We don’t have any photos of Montanita…. maybe thats says enough. While it has rave reviews it definitely wasn’t somewhere we were enamoured with to say the least, it had a beach and a tiny bit of surf, not enough for Dom to go out for a grovel but it did have a cocktail alley that we hit up instead. Needless to say we woke up the next day (travel day) with sore heads and cotton mouths. Pulled up to catch our bus and we were told that there were no buses going that day due to riots in the next town over no water.
We had booked a decent airport hotel that night and in our state the thought of not being able to get there absolutely killed us! Instead we were stuck on the side of the road with (luckily?) a hippie german chick with bad handmade bracelets, good Spanish and a cute puppy that also had to get to where we were going.
Some other gringos weren’t so lucky and footed the bill for a $100 USD taxi to get through the mayhem. Thirty minutes later the riots ended and the bus rolled up and we were out of there onto our epic hotel with clean sheets, air con and room service!
Speaking of room service…..when we got there it was obvious that Guyaquil was an absolute shizenhole and we were not in any shape to leave the hotel so we decided to order room service. I happened to notice on the very back in tiny writing it said that if your food wasn’t there in there in thirty minutes it was free. I jokingly showed this Dom and that was it…. $60 USD (almost our daily budget) order of food and the timer was on.
When that poor man came in to the room 45 minutes later with the mountain of food and the cheque for Dom to sign he was left disheartened ( I was hiding under the covers) as Dom promptly pointed to the fine print….. Sad for the hotel- but a win for the backpackers!!!