General Details

• Country: Mexico
• Region: South Mexico
• Town: Oaxaca
• Property No: 3587
• Property Type: Bed & Breakfast
• Cost From: $ 50 To: $ 75
  
• Added On: 31/08/2008
• Change over day: Variable
• Parking: Yes
• Pets: No
• Disabled Access: No
• Smoking: Yes
• Holiday Swap: No

Facilities

• Swimming Pool: No
• Heating: No
• Air Conditioning: No
• TV / Cable TV: Yes
• Hi Fi: No
• Internet: Yes
• Bedrooms: 2
• Bathrooms: 1
• Sleeps: 1
• Double beds: 1
• Single beds: 2
• Sofa beds: 1
• Cots: 1
• Nearest Airport: half hour
• Nearest Railway Station: n/a
• Transport Required: no

Activities

• Golf (Walking Distance): No
• Golf (Driving Distance): Yes
• Beach Access: 35 minute flight
• Water Sports: No
• Fishing: No
• Walking: Yes
• Cycling: Yes
• Horse Riding: Yes

Owner Details

Please contact Alvin Starkman using contact details below.

Please be aware of time zone differences before calling the property owner.

Please mention Rent In The Sun when contacting the owners direct.

• Contact: Alvin Starkman
• Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
• Phone:(52)9511328203
• Phone:(52)
• Fax:(52)9511328203
• Mobile: (52)0449515057793

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Property Description

CASA MACHAYA OAXACA BED & BREAKFAST is unique among Oaxaca bed and breakfast accommodations in that we rent an entire level of our modern yet traditionally styled Mexican home to only one set of guests at a time. Completely private and with your own separate entrance, you’ll enjoy all amenities:

• fully equipped eat-in kitchen;

• landscaped patio with comfy lawn chairs, stone hand-hewn table and four chairs, and free-standing umbrella;

• bedsittingroom with queen bed, large futon, cable TV with DVD, 3 piece wicker settee, night tables;

• optional adjoining extra bedroom with full size bunk beds and chest of drawers;

• 3 piece washroom.

Your Canadian hosts spent four years building their hillside home with spectacular panoramic vistas using a Oaxacan architect, so you’re assured of traditional Mexican flare, color and design, yet with all the conveniences of home without any cultural surprises:

• an abundance of hot water for showering;

• complimentary 19 liter jugs of purified drinking water;

• as well as the little things for the kitchen such as microwave, electric juicer, coffee maker and blender (as well as the usual appliances);

• and even a comfy cot for taking a late afternoon snooze.

If traveling with children, we have a crib, as well as stroller, high chair and car seat. We also arrange babysitting services so as to enable you to get away for a quiet evening. We have made arrangements with a local hotel for use of their swimming pool.

We provide the comfort and services of the large Oaxaca hotels. We supply the following breakfast foods for those on our weekly plan. Bring your own laptop and the internet is free, 24 hours a day. We include in our rate weekday morning drives to the downtown location of your choice (about 10 minutes) be it to a Spanish language school, market, museum or gallery. Taxi and bus service is available a couple of blocks from the house.

Tour guide services are available to the ruins, villages on market days and other sites.

Also available on request are private cooking lessons by one of Oaxaca’s pre-eminent chefs.

Your host is recognized as a Oaxaca expert on an international travel website, and is a founding member of the Oaxaca Bed & Breakfast Association.

Oaxaca is our passion. Our goal is to make your vacation as culturally rich and productive as possible.

http://www.oaxacadream.com

Living Area

The accommodations are spacious, except for the small, second bedroom (which we usually recommend only for children). It adjoins the bedsittingroom and contains full size bunk beds, a chest of drawers and long clothes rod. The bedsittingroom is 19’ x 13’ and contains a queen size bed with night tables, full size futon (down top available to make it comfy), 3 piece wicker settee, TV (cable and DVD with a selection of DVDs), radio, etc; the full kitchen is 14’ x 15’ and includes table and four chairs and cot for snoozing, with the following appliances: fridge, stove, microwave, coffee maker, blender, toaster, and electric hand mixer and juicer; and the private landscaped patio is 20’ x 22’ and is adorned with a round stone table and four chairs, large freestanding adjustable umbrella and a couple of padded lawn chairs. A crib with all accessories, high chair and stroller are available upon request at no additional charge. The washroom is 3 piece. All is private including your entrance to the guest level of our home. Please note that we do have a house pet, a four-year-old boxer whom you can keep out of the entire guest level of the home if you are inclined to do so.

