Hotel El Mirador

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Hotel El Mirador is a hotel in the Mexican city ​​of Acapulco in the state of Guerrero .

location

The hotel is located on La Quebrada , famous for its cliff divers, at number 74 on Plazoleta La Quebrada . You can watch the cliff divers at work from the terrace of the hotel's La Perla restaurant .

history

The hotel was built in 1933 for Carlos Barnard Maldonado, who was also the owner and manager of the hotel for a long time. As early as March 1934, the prices in El Mirador (dt. The viewpoint ) were twice as high as comparable rooms in the city center. The original hotel built by Barnard consisted of a few bungalows that were grouped around a main building and afforded a beautiful view of the Pacific . They were connected to the beach about 40 meters below via stone exits. The hotel also had its own water supply, which it obtained from a small spring on a nearby mountain. Thus the water supply was guaranteed even in times when even the most expensive hotels in the city suffered from water shortages.

Guests at the house included Elizabeth Taylor , Frank Sinatra , John Wayne , Sammy Davis Junior , Hugo Sánchez and John F. Kennedy .

The Swiss band leader Teddy Stauffer performed regularly in the hotel's La Perla restaurant . In addition, the location is the original location of the film Acapulco , although the main actor Elvis Presley was never there, but was doubled.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portal de Acapulco - Acapulco y su Arquitectura ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish; dead web link)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.acapulcoenlinea.com.mx
  2. ^ Dina Berger, Andrew Grant Wood (editors): Holiday in Mexico: Critical Reflections on Tourism and Tourist Encounters , Duke University Press (Durham, North Carolina, 2010), pp. 173f / ISBN 978-0-8223-4571-8
  3. ↑ Vivir México: Clavadistas de la Quebrada piden sea reabierto “El Mirador” de Acapulco (Spanish; article from November 30, 2011)
  4. ↑ Travel and Leisure: The New Face of Acapulco (English; article from February 2011)
  5. ↑ Mike Oliver: Mike Oliver's Acapulco , Writers Club Press (2002), p. 134 / ISBN 0-595-26230-9

Coordinates: 16 ° 50 ′ 49.9 "  N , 99 ° 54 ′ 49.7"  W.