Hotel Catedral Internacional

3.0 star property
3-star Colonial hotel in Quito Historic Center

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Terrace/patio
Fountain
Reception hall
Lobby sitting area
Front of property

Reviews

7.4 out of 10

Good

Popular amenities

  • Bar
    Bar
  • Breakfast available
    Breakfast available
  • 24/7 front desk
    24/7 front desk
  • Air conditioning
    Air conditioning
  • Laundry
    Laundry
  • Housekeeping
    Housekeeping

Explore the area

Map
José Mejia 6-34 y Benalcazar, Quito, Pichincha, EC170130
  • Independence Square
    3 min walk
  • Plaza de San Francisco
    4 min walk
  • Catedral Metropolitana de Quito
    5 min walk
  • Quito (UIO-Mariscal Sucre Intl.)
    67 min drive

Room options

Double Room

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed OR 2 Twin Beds

Single Room

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

Triple Room

  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed and 1 Twin Bed OR 3 Twin Beds

Quadruple Room

  • Sleeps 4
  • 4 Twin Beds OR 3 Twin Beds and 1 Twin Murphy Bed

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About the neighborhood

Quito

Quito Historic Center stay.A stay at this Quito Historic Center hotel places you steps from La Merced Church and within a 5-minute walk of Independence Square. Palacio del Gobierno and Carondelet Palace are also within half a mile (1 km).

What's nearby

  • Independence Square - 3 min walk - 0.2 miles
  • Plaza de San Francisco - 4 min walk - 0.3 miles
  • Catedral Metropolitana de Quito - 5 min walk - 0.3 miles
  • St. Francis Catholic Church - 5 min walk - 0.3 miles
  • Basilica of the National Vow - 15 min walk - 0.8 miles

Getting around

  • San Francisco Station - 5 min walk
  • Iñaquito Station - 8 min drive
  • Mariscal Sucre Intl. Airport (UIO) - 67 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Hasta la vuelta Señor - ‬4 min walk
  • ‪Vista hermosa - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪Bistro Carlota - ‬1 min walk
  • ‪Portal De Benalcazar - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪Lavid - ‬4 min walk

About this property

Hotel Catedral Internacional

3-star Colonial hotel in Quito Historic Center
There's a restaurant on site, as well as a coffee shop/cafe. You can enjoy a drink at the bar/lounge. Public spaces have free WiFi. An airport shuttle (available 24 hours) and an area shuttle are available for a fee. A library, multilingual staff, and gift shops/newsstands are also featured at Hotel Catedral Internacional.

This Colonial Quito hotel is smoke free.

  • 1 building
  • 15 guestrooms or units
  • 2 levels
  • Breakfast available (surcharge)
  • Coffee in lobby
  • Self-service laundry
  • Front desk (24 hours)
  • Staff is multilingual
  • Storage area for luggage
  • Front-desk safe
  • Tour and ticket information
  • Library
  • Gift shop
  • Newspapers in lobby (free)
  • No smoking on site
  • Bar or lounge
  • Dining venue
Hotel Catedral Internacional offers 15 air-conditioned accommodations with safes and complimentary bottled water. Plasma televisions come with satellite channels.

Bathrooms include showers and complimentary toiletries. Business-friendly amenities include phones along with free local calls (restrictions may apply). Irons/ironing boards and hair dryers can be requested. Housekeeping is provided daily.

Languages

English, Spanish

Property amenities

Family friendly

  • Laundry facilities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • No onsite parking available
  • 24-hour roundtrip airport shuttle (surcharge)
  • Area shuttle (surcharge)

Food and drink

  • Daily continental breakfast available 7:30 AM to 10:00 AM for a fee: USD 2.50 for adults and USD 2 for children
  • A bar/lounge
  • A coffee shop/cafe
  • A restaurant
  • Coffee and tea in common areas

Things to do

  • Library

Accessibility

  • No elevator

Room amenities

Entertainment

  • Plasma TV with cable/satellite channels

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Hair dryer (on request)
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower
  • Towels provided

Food and drink

  • Free bottled water

More

  • Air conditioning
  • Free local calls
  • Iron/ironing board on request
  • Phone
  • Safe

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 12:30 PM; Check-in end time: 5:30 AM

Check-out

Check-out before noon

Special check-in instructions

The property charges 8 percent for credit card payments
Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

  • No pets allowed

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.
  • Kids stay free! One child 6 years old or younger stays free when using existing bedding.
  • Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
  • Cribs (infant beds) are not available.

