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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Viena Hotel Internacional Quito
10 reviews -
Hotel El Conquistador Cuenca
11 reviews
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Hotel Italia Cuenca
1 review
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Hotel Solymar Puerto Ayora
137 reviews -
Hoteles Francisco I, II y III Salinas
7 reviews -
Hotel Las Penas Guayaquil
14 reviews -
Coraza Otavalo
8 reviews
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Hotel San Pedro De Riobamba
30 reviews
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Hotel Banos
2 reviews
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Hotel Kundalini Montanita
77 reviews
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Hotel Albemarle Puerto Villamil
48 reviews
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Hotel Catedral Internacional Quito
28 reviews
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Hotel San Francisco de Quito
121 reviews
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Hotel El Quijote Cuenca
4 reviews
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Hotel Presidente Cuenca
1 review
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Red Mangrove Aventura Lodge Puerto Ayora
228 reviews
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Hotel Sun Beach Salinas
8 reviews
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Hacienda Pinsaqui Otavalo
64 reviews
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La Estacion Riobamba
9 reviews
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Hotel Puerta Del Sol Banos
4 reviews
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Cabanas Isla del Sol Esmeraldas
19 reviews
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Red Mangrove Isabela Lodge Puerto Villamil
56 reviews
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Holiday Inn Express Quito
55 reviews
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Hotel Pinar Del Lago Cuenca
4 reviews
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Grand Hotel Lobo de Mar Puerto Ayora
40 reviews
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Hotel Amira In Salinas, Ecuador
15 reviews
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Hostal Maria Otavalo
1 review
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Flor de Oriente Banos
2 reviews
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Hacienda- Hosteria Chorlavi Ibarra
18 reviews
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Hotel El Mirador Puerto Lopez
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Hotel San Vicente Galapagos Puerto Villamil
24 reviews
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Sol de Quito Museum Hotel
40 reviews
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Hotel Othello Quito
9 reviews
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Boutique Hotel Mansion del Angel Quito
103 reviews
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Hosteria Natabuela Ibarra
5 reviews
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Mansion Alcazar Hotel Boutique Cuenca
82 reviews
Ecuador
Travel Blogs from Ecuador
Frank's Birthday
This is a top pick! Schedule: South Plaza Island 07:50 Emergency drill 08:15 Dry landing at the jetty for a walk. You need: sports sandals, camera, sunscreen, water, binoculars 10:30 Back on board to sail for 2 hours Santa Fe Island 14:30 ...
Like No Place on Earth
This is a top pick! A couple weeks ago, I left Cuenca on the afternoon bus to Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city. From there, I planned to arrange a trip to the famous Galapagos Islands where Charles Darwin formed his theory of evolution. Along the way, the bus had to stop at ...
Nearly ending up on a cruise.... by accident
This is a top pick! It was another early start for us this morning as the boat back to Santa Cruz from San Cristobal was scheduled for 7am, we had booked the tickets with the lady in the hostel and with our basic Spanish skills we hoped that we had managed to book the right ...
Marvelous Manta
This is a top pick! ... project on the go a few hours down the coast and Carolyn spent the day with them and some clients viewing that one. Ecuador real estate is booming booming. I can see the value in buying now as the beaches are spectacular, clean and pristine. ...
Fun and Games
This is a top pick! Hi All, Thanks for emailing me! It was nice to have a lot of news from home. Keep it coming! I am keeping up my end by writing here more often. So, today we were supposed to take a walk with our class up to the top of a mountain here in Quito that has ...
Blowholes and Birds and Birthdays
This is a top pick! ... the cold so no complaining from me. I was snorkelling in a long sleeve shirt because the sun is directly above - duhhhh - Ecuador - Equator! and my back would have fried because I liked to stay every minute possible in the water with these fabulous ...
Slight mishap
This is a top pick! ... like that. But no - of course it has to be my whole entire backpack......... I was merrily crossing the border between Peru and Ecuador when my big bag was stolen off the bus before I could really realise what was going on. I spent a few hopeful ...
Strange Things That Happen at the Beach
This is a top pick! ... and ready for an evening of more, and maybe better, French cooking. COCONUT BUNGALOWS AND REVERSE BABELIZATION: Pascal has been in Ecuador for 15 years. His Spanish is excellent, but he's lost most of his French. Michel speaks French and a bit of ...
Galapagos II...
This is a top pick! An unexpected experience of pure pleasure....started with another delightful dinner...the cook, in this tiny kitchen, somehow produces a complex dinner every night...tonight - fried shrimp, cauliflower and cheese casserole, broccoli, rice w/ frijoles and ...
Galapagos Islands
This is a top pick! ... . Ecuador, The Good, Bad and the Ugly The Good, There are some major Latin American highlights located here in Ecuador. A visit to the Equator, the Devil's Nose train ride, and the outstanding Galapagos Islands were our favourite three. The ...
Bruised Bacon
This is a top pick! ... a night in the medium-sized city of Loja. The next morning we took a mini-bus (basically a conversion van, our first in Ecuador) to Vilcabamba. At first we thought it looked like a pretty easy trip, because there were only five passengers who got on at ...
