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Arrival and accommodation
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Frequent
buses
from Mexico City, Puebla and surrounding towns arrive at the bus station on the edge of the centre. Colectivos parked outside run to nearby villages and the zA?calo, though it's easy enough to walk in around ten minutes: exit the bus station and turn right downhill to the next main junction, then take a right down Av Guerrero for five blocks and left down JuA?rez. To return to the bus station, take the colectivo that stops on the corner by the church just off the zA?calo.
Behind the Palacio de Gobierno, on the zA?calo, there's a helpful tourist office on the corner of JuA?rez and LardizA?bal (Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Sat 10am-6pm; tel 2/465-0968, www.tlaxcala.gob/turismo.com ), where you can pick up useful free maps and book guided tours. Most other facilities - banks, post office and the like - cluster round the zA?calo and along JuA?rez.
Low-cost
accommodation
is limited to
Posada Mary
, XicohtA©ncatl 19 (tel 2/462-9655; US$10-15), which, with its thin sheets, postage-stamp towels and poor maintenance, is barely acceptable: note that XicohtA©ncatl runs parallel with JuA?rez one block to the east. For something better, follow Morelos east off the zA?calo to
Hotel Alifer
, at no. 11 (tel 2/462-5678, fax 462-3062,
halifer@prodigy.net.mx
; US$15-25), which has considerably nicer rooms with TV. Best of all is the
Hotel Posada San Francisco
, 17 Plaza de la ConstituciA?n (tel 2/462-6022, fax 462-6818,
info@posadasanfrancisco.com
; US$80-100), occupying a lovely old mansion on the zA?calo with colonially furnished rooms, pool and tennis courts. Other useful information
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Mexico,
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