Property payment types

Important information

Fees

Guests will be asked to pay the following charges at the property:

  • Ecuador value-added tax (15%). Nonresident travelers who present a valid passport and tourist visa may be eligible for a tax refund. However, nonresident travelers may be exempt from value-added tax (15%) on package bookings.

We've listed all charges provided to us by the property.

Optional extras

The fees and deposits listed below will be charged at the time of service, check-in, or check-out.

  • Fee for continental breakfast: approximately USD 2.50 for adults and USD 2 for children
  • Airport shuttle fee: USD 30 per vehicle (roundtrip)
  • Credit card charges are subject to a surcharge of 8 percent

This may not be a comprehensive list. Fees and deposits are subject to change and might not include tax.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts major credit cards and cash
Noise-free guestrooms cannot be guaranteed
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher, a security system, and a first aid kit
Charges for extra guests may apply and vary according to property policy.
A cash deposit, credit card, or debit card for incidental charges and government-issued photo identification may be required upon check-in.
Special requests are subject to availability at the time of check-in. Special requests can't be guaranteed and may incur additional charges.
    This property is managed by a professional host. The provision of housing is linked to their trade, business, or profession. No onsite parking is available. This property accepts major credit cards, Visa, Mastercard, Diners Club, and cash. Noise-free guestrooms cannot be guaranteed. For guests' safety, the property includes a carbon monoxide detector, a fire extinguisher, a smoke detector, a security system, and a first aid kit in each accommodation.

We should mention

  • One child 6 years old or younger stays free in the same room as the parent or guardian when using existing bedding.

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Frequently asked questions

How close is Hotel Catedral Internacional to the airport?

Hotel Catedral Internacional is 25.8 mi (67-min drive) away from the Mariscal Sucre Intl. Airport (UIO) airport, the closest popular airport to the property.

Does Hotel Catedral Internacional have an airport shuttle?

Hotel Catedral Internacional offers an airport shuttle 24 hours a day, for a charge of USD 30 per vehicle, roundtrip.

Does Hotel Catedral Internacional offer free breakfast?

Free breakfast isn’t provided at Hotel Catedral Internacional, but continental breakfast is offered for a fee of USD 2.50 for adults and USD 2 for children. It's available every day from 7:30 AM to 10:00 AM.

Is there a casino at Hotel Catedral Internacional?

No, there is no casino at this hotel.

What time is check-in at Hotel Catedral Internacional?

Check-in start time: 12:30 PM; Check-in end time: 5:30 AM.

Is there free parking at Hotel Catedral Internacional?

Free parking is not available at this hotel.

Does Hotel Catedral Internacional have a pool?

Hotel Catedral Internacional does not have a pool.

Does Hotel Catedral Internacional have a restaurant?

Yes, there is a restaurant on site.

Does Hotel Catedral Internacional have a spa?

There are no spa services available at this hotel.

How close is Hotel Catedral Internacional to downtown Quito?

Hotel Catedral Internacional is 0.2 mi away from Quito.

Hotel Catedral Internacional Reviews

Reviews

7.4

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 10 out of 57 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 25 out of 57 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 15 out of 57 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 6 out of 57 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 57 reviews" "

7.6/10

Cleanliness

7.6/10

Staff & service

6.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2019

2/10 Terrible

Ana

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nightmare
This has been the worst hotel, if you can call hotel, I've stayed at. First of all the photos displayed are not real. The smell that comes from the bathroom pipes are so strong that the entire rooms smells like feces. There is hot water. This is our second day here and we noticed we are the only ones staying at the hotel, the rest of the rooms are empty. The food is horrible. We couldn't even drink the coffee. Over I will never come back here
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2018

10/10 Excellent

Hector, Houston

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
I have a problem, but Paola changed everything with her service
Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2018

