Country Info
- Quito
- Capital
- US dollar (USD)
- Currency
- 13,183,978
- Population
- EC
- Country Code
Ecuador Slideshow
Top Hotels in Ecuador
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Swissel Quito
134 reviews -
Hilton Quito
115 reviews -
Hilton Colon Guayaquil
130 reviews
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Jw Marriott Quito
230 reviews
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Hotel Oro Verde Guayaquil
129 reviews
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Hotel Quito - Compass Hotels
132 reviews -
Grand Guayaquil
54 reviews
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Sheraton Quito Hotel
82 reviews
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Holiday Inn Express Quito
44 reviews
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Unipark Guayaquil
46 reviews
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Radisson Quito
148 reviews
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Grand Hotel Mercure Alameda Quito
108 reviews
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Barcelo Colon Miramar Spa & Casino Salinas
68 reviews
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Four Points Guayaquil
51 reviews
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Best Western Casino Hotel Plaza Quito
47 reviews
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Dann Carlton Hotel Quito
74 reviews
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Howard Johnson La Carolina Quito
42 reviews
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Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel Manta
27 reviews
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Hampton Inn Guayaquil
132 reviews
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Courtyard By Marriott Guayaquil
45 reviews
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Akros Hotel - Quito
20 reviews
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Howard Johnson Hotel Guayaquil
34 reviews
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Hosteria Ushupud Cuenca
19 reviews
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nu house boutique hotel Quito
140 reviews
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Ramada Hotel Guayaquil
22 reviews
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Continental Hotel Guayaquil
34 reviews
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Hotel San Sebastian Quito
57 reviews
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Hotel Palace de Guayaquil
32 reviews
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Rio Amazonas Hotel Quito
55 reviews
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Chalet Suisse Quito
8 reviews -
Hotel Oro Verde Manta
29 reviews
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El Dorado Hotel Cuenca
37 reviews
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Hotel Embassy Quito
22 reviews
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Howard Johnson Hotel Loja
14 reviews
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La Casa Del Suizo - All Inclusive Quito
40 reviews
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Hostal Alcala Quito
21 reviews
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Mansion Real - Ecuador Quito
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San Andres Cuenca
1 review
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Oro Verde Machala
7 reviews
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Crespo Cuenca
19 reviews
Ecuador
Travel Blogs from Ecuador
riding buses and whatnot
This is a top pick! ... between American bus stations and Ecuadorian bus stations: in the US you buy your ticket and wait for the boarding time; in Ecuador, you walk along the area where all of the buses are parked with their destinations displayed in the window, all the while ...
Into My Hands
This is a top pick! ... was to arrive, perhaps he or she could have worked through those barriers and been the most productive and happy volunteer in Ecuador. I couldn´t be him in the circumstances provided. I did gain a lot from living out in the Amazon jungle where people ...
South over the Andes
This is a top pick! ... confirmed what we had heard - it really is a beautiful colonial city. Clean, organized, booming, as is most of Ecuador, and really very walkable. But cold. The nights are quite chilly - we are in the Andes, and even more ...
Surfer time!
This is a top pick! ... ….stay tuned – the plan is not coming together and we are starting to get short on real cash. Here in Ecuador, like Panama, they use the American dollar as currency – seems very weird to me to pay in greenbacks. Also here in ...
Great Start
This is a top pick! (This is an entry taken from my journal entry originally written 9/1 to fill you in on the gap of time that I have been in the jungle.) 9:20 P.M. ¨Great Start¨ Carrying 200 lbs. among a backpack and three duffel bags, walking through the bus ...
Tungurahua....towering over town...
This is a top pick! ... strung and just busting out with thoughts about Banos, they engage us with stories of their experiences. They're moving to Ecuador because all hell is breaking loose in Canada - no actually according to them it's breaking loose in the USA and since ...
FUNEDESIN
This is a top pick! It all became real, really fast as I saw the scale of FUNEDESIN and my responsibilities in the scheme of all that is going on deep in the Amazonian jungle. From being a good face for many of the tourists who come to Yachana Lodge and the residents in the ...
Peace Corps Ecuador on Mount Everest
This is a top pick! I just think this is a pretty sweet picture of the boyfriend of my Boss who is representing PC-Ecuador on Mt. Everest. Check out the photo! Dear PCVs, I wanted to share with you the amazing news about Edison Oña on Mt.Everest! He made it to ...
Kids Arrived
This is a top pick! A month and a few weeks in from entering my site and I am still finding myself training to find a piece of home in all that is going on. Vacaita, my dog (I changed her name after two days) was an eye-opener to my community member at first, but now my ...
Back to Traveling, Picture Update
This is a top pick! ... of Peace Corps Volunteers for the equivalent of our Halloween... except for that festivities run the whole week! That is what awaits fourteen bus-hours away in the culture hub of Ecuador, Cuenca. I have attached some photos for those still ...
Ah Bartoleme!
This is a top pick! Day 2 started really really early – a 6 am hike to see wildlife. Yup – 6 am, before breakfast for a hike around North Seymour Island. We had sailed through the night and were in Seymour when we woke up, and after a fair bit ...
