Hostal Plantas y Blanco

Location:
12 de Noviembre y Luis A Martinez
Baños, Ecuador

Hotel

V!VA User‘s Description

Hostal Plantas y Blanco, or Plants and White Hostel, has a relaxed, backpacker atmosphere. The highlight is the rooftop breakfast lounge, which serves breakfast from 07:30 - 11:30 and the rest of the day functions as a community kitchen and lounge with a CD player, magazines and games.

The rooms are simple and priced according to size and views. The rooms with private baths are $6.50 or $7.50 per person. You can pay an extra dollar if you want one of the seven rooms with a view. In rooms with a private bath, the shower is not separated from the rest of the bathroom, so don't wear socks any time after showering!

The only oddity about this hostel is the Ecuadorian management's strange and discriminatory policy towards potential Ecuadorian clients. As a way of supposedly protecting foreign travelers from theft, they refuse service to all Ecuadorians. In addition, if you want to bring an Ecuadorian over to the hostel, you are held responsible for his/her behavior. This negative attitude towards the management's fellow citizens seems at best, unusual and at worst, blatant discrimination that in the end only isolates tourists from one of the most important aspects of traveling to another country, the native people.

Room Prices:
Lower:$4.50
Higher:$7.50

Contact Information:
Phone: 593-3-2740044
E-mail: option3(at)remove-this.hotmail.com

Traveler Reviews of Hostal Plantas y Blanco

LOVED Plantas y Blanco

Rating: 100%

We came back several times to stay there. It was right in the heart of Banos, the volcano adventure town, it was incredibly cheap, very clean, GREAT roof top restaraunt, an open fridge full of water/soda/beer, etc that operates on the honor-system of "write down and pay later" whatever you take. Use it like a hostel-wash your dirty nalgenes, or use it like a resort- schedule a Turkish bath steam water treatment for three dollars! The internet works and there are two computers for free to email, etc.

By V!VA User from Chicago, May 22, 2006

This makes me sick!!!!

Rating: 0%

I can't belive that in an Ecuadorian hostal an Ecuadorian can't enter because he is Ecuadorian. There are bad people in every part of the world. Ecuadorians don't ROB. If someone has morals, he won't go to that hostal ever. THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THIS HOSTAL MAKE ME SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By V!VA User from Quito, Ecuador, Feb 23, 2006

I like it! ...

Rating: 0%

I like it!

By V!VA User from Liverpool, UK, Jan 20, 2005