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location but toilet needs improvement
Great location if you want to be in the dead center of the old town..walking distance to the Grand Plaza where you pick up the "Quito City Tour Hop-On bus." Close to restaurants and tourist shops. Sreets are steep either uphill or downhill. Taxis are cheap and easy to find right in front of the hotel. Toilet does not have shower heads and proper toilet amenities. Shower floods the toillet floor in our room. They have rooms for families with 4 beds. If you want to experience an old Ecuador mansion and how people live during the old Spanish rule, this is the hotel for you, No elevators and bedrooms are on the 2nd floor of a courtyard style hotel. Breakfast very basic. Scrambled eggs, ham and cheese. Coffee also very basic. Staff are very helpful and do everything they can.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2017

6/10 Okay

Ranita

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Historic hotel
This colonial hotel is only 2 blocks from Grand Plaza--lots happening and great local shopping and churches.

6/10 Okay

Doug, Canada

Disliked: Room comfort
Good location, but noisy!
I was one of very few guests, and yet I was still given a road side room. It was incredibly noisy on the Saturday night, and would not recommend this hotel if those rooms were your only option. Even when the street noise finally dies down, you can still here the constant "chirp chirp" from the crossing lights at the street corner. Outside of the noise, this hotel was fine, and what would be expected in this price range. Its location was great for getting to the old district and the Square. Just avoid the streetside rooms!!

4/10 Poor

PA traveler, Lords Valley, PA

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
No! No! No!
Aside from a perfect location this hotel was a huge disappointment in every way. From them trying to charge us more than double what was listed by Expedia on our booking, to the old stuff in the room and lobby, to the shower leaking under the tiles all over bathroom floor. Only stayed one night. Couldn't wait to get out of there.

6/10 Okay

S, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent location
Good old-fashioned budget hotel in historic district, good sized en suite rooms, free computer use. Hot water in mornings only. Very noisy in front rooms all night due to location. Take earplugs.

8/10 Good

Robert, Gulf Breeze, FL

Liked: Room comfort
Convenient to historical area
Hotel Catedral is located very close to the Plaza Independencia and convenient to all the sites in Centro Historico Quito. The hotel was secure and the free breakfast was substantial if not too creative. The staff was helpful and the water very hot! Rooms on street sign have noise from below; try to get one in the back toward courtyard. It was not a five star resort but for the price very nice. Our only problem was they wanted $60 per night whereas the Hotel.com rate we had been given (and printed out) was $34. We got into a little bit of a disagreement over this but eventually they accepted our confirmed rate. I would recommend it for budget travelers who want to be within walking distance of many churches, museums, etc.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service

8/10 Good

RENE

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service

10/10 Excellent

Torben ., Mexico .

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent for the price .
Excellent service , extremely helpful the people . breakfast not very interesting , but as with everything , for the price perfect . and a lovely hotel , vith lots of personality , and perfect location . very enjoyable .

8/10 Good

Brits in South America, Ecuador

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Great Location
Very close to historic center. Very pleasant and helpful staff. Tired decoration. One of the beds was on a slope.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Great location, comfortable, but poorly maintained
Very good location in the Historic District. Comfortable room, but things like the door handles and ceiling fixtures were loose. Would still recommend it for the reasonable price.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Stay
The stay was pleasant, the front office was good, a confusion if hotels.com has charged the card or if i have to pay the at the hotel. However, the front office was very co-operative. Good in condition and ambiance. not comparable with luxury hotel, but a value for money

