Mexico City

A friend is getting married out there, a guy from roscommon beleive it or not!! :D

Anyway ive booked into polanco area, nikko hotel, quite expensive really but from my last time there ive found mexico to be a rip off, with poor service, reminds me of some former commie countries. Anyway im hoping this time will be better...:D

Has anyone got any tips for mexico city itself? We will have some local knowledge but not all the time, so going to nightclubs/bars wheres good and where should we avoid? What touristy things are there to do? Anything anybody can recommoned basically to see/do!

I didn't spend too long in the city during my spell in Mexico, but you're near enough the Zona Rosa there, which is a good area to go out providing you're not bothered by being hassled by people touting for strip clubs (at the tamer end - prostitution is legal in Mexico City) every twenty feet or so. The Centro Historico is worth exploring, particularly the Zocalo - the huge main square - which is flanked by the biggest cathedral in Latin America (maybe even the biggest in the Americas, I forget), and a couple of minor pyramids behind it. There's usually something going on in the square itself too.

cheers john, by the sounds of what others have told me as well not much point in staying too long, but Ive already booked for 5 nights 6 days. The hotel is awful expensive for a relatively poor enough country, but at least it should be relaxing if i have nothing else to do :)