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I suggest La Cabana Hotel, at 203 Mina, three blocks south of the zocalo (I found the hotel listing in another guidebook. Single rooms are 120 MXN with shared bath. I've stayed there several times including this summer (some nights the hotel was full); the managers are friendly, the rooms clean, the location quiet and convenient. Often I was the only foreign tourist there. Recommended.

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Thanks McClarjh for letting us know about the "La Cabana Hotel." It sounds like my type of place.

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OP here:

The Cabana Hotel sounds real good and the idea to stop in Puebla also sounds smart.
Both good replies. Thanks

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I liked La Cabaña. Good no-nonsense, no-frills place. Perfect location on Mina, among all the chocolate shops. Rooms on the top floor get more light.

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Hey,

OP here.
So I googled La Cabana Hotel Oaxaca and found two different places.

This is the link to one of them: http://hotelsinoaxaca.com/hotelcabana/
and here is the other one: http://lacabanapuertoangel.com/

Can someone let me know which is the hotel people have been recommending.

Thanks

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Neither one, shalomyishai. Remember, you're only paying ten dollars per night, so forget the private vanity and swimming pool! And the location is three block south (not five km west) of the zocalo...in Oaxaca city, not Puerto Angel, which is on the coast! Many budget hotels have no presence on the Internet, they can't afford it, you learn about them through word of mouth, then you just show up and pay for your night. If you want to look at it, check Google Maps streetview.

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mclarjh ...thanks for the clarification.

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Go to Casa Angel Hostel, is a nice place to stay and good people there. Also the breakfast is good.....!

Casa Angel have just one private room but they have small dorms ( for 3 pax ).

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*Hi- i also am looking for accomodation in Oaxaca near the zocalo- i also googled la CAbana with no luck. Would appreciate any recommendations for under $20 for clean quiet private room. Many thanks to all of you...P

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There are several budget hotels near La Cabana; I remember Hotel Central looked like an acceptable alternative as well when l payed them a visit.

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FYI - We stayed at La Cabana Hotel the past few nights in Oaxaca (both in rooms 111 for 3 nights and 109 for 1 night because we left in the middle to go to Pueblos Mancomunados and came back). I highly recommend this place for the price, location, and cleanliness. We checked out a few other places in the neighborhood, and the others with comparable price were much dingier-looking, and the staff was not as friendly. Our one-bed room with shared bath (for 2 people) cost 140 pesos a night. None of the other places we looked at had a cheaper rate. The room has a fairly comfortable bed, a small desk, and a wooden chair. It's rather small, but the size was sufficient for our needs. There's also free water to fill up water bottles. Some down sides: the shared toilets don't have toilet seats, there's no internet, the rooms don't have wall outlets to charge electronic devices (but the staff downstairs let us charge our devices down there), no towels if you don't get a room with a bathroom, room 109 had some cockroaches (though we didn't see any in room 111, perhaps legacy from a previous guest?), not much insulation so every little bit of sound carries (if you are sensitive to sound, maybe bring earplugs), I think front door closes at 11 pm (there may be a way you can get in past 11, but our Spanish was not good enough to find out, and we didn't have a need to stay out that late anyway). Tip: use the left shower because the right one didn't seem to be able to adjust temperature that well when we were staying there. Just wanted to pass this along--we'd definitely stay there again!

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Glad to hear you enjoyed your stay there. I agree with your description of the place, but I've never seen cockroaches there (it's not so far that they couldn't crawl from the zocalo though), and I've stayed in a variety of rooms. I found that after 11 PM, once the lights are out, the rooms are very quiet, depending upon late arrivals and early departures!

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Yeah, I agree that the cockroaches seemed like an anomaly. The noise was not a huge deal--I think it's pretty much the same everywhere. Nothing that ear plugs for light sleepers wouldn't cure.

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"Cheaper" isn't always better. Given the description of La Cabaña and what you get for your money, I'm wondering why someone would want to stay in such a place.

LW