Pros: generally helpful staff, nice breakfast in morning, free internet, $4 cab ride to old town or airport ... except in rush hour when it take 2-3x as long to get to either, clean no-frills room. Close to lots of night life and shopping

Cons: very noisy outside on weekend nights - traffic, shouting, police, sirens until well after midnight. Some nearby neighborhoods a bit sketchy after dark.

Culture shock: bellboy offered to direct me to nearby restaurants, discos and prostitutes. Categorize that under pros or cons according to your tastes and sensibilities.

The hotel scores on all fronts, the location is very nice, close to the city center and also to the international airport, thus reduces the extra travel.

The restaurant in the hotel is very nice with good food and again if it is not to anybody's taste then there are a host of restaurants very close to the hotel.

Rooms are pretty decent as well. Overall it was good fun staying at the hotel.

I was at the Rio Amazonas for multiple one-night stays in Dec/Jan. The staff is very courteous and the hotel is spotless. The location is right on the edge of "gringoland", which makes it a bit noisy with the clubs/bars nearby, particularly on Saturday nights. The rooms are being upgraded, so some have nice new hardwood floors and better minibars. All have comfortable beds and good linens. Hopefully they'll fix the water pressure in the showers as well (this was hit or miss).

I stayed here on a Gap Adventure going to the Galapagos Islands. It was the perfect location, close to a lot of nightlife. Contrary to other peoples reviews, I did not find it noisy and I was on the 1st floor - so no big deal really.

I even caught free internet on the 1st floor on my laptop. Score!
Wonder what it is like to be on a Galapagos Gap Adventure?

When I was in the Galapagos, I took a lot of video footage - so recently I put together a video that you can all watch on youtube.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVFIo4wNFGI

Check it out!