Kitchen Facilities

See above. Includes fridge, stove, microwave, electic juice and coffee maker, blender, and pots, pans, dishes, wine glasses, cutlery, etc, etc, etc.

Outside

See above.

Suitability

young professionals, teachers, professors, artists, young families, retirees

Local Activities

ruins, art galleries, museums, craft villages, markets, ecotourism, mezcal

Other Information

Please inquire.

Visitors Reviews

Our house guests and touring clients write …

House guests:

“Once again, thank you so much! We so enjoyed our time in Oaxaca and Casa Machaya. Speaking for all of us, your in-depth knowledge of the culture was certainly a bonus for us. We could not have asked for a more accommodating host.”
Linda Breslin, Baltimore, MD.

“We had a truly memorable visit in Oaxaca and your hospitality and guide services were very much appreciated.”
Eve Hiatt, Louisville, KY.

“If we had stayed in a hotel, we would not have had the rich experience that we had. Oaxaca was the place we had not been before, and so it was ‘the meat’ of the trip. Thanks for all the things you did to make it really amazing.”
K. Marie Taylor, Sault Lake City, UT.

“Thanks again, to both of you, for making a long-anticipated ‘dream vacation’ a reality. You are great people, and we were fortunate to stay at your place.”
Kristine Hansen, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

“We decided it was the best place we’ve ever stayed in. Quite the travel bargain, too.”
Michael Sugerman, San Francisco, CA.

“Thank you both for a truly wonderful time in Oaxaca. I will be recommending Casa Machaya to everyone.”
Kathryn Anderson, London, Ontario

“We greatly enjoyed our time in Oaxaca and especially your tours. We would gladly be happy to recommend your home and kind attention.”
Gary Austin & Darlean Morris, St. Marys, Ontario

Touring clients:

“We did find a great tour guide in Oaxaca, Alvin Starkman, who drove us around the entire area. His explanations and sensitivity towards the people were very impressive. If you do travel to Oaxaca, please be sure to use Alvin as a guide.”
Philip Gissen, Milwaukee, WI.

“We had a great time meeting you and touring with you.”
Bob & Mary Ellen Campion, Westfield, N.J.

“To say you were one of the highlights of our trip is to say the LEAST!! Being guided by you was like having our private anthropologist / archaeologist / ethnographer. Not to mention the fact that you have forged warm, personal relationships with some of the most interesting and exciting people in Oaxaca and generously shared them with us. We felt very safe in your hands, too, due to your knowledge and understanding of customs and law. When I lost my exit visa, you knew just what to do and whom to contact. I could keep going on but will end by saying that on a scale of one to ten, Alvin, you’re a twenty!”
Lisa Kaneshiro, Hilo, Hawai’i

“You enriched our trip immeasurably, and left us yearning for a return visit.”
Charles DeFanti, New York.

“Thank you again for a great day in Oaxaca. Meeting you and hearing your stories and insights was a highlight of the trip.”
Paula (surname withheld), Washington, D.C.

“Marsha and I want to thank you for two wonderful days. Hiring a guide unseen can be dicey but the recommendations you had received were well placed and we were very comfortable with you. You were very knowledgeable, accommodating, flexible and friendly. We will be spreading your name far and wide!”
Don Squires, Fremont, CA.

“Thanks so much again for such a great day – we really enjoyed the whole experience!”
Danielle Garcia, Los Angeles, CA.