (to the right), which is very unusual in Mexico, but we didn't use it, as we are accustomed to using bottled water for drinking and brushing our teeth in Mexico

A shot of the 2nd bedroom. Note the view out the sliding glass door

A shot of the closet in the 2nd bedroom

A shot of the view from the Master Bedroom

Another shot of the Master Bedroom

Closer View From the Master Bedroom

View of the Master Bedroom Closet & entry to the Master Bathroom

There was a TV in the Master bedroom, & in the Living Room

A shot of the Master Bathroom. Vanity space was scarce, so we each took a bathroom

Master Bathroom Shower

2nd Bathroom

2nd Bathroom Shower

Our Laundry Room, off the kitchen

You can see where the refrigerator was in relation to the Laundry Room Door

The 4-foot wide patio (in front of the sliding glass doors on the living room, the 2nd bedroom, & the Master Bedroom) ran the entire length of our apartment. We are both a little afraid of heights, so we didn't spend much time out there, except to take an occasional picture.

Pat, sitting on the couch, checking his phone

A view of the city out of the living room window during the day

A view out of the 2nd bedroom window during the day

A daytime view from the living room balcony (one of my brave moments!)

Pat, reading at night, with the night skyline visible behind him

Another shot of the evening skyline from our living room

Another shot of the skyline from our apartment at night

A shot from our apartment of one of the nearby buildings at night