Hotel Ceballos, Colima
06 January 2014 | Colima, Colima, Mexico
Dave, warm, cloudy and rain
OOPS, out of order, I ment to post this before the sail to Tenacatita. This is from inside the Ceballos Hotel in Colima, which is the capital city of the State of Colima. The hotel is an old building, constructed in the late 1800’s I believe, and well preserved considering the frequency and severity of earthquakes in this region. Colima is a historic Spanish Colonial town, however apparently none of the old colonial buildings remain, all having been knocked down by earthquakes, many of them several times over, so this old place must have been pretty well constructed to make it through the last century. All the rooms had heavy arched areas marked in Spanish and English “take refuge here in case of earthquake”.
It was a beautiful place to stay, but being old it did have design problems. The rooms were small and it was noisy. Non-the less it was an interesting place to visit; It's clean and right down town on the central square and across from the State Government building. This photo is of me in the interior hall just around the corner from our room, which was an interior room and had a window that opened onto this inside atrium. All the rooms either had an outside window or an interior window that opened on these old interior square or atrium for ventilation and light. They have since closed in the top with a framework and corrugated fiberglass panels over it to keep the rain out and they made the lower inner patio into a dining room. With the lack of acoustics and heavy walls you knew when the kitchen staff went to work in the morning!