Presidente InterContinental Guadalajara by IHG, a four-star property, sits in Zapopan. Guests have access to a pool, a restaurant and breakfast. 7240 guests rate it 4.6 out of 5. Observed 2026 prices start at US$98 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 Presidente InterContinental Guadalajara by IHG, with rates from US$98 a night. 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
Presidente InterContinental Guadalajara by IHG is at Avenida Moctezuma 3515, 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 bar/snack/cafen', bars, breakfast in room, coffee and minibar. On the wellness side there's fitness center, gymnasium, outdoor pool and swimming pool. Practical services include 24 hour front desk, 24h. security, business center, car rental service, concierge and laundry service. In the room itself: air conditioning, bath, bathroom, hairdryer, iron and board and minibar. 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 four-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
4.67240 reviewsThis was by far my least favorite InterContinental hotel stay. When we arrived an hour before check-in, the front desk staff was noticeably rude. Instead of a warm welcome, especially considering I’m a Platinum member, we were met with a cold demeanor—no greeting, no smile. He simply told us the room wasn’t ready, as if we were bothering him. Later, after settling in, another staff member called our room to say she had made a mistake in giving us a $20 voucher and that we weren’t actually eligible for late check-out—very unprofessional and disruptive. The next day, I had an issue at the res…
I will not be returning and for the price, I can't recommend staying at this location. Although there are some positives, unfortunately the front office staff and management did very little to try to help compensate for not having air conditioning and my room getting up to 80 degrees F on the last night I was there. I tried to communicate with management before writing a review, but they seemed uninterested in trying to make it right and just offered me a couple of IHG points (not even worth 7% of what I paid for my stay). See below for more details but I can't recommend this location. Room C…
Stayed here 3 days and 2 nights. My family and I have stayed here before and never had a complaint until this last time. On the second night our Room AC stopped working at around 11:30pm, it was a little over 80 degrees outside. We notified the hotel staff and because it was late night they would have someone come look at it in the morning. We went ahead called again in the morning about 30 minutes later they had a tech come out our room was 80 degrees. They offered to move us rooms at 10:45 am when check out was at 12pm. Management didn't do anything to make it right and the front desk staff…
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 Presidente InterContinental Guadalajara by IHG
How much does Presidente InterContinental Guadalajara by IHG cost?
In our 2026 scans we found rooms from US$98 a night. Rates move with dates and occupancy — check the live price with the availability widget on this page.
Where is Presidente InterContinental Guadalajara by IHG?
Presidente InterContinental Guadalajara by IHG is at Avenida Moctezuma 3515, 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 Presidente InterContinental Guadalajara by IHG have?
Facilities the hotel reports include: 24 Hour Front Desk, 24H. Security, ATM, Air conditioning, Alarm clock and Balcony. The full list (59 facilities) is in this page's facilities section.
How do I book Presidente InterContinental Guadalajara by IHG?
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.
