Best Hotels with Activities in Quito

Quito sits nearly 2,850 metres up in the Ecuadorian Andes, its colonial centre a UNESCO World Heritage site of church spires and cobbled plazas that families reach on foot, and its newer Mariscal and Gonzalez Suarez districts full of glass towers, embassies and family-suite hotels. The equator location keeps daylight close to twelve hours year-round, but the altitude means afternoons cool fast even when mornings start warm, and short walks feel harder than they do at sea level, something worth planning around with young kids. Family hotels here cluster around two very different bases: the historic centre near La Ronda and Santo Domingo Square, or the northern Mariscal and La Carolina Park area near shopping malls and the TelefériQo cable car up Cruz Loma.