The Best Hotels Near Hodelpa Nicolás de Ovando, by the Record
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Three stone colonial houses on Calle las Damas, the oldest paved street in the New World, make for a hotel with architecture most museums would envy. Rooms keep the original stone walls and timber ceilings where they survive, and the courtyard layout hides two restaurants, two bars, and a pool within its walls. The Zona Colonial's museums and plazas are steps away, and the beach is a rental car and a road trip, not a walk.
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Seven suites spread across two gloriously restored colonial villas in Santo Domingo's historic center, with a Michelin Key to its name. The concept is 16th-century Spanish nobility, and the hotel commits: four-poster beds, tiled floors, and colonial antiques share space with purple walls, pineapple-shaped light fixtures, and floating bathtubs. The courtyard pool glows turquoise at night while a butler materializes with a mojito before you've properly decided you wanted one.
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A 16th-century building in old Santo Domingo is not the most obvious place to put a boutique hotel, but here we are, and it works. Kimpton Las Mercedes folds platform beds and tropical art into rooms that toggle between colonial and contemporary. There are two bars, one shaded by oak and mango in the courtyard, one catching the breeze on the rooftop beside the pool, which covers most of the socializing you'd want to do.
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A 16th-century convent given a full modernist overhaul, this boutique hotel in Santo Domingo's Zona Colonial pairs original stone columns and centuries-old brick with Bang & Olufsen speakers and rain showers stocked with L'Occitane. The suites lean into mid-century furniture and fashion photography rather than preservation. Castil serves Dominican food downstairs, and the rooftop Moon bar looks out over one of the oldest neighborhoods in the Americas.
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A golden griffin marks the entrance to this 150-room luxury hotel sitting above the Blue Mall in the Piantini district. The gold-toned lobby leans into warmth rather than intimidation, with oversized armchairs and a bar ready to soften any travel mood. The rooftop bar and grill are where the skyline earns its keep, and the rooms make the most of the views too, with floor-to-ceiling windows framing the city below.