Hostal Machalilla — Hotel in Parroquia Puerto López

It was a beautiful place, green, flowers etc. Til the second day, when they sprayed pesticide on all the flowers, so we almost vomitted, it smelled so strong. The room comes with mosquito net too and, however it is very small, that wasn't our problem. When we checked in we asked 3x if they have hot water. The answer was yes. Nothing was said about any limitations. But when we wanted to use it, after the salsa class at 9 pm, my husband was standing by the shower at least half an our, waiting for the hot water. No hot water. These days it is very windy here and not more than 20 degrees. Sitting on the beach froze us to ice. They switched then on the hot water, and admitted, they don't have hot water all the time, it is too expensive. Then my husband stayed again half an hour waiting, still no hot water. We were extremely frustrated, because they didn't tell, you have to turn the one on the right side. As we wanted to learn how to surf and there were no such hours with hot water, when we needed it, we checked out. The woman at the front is extremely unfriendly and unwilling to help. She looks all the time as if she would do a...

Embarrassed to admit, I stayed here not only once, but twice. The second time was plain miserable. There are places MUCH better for less money. The owner only cares about making a dollar and has no real interest in dealing with customers. Hot water does not exist, and wifi only works in the check in area, if at all. I'm used to insects, usually pretty tolerant, but there were SO many cockroaches. The final straw was moving my pillow to find a cluster of termites crawling around, and more under the sheets, joined by the winged ones landing every 30 seconds or so, no exaggeration. Needless to say, I didn't sleep much and was out the door the next morning, the owner could have cared less. On a positive note, there is a fully equipped kitchen on site and a nice sitting area outside. I stay in Puerto Lopez and Montanita every weekend and most places I’ve found are pretty decent. This place...

We checked in at 5:30am after our overnight bus trip. It was very accommodating of them to let us have the room that early in the morning and only pay for one night's stay. It was $25 for a "double" room. ||The room left a lot to be desired:|- there large screen windows along the top of two walls that could not be covered, all noise outside could be heard in the room|- many large ants were crawling around inside|- the fan had a frightening wobble|- there were no rooms with beds larger than a twin, and they didn't push together because of the frames||Two other downsides, the hotel clerks continually tried to sell us tours even after we declined, and the hotel is NOT on the beach front as indicated on the map; it is one block in...