{"type":"city","city":"Guayaquil","citySlug":"guayaquil","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/ecuador/guayaquil","description":"Guayaquil earns its complexity the hard way. Ecuador's largest city and its commercial engine, it sits at the confluence of the Guayas River and the Gulf of Guayaquil, and it has spent much of its history being burned down and rebuilt — fires in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries razed entire barrios, which is part of why the city's architectural inheritance feels more layered than its age might suggest. What survived, or was reconstructed with care, clusters in and around the historic center and the old botanical grounds to the northeast, where the colonial-era logic of slow streets and covered arcades gives way to a more preserved, almost parklike urban texture.\n\nThat northeastern fringe is where Hotel del Parque sits, and it is the clearest reason for a traveler who reads buildings to come to Guayaquil at all. The property occupies a complex of late nineteenth-century Republican-style houses within the grounds of the Parque Histórico, a conservation area that also holds rescued mangrove ecosystems and period structures relocated from demolition sites across the city. The hotel itself is meticulous in its restoration — terracotta tile, timber-framed