Áurea Hotel & Suites, a three-star property, sits in Zapopan. The hotel offers a pool, a restaurant and breakfast. 2247 guests rate it 4.4 out of 5. Observed 2026 prices moved between US$50 and US$56 per night. It sits about 4 km from the centre of Zapopan. Most rooms can be booked with free cancellation, and every booking removes a tonne of CO₂.
About Zapopan: Zapopan is the prosperous half of metropolitan Guadalajara, chosen for logistics more than postcards. All hotels in Zapopan →
Rooms and rates
Across our 2026 scans we logged 11 priced stays for Áurea Hotel & Suites: rates ran from US$50 to US$56 a night depending on the date, how far ahead you book, and occupancy. As with most hotels in Zapopan, midweek nights tend to come in cheaper than weekends, and booking two or more weeks ahead widens the choice of rooms with free cancellation. The price you see after tapping “Check availability” is the live app.impt.io rate for your exact dates, not an estimate.
Location
Áurea Hotel & Suites is at Av Lopez Mateos 3848, Zapopan, Mexico. That puts it about 4 km from the centre of Zapopan's hotel district, based on the coordinates in our scans. This page's “View on map” link opens the exact spot in Google Maps, so you can measure the journeys that matter to you.
The facilities, in detail
For food and drink, the hotel lists bars, breakfast, coffee, minibar and restaurant(s). On the wellness side there's fitness center, outdoor pool and swimming pool. Practical services include 24 hour front desk, 24h. security, business center, concierge, currency exchange and free car parking. In the room itself: air conditioning, bath, bathroom, free wifi, hairdryer and iron and board. The full list of 59 facilities is below; double-check the ones that are deal-breakers when you book, as hotels adjust what they offer by season.
Good to know before you book
The booking flow is three steps: dates and guests in this page's widget, the live price on app.impt.io, and instant confirmation. Most rooms are offered with free cancellation until a few days before arrival — the exact deadline is shown next to each rate before you pay. Every confirmed booking also removes a tonne of CO₂ through IMPT's carbon-removal projects, at no extra cost to you. When comparing, note that the three-star rating reflects the hotel's declared standard; the guest reviews on this page tell you how it actually feels to stay.
Zapopan for hotel guests
The Andares-Puerta de Hierro district gathers the luxury and executive hotels among first-rate malls; it is the natural base for business along the López Mateos or Américas corridors. Zapopan's own centre, around the basilica and its esplanade, keeps a big-village feel with mid-range options. Colonia Americana and downtown Guadalajara sit 20-40 minutes away depending on traffic. Our 2026 scans logged 27 hotels with a real price: from US$43 a night and a typical rate of about US$78. Honestly: without a car or ride-hailing, Zapopan drags — the distances are American-city scale — and for pure sightseeing, the Americana or central Guadalajara usually make the better base. All hotels in Zapopan →
Facilities
Guest reviews
4.42247 reviewsMy stay at this hotel has been nothing short of exceptional. The rooms are modern, impeccably clean, and equipped with all the essentials. We enjoyed the heated pool, the gym, and the beautiful gardens. The staff, always friendly, made us feel truly welcome, providing quality service and constant availability. The safety in the area, where I spent my childhood, is reassuring, and the proximity to a shopping center adds convenience. The hotel's restaurant offers culinary delights. However, it would be beneficial to have more parking spaces, and I suggest considering the addition of a guest la…
I stayed here with family from August 11-13, 2023. I had 3 rooms reserved under my name and when we arrived at 3:40pm (check-in is at 3pm) one room was not ready. We received no compensation for the inconvenience (although the hotel charged the people who checked out late for an extra 1/2 day). The manager would just repeat "I completely understand" but would not listen to anything we had to say. Must be psychic. Our rooms were spread all over the complex but we were not provided with a map or directions by the front desk. The very helpful bellhop helped us find our rooms by directing us to bu…
When you look at the reviews online or the website it is difficult to see that the hotel is actually four buildings. The buildings meander away from the street and the fourth building is next to a pool and garden. If you are looking for a quiet stay you should request a room in the second or third buildings. The pool and the children there did not bother me at all, but they might bother some. The hotel is very nice! The rooms are well-appointed and comfortable. The service has been excellent. People are friendly and willing to go above and beyond to help. With all that being said, it's not the…
Planning your trip to Zapopan
When to go
Zapopan sits above 1,500 metres on the Jalisco plateau, and it shows: October-November and February-March are the rounded months, with days around 26-28°C, clean skies and cool evenings. December and January keep the afternoons pleasant but drop to 8-10°C before dawn, and plenty of mid-range hotels heat poorly — ask about heating if you are sleeping near the basilica.
April and May are the hard stretch: 33-35°C, dry air and dust before the rains break. From June to September it rains almost daily, usually late afternoon or at night, in short violent storms that cool everything and turn the Primavera forest green. Entirely travellable if you start early and accept getting soaked for an hour.
The calendar that rules here is the corporate one, not the sun. The FIL book fair in late November and early December tightens the whole metro area, and the big trade fairs do the same even though the venue sits on the Guadalajara side. If your dates overlap, book weeks ahead and expect no discounts.
On 12 October the pilgrimage fills central Zapopan and closes streets from before dawn. It is a spectacle of the first order, but if you need to drive anywhere near the basilica that morning, you simply will not. The weekly contrast is real too: Friday to Sunday, Andares empties of executives and rates soften.
