Country Info
- Quito
- Capital
- US dollar (USD)
- Currency
- 13,183,978
- Population
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Top Hotels in Galapagos
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Swissotel Quito
155 reviews -
Hilton Colon Quito
138 reviews -
Hilton Colon Guayaquil
156 reviews
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JW Marriott Hotel Quito
265 reviews
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Hotel Oro Verde Guayaquil
149 reviews
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Hotel Quito
169 reviews
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Sheraton Quito
102 reviews
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Grand Hotel Guayaquil
69 reviews
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Holiday Inn Express Quito
55 reviews
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Unipark Hotel Guayaquil
52 reviews
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Radisson Royal Quito Hotel
168 reviews
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Mercure Grand Hotel Alameda Quito
136 reviews
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Sheraton Guayaquil Hotel
60 reviews
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BEST WESTERN PLUS Plaza Hotel Casino Quito
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Hotel Dann Carlton Quito
83 reviews
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Howard Johnson Hotel - Quito La Carolina
48 reviews
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Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel Manta Ecuador
31 reviews
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Akros Hotel Quito
24 reviews
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Hampton Inn by Hilton Guayaquil-Downtown
155 reviews
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Courtyard By Marriott Guayaquil
64 reviews
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Howard Johnson Guayaquil
38 reviews
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Hosteria Uzhupud Cuenca
22 reviews
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nu house boutique hotel Quito
153 reviews
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Hotel Ramada Guayaquil
28 reviews
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Hotel Sebastian Quito
63 reviews
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Hotel Palace Guayaquil
45 reviews
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Continental Hotel Guayaquil
39 reviews
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Hotel Rio Amazonas Internacional Quito
59 reviews
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Hotel Chalet Suisse Quito
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El Dorado Hotel Cuenca
38 reviews
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Oro Verde Hotel Manta
32 reviews
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Embassy Hotel Quito
24 reviews
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Howard Johnson Hotel Loja
18 reviews
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La Casa del Suizo Quito
50 reviews
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Hostal Alcala Quito
23 reviews
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Hotel San Andres Cuenca
1 review
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Oro Verde Machala Hotel
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Arasha Tropical Rainforest Resort & Spa Pedro Vicente Maldonado
36 reviews
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Hotel Crespo Cuenca
22 reviews
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Htl Rest Mer Cuenca
38 reviews
Galapagos
Travel Blogs from Galapagos, Ecuador
Ah Bartoleme!
This is a top pick! ... seals and iguanas – no hawks or ravens or wolfs of vultures to clean up corpses, so the perfect little CSI Galapagos scenes are everywhere showing the insides of what we could see in quantities, outside. Cool – really cool. ...
Goodbye Old Friends - Hello New friends
This is a top pick! ... to find others using the beach - quite a few others. This is a surf beach and not everyone who comes to the Galapagos does the cruise thing. Some folks who are prone to sea sickness fly in to either airport and spend time on those islands and ...
GALAPAGOS !!!
This is a top pick! ... of the boat is making me incredibly sleepy...enough excitement for one day... -------------------------------- It's day four of my Galapagos adventure. A recap... The boat is fine...miniscule cabins, but - who needs space inside? There are ...
Galapagos Day 1
This is a top pick! ... up 100 % of the floor space, we were beckoned to our first of many briefings. It was these briefings that I had read about on Galapagos blogs and forums that scared me about signing up for 8 days. Seems like there was going to be a lot of planned ...
First dive in the Galapagos
This is a top pick! ... We needed to go diving here to test out the equipment that we will be renting for our liveaboard. We found ourselves on "The Galapagos Party Boat" with about fourteen 20 somethings! Oh joy! Actually, it wasn't an alcohol fuelled party at all. Most of the ...
Goodbye Galapagos
This is a top pick! ... from the other, each one full of 'firsts', and at this age that is getting harder and harder to come by! The Galapagos is truly a special place - impossible to explain and not what I expected at all. It was a week I will never forget and all the ...
Bye Bye Deep Blue......sniff
This is a top pick! ... fourth time I think, and are now leaving a day later, because the Antarctic Austrians (aka Sylvia and Christian) are coming to the Galapagos today! It's been two months since we last saw them in Antarctica, and so we are going to have loads to catch up ...
extraction from the islands....
This is a top pick! ... makes me think about the world's capacity to become one interwoven ecosystem, bounded only by climatic regions. The Galapagos is very intentionally striving to maintain its ecological uniqueness....one of the few, maybe the extensive area on the ...
Meet Lard-Ass and happy 36th aboard Amigo!!!
This is a top pick! ... Manchester pub, lets say a few weeks from now, bragging to all his local friends. "Hi guys, never ever go to Ecuador, it sucks big time. The Galapagos Islands are a big joke if you ask me. The Amazon you say, hey don't even go there!!!" So the biggest ...
We've Arrived!
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 323 Temperature : 30 degrees Weather : Sunny / Rainy Galapagos Day One We had met Mark (from the UK) in our hostel in Guayaquil and as it happened we ended up on the same flight to the Galapagos. I have to say, that for the first ...
This is my Latin America (aka a year on the road).
