GOLDEN REST LATACUNGA — Hotel in Latacunga

Villa Tacvnga is a special place full of history, and the place to come in Latacunga for a great night’s sleep. 450 years ago, the courtyard, kitchen and dining room were part of the estate of the Marqueses de Miraflores. In recent years, the beautiful old building had fallen into disrepair before being bought and restored by a local family and turned into a hotel. The walls and cobbled floor are made from volcanic pumice stone and there are still many original features of the old house, including a wood-fired oven, a cow-bone mosaic in the floor, and a water well. Guests can pull up water from the well and filter it using a porous stone bucket filled with sand and carbon, as was done in the past. The rooftop terrace has wonderful views of the city’s churches and, on a clear day, the volcanoes Cotopaxi, Tungurahua and Chimborazo. The guest rooms are located in a new part of the hotel, built to blend in with the old part. One of the best aspects of the hotel is that the guest rooms have been soundproofed, so it’s super quiet at night. The beds are also really comfortable, so I slept really well here, despite being in the middle of the city. As well as the mid-range rooms, there is also a hostel section, with shared bathrooms, which only costs $10 per person. The rates include a breakfast of fruit, eggs, bread and good coffee. The family who own the hotel are really nice. They work with a local tour guide and historian, Carlos Sandoval, who is absolutely the best person to speak to if you’d like to explore the city, or discover the lesser known attractions in the surrounding area. Guests of the hotel receive a discount...

Great budget stopover on the way to Lake Quilatoa. ||4 min walk to the historic center/ Parque Vicente León. ||Free, simple breakfast of juice, coffee, fresh fruit, plain scrambled eggs, and bread and cheese. ||Large window with blackout curtains faced the outdoor hallway. ||Large, clean room with 2 beds. |Simple, but comfortable. ||Good water pressure in shower. ||Quiet street, quiet guests. ||Restaurant, bar, and lobby lounge/rec area with ping pong and pool tables.||Free parking in a garage down the street. ||CONS:|A little difficult to find because it's tucked around a corner on a one-way street and the entrance is through the restaurant. ||Credit cards are not accepted. |Cash or pay by phone using Zelle app.||No Wi-Fi in the rooms. ||The rooms are in the building next to the restaurant & lobby, separated by an open air courtyard. At night, it is too dark to see the steps, so have your phone flashlight handy. ||No elevator. Dark stairway. ||No door to the toilet/shower, so you have to close the door between the sink and the bedroom. It seemed pointless to have a separate, huge room for just the sink. ||Overall, it was a good stay for a...

One of the worst hotel experience I had in Ecuador.

Location- no place for parking, even for a small bus, you have to be in hurry during disembarking- everybody beeps at you. Centro historico is considered to be not safe during night time, so forget about having a nice dinner in the night!

Rooms- very small, mostly facing the interior corridor. Rather low standard, we had a problem with hot water, the host was saying it is impossible, and after checking it we give is different room (before that he was cheating the hotel is full)

Service- not helpful at all, very rude, not professional.

Very poor for breakfast (scrambled eggs and fruit, awful very cheap coffee, nothing more), the service below modern hotel experience. It takes very long time to get a breakfast, the people that are working there in providing you an impression that are doing in for the first time it their life.

I would HIGHLY NOT...