Decide to stay somewhere nice tonight - somewhere with windows! Somewhere no more than 4 hours drive away!! Map says that has to be Santo Domingo de los Colorados - fourth most populous City in Ecuador and 259 Km away.
Plenty of Hotels on booking.com - but are they quality? Decide not to book any of them - instead we'll cruise by a few - check their window sitch - and dive into the poshest of the lot!
Hotel Zaracay gets our vote - David's turn to front up at Recepcion and get the best deal on a Doble con Cama Matrimonial. Recepcionista quotes $125. David gets it for $75! And blags a Suite upgrade too!! (Veteran Candidate for The Apprentice 2018?) Lovely Tropical Gardens - Lovely Room(s) - Lovely Windows - Lovely 60" Flat Screen LG TV for Peaky Blinders Episode 2 - Lovely King Size bed (soz about the Lovely Socks!) - Lovely Dinner in the Hotel Restaurant - Lovely Christmas Fair just across the road - with local school choirs singing Lovely Christmas Carols. Lovely Crib Scene - life-size Joseph & Mary - life-size Wise Men - life size Cow & Donkey - life-size Gringos!!
Lovely Manny at the Hotel Bar mixes us the best Mojitos ever! (Manny's from Cuba - he's on Ecuador Breakfast TV every Friday demonstrating his mixology talents!!)
Were we truly wafted here from Paradise?