Getting there and around
Miguel Hidalgo airport lies to the southeast, at the opposite end of the metro area: allow 40-60 minutes to Andares and roughly MX$450-650 in an authorised taxi, a little less by app. There is a bus toward central Guadalajara, but reaching Zapopan means a long transfer, and with luggage it rarely pays off.
Overland, almost all intercity coaches arrive at the Nueva Central Camionera in Tlaquepaque — again the far corner, a long 45 minutes in traffic. The old terminal handles runs to Tequila and nearby towns. Coming from Puerto Vallarta or Mexico City, build the internal transfer into your day: here distances are paid in time, not kilometres.
Inside Zapopan it is a car or the apps. Light-rail line 3 links the Zapopan centre with downtown Guadalajara in about 25 minutes for under MX$15, and Mi Macro Periférico runs the ring road north to south; neither drops you at the door of the Puerta de Hierro towers, and in the rain that last walk stings.
Rush hour on López Mateos, Patria and Vallarta — 7.30 to 10 and 6 to 8.30 — doubles any journey. With a car, though, Zapopan is the best exit door in the metro area: the Primavera forest 20-30 minutes out, Tequila a little over an hour on Highway 15, and the Guachimontones at Teuchitlán in about seventy-five minutes.
Where to stay, zone by zone
Andares and Puerta de Hierro are modern towers among malls, corporate offices and white-tablecloth restaurants: this is where the luxury concentrates and where the city's highest rates live, with real drops from Friday to Sunday. Everything you need by day is walkable inside the bubble; leaving it always means wheels.
Zapopan's own centre — the basilica, its esplanade, the 20 de Noviembre walkway — has small and mid-sized hotels, gentler prices and a plaza life the executive district cannot offer: the market, cafés, the MAZ and the Huichol museum a step away. It is quiet and shuts early, but with light rail alongside it works for car-free sightseeing.
Then come the road corridors: Ciudad Granja and the Periférico arc, Avenida Vallarta heading into Guadalajara, the Plaza Patria area. These are chains and roadside hotels with no charm, beside noisy arteries, and this is where our 2026 scans found the lowest rates, from around US$43 a night. Without a car, hard to recommend.
By profile: work or conferences, Andares-Puerta de Hierro; cultural trip on a mid budget, the Zapopan centre near the light rail; family with a car, the pool-and-parking hotels to the north; long stay, apartments in Providencia or Chapalita, technically Guadalajara but ten minutes away. The typical rate we logged for the city runs around US$79 a night.
Eating and going out
Jalisco eats heartily and Zapopan is no exception: beef birria at midday, tortas ahogadas that are genuinely spicy, carne en su jugo, and cold tejuino from a street cart. Around the central market and in neighbourhood fondas, a full plate runs about MX$70-130 at 2025 prices; the good birrierías open early and close when the pot runs out.
In Andares and Puerta de Hierro the scene changes entirely: chef-driven kitchens, grills, sushi, air-conditioned terraces and wine lists. Budget roughly MX$400-800 a head with a drink, capital-city money. Book a table, especially Thursday and Friday nights, and note that the dress code is stricter than the climate would suggest.
For nightlife, the action is outside Zapopan: Colonia Americana and Avenida Chapultepec hold the bars, while Providencia and Chapalita — right on the border — offer the calmer version. From central Zapopan to the Americana is 25-40 minutes by app depending on traffic, and getting home in the small hours is straightforward.
Two practical warnings. Breathalyser checkpoints are real and frequent across the metro area at weekends: if dinner comes with wine, leave the car. And distances deceive — 'ten minutes' on a map can be half an hour on the Periférico at eight on a Friday, so book with margin and leave earlier than you think.
Booking well
Our 2026 scans found a couple of dozen hotels with a real price in Zapopan: from US$43 a night, with a typical rate in the order of US$79. This is a small executive market rather than a tourist one, which means it fills midweek and cheapens at weekends — precisely the opposite of a beach destination.
Travelling for work Tuesday to Thursday, book two or three weeks out. For a weekend, a few days' notice usually suffices, except on Mexican long weekends, pilgrimage dates or big fair weeks. Non-refundable rates make sense when your diary is locked; if the trip hangs on flights or meetings that move, pay for the flexible one.
Check three things before you click: parking, which the Andares towers usually charge separately at around MX$150-250 a night; breakfast, which matters in a district of expensive restaurants; and the true distance to wherever you actually need to be, measured in minutes of traffic rather than kilometres on a map.
One structural decision remains: if the trip is pure Guadalajara sightseeing, sleeping in Zapopan means paying for daily transfers — split your nights if the agenda is mixed. The prices on this page are 2026 observations, per night, gathered on different dates, so confirm the live rate with the widget before you commit.
Frequently asked about Áurea Hotel & Suites
How much does Áurea Hotel & Suites cost?
In our 2026 scans we found rooms from US$50 a night. Rates move with dates and occupancy — check the live price with the availability widget on this page.
Where is Áurea Hotel & Suites?
Áurea Hotel & Suites is at Av Lopez Mateos 3848, Zapopan, Mexico, in Zapopan, about 4 km from the centre. You can open the exact location in Google Maps with this page's "View on map" link.
What facilities does Áurea Hotel & Suites have?
Facilities the hotel reports include: 24 Hour Front Desk, 24H. Security, ATM, Air conditioning, Alarm clock and Banquet. The full list (59 facilities) is in this page's facilities section.
How do I book Áurea Hotel & Suites?
Use the gold button or the availability widget: choose dates, see the live price on app.impt.io and complete the booking there. Most rooms allow free cancellation, and every booking removes a tonne of CO₂.
