Sunday, August 29, 2010

Hotel Quito [Ecuador]

We arrived in Quito at 7:25 pm and the airport was crazy, well the custom line was long and crazy, but with Maria's help, we were able to go through customs easy and fast. Next we were on to finding our luggage and the driver from the tour company that was supposed to be there to drive us to the hotel, but we could not find him. Both Rick and I made trips around the airport looking for someone holding a sign with our names on it, but no one would claim us, so Maria and her husband Pablo, his brother, Luis, and their mother and father drove us to our hotel. Thanks guys!!!

The hotel was fabulous! The hotel staff was pleasant, helpful and very professional and the hotel. The room was nice and clean, even a chocolate on the bed (you know you have arrived when there is chocolate on your bed.)  (p.s. Don't tell Rick about the chocolate, I grabbed it before he saw it.)

Here are some photos of the hotel.
 

Hotel lobby with beautiful roses, one of Ecuador's larger exports.














Nice, simple, but elegant bedding.






Even nicer with the chocolate.




A view from our balcony...




and another view...












and a night view.










This view is from one of the hotel's terraces.




A view of the hotel grounds.











Hotel's pool which looked very inviting, but the temperature was too cold for me to go in.



The hotel had its own casino, I gave it some money.




And Rick won some.

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