This is a top pick! ... , Lonely Planet, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colón, frijoles, crampons, dinosaurs, Mojitos, studying maps, dreadlocks, choppy water, Galapagos Islands,... ...gorgeous mosquitos and women by the truckload... Tomorrow morning my brother and I are off on ...
And the winner is....
This is a top pick! ... just two steps in front of you, that's amazing. So while I wasn't thrilled about the high costs of the Galapagos trip, I thought it's something that you just have to do if you're already going to be in Ecuador. Luckily, Steve agreed with ...
It Just Gets Better and Better!
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 324 Temperature : 32 degrees Weather : Hot and sunny, rain in the afternoons Galapagos Day Three Today we had a long lie….well, until about 8am. We ventured back down to Tortuga Bay, stopping to take another gazillion photos of ...
And onwards to San Cristobal
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 329 Temperature : 32 degrees Weather : Sunny and Rainy Galapagos Day 9 was a washout. It rained from late morning almost all day until late afternoon. There was no chance to get out and about to see things and take photos. Galapagos ...
Tortuga Bay and the Marine Iguanas
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 327 Temperature : 32 degrees Weather : Same, same News Flash. We have extended our return flights by a few days. This now gives us a week after we return from our liveaboard so we can recover and continue enjoying the incredible ...
The Gorgeous Galapagos
This is a top pick! ... , penguins, sea lions and even sharks! I also did 2 dives which were amazing, especially being surrounded by around 8 1.5m Galapagos sharks. The sea lions were also incredibly playful and I spent hours frolicking with them in the water - they come right ...
Boobies and more Boobies
This is a top pick! ... big boat, get in the small boat without falling, get off the small boat onto the beach without falling, and then walk.....the Galapagos Cruise is not like other cruises where your fear of falling is off your chair at the buffet because the legs ...
A world like no other!
This is a top pick! ... rules, it's definitely not recommended. However, if they are - it is the most magical wonderland imaginable!! That said, I guess Galapagos isn't for everyone. Juan Carlos, our guide, was sharing a story of two sisters from Russia that he was ...
Are you Lonesome tonight? In the Galapagos
This is a top pick! ... and headed off to the airport, where we were dropped not at domestic or international terminal but a small gate called ‘Galapagos Islands’, where extra baggage checks and lots of form filling is done. We were checked in for our flight pretty ...
What the frig? No frisky Frigates
This is a top pick! ... spend are plebs like us (of which there are more than I imagined) however they don’t want people like us in the Galapagos. What they want is a smaller number of tourists who spend more money here but spend it in the local economy not on cruise ...
Sum it up
This is a top pick! ... to mate with them. They will attempt cloning as a last resort as it is expensive and not often successful. I would highly recommend a trip to the Galapagos to anyone. It was excellent. I hope some of you will have the good fortune to go some day ...
Galapagos islands
This is a top pick! ... for 8 passengers (small by Galapagos standards). Booking at the last minute I got a 40% discount (though all trips to the galapagos are costly). Coincidentally, I met Gemma and Shelley, two of the other passengers who would be on the boat at my hostel in ...
Chilling with tunes on the best beach in Ecuador
This is a top pick! ... to be fair with a glorious sun rise and a huge school of dolphins leaping very high out of the water, another amazing Galapagos sight. The other English couple was a bloke form Leek who recognised a Northern accent and instantly wanted to chat, they had ...
Birds, Birds, Everywhere!
This is a top pick! ... We arrived at Genovesa at dawn after almost a full night of cruising. And there was sunshine, yeah! We left Galapagos Voyager at 8:00am and headed towards the island. We cruised along the shore of Darwin Bay, which is a ...
Galapagos Day 2
This is a top pick! Hi, So on our first day we visited Santa Fe Island and were thrilled to see so many animals. Sea lions, frigate birds and blue footed boobies, Large Iguanas and small red throated lizards. We had hoped to snorkel here with the sea lions but there was ...
Week 6 in a mad corner of the world..
This is a top pick! ... must admit that with the lack of any sort of entertainment here even I was very excited by the thought of one of Ecuador's most famous groups. You can imagine our dissapointment then when 4 teenagers hopped onto the stage and began rapping in Spanish. ...
Off to the Galapagos.
This is a top pick! ... category at the risk of offending some of you. So, as we boarded in Quito and saw the masses of Galapagos bound folks travelling in Penguin packs, following their tour guide leaders, hauling every Tilley gadget and bird watching binoculars and ...
Lava Landscape
This is a top pick! Schedule: 06:15 Dinghy ride to look for penguins 07:00 Back on board for breakfast Santiago Island - Sullivan Bay: land surface 585 sq km, height 906m 08:00 Dry landing on the lava for a walk and snorkeling 10:45 Back ...
Shari is Sick & Chloe's Birthday
This is a top pick! Schedule: Espanola Island: land surface 60 sq km, height 206m Punta Suarez 08:00 Dry landing at the jetty for a walk. The terrain is rocky and uneven. Always maintain a certain distance (2m) from sea lions especially since the ...
Surrounded by Sea Lions..
This is a top pick! ... a bird dropping dead out of the sky!) and high in the sky the frigate birds cicle with their dinosaurian wing-span. The Galapagos Islands are volcanic and the black lava rocks, barren landscape and these birds sometimes make me think I am on a cross ...