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!

Four of us - two couples - stayed here for four nights as part of our GAP iStyle Quito tour. Although a bit noisy, the hotel is very clean, well located, with friendly, helpful staff, an adequate breakfast and a good dinner restaurant. We were extremely lucky to get a corner room on the 7th floor with huge windows, which overlooked the massive street parade on Dec 6th! How fortunate was that!