Lost in Cuenca
This is a top pick! Like three lost children we wandered. Thom the Dutchman and I, laden with bags of groceries and Margaret, Thom´s wife, sauntering behind empty-handed with a vacant smile. We had taken a cab to a grocery store in suburban Cuenca, but had neglected to ...
Will Work for Beer
This is a top pick! ... . I think we´ve gotten over the 24/7 staff open bar at the hostel and will settle into a somewhat saner schedule - no promises though. I guess that is about that, hope everyone is well and appreciate the comments/e-mails! Talk soon, ...
Survival of the fittest!
This is a top pick! Dean: How exciting is this! We are now in the Galapagos Islands - we are spending a few days on Isla Santa Cruz (I've already booked myself in for a few dives tomorrow!) and then we have an eight day boat cruise around the islands. Our boat is called ...
Visiting with Friends
This is a top pick! ... and it's not so easy to just up and leave. The result is an invitation to visit Puyo, close to where the jungle begins in Ecuador. I am kind of going that way anyway so I figured why not. I arrived in Puyo with my friend Maria, whose mother and father ...
Chillin´ with Mama and Papa Ruiz
This is a top pick! ... in Quito post-Carnaval, we left for Otavalo, located north of Quito. Otavalo is one of the most famous destinations in Ecuador - and all of South America really - due to its huge Saturday market. The indigenous communities in Otavalo and the surrounding ...
Thrills, spills and steep uphills
This is a top pick! Cotopaxi is according to our sources the worlds highest active volcano that has erupted and is higher than the highest peak in western Europe (all unconfirmed, will Google this when I get a chance). So it seemed like a good place to spend a few days and ...
So you want to know about work...
This is a top pick! I am back in Cayambe meeting with my host family for a couple of days then off to Quito for a nice Thanksgiving week where I will be eating with a U.S. Mission family for the holiday and meeting up with a few volunteers for some R&R. I am interested in ...
The Amazon Basin
This is a top pick! ... bugs of all size and description. It was Paul who found the anaconda. He showed us five of the twelve species of monkeys in Ecuador - one of them no bigger than a Toronto squirrel. Paul showed us river dolphins and a two-metre caiman. The list went on ...
Darwin's Arch
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 325 Temperature : 28 degrees Weather : Mixed We'd arrived. Finally, at 11am, and after 20 hours of travelling north we finally arrived at the famous Darwin Island. Amazingly the waters were fairly calm and none of the passengers ...
Welcome to the Jungle
This is a top pick! i´m in the beautiful jungle city of 30,000 peops, Tena, a tourist hot spot let me tell you.. you seriously see them on every street.. but my fellow pcv who is stationed here tells me that this is the hot season for them (jun-aug). they flock here for ...
Adios Galapagos...
This is a top pick! ... light airplane and one small boat arrive here each day. However, sadly, as of August this year there will be flights from mainland Ecuador. The locals seem quite excited about this, but to me it seems only too likely that some of the beauty of this island ...
Armenia, Cali, Popayan, Silvia, Pasto, Ipiales
This is a top pick! ... foreigners are not exempt from the searches, though women are for some reason! Just before leaving behind Colombia and heading into Ecuador, we take a side trip from the border town of Ipiales, to visit El Santuario de Las Lajas, a church built deep ...
Superwoman
This is a top pick! Who can burn faster than anyone else? I can!! Man this equatorial sun is strong! I stood out in the sun for like 5 minutes and was burning. The kids figure I'll be the first to burn up in a volcano too! We had a nice day wandering the streets of ...
Into the Blue on the Deep Blue
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 334 Temperature : 30 degrees Weather : Sunny and Rainy We boarded the Deep Blue yesterday afternoon from San Cristobal and were met with Solon and Max our diving guides. Once we were all introduced to each other and were allocated ...
Please mourn the loss of Sara's iPod
This is a top pick! ... sure that Steve has a bit coming about this, but I need to preface this story by saying the bus system in Ecuador is downright nuts. We started off as the only ones on the bus at the bus terminal, but after countless ...
Getting better
This is a top pick! ... Anyone out there who likes to get away to a warm climate but is not necessarily a lie on the beach type - I highly recommend Ecuador. There are so many different things to do in such a small country (and cheaply I might add). Hopefully there will soon ...
Nerves of steel?
This is a top pick! ... morning and flew from Quito to Galapagos. The plane stopped in Guayaquil. On the plane was the Vice President of the Republinc of Ecuador ?yes flying on our plane- an equivalent of flying Air Canada Tango. This made us very nervous. See a previous entry ...
Gorgeous Galapagos
This is a top pick! We have uploaded a lot of pictures and put stories with them so hopefully you will get the idea of what we did and saw in the Galapagos... It was absolutely amazing and we had so much fun with the rest of our group and our guide, CheChe. The food on the ...
Hello Ecuador!
This is a top pick! ... We left Peru a couple of days ago on the bus. We heard lots of horror stories about the border crossing from Peru to Ecuador, but actually we had aboslutely no trouble at all. Apart from the grumpy immigration officer doing his best to stamp my passport ...