travel42 Hotel Review: Casa Gangotena

Casa Gangotena travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

When this luxury boutique-hotel opened on Quito's large Plaza San Francisco, it had the travel media abuzz. Nothing of the sort had opened in town for quite some time, and certainly not within the UNESCO-protected Old Town. These days, it continues its reign as the go-to hotel for luxury seekers who prefer small properties to big chains, though now it has competition from nearby Hotel Plaza Grande and Illa Experience Hotel.

The spectacular neoclassic buil...