Review: Hilton Mexico City Airport (MEX)

There is actually another hotel connected to the terminals at MEX— there’s an NH hotel attached to T2.

@ Bgriff -- Ah, good to know, thanks! Will add that detail.

The photo on the gym wall cracks me up.

There is also a courtyard by Marriott connected to terminal 1. Also each terminal has sleep pods facilities called izzzzz.

Your check-in experience confirms that the smart money people who for some reason stay loyal to Hilton, do it via a CC to get Diamond for basically free.

Only those playing with a half full deck would actually PAY and stay their way to Diamond…even dumber to do it Lifetime lol.

Only Americans (and Canadians, if they're willing to jump through a lot of hoops) can get those CCs though.

There are 3 hotels in Terminal 1 (Hilton, Courtyard by Marriot and Camino Real), plus the Sleeping Pods

You mean dumber than someone who is so clueless they they think Lifetime Diamond is the same thing as diamond for life.

I'm not loyal to any chain but in my experience status goes much further outside of the US. I'm gold from my surpass card and I was upgraded at the Hilton Mexico City reforma. Great free breakfast as well.

Hilton without a lounge? I wonder how many of these exist? I only encountered one such Hilton so far (La Defense).

I would do a stopover at that hotel as I was traveling into mexico and take an early flight in the morning for work various times. On my last visit, the service left a lot to be desired, a foul smell after you pass the front desk on to the second hall was that of stagnant water and smelled like raw sewage. In addition, there was issues with the air conditioner not working and the amenities not filled. I am a diamond for life Hilton's member, it was very disappointing to see this property as if it was a motel six. Had been there three times and wrote the manager of my stay only to hear some song and dance about my next visit. Will not happen!

Never mind the trolls who, for years, have been parroting self-anointed "travel gurus'" dogma according to which Hilton Honors elite statuses are worthless.
Those of us who patronize the only program that's remained stable and rewarding, while other programs were going belly-up (SPG, R.I.P), becoming 'bonvoyed' or simply going, well, "WoH!", know better.

Option 1: get Diamond free with CC, every year, functional Lifetime status
Option 2: spend ~hundreds of thousands of $ to get, functionally, same Diamond status for life

Both give you the same mediocre status; only mental midgets in the US take the second path when the first is the obvious one

Both give you the same mediocre status; only mental midgets in the US take the second path when the first is the obvious one

Only one of the two is an elite status, but you are too stupid to know it, and no self-respecting Diamond, especially those that spend "~hundreds of thousands of $" on stays, would leave home without the incredible, unmatched and industry leading HH AMEX Aspire card because it as a win-win. Then again you are too stupid to know that since you believe the two paths to status are mutually exclusive. Well, they are not. I am a Lifetime Diamond, now HH's de facto top elite status, and I have also had the status through the CC since it was introduced. The difference is that I will still have the Lifetime status even if the CC is discontinued, which it will be some day. See how stupid you are?

Lastly, you think the Diamond status is "mediocre" just because you've drunk the kool-aid and not based on any verifiable evidence. I bet that I spend more nights in suites as a result of Hilton's complimentary upgrade policy, now automated globally and prioritized by elite status (LT Diamond > Diamond > Gold) à la airline cabin upgrades, than any WoH Globalist with just four so-called "confirmed" suite upgrades that they have to jump through hoops to confirm (and often fail to).

Just go back to and stay at FT where you seem be a sort of "village idiot".

Make that "Only one of the two is an Lifetime elite status..."

Diamond status for every year of your life with the CC -> Occam’s Razor says lifetime Diamond.

Check. Mate.

You are just too stupid for words. Having status through a CC for life does not get you Lifetime elite status perks. Get your status through the Aspire and let's show up at the same time at, say, Conrad HK, with just one suite available and let's see who gets upgraded to the suite.

You are truly beyond stupid. Just go back to and stay at FT where you seem be a sort of "village idiot".

Go back to your “quantitative blogging” site and your ones of readers

I'd say these days the lounges are the exception rather than the rule.

You should be encouraged to stay at the NH hotel in terminal 2. You have traveled to Mexico several times to connect to other cities, but you always choose the Hilton.

Just a quick update - stayed here earlier this week (Oct 2025), and as Ben predicted in his review the hotel has clearly deteriorated.

While I found the service completely fine, the rooms and common spaces are pretty beat up. The walls in my room were quite stained, the baseboards were beat up badly. My deadbolt was…basically useless, it was barely attached to the wall. Worst of all, however, was the smell. As a previous reviewer noted - there’s a strong scent of mustiness and/or raw sewage. Really unappealing to say the least. To be fair to the hotel, this is basically how the airport smells…pretty embarrassing for a capital city.

I stayed here mainly to avoid CDMX traffic before an early morning flight. Next time I’d definitely just stay downtown and wake up a couple hours earlier!