LAS BRISAS HOTEL REVIEW
WORDS BY LOUISE RODGERS
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Having recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, the legendary Las Brisas resort, originally designed by architect Jorge
Madrigal, has undergone a US$20m renovation to bring it up to date with modern day Acapulco.
t’s been fifty years since a few ‘casitas’ residential district overlooking the wide expanse of nearly everywhere in Acapulco, the white cross of Las
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(little houses) were built on a breezy Acapulco bay. With casitas instead of rooms, and little Brisas was a later addition. Forty-five metres high, it
Acapulco hillside but no history of the jeeps instead of elevators, the Las Brisas hotel, now as stands atop the hill at 400 metres above sea level and
original Mexican resort or of the hospitality industry then, offers a unique guest experience. was commissioned by Carlos Trouyet in memory of
itself would be complete without mention of Las In its mid-20th century heyday Las Brisas was owned his two eldest sons, killed in a private plane accident
Brisas – the self-monikered “pink-and-white paradise” and operated (briefly under the Hilton flag) by Carlos in 1967.
– which completed a US$20 million renovation in Trouyet, and it was Trouyet’s wife Milly Haus de On his way to Las Brisas’s birthday party and naturally
time for its December 2008 birthday party. Troyet who is credited for bringing pink to Las Brisas. wearing a pink shirt, contemporary Mexican hotel
Until it surfaced in a splash of pink hibiscus on the Legend has it that pink was her favourite colour so group Habita’s Rafael Micha wonders at Trouyet’s
world hospitality scene, most hotels worldwide pretty she urged her husband to douse the whole hotel in foresight and acknowledges his place in the annals of
much followed the same format, but Las Brisas broke that colour, with just a few splashes of white. It was hostelry. “He was a visionary. A genius!” he exclaims.
both the mould and new ground when architect Jorge a daring and unconventional choice, but it chimed “Who else in the 1950s would have recognised how
Madrigal designed and built the original bungalows with the local flora and certainly contributed to enduring it would be to build all those little casitas,
and created the Las Brisas concept in an exclusive establishing Las Brisas’ landmark status. Visible from with their little swimming pools, and employ a
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