Finch Bay Hotel

... MV Santa Cruz to Santa Cruz Island. Our time in Galapagos was not over as we were spending another two days at Finch Bay Hotel but before we bade farewell to our friends from the boat we were visiting the Charles Darwin Research Station.  This is ...

... we see a lazy lion dazing behind one of the low hanging trees or hear the elephants make their trumpet sound??? And was that Denis Finch-Hatton's plane I could hear in the distance? Now where is that damn coffee farm of mine???? Never hurt having a lively ...

... this short distance we have to put on life jackets. The path to the grotto is pretty well marked until we get to the Finch Bay Hotel. We start walking through the hotel, but a young manager type directs us around the outside wall of the hotel, along a ...

... ) and headed off to the somewhat off the beaten track national park of Eungella as well as the Platypus Bush Camp in nearby Finch Hatton Gorge. It's worth noting that we would not even have found these places were it nor for our trusty Rough Guide travel ...

... road. Once in Puerto Ayora town, we took another boat, a water taxi, for 3 minutes to another pier leading to our hotel, the Finch Bay Resort (best resort-hotel in Ecuador in 2002) (www.FinchBayHotel.com) ($1079/person for 5-days & 4-nights; 3 ...

... the mercy of the Scenic Rim walking trail. From the Botanic Gardens it was a short and painless hike over a small hill to Finch Bay, where we clambered around on some massive boulders for a bit of fun, still wonderfully ignorant of what was ahead. ...

... 'terminal'. We filled out a form and paid the $100 entrance fee to the islands. We were greeted by a rep from the Finch Bay Eco Hotel and waited about 40 minutes for our bags, which was really silly, then took everything past control officers who asked ...

... hit the waves. The water is a balmy 21 degrees celsius in the bay and a bit cooler where the waves are. We took the water taxi to Finch Bay and checked out Playa de los Alemanes, not a bad bay but the sand is not the best. And if you want to go to Las ...

... a great night with them getting to bed about 3.30am. New Years Day We had a lazy morning and then caught a water taxi across to Finch Bay where there is a nice beach. It was hot but overcast but good swimming weather. Again we bumped into Irene and had a ...

... visiting the Lighthouse and lookout and then we walked from the lookout to Cherry Tree Bay through the rainforest. We stopped off at Finch Bay before heading off down the Blomfield Track towards Cape Tribulation. Stopped of at The Lions Den Hotel, where a ...

... being quite late, I had a quick shower and while the others left to a fancy restaurant on the pier next to the fancy Finch Bay Eco Hotel, Filipe and I made our way to sample some street food at the 'Servi Sabroson' on the Tomas de Berlanga street. The ...

... top of Cape York. Over breakfast Greg chatted away with the resident scrub turkey - crikey what an appetite! we then drove down to Finch Bay which is just on the south side of the town. A really pretty beach that reminded us of Radical and Balding Bay's ...

... to the United states; and we got another night at one of the fanciest hotels on the island at the airline's expense - the 'Finch Bay Eco Hotel'. Of course, this meant that we had to retrace all of our steps back to Santa Cruz. While most of the group ...

... were full for that day :-( so instead we hitched a ride on a water taxi to Finch Bay and chilled at the picturesque hotel before returning to the ship. After dinner an Ecuadorian band and dancers from Santa Cruz came on board ...

All those planes were definitely worth the effort. I think there might be 20 guests total staying at the Finch including the 14 of us! I won't complain though because that means we get the whole place to ourselves. It's really amazing out here. Makes me ...

We left the hotel this morning about 7:30am and took the hotels private yacht to the island of Santa Fe.  The ride took about 1hour and 45 minutes...the ride was rough and many felt ill.  Once there we took the dingy to the island and there were ...

... low...similar in looks to parts of Hawaii. We arrived around noon and went to see the MONSTER size land turtles...to see two large sink holes caused by under ground gases....a lava tube....and then the boat to this beautiful hotel!  A very full ...

... see one in the wild (although that was rectified later on in the day!)  Got in the car and drove to Eungella via Finch Hatton, a sleepy little village with a good corner shop and traditional pub.  The road up was very steep and bendy; we were ...