hotel

Were staying at Hostal Jhomana right in the heart of down town Quito ,Ecuador. We have the Cuadruple bedroom booked for the week. Staying at this hostel we were able to save some more money than if we stayed at a hotel or resort. We only had to pay 62 dollars per night a total of 434.00

The Hostel was an old style home, very colorful and bright with unique paintings all over the common “living” room. There were many bedrooms on the first floor but I could count them all. There were 4 bedrooms on the second floor and the kitchen. We got shown to our room by a older Swedish lady I think her name was Agneta. Our room was on the third floor and was closed off from the other Cuadruple bedroom on the floor. Our room was a bright orange color with the 2 bedrooms and a small sitting room with a couch and our own bathroom with running water 24/7. Each bedroom had 2 twin-size beds, the beds were pretty stiff you ask me, But they did the job. There really wasn’t much to our room. There was a small couch out side the bedroom that one of us had to sleep on. Mark and Alex slept in the bedroom to the right, Kristen and Marybeth slept in the bedroom to the right and I slept on the couch. Every room in the Hostel had Wi-Fi and the Kitchen had a microwave, fridge, stove/oven and a toaster. The kitchen is where breakfast was served in the mornings. Usually there were pancakes and mango syrup, but twice we had fruit salad with a wide variety of fruits. (pictures above is actual views from hostel)

The first night all of us were treated to a Home cooked Ecuadorian meal by Agneta and her Husband Raul. There were only 8 people at the hostel that night and they are used to a number between 20 and 35 people. Agneta made us Locro(a soup of potato with corn), The main course she made for use was called Seco De Chivo(a stew made from mutton), and for dessert she made us morocho de leche (basically rice pudding with cinnamon) I only ate my soup and pudding ,mutton wasn’t not my thing. The next day we walked to a near by market called majestic with the other people who were staying at the hostel. There was a couple from Wales whom were very nice, and a young lady around 21 from Brazil. We bought bread, peanut butter, jelly, and some fruits that were a lot better than the fruit I get at food Lion. We bought some Lomo(steak) and Pollo(chicken ) that we would cook for dinner 2 nights that week. We made sandwiches 3 nights .We had bought a lot of fruit at the market and had fruit to snack on through out the week. For our last meal in Ecuador we went out to eat with the couple from Wales, we figured since we were both just looking for a quick meal that we would go to KFC. The couple from Wales was not too impressed but it was a meal and we only had to walk 2 blocks for it.(picture below is a picture of the market we went to )

On our trip:

Bread 3$.

Mango jelly and strawberry jelly were 2 $

Peanut butter 2 $

Mangoes, Pineapples papayas and bananas were 10$

Steak and chicken for all of us was 20 $

Our KFC bucket was 10 $ and was well worth it.

Cuadruple bedroom and breakfast 434

Total 478.

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