Quito Small Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Ok, so I finally left Colombia. After crossing the boarder without any problems I went direct to Quito to celebrate Halloween and see Chris who flew out to see me! I am one lucky girl.

My first impression of Ecuador was one of shock. It had a different feel and vibe, the people were not as outgoingly friendly and the amount of travelers ...

Flew from London, to Madrid and then on to Quito, Ecuador today. Flying in, the city of 1.5 million people looks beautiful, and this was confirmed when we got out of the airport. There are plenty of green, surrounding mountains and loads of grand old buildings. We caught the 25c trolle (tram) to the Old Town to stay in a more picturesque and les...

Hola! After booking our tours yesterday morning in the new town of Quito (which felt a bit dirty compared to the old town and made us grateful of our choice of hotel!) we experienced our first Ecuadorian buses and ventured out of Quito to La Mitad Del Mundo - The middle of the world. We took the customary tourist shot of straddling the equator a...

Practice makes Perfect I have spent the last week in Quito practicing my Espanol and learning some new salsa moves. It is important for me to learn enough Spanish to get by. In the past I have learned the standard phrases like: How much is it? Where are the bathrooms? I want something? With this length of trip in Central and South America, I hav...

Vagabond-ing - PART II - first steps in America de Sur After I didn´t really want to travel on, I am now sitting in Quito, Ecuador and actually feeling ok - see below. Yes, it was kind of sad and if I would have had the choice I probably would have stayed in Costa Rica a bit longer. - ...but since it better to leave when it is at it´s best, I di...

Just a quick entry tonight. I finally got to see more of the city.  A couple people from Camp Hope drove us around the old center of Quito.  It is amazing!  The buildings are beautiful, and there is such a wealth of history.  The city was founded by pre-Incan cultures.  Then the Incans conquered it and used it as a government center for around 9...

After another uneventful flight, which is a good thing, I arrived in Quito almost 2 hours ago. I'm already feeling the effects of the altitude. Quito is the 2nd highest capital in the world, with an average altitude of 9,315 feet. I feel like I'm constantly out of breath and have a very, very slight headache. My hostel is fine, not excellent, bu...

Today began my first day of clases. Right now I am sitting in the building of Galileo, on the floor...lavishing in the luxary of the internet. The clases that I had today were Creative writing and yoga. I had to problem finding my writing class and I am pretty excited about it. The professor is very nice and young. I think I'm finally going to b...

Today was quite exhausting; it's a good thing I slept for 9 hours last night! My alarm watch failed to go off once again, so clearly something is telling me to stop trying to adhere to the various schedules I keep making for myself. Time to break out of my Manhattan mindset! I have at least 6 months to do whatever I want in South America, and si...

After a very early start we caught our flight at 7.30am from London Heathrow to Quito, via Madrid. The flights were fine with only slight delays. For some reason we were sat in the area with loads of kids making loads of noise, making it difficult to sleep. The vast majority of the flight from Madrid was South American passengers who you´d think...