Hotel Museo Palacio San Agustin – February 2025
We stayed at Hotel Museo Palacio Agustin on our road trip from South Carolina to Jalisco, Mexico.
We decided to stay in San Luis Potosi for the night – it was a perfect stopping point after a day of driving from Laredo and I had read that it was a beautiful town. And it was. It was a super clean and very beautiful town.
We stayed in the Felipe – named in honor of King Philip II of Spain. It had two double beds and furniture of French Renaissance style with Solomonic ornaments.
I read reviews on a bunch of hotels in San Luis Potosi and by far most indicated that the Hotel Museo Palacio Agustin was the best. It was right in the Centro and we could walk everywhere we needed to go. The rates were reasonable – maybe not so much for Mexico, but much less than anything you would pay for a similar hotel in the US. And the hotel was beautiful.
We got up in the morning and spent about an hour exploring the house from top to bottom and then had a breakfast in the hotel before driving on to Jalisco.
- 18 rooms in this small boutique style hotel. All the furniture is antique.
- There is a rooftop bar area on the third floor and also a restaurant on the second floor. We only ate breakfast here. A continental breakfast came complimentary and a full breakfast was an additional cost.
- This hotel is also a spa – something we did not have time to take advantage of.
- There was no air conditioning in our room, but it absolutely wasn’t needed. I did see mini-splits when we were walking around the house, so some rooms may have A/C.
History of Hotel Museo Palacio Agustin
The house dates back to 1675, its first owner being Don Antonio de Sosa, a wealthy miner from the city of San Luis Potosí. It was given later as a wedding gift to his daughter Isabel de Sosa, who was widowed in 1704. In 1741 the house was sold to the Convent of San Agustín, who used it as a retirement home, hosting important personalities within the Augustinian community. It later became private property belonging to the Cavazos Azcárraga Family for 22 years and was then put up for sale and acquired by its current owners.
The name of hotels honors the monks who lived there. All of the furniture and artworks, which number over 700 pieces, in the hotel are certified and cataloged as being at least 100 years old.
The style of this building, after several modifications over the years, is Neoclassical.
The windows are one of the main historical architectural features of this mansion. The design of its windows is a reproduction of the treatises of Vignola, a famous 16th century architect who, among other great architectural works, created the façade of the Farnesse Palace in Italy.
Janie Acosta.
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