Hostal Brilliant

38 reviews

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  Gregory

  US · couple · Aug 2026

  5/10

  Budget friendly, safe, and needing repairs

  Positives: walking distance to downtown and nextdoor mini market, and cheap. Hot shower most of the time (don't turn it off if a second person needs a shower), 24 hour staff, safe facility. Hostel style kitchenette.

  Negatives: the rooms we got had a lot of mold and wall damage, we slept in 1 room with holes in the sheets, showered in the other room because the shower head was spraying across the bathroom and also smelled like sewage backup. Dogs barking fromm rooftops everywhere so bring earplugs if you have the city view and want to sleep as the windows do not keep noise out, and housekeeping music starts echoing up the interior courtyard in the morning. There is no water provided for drinking water, so buy at mini market. Also, I should not have to clean hair off my sink or toilet, or floor upon arrival to use my room. It was like they collected the trash, made the beds, and called it sufficient for the next guest.

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  Nicole

  US · solo_traveller · Jul 2026

  5/10

  Good value, but kinda gross.

  For less than $15 a night, I couldn't complain, though I did wonder at where all the glowing reviews came from. There was a mirror in the room, and, unlike other hotels in Ecuador, a trash can both in the bathroom and in the room. Seeing as how you can't flush toilet paper, it was useful to have both.

  There were some basics that were advertised that just weren't there, like a wardrobe. Then there was the mould growing on the sink and throughout the bathroom. The general dirt around the room. When I ran a disinfectant wipe over the surfaces, it came up black. The hair, well, everywhere. Broken fixtures. Only cold water from the sink, though there was hot water in the shower. I left the place in better condition than I found it, if only because I didn't want to leave with a staff infection. And then there was the issue of payment. I speak Spanish and the man checking me in couldn't process a credit card payment. He told me to come back tomorrow. He saw me in the next morning, as I was leaving and said nothing. When I returned in the evening, I was admonished for not having completed the payment earlier. I reminded him that he told me I could pay tomorrow. I then had to wait for 20 minutes while he found the person who could process a credit card payment. When she finally turned up, she told me that she would be adding 10 percent because it was a credit card payment and not cash. That's when I got irritated and said that I'd be out and about all day and I could have gotten cash (I fact, I did get out cash, just not enough to pay for the room) but I had been told nothing about the surcharge, and they knew full well that I would be paying with a credit card.

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  David

  EC · extended_group · Jun 2026

  10/10
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  Erick

  SV · solo_traveller · Jun 2026

  9/10
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  José

  EC · solo_traveller · Jun 2026

  10/10

  Lo limpio y bien bonitas la habitación