Hotel Oro Verde

... of depressing with the muddy Amazonian water but there were palm trees. The airport was beautifully landscaped even with Koi fish. The Hotel Oro Verde airport shuttle was waiting for us and it was a not-so-scenic trip to the hotel. The hotel was ...

I was feeling very refreshed after a great night's sleep - in proper beds! - back at Hotel Oro Verde in Puerto Jiménez where we had left our large backpacks while trekking in the jungle.  Today was going to be a bit of a recovery day, but I quite ...

... as well as a number of tour company offices who can organise hiking treks and other tours for you. We booked ourselves in to Hotel Oro Verde in the centre of town. For $15 a night we were impressed; a large room, with comfortable beds, a decent ...

... to collect a hotel voucher and then waited for another hour outside the terminal for the shuttle bus to the Hotel Oro Verde, getting increasingly frustrated as more and more Hilton buses kept arriving and taking virtually the entire plane except a group ...

Our second trip to the Oro Verde hotel, Guayaquil, was a quick overnight stay.  We were delayed about four hours taking off from the Galapagos and got into the hotel at about 6pm.  Our guide told us that we would need to leave at 4am the ...

...  in Ecuador because of this.     But, on the second day in Guayaquil we went to the Oro Verde Hotel to see our Uncle Ian, and grandparents who flew in from Ottawa to be with us in the Galapagos! It was a ...

... themselves. Big and plentiful. Several cops took advantage of their status to give Des the third degree in the car park of the Oro Verde Hotel and quizzed him with all kinds of questions about the bikes, how they came to be in Ecuador, where we had been ...

... seemed like a lot more, maybe because we went through so many towns. Very early on in the day, after we left the Oro Verde Hotel, we had trouble finding the Pan American Highway. There were some road blocks as we left the Hotel, and that's probably where ...

... nicest hotel in the city (and perhaps the nicest hotel I have seen in all of Ecuador and many places in the States) - the Oro Verde, which we couldn't figure out if the name translated to "Green Gold" or something else. Dinner was awesome and defintely a ...

... as three or four simple places to stay. If you're seeking the best standard of room then stay at Aipa Atiq Hotel or Hostal Oro Verde (if you’re travelling as a couple then opt for the latter as their rates are the same whether it’s one ...

... the Ecuadorian countryside.  We were in the southern part of the central highlands and had driven from the land of Oro Verde (Green Gold) i.e. Banana plantations which had gradually given way to the stunning rolling hills and gorgeous red roofed ...

... thus far have been on time or early) and a smooth transition to our hotel. We were a little disappointed to find that the Oro Verde Hotel is a mile or so from Cuenca's old town, but it is a nice hotel and the taxis are convenient and inexpensive. We got ...

... again at 2pm? Hmmm. Rather than returning to our former love den, we got him to drop us off at another Oro Verde hotel in town, where we cunningly disguised ourselves as paying guests and used their extensive facilities for the next few hours before ...

... , tired and hungry in Ecuador proper, a swift cab ride taking us to the first youth hostel on the itinery. Fortunately, this one, the Oro Verde, not only lets in the over 30's, but also has five stars. Fellow backpackers to have signed the guest book here ...

... board.    The hotel were great.  They sent up the Doctor, the Doctor's Assistant, the Doctor's Translator and the Hotel Representative. With me, that was five off us all crowding around Jane, who was sat at the bottom of the bed.  ...

... so many horror stories about guayaquil, how it isn't safe for tourists and how there's a lot of robbings, so we'd opted to stay at a nicer hotel and not a hostel. To be honest it was a bit posh for us, but we have a 27 hr bus trip mañana so a bit of ...

... where this time we were getting off, to spend the night.  We were met by our guide at the airport and taken to our hotel.  We were both pretty tired so spent the afternoon loading videos up to the blog (!) and resting.  We decided to give their fondue ...

... the bank (involving the ATM eating my card, me having to try and explain this in Spanish, then waiting for them to open up the machine and retrieve my card), we paid up and went back to the hotel full of excitement over what the next three days would ...