4/10 Poor

Sarah, New York, NY

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Not good, especially for the price
Stayed here on two legs of the same trip. Would have canceled the second stay if I could have booked an alternative on short notice. 1. Rooms are filthy. I could get over a general level of dirt and grime, but I can't get over dirty bedding, which appeared to have never been laundered. 2. Shockingly poor state of repair for a supposedly "recently renovated" hotel. In addition to holes in walls, crumbling grout, etc., on our first stay, the bathroom sink was broken, draining directly onto the bathroom floor, which leads to: 3. Totally indifferent staff. When we approached them with the bathroom problem, they refused to put us in a new room/fix the sink/adjust the bill, or make any accommodation whatsoever. Wow, hospitality! This is just one example of several I'd detail if I had the space. 4. Attempted to make us pay for the room in the middle of our stay so we wouldn't annoy them with our early checkout time -- a "broken" credit card machine was the only thing stopping that. Oh yes, and we wound up having to pay cash anyway because, in the intervening 12 hours between the "you pay now" incident and our actual checkout, they hadn't bothered to try fixing the credit card machine. I've stayed in 1 and 2-star budget hotels all over the world, so I don't think I'm making an unfair comparison when I say this is one is bad. For $60/night, I certainly expect much better. This stay was worth . . . maybe $25.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Basic room, but considering the price, was what I expected. Clean, lots of hot water, a bit noisy but most older buildings are like that. Excellent location for a visit to the old town.

8/10 Good

JMF, Ohio, USA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great Option in the Historic Center
Overall, very good experience.

6/10 Okay

LS17, Vancouver, Canada

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great location but very old, smelly hotel
The hotel was under construction while we were there but without any concern to the fact that people were still staying there. It also had a very bad odour in be back corner where we were staying. The room itself was alright, fairly clean with a nice big shower. However we just looked out over the roof. We were going to stay 2 nights but were told on our second day that he did not have our reservation for the 2nd night and there was nothing he could do because it was full. Turned out to be a good thing, we stayed at hotel eugenia instead in the la mariscal district which was 10 times nicer and $5 cheaper.

8/10 Good

Rosemary, Port Alberni, BC, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Central Location
So close to Plaza Grande, where you can get the tourist double decker bus to all good tourist sites.We slept on the street side and were entertained by policeman whistles, folks coming and going to the giant mercado at the end of the block and vendors selling fruit and vegetables.The breakfast is not American standard, but does have scrambled egg, two white bread with either a thin slice of deli ham or a slice of cheese.I was slow on the draw to figure out the coffee, I will let that be a surprise for you. Great wifi.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Only one complaint
The smell of urine coming from the toilet near the stairwell was very bad and found its way upstairs and down the hall. The door was locked during our visit so it seemed that the clerk knew there was a problem. He recommended using the toilet in the hotel's restaurant. Foreigners find this very offensive. The smell of urine was also common on the streets in the historic center, and we saw men urinating in the streets even though public toilets were nearby. While the carpeted rooms were very quiet, the carpeting needs to be vacuumed by a powerful machine to help control dust and dirt.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice Hotel near Plaza Grande
The hotel is quite comfortable and the staff particularly helpful. We spent 3 days here at start of our Ecuador visit, and a final night at the end: we would definitely stay here again.

10/10 Excellent

Peter, Alexandria, VA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fantastic central location; outstanding value!
If your looking for an antiseptic modern chain hotel, this is definitely not for you; if you are looking for an amazingly located, authentic slice of Quito this is most definitely the place. The property is clean, and relatively well-maintained, though much like the city itself it could use a little help here and there. That being said it has all of the basic conveniences and provides an atmosphere that bespeaks of another era.

8/10 Good

Lois, Atlanta, GA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hotel Catedral
The hotel was in an excellent location in the historic district of Quito. It was easy to walk everywhere in the old part of the city. The hotel was clean and comfortable. The staff were very nice but spoke limited English. You cannot get a wash cloth there, so take your own. I felt very safe in the hotel.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Great location but very noisy
Room was nice size, staff were great. Some heads up, however...shower and bathroom sink fixtures were somehow shorted to an electrical line, such that you got a 120V shock if you touched them while in the shower or using the sink with wet hands. Mgmt sort of shrugged when we brought this to their attention. Bathroom(s) smelled like sulfur - comes from drains...even though really clean, smell was annoying. Rate was great, and included an OK breakfast. Location central to everything. Restaurant is only open from noon to 3pm, so it is useless for evening dining. Noisy street action goes from 5am to 1am daily - constant car alarms, whistles from cops, horns honking and sirens - non-stop and very loud - makes it difficult to sleep. Parking is $15 a day at a garage a block away. I would stay here again, but would request a room not on the front street.