Cuenca is rather boring on the weekend
This is a top pick! ... so small, yet is Ecuador´s most important Inca ruin shows how short a time and how small a space the Incas occupied in Ecuador before infighting (between two half-brothers, one in Quito, one in Cuzco) and Spanish invaders toppled the empire. Anyway, ...
Cuenca House
This is a top pick! The Cuenca House, located in the center of the most beautiful city in Ecuador, is a deeply discounted hostel just for Peace Corps Volunteers which provides a home away from home, away from home; it also provides a library of books to take as you please, ...
Meet Yachana... My Puppy
This is a top pick! ... long names like Diamond July Ross Perot Jackson. I am thinking something a little shorter that had some significance about my time here in Ecuador. I will be taking her back with me as is common for PC Volunteers to do at the end of service (I hear it ...
Email Tell All
This is a top pick! ... talking bad Spanish. New Years was fine. Hung out here and stomped around in the streets with Bahianites like they do everywhere else in Ecuador. Good times the next day. Hung out on the beach, worked on my tan (which I didn´t have one), and then ...
Pictures No Mas
This is a top pick! So I realized my camera wasn´t broken after all, 2 weeks after a bottle of liquid shattered in the bag in which it was in... Since, I have gone camera crazy! Enjoy a the photos of my new site. ...
Goodbye Old Friends - Hello New friends
This is a top pick! ... and her sister Collette from Montreal, Ashley from New York City and her best friend Crystal, who now lives in Ecuador on a Peace Core assignment, and Roger, an American from Arizona or somewhere else???/Columbia???? Dirk, Ashley, Crystal, ...
Happy Birthday Jeff
This is a top pick! ... them it was my cumpleaños before I could bite my tongue; off we went to happy hour for a couple hours of conversation at Ecuador's famous Bamboo Bar with an older couple from Italy, a brother and sister from France, a lady from Germany, and my amigos ...
GALAPAGOS !!!
This is a top pick! First day on the Galapagos. I get this huge rush as I see the islands from the plane...and then after multiple transfers to get to the boat, I meet my boat mates for the week...I like them all...esp my roommate...this is a varied group, in age and ...
I strongly dislike MIA (and Quito is pretty cool)
This is a top pick! So here I am in Quito, Ecuador after an extremely long >24 hours of travel. I was scheduled for a 2.5 hour layover in Miami, but our 5:02 PM departure time came and went, without much of an explanation offered. Finally the news trickled through the ...
the hike....and the aftermath....
This is a top pick! Saturday, March 29 It's morning and I'm lounging in a hammock on the upper floor of the hostel, overlooking the canyon that runs through Chugchilan. Just about every part of my body is a bit sore, especially my legs... and my knees are screaming ...
Cuenca Carnival 2011
This is a top pick! Some pictures from Carnival 2011 - Cuenca. The tradition is to spray foam, water, corn starch and glitter on unsuspecting victims. Can't really say I loved that seeing it was to cold to enjoy walking around wet. ...
Thanksgiving
This is a top pick! Dinner was nice. Ate with an embassy family, Michael St. Clair´s family. Michael was the chef and they didn´t have any servants which is also out of the norm for an embassy family... They lived in an Austrian Mansion built maybe 50 years ago. ...
All for San Pedro
This is a top pick! Yesterday we, yes about 2000 people and myself, danced through the streets of Cayambe. I still don{t really understand exactly their religious reasoning behind it all (they say it is for San Pedro) but other reasons may consist of getting really drunk, ...
Isn't it hot and humid at the Equator?
This is a top pick! ... of interest. I also spend some time with a woman doing her graduate work with monkeys in the rainforest in Ecuador. She´s studying primate interaction and conservation...Ecuador has a lot of work yet to do in conserving the ...
Swearing-In Ceremony
This is a top pick! This morning the U.S. Ambassador swore-in us Peace Corps. Volunteers at her residence... It is quite the estate our government has overlooking Volcanoes, sitting on the edge of a 300 foot ...
Sig and Tony and Deb's Excellent Adventure
This is a top pick! ... , I type this note as I lay in my glass fronted cabin, built by German craftsmen, in the lush Andes Mountains of southern Ecuador, CBC Calgary Radio playing in the background on my laptop telling me about the horror that is playing out in Japan, the sun ...
Waiting for a bus in Loja
This is a top pick! ... treatment in a restaurant in Cuenca, I was happy to get on a bus for a five-hour ride to Loja. It´s in the far south of Ecuador, and I´m taking an eight-hour bus ride south of the border to Piura, Peru. I have a flight to Lima on the morning of ...
200th Dive Surprises!
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 329 Temperature : 30 degrees Weather : Mostly sunny, some rain We headed south overnight crossing the Equator once again until we arrived at Cousins Rock where we would be doing two dives there, and one dive in Bartolome. The ...
Safety stop action
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 327 Temperature : 28 degrees Weather : Mixed We said goodbye to Darwin last night and headed south to Wolf for another two days of diving here. Again we awoke to the briefing bell at silly-o-clock in the morning. It was another 4 ...