Quito Hotel Location
Robles 513 y Reina Victoria
Quito - Ecuador
The hotel is located in the Mariscal and close to the Parque Ejido. It takes about 20 minutes from the airport to the hotel and about 15 minutes to get to the historical center.
Rooms
Café Cultura is a European style hotel with 26 individually designed rooms.Each room features a private bathroom and has been individually decorated in keeping with the style of the house; some have fireplaces, one a sunken bath and one special suite has an exceptional bathroom with an antique bathtub. All rooms have telephone for national and international calls.
Ground Floor:
These rooms are towards the back of the hotel, behind reception. Possibly the most original of all the rooms are found here, with delicate paintings and decoration.
Third Floor:
The floor with the biggest story to tell. The roof of Cafe Cultura was severely damaged a few years ago by a freak hailstorm. The roof was completely reconstructed and rooms 18 to 24 were built here.
Garden:
There are two rooms to be found in the front part of the garden to the right hand side of the hotel. These rooms are tremendously original. They feature a private wooden decked area in front of them, making them at-once part and yet separate from the garden.
TYPE OF ROOMS
Honeymoon Suite:
The Honeymoon Suite is the most sumptuous of Café Cultura’s rooms and the most popular for honeymooners. Also known as our special suite, it boasts a number of facilities including a king sized bed, a working fireplace and its own balcony - a conservatory converted into a dream-like bathroom with an antique tub, classic yet informal. It is a bright and airy room, painted in tasteful rustic shades of red terracotta. The murals of cherubs adorning the walls were painted by the artist Manuel Araya. Iron, wood and glass objets, all produced by Quiteñan artisans, complete the decoration.
Double Suite:
This suite has been charmingly decorated in the style of a Tuscan garden by the artist Ernesto Galarza. It is divided into a spectacular private entrance hall, a large and exceptionally beautiful bathroom, spacious sleeping quarters and a glass and wood balcony conservatory overlooking the garden. The bathroom is very bright. Tropical forests cover the walls in an aquamarine blue, while a magnolia tree in full blossom shows its blooms through the window. The room itself is painted with themes of dried corn and palms, with a suggestion of arches, cupids and mystery peeking through. The atmosphere is light, complimented with elements of wood, iron and glass. This was one of the original rooms in the house. Intiguingly, there used to be a secret hiding place in the space now occupied by the closet. It offers an enviable view of the garden and street in front of Café Cultura. This room has a double bed as well as a single, and thus is suitable for a small family.
Suite:
Within the 38 meters square, 2 extremely comfortable and cosy queen size beds and a sitting area are displayed surrounded by murals evocating the interiors of a Maharaja Palace. The bathroom boasts an antique bath tub and a state of the art vertical Jacuzzi shower. Three arched windows over look the garden allowing the interaction with Mother Nature.
Triple Room:
This triple room, giving on to the front garden, boasts three single beds. Running horses racing across both the walls and ceiling in light greens and golds give this room its pre-historic feel. The bathroom embraces you in an ocean of mermaids and seahorses, while the deft touches of wood, glass and ceramics complete the room perfectly.
Attic Suite:
This big, spacious loft-type suite is unique in many ways. It features a double and a single bed allowing a party of three or a small family to stay comfortably here. Under its high windows and wooden beams, it includes a desk area and its own private sitting room. In the art nouveau bathroom, blues and greens, with small flower and leaf details, wash over the walls, dried rose petals scattered all around the antique bathtub - the perfect place to soak, and float away under the eaves to the colonial days of the Land of Cinnamon.
Junior Suite:
One of the favorite rooms amongst the guests. The room is Italian in style, with a scene in yellow with trees and columns on the walls, surrounded by beautiful birds. The suite features a double bed and a luxurious sunken bath in the large and spacious bathroom. A small seating area was recently added to the room, perfect for a cosy comfortable read or chat.
Family Suite:
Perfect for a party of four or family, this family suite features two rooms with a dividing wall between the two, single beds in one part and a double in the other. Decorated in orange-beige with a fruit theme, it features handsome painted trees, and colorful plants, fruit and birds, ornamented with dried flowers hung from the walls. At the entrance to the suite, our Nispero tree and conservatory provide a lovely shaded and secluded spot with its own furniture.
Services
Café Bistro:
Ever since its opening, the unparalleled bistro-style cuisine at Café Cultura has become legendary among local trendies and foreigners alike. The flavours of freshly baked breads, home-made jams, pastries and more never fail to delight the palette of our clientele, whose sense of taste and style motivates our staff to create masterpieces daily.
Library:
The wood-panelled library is replete with guidebooks, newspapers and magazines. The resulting warm, cosy atmosphere is redolent of colonial life. Here you can relax in the comfortble leather armchairs, glass of wine in hand, basking in the warmth of the crackling wood fire.
Parking:
Guests with cars are welcome to use the free parking facility.
Cultura desk:
At our tour desk, we are able to help you with restaurant recommendations, museums, theatres and art galleries, or any other queries or bookings.
Internet access
The library is equipped with two computers connected to broadband. If you would like to use the internet, please contact the reception where you will be given a password to access the computers.
Phone:
Each room is equipped with a telephone where both national and international calls can be made.
Safe box:
Your valuables can be kept safely in our facilities.
Gifts shop:
The gift shop at reception offers a range of gifts and souvenirs to buy, ranging from postcards to our specialised, individually designed plates and glasses.
Laundry:
We can have your laundry dry cleaned or washed if you like, please fill out the laundry form available in your room and contact the reception desk.
Therapeutic service:
If you would like to be further pampered during your stay at Café Cultura, we highly recommend you spend an hour with our masseuse.
