Rooms were clean, comfortable and spacious. Staff was friendly and helpful. Nice restaurant and bar. You have to pay for internet access, but it's not very expensive ($3 for half hour, $5 for an hour)

We spent 5 nights at the Best Western when we were exploring Copper Canyon. We enjoyed our stay. The people at the hotel were friendly and helpful. We had breakfast at the hotel every morning and found it to be tasty. The rooms were finished in a cabin type style. They were nicely furnished and clean. The gas stove for heating gave a nice ambiance and kept the room warm even though nights were cold. The lodge and bar were very nice. There is a coffeee house attached to the front of the lodge that offered guitar music on a couple of nights. The hotel was pretty much filled with tourists so for a more local feel you need to go out and see thw town. Availability depends upon the tour groups. Some nights the hotel was full and other nights it was pretty quiet.

My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed our stay at the Western Lodge in Creel. The town itself is a backwoods place with some of that sleepy indolence of old-style Mexico, but the hotel is well-run and looks after its guests well. I have just read some of the negative reviews that others have posted on this site and I can only say that that was not my experience. My wife and I had no cause for complaint. We found the staff helpful, the food tasty and the new manager, Salvador, a friendly and considerate host.

Like most visitors to Creel, we arrived on the Copper Canyon train and the hotel mini-bus was there to meet us. Our rooms were spacious and well-equipped. The restaurant served a wide range of dishes for breakfast and for dinner, and the wine list offered lots of choice. We tried one of the restaurants in town for a change and were glad to go back to the hotel restaurant the following night.

There are a lot of hawkers in the town, mostly Mexican Indians, women and children, selling colourful trinkets and bead belts, etc. They were not troublesome. Most times they simply held out their wares without even speaking.

Creel is only a small town and it is quite limited as regards things to do. We enjoyed cycling to the lake for a picnic and the younger generation went horse-riding. We also took a taxi out to the waterfall and found the old taxi-driver a mine of information, though it taxed our amateur Spanish to communicate.

All in all, the Copper Canyon journey was a memorable episode which we are glad we experienced. The variety of landscapes from the train was amazing. We would recommend it.

Les and Heather Reid
Belfast
N Ireland

It would seem this is about the best place in Creel to stay and whilst we can´t really complain about anything, the whole style of the place didn´t really excite us. They have tried to create a lodge type feel but it comes across as a little tacky. Considering tourism is the lifeblood of Creel and this hotel, the service was somewhat begrudging. Anyway, the rooms were decent enough and clean os if you are going to stay in Creel, this place should be ok. Had dinner at the restaurant one night, very dissappointing and we would recommend giving this a miss.

Creel itself was a bid dead the time we visited which didnt enhance the overall experience.