Nice stuff. Hot water. Clear. Super breakfast with great local juice.

Good location and big room with comfortable bed(s). The people are friendly and the breakfast was tasty and enough.

There was nobody there when we arrived (while we had made a reservation) and after calling 3 numbers someone answered and would come in 10-15 minutes. We had to wait in the rain, this was a bit disappointing. The common area was closed and they didn’t open it. Our second stay after the Quilotoa 3 day hike we asked them if they could open. They did, which was great because it’s warmer there and you can sit on a couch. The room is very cold: a (small) carpet on the ground would be very comfortable. Also in the shower. First day no warm water, second stay we took a shower before 5 pm and now it was warm.

At first glance this hostal seems like it's still being built. But inside it's nice, my room was very clean, modern and comfortable and the manager is a very nice, friendly man, although he doesn't speak a word of English (fortunately I can speak reasonable Spanish). The location is on a hill about 10 minutes uphill walk from the town centre but that's actually a good thing, for 2 reasons: 1. There are great views of the surrounding mountains and countryside from the rooftop, and 2. It's much quieter there than staying in the town. From what I could hear from the town below, it's full of barking dogs at night and from early on the Saturday morning there was some non-stop talking blaring out of a loudspeaker, which lasted all morning and could be heard all over town, though only faintly from this hostal. One tip: if you're coming by bus from Latacunga it goes right past the hostal. It's on the right-hand side of the main road just after it takes a hairpin bend and starts to descend the hill towards Zumbahua. When you see the sign just call out for the driver to stop and that will save you a 10 minute uphill walk. Also, there's a decent, cheap restaurant straight across the road in another hostal so you won't have to walk to the town to have dinner or breakfast.

When I first arrived at the hostal there was no staff there at all, only a workman renovating the place. He went to get someone and said the manager would be there in 5 minutes but I was waiting 40 minutes till a teenage schoolgirl daughter turned up and showed me to my room. The manager himself didn't show up until about 8pm. Also, it was very hard to regulate the temperature in the shower. It was either scaldingly hot or if I turned the cold tap on a touch more it went cold. Still, I survived it. Also, although I asked for the quietest room available I could still hear the traffic on the road outside and a few barking dogs at night. Thankfully, though, there was virtually no traffic after about 10pm and the few dogs I could hear were still a hell of a lot less than what's in the town.

The single room and the breakfast were fantastic. The family who runs it is great and does everything possible to help and offer suggestions, they even let you decide what time breakfast should be served. The town is very nice, it is an indigenous community that feels much more authentic than Quilotoa, where everything seems to cater to tourists. It is only 13km from the laguna and it's very easy to get there. The location on MAPS.ME is incorrect. The owners have already moved to have it changed but the problem hasn't been fixed yet.

Everything was great.