“ The European Excellence Diploma”.
Our hotel was granted with “ The European Excellence Diploma” for its exceptional merits?
We were recommended by the United States Tourist Council on 1978, for maintaining and encouraging the highest of professional and ethical standards in the travel industry?.
Before this was a hotel the family managed a travel agency named “Mérida Travel Service”?.
Don Fernando Barbachano pioneer of tourism and father of Ms. Carmen Barbachano Gomez- Rul, was nicknamed “Balam” (Mayan word for jaguar) for his sharp visionary business mind?.
El Hotel Casa del Balam Has an advantageous location, situated two blocks from the Main Square or Plaza Grande in the heart of the Historic Center, near the Jose Peón Contréras Theater and the University of Yucatan.













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