{"id":9322,"date":"2009-10-28T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-quirky-mexican-hotel-no-bull-2\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T05:07:00","slug":"struth-quirky-mexican-hotel-no-bull-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/10\/struth-quirky-mexican-hotel-no-bull-2\/","title":{"rendered":"STRUTH: Quirky Mexican Hotel No Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SufRpUv7N2I\/AAAAAAAAHds\/tjkTzPERUvc\/s1600-h\/Mexico+bullring+hotel+Quina+Real+Zacatecas-769212.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SufRpUv7N2I\/AAAAAAAAHds\/tjkTzPERUvc\/s320\/Mexico+bullring+hotel+Quina+Real+Zacatecas-769212.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>STRUTH !<\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, DAVID ELLIS says you can lay in bed in one of the world&#8217;s most unusual hotels and imagine the crowd as it roars &#8220;Ol\u00e9, Ol\u00e9!&#8221;, and in your mind&#8217;s eye picture dark-haired beauties tossing blood-red roses to their matador heroes in what was once one of Mexico&#8217;s most famous bull-fighting arenas\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Because the Hotel Quinta Real Zacatecas has been built into the grandstands of the old San Pedro bull ring, a spectacular 19th century Spanish-style structure that saw its last encounter between man and beast in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Guest rooms have balconies overlooking the original ring that&#8217;s now paved with cobblestones sprinkled with vast pots of flowering plants, and there&#8217;s a restaurant and bar at ground level on the very edge of the ring itself.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in a stay, have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quintareal.com\/\">www.quintareal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, DAVID ELLIS says you can lay in bed in one of the world&#8217;s most unusual hotels and imagine the crowd as it roars &#8220;Ol\u00e9, Ol\u00e9!&#8221;, and in your mind&#8217;s eye picture dark-haired beauties tossing blood-red roses to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-9322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}