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Reviews of El Paraiso de Isabela

3 out of 5
El Paraiso de Isabela
Scalesia y Cormoran, Puerto Villamil, Galapagos

Reviews

7.8

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 13 out of 41 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 15 out of 41 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 8 out of 41 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 2 out of 41 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 3 out of 41 reviews" "

8.2/10

Cleanliness

8.0/10

Staff & service

8.4/10

Amenities

7.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Roberto, Longueuil

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Clean, large room, close to restaurants and travel agencies
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Jessica

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It was a nice place and the staff was helpful

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Amenities
Property closed during covid - so we were told the day of our reservation
Stayed 4 nights in May 2021

10/10 Excellent

Olchik, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Friendly staff and accommodating. Amazing Hotel for the price you pay. Would definitely stay here again :)
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We had a great stay and I would recommend this place to anyone. The only worry I had was a very slippery bathroom floor and a bath mat would have helped.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020

8/10 Good

Josh

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
El paraiso for three nights
stayed at El Paraiso for 3N/4D it was in a great location, with a nice breakfast included on the terrace, the room was large and good for bare bones expectations + had a great A/C.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020

6/10 Okay

Amy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
A Good Deal
Worth the price! They let us stay a few extra hours so we really appreciated that. A/C worked well. Free breakfast was nice.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Two night stay
This hotel was perfect. Not sure how you could give it a negative review. Super friendly service by staff. A short walk to the coast and main restaurant area. An awesome price for a hotel compared to the others around! Even packed us breakfast for when we had to leave so early for our ferry out. Thanks for an awesome stay!
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The room was barely passable but adequately clean; very rude, inattentive staff; terrible breakfast -- got food poisoning; obvious discrimination against non-Spanish speakers -- smaller breakfast portions, no replacement of linens/towels/toiletries; continuously running out of drinking water; would never stay there again. Actually, Isabella island is not really worth the money/effort/trouble to visit in the first place -- officials demand USD20 from each pax upon disembarking from cramped, dangerous boats; most of the Galapagos is now geared toward the 1% super-rich -- if you are not one of them and don't want to be abused at every turn, you better stay away and, instead, visit places that still respect budget travelers and backpackers!!
Stayed 3 nights in May 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice hotel with large rooms in Isabela. Staff was friendly and breakfast is included good. It's really good what you get for the price. They have free drinking water as-well and a store where you get everythibg you need is on the first floor of the hotel.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2019

10/10 Excellent

Lily

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Such a nice stay at Paraiso de Isabela! The rooms are spacious and comfortable, with a mini fridge and a small porch. Very clean, free filtered water available, and good breakfast on a nice third floor porch! Location is great, lots of stuff walking distance and there’s a mini market attached to the hotel which is super convenient. The owners are so kind, they even drove us to the port for a 5:30 AM ferry. My only complaint is it can be a little noisy. Still definitely recommend!
Stayed 5 nights in May 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Decent hotel
The hotel had overbooked their rooms which I had previously read in a review that it happened before. Fortunately, they were able to accommodate us anyway but in another hotel for 1 night. It was just up the road, bit annoying but the other hotel was actually pretty nice. Other than that, it was a pleasant stay for the price. Breakfast was actually pretty good. Juice, bread and eggs. The room we were eventually given was spacious but the Aircon didn't really work and it was hot, it was also in a stupid place in the room. Free water though on each floor. WiFi sucked.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2019

8/10 Good

Gurya, Corpus Christi

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Check in and check out was quick. They had a AC in the room.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Close to the center, clean, very lovely staff, big rooms, nice restaurants very close, walkable
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness
The room was very clean but came with no blankets only one sheet on bed and the tv doesn’t work. When we asked about it he said no they don’t work even though they advertise TVs. The price of the room went up during the process of booking it!!!
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The people were so sweet and helpful. My friend and I missed breakfast and so they let us pick some things from the store, free of charge. Also, on the day that we checked out we had to be at the ferry at 530 am and the hotel owner took us there himself, also free of charge and provided us with a breakfast to go. Wonderful facilities, very clean and amazing staff! Also, nice hot showers and purified water! Yay!
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

4/10 Poor

Alyssa, Kent, OH

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hotel was okay, cable didn't work, the a/c didn't work, the room was a little dirty but not disgusting. Big cracks in doors where heat comes in room. Good location. I recommend.
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2018

8/10 Good

Pat, Atlanta, US

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Everything, except WiFi, is good: location, service, cleanliness, hot water.
Stayed 7 nights in Sep 2018

6/10 Okay

bart, USA

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Too expensive for a hotel with no facility at all .. Not much option for dining in surrounding area
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
taking minimalist to the extreme. One woman show & she had no understanding of English . included breakfast was a joke
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in May 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hotel room was very nice and clean, However there was no TV service. One night around 1:00 AM somebody was knocking on the each room door. That was a scary. Next morning mentioned it to night duty person. However he said the he did not hear anything, even though the banging on door was very loud..I assumed either he was not there or was fast a sleep.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2018

8/10 Good

sue, new jersey

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Close to everything
Nice hotel. Friendly staff. Good breakfast. Plain amenities, but ok for the price.
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good location, away from noise. Clean hotel, comfortable and good value for your money. They also have a tour agency and easily arranged tours at very good prices. Spoke good English - which is hard to find and hire bikes too. We were very happy with the hotel

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Hotel decent for the price, although accepts only cash

2/10 Terrible

Robert, Canada

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Do not trust! Did not honour reservation!
Booked and pre-paid reservation. Hotel said it was full and pointed us down the street. No help. No appologies. Just left us standing on the curb.

4/10 Poor

Jan

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
No tv despite listing one. Bedding and towels paper thin, no door curtains and useless window curtains, no hangers or hooks, shower dirty and outer double glazed door had a huge gap.
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Mooie schone kamer en badkamer. Fijn om een airco te hebben. Er staat ook advertenties over een tv, maar op het moment dat wij waren, was er geen signaal.. nu komen we niet voor de tv natuurlijk, maar toch.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Jorge, Ourense

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Todo muy bien. Destacar la amabilidad del personal y el desayuno incluido en la terraza
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2019

6/10 Okay

YUKO

Liked: Property conditions & facilities
田舎ののんびりしたホステル。
部屋はホテル情報より広かったが、ベッドの上掛けがペラペラのシーツ1枚だけにビックリ！ ホテルフロントに誰もいないことが多いが、隣(同じ建物)で経営しているスーパーのレジに言えば、対応してくれる。部屋のトイレットペーパーが無くなった時は、商品をくれた(笑) 屋上でいただく朝食は、気持ち良かった。コーヒーにミルクをお願いすると、ホットミルクとインスタントコーヒーの瓶が来たのには驚いた。 近くにレンタサイクルの店があるので利用した。 英語はあまり通用しない。 wifはフロント近くでないと繋がらない。
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2019

2/10 Terrible

Maria

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Cochambroso
Lamentable habitación y recibimiento,no wifi aunque lo anuncian ni tv,no cortinas en habitacion
Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

TEREZINHA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excelente custoxbenefício. Nota 10;
O hotel é maravilhoso, tudo novinho e impecável, quarto grande e bem arejado com sacada, bom ar condicionado, bom café da manhã, tem frigobar, água a disposição em uma bombona nos andares fria e quente, tem um mercadinho no térreo, a localização tbm é muito boa, muito atenciosos. O dono do hotel nos levou de madrugada para o porto, muito amável e gentil.
Stayed 4 nights in May 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We were totally happy with this hotel, AC was essential and working nicely. There is a little shop in the same building which is very convenient. One suggestion for the future: Please, hotel managers, extend breakfast times! These are currently 7-8 am, only, which is too late when going on a tour, which usually start around 6 am, and too early on holiday mornings without a tour ;-)
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Tv do not work. Very good breakfast. Near to a shop where we rented bikes. Good restaurants around. Some noise in the morning due to some restauration work. For the price we paid was ok.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Kathy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Muy buen hotel!
Este hotel esta bien ubicado cerca al centro. Las habitaciones son amplias y limpias y el servicio de limpieza es fenomenal. Volveria sin duda!
Stayed 5 nights in Dec 2017

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

normal
El lugar estuvo bien, amplio, limpio, cómodo, cerca del centro, un poco desorganizado ya que al llegar no sabian de nuestra llegada ni reserva eso solamente por lo demás bien.

8/10 Good

Po yue, 香港

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
接待人員非常有禮，樂於助人
給人意外驚喜的整潔