GH Sander Hotel - Guayaquil — Hotel in Guayaquil

Hotel Sander is located in the downtown area of Guayaquil, a convenient location but not that easy to find by most foreigners. The façade of the building is so common, nothing spectacular.||||The security issues in Guayaquil are not top notched, the hotel management will close the door and pull the rolling metal door down after 11pm. If you come in later than that, you have to ring the bell to get the front desk person's attention, this person usually unfolds a mat and sleeps at the lobby.||||The lobby is not that spacious, if you have a group of 8 persons or more, the luggage may fill up the whole area, and it is not the best case scenario you may anticipate.||||The elevator is really tiny and small, just enough for one simple wheelchair, claustrophobic folks will definitely say no to this slow motion transport. Unless you are on a wheelchair, most people prefer to use the staircases.||||The room size is okay, not spacious, but good enough to move around.||||The beds are awful, the mattresses are pretty old and the metal stands are rusty. The bed sheets are clean but thin and worn out. ||||The tiny bulky little 12” TV is up at the corner of the ceiling and securely anchored. Nobody should think of stealing this 25+ years old bulky antique CRT TV set. The brighter side is one do not have to worry it will fall on your head. I had to make several trips to the front desk to get a functional remote control device. One should really enjoy that TV after making some intensive exercise to walk up and down, and the good thing is you don’t really need a gym. This is the idea of 2 birds in 1 stone.||||The air conditioner is perfectly functional (you need one with the humidity in Guayaquil), the built-in feature is the noise. It reminds the tenants it is functional every 15 minutes. The air conditioner is located at the ear level when you lie down on your bed. No one can ignore its existence and functionality. They are good match with the TV set age wise.||||Another feature in the shower room is the faucet, it is installed at the edge of the ceiling. Unless you are 6’ tall, nobody should touch it or mess around with it. The water pressure is not strong, you should give yourself plenty of time for a tiny stream of water dripping down. I usually take a shower for 5-10mins but with this special featured faucet, 25 minutes minimum.||||The bathroom has no fans or vents for ventilations. The design of the hotel bathroom has a 2” slit opening at the ceiling and it is open to the hallway. For people with serious bowel movement problems, it is better to use the balcony than doing it in the bathroom, folks who wait for the elevator can hear every single bowel movement you have inside.||||The hotel itself does not have a restaurant. It has a Restaurante Sander right next to the hotel and it is run by vendors independently to provide simple meals like breakfast and lunch. It is more like a cafeteria, I tried it twice, decent.||||This is not a grand hotel, for a low budget hotel, what you pay is what you...

My boyfriend and I stayed at this hostel when we arrived in Guayaquil at 4am as it was the only place open that wasn't crawling in cockroaches !||I don't know how they can call themselves a 'hotel'. It looks although they have spent quite a lot of time on decorating the lobby although I think that the rooms and hallways still require a lot of work - the rooms are miserable and unpleasant and the hallways look like something out of a horror movie !||We paid 18 dollars &|stayed for only one night due to the fact that our room had no windows or ventilation. There was a ceiling fan although this only seemed to push hot air around the room and didn't help air the room in the slightest - it was very difficult to breathe throughout the night. | When we first arrived we were given the choice between a room with air conditioning or hot water - we chose the room with hot water but unfortunately this was not the case. The shower didn't run properly and only dripped and there was no hot water at all, in fact the water was ice cold. |The staff were extremely unhelpful and miserable with the exception of one gentlemen who really tried to help us despite not speaking any English.||This hotel is very cheap but not worth the sleepless night. We ended up paying a little bit more (25 dollars) and staying at a hostel on the other side of the plaza called hostel Linda which was amazing in comparison to this place ! |||Worst night sleep ever at 'Hotel' Sander - I would NOT...

Maybe all the negative reviews I'd read about this place made it seem better than I envisioned, but I think this place is a fair deal. Be warned, there are no luxuries or amenities here, but you get what you pay for. For $25 you get a clean room with AC. We froze all night the AC worked so well! The bed was firm and pretty comfortable. Bathroom was clean. There is literally no charm to any part of this hotel so keep your hopes low. But you likely are only passing through Guayaquil so really - move beyond this and be thankful for the cleanliness. ||||The cons that we encountered were unfortunately the staff. The woman at the desk who greeted us couldn't have been ruder. She couldn't be bothered to find our reservation, the details, or our booking. She told us flat out they didn't have maps (when later we found them ourselves!). She moved at a snails pace and let about 6 people go in front of us. After a 5 hour bus ride none of this was appreciated. But everyone else that worked here seemed to be nice, so maybe she was just having a horrible day. ||||I'd stay here again if I had to be in Guayaquil again. ||||Oh, and it was a $4 taxi for us from the bus station to the hotel, and then $4 back to the airport the...