Set in Palenque, Best Western Maya Palenque is a four-star property with real observed prices for 2026. The hotel offers a pool, a spa and a restaurant. It scores 4.2/5 across 422 guest reviews — a very good rating. In our 2026 scans, rooms ranged from US$83 to US$137 per night depending on dates and occupancy. It sits about 2 km from the centre of Palenque. Most rooms can be booked with free cancellation, and every booking removes a tonne of CO₂.
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Rooms and rates
Across our 2026 scans we logged 4 priced stays for Best Western Maya Palenque: rates ran from US$83 to US$137 a night depending on the date, how far ahead you book, and occupancy. Rates in Palenque move with demand: midweek stays booked a couple of weeks out are where our scans found the widest choice of free-cancellation rooms. The price you see after tapping “Check availability” is the live app.impt.io rate for your exact dates, not an estimate.
Location
Best Western Maya Palenque is at La Cañada Palenque Chis 29960, Palenque, Mexico. That puts it about 2 km from the centre of Palenque's hotel district, based on the coordinates in our scans. The nearest city with a bigger hotel scene is San Cristobal De Las Casas, about 109 km away — compare San Cristobal De Las Casas hotels too if your plans are flexible. 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 and restaurant(s). On the wellness side there's outdoor pool and spa. Practical services include 24 hour front desk, car parking, concierge, free car parking, laundry service and luggage storage. In the room itself: free wifi, safe and tv. The full list of 29 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
Booking is straightforward: pick dates and guests in the widget, check the live rate on app.impt.io, and complete the reservation there. 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.
Palenque for hotel guests
The centre, around the Parque Central and Avenida Juárez, is the practical option: bus terminal, ATMs, cheap dinners, motorbikes until late. La Cañada, a few blocks away, is the leafy hotel quarter — gardens, plunge pools, open-air restaurants — quiet but still walkable. Out along the road to the ruins you sleep among trees, with howler monkeys for an alarm clock and a taxi for everything else. Our 2026 scans logged 12 hotels with a real price: from US$46 a night, typically of the order of US$72. The humid heat here is constant and unforgiving. All hotels in Palenque →
Facilities
Guest reviews
4.2422 reviewsI stayed two night in this hotel. I had stayed here before and same thing. Reception horrible. Service horrible, not very friendly., The restaurant horrible, . Not friendly. I got charged for a towel that was “dirty”. First it was raining and water was going inside my room and I asked for more towels to dry inside my room. Finally they switch me to another room. I am upset ‘cause I was not onlymore thank usual but also for towels. Next time i eill book the hotel in front of it call Hotel Cañada Internacional. Not child friendly No menu for kids
Great rooms Great location Service was either great or really bad
Very easy hotel with an okay pool area and some pet iguanas that wander around. The staff is very friendly. For the price this is fine. It didn't amaze us but also it could have been worse. When we arrived the first day early and left on the last day late we could have our luggage stored at the hotel. This was perfect.
Planning your trip to Palenque
When to go
Palenque is hot and humid all twelve months: days of 30-35°C, heavy air, nights that barely cool. The most comfortable window runs February to April, when rain eases and the forest still looks green. Even then the ruins fill by mid-morning, so the move is simple: be at the entrance when it opens at eight.
May to October is the true rainy season, with September and October the wettest weeks of the year. From November to January the nortes bring grey skies, drizzle and a hint of cool. Rain rarely ruins Palenque — mist drifting between the temples is half the point — but the waterfalls run muddy and the paths turn slick.
Prices follow the Mexican calendar: Holy Week, July and August, the year-end holidays and long weekends fill the town. September and October are the cheapest stretch, followed by May and June. Whenever you come, pack repellent, a light rain shell and shoes with grip — mosquitoes here have no low season.
Getting there and around
The Maya Train station put Palenque back on the rail map and changed the arrival rhythm; it sits outside town, so budget a taxi to your hotel. The ADO terminal on Avenida Juárez remains the main gate, with buses from Villahermosa in roughly two and a half hours, Campeche in five or six, Mérida in eight, and San Cristóbal in about five via Ocosingo.
Palenque airport operates intermittently and with very few frequencies; check before building an itinerary around it. The reliable route is flying into Villahermosa, some 150 km away, then continuing by bus or car. From Tuxtla Gutiérrez the drive is long and mountainous — add hours and curves to whatever the map suggests.
Colectivos to the ruins leave Avenida Juárez continuously for something like MX$30 a head, and a taxi runs a bit over a hundred pesos. Around town, taxis cost MX$40-50. Renting a car only pays off if you want to reach Misol-Ha, Agua Azul or Roberto Barrios on your own schedule rather than a tour operator's.
One honest caveat: the road towards Ocosingo and San Cristóbal sees occasional roadblocks and informal community tolls. That is not a reason to cancel, but it is a reason to travel in daylight, ask your hotel the morning you set out, and never drive that stretch after dark.
Where to stay, zone by zone
The centre, between the Parque Central and Avenida Juárez, is working Palenque: buses, ATMs, pharmacies, colectivos and cheap dinners around the corner. It is where the bottom of our price range sits, near that US$46 figure. The trade-off is traffic, motorbikes and music running late — ask for a room off the street.
La Cañada, ten minutes on foot from the plaza, is the shaded hotel quarter: gardens, small pools, restaurants under the trees. It is the best balance of quiet and walkability, and much of the typical rate we logged — of the order of US$72 a night — lives here rather than downtown.
Along the road to the ruins, and in the cluster of rustic lodgings known as El Panchán, you sleep inside the forest: simple cabins, mosquito nets, often a fan instead of air conditioning, howler monkeys before dawn. Most memorable, least comfortable — and without a car you depend on colectivos that thin out once it gets dark.
The market is small: twelve hotels with a real price in our 2026 scans. That shows in high season, when the four or five favourites sell out and what remains is either pricier or well away from the centre. Booking weeks ahead for April, July or December is not overcautious here.
Eating and going out
The cooking sits between Chiapas and Tabasco: river mojarra, plantain, chipilín tamales, empanadas and reliably good Chiapas coffee almost anywhere. The town market serves the cheapest and most honest breakfasts, and a set lunch runs somewhere around MX$100-150 depending on where you sit down.
For a proper dinner, La Cañada concentrates the terrace restaurants at roughly MX$250-400 a head, while Avenida Juárez covers cheap and fast. Nightlife is short: a couple of bars, beer of the order of MX$50, most places shuttered before midnight midweek. Nobody comes to Palenque to stay up late.
At the archaeological zone there are food and drink stalls by the entrances, pricier and limited in choice. Carry enough water — two litres a person is not excessive in that humidity — plus some fruit. If you head to the waterfalls, eat first or rely on the simple comedores beside the car parks.
Booking well
Our 2026 scans found twelve hotels with a real rate: from US$46 a night, with a typical from-price of the order of US$72. That is cheap for what you get, but in August the gap between a room with working air conditioning and one without it is enormous — get that detail confirmed in writing.
Ask as well about window screens or mosquito nets, hot water, and, if the hotel faces Avenida Juárez, about street noise. Out in the forest, check whether there is a phone signal, whether payment is cash only, and how late the colectivos still run past the gate.
Two nights is the sensible minimum: one for the ruins at an unhurried pace plus the museum, another for waterfalls or for Yaxchilán and Bonampak, which is a long full day. Bring cash — the national park fee and the INAH ticket are charged separately, on the order of MX$150-200 together, and the ATMs are downtown.
Frequently asked about Best Western Maya Palenque
How much does Best Western Maya Palenque cost?
Prices we observed in 2026 started at US$83 per night. These are scan observations, not a live quote: the final rate depends on your dates. Use the check-availability widget on this page to see the current price.
Where is Best Western Maya Palenque?
The address is La Cañada Palenque Chis 29960, Palenque, Mexico, Palenque, about 2 km from the centre. This page's "View on map" link opens the exact spot.
What facilities does Best Western Maya Palenque have?
The hotel lists 24 Hour Front Desk, Bars, Car parking, Concierge, Dry cleaning service and Free Wifi. The full list (29 facilities) is in this page's facilities section.
How do I book Best Western Maya Palenque?
Pick dates and guests in this page's check-availability widget: it takes you to the live price on app.impt.io, where you complete the booking. Most rooms come with free cancellation, and every booking removes a tonne of CO₂.
