Best Hotels with Activities in Guayaquil

Guayaquil is Ecuador's largest city and its main port, spread along the wide Guayas River in the hot, humid lowlands rather than the cooler Andean towns most visitors picture. Families base themselves near the Malecon 2000 riverfront, where a two-kilometre boardwalk strings together playgrounds, a botanical garden and an IMAX cinema, or up in Urdesa, a leafy residential grid full of casual restaurants within stroller range of each other. Parque Seminario downtown, better known as Iguana Park, puts dozens of free-roaming iguanas a few steps from hotel doors, and the 444 coloured steps of Las Penas lead to the Santa Ana lighthouse for a short, manageable climb with kids. Most hotel districts sit within fifteen minutes of Jose Joaquin de Olmedo International Airport, so arrival day rarely eats into the trip.