This quiet guesthouse, 3km southwest of downtown, offers rooms in a private house or in two cabins in the owner's garden. There are good walks in the area, and rates include breakfast, kitchen privileges and the use of a sauna and whirlpool. Dinners are made with organic products… Full Lonely Planet Review ›

As popular for its restaurant/bar as for its rooms, El Cafecito is a favorite for the travelin' social crowd and local hipsters alike. Modest, comfortable rooms have clean white walls and open onto a garden out back, and things get lively every night. Full Lonely Planet Review ›

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A good hotel option. Full Lonely Planet Review ›

Blue carpeted rooms detract a bit from the 'colonial' atmosphere, but this longtime hotel with cozy rooms and crooked interior balconies is good value nonetheless. Full Lonely Planet Review ›

On the 6th floor of a building across from Plaza San Francisco, this unique hotel boasts fabulous views from the communal kitchen and eating area. You have to climb six floors when the elevator isn't working (which is often). Full Lonely Planet Review ›

In a beautifully refurbished colonial building, La Orquídea has comfortable, immaculate rooms with handsome hardwood floors, gold detailing, eclectic paintings and (more importantly) cable TV and telephone. One apartment sleeps five. Full Lonely Planet Review ›

Supposedly Cuenca's first hotel, Paredes is a wacky, friendly place in an early 20th-century building. Dali-esque paintings adorn the walls, plants fill the balconied lobby and a few caged parakeets complement the quirkiness. Beds are saggy but it's a great deal. Full Lonely Planet Review ›

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This handsome hotel occupies a splendidly refurbished, century-old, three-story building and has 30 immaculate, carpeted rooms with mini-bar and cable TV. They open onto balconies over an open interior, and some still have their original pressed-tin ceilings. Full Lonely Planet Review ›

In a lovely, century-old building overlooking Río Tomebamba, Hotel Crespo is a traditional top-end hotel with suited bellhops and spacious rooms with high, molded ceilings, wood-paneled walls and classical furnishings. Full Lonely Planet Review ›

The Inca Real is a charmingly renovated hotel with a classical feel and a bright interior courtyard. Rooms are carpeted and the bedspreads are a bit over-flowery, but you can distract yourself from that fact with cable TV. Rates include breakfast, and there's a beautiful new tapa… Full Lonely Planet Review ›

The eternally reliable Milan offers good, comfortable rooms with firm beds and consistent hot water. It 'broadcasts' movies into rooms each night at 21:00. Some rooms have balconies with good views, and there's a pool table and a 4th-floor café serving breakfast (included). Full Lonely Planet Review ›

Of the cheap hotels around the Plaza Rotary market, this is the best. Full Lonely Planet Review ›

Mammoth by Cuenca standards, this impersonal 60-room hotel is a fair value and popular with backpackers and Ecuadorians alike. The rooms are clean but the shared bathrooms are pretty shabby. Full Lonely Planet Review ›

Plush burgundy fabrics hang from the walls, and giant heavy curtains adorn the doorways of this magnificently remodeled building dating from 1859. With a Spanish-style interior courtyard, detailed woodwork, chandeliers, Oriental rugs and a relentless attention to details, Hotel S… Full Lonely Planet Review ›

In a unique location across from the lively Plaza San Francisco, this is a stunning new B&B in a refurbished century-old home. All but one of the seven rooms have giant windows, and all are superbly comfortable. Faux-painted walls, blonde wood floors and flowing curtains add to t… Full Lonely Planet Review ›

Mansión Alcazar occupies a century-old building and has a beautiful garden out back. Inside, below interior balconies, a water fountain spills over with freshly picked sunflowers. There's a 'champagne lounge' bedecked with period furniture, a library and a TV room, all perfect fo… Full Lonely Planet Review ›

Verde Limón 'Green Lime' refers to the neon-green walls that make this little hostel almost blindingly vibrant. The wood floors creak, the back balcony's crooked and the common room in front makes a perfect lounge. Private rooms are quite nice, though the kitchen could use some s… Full Lonely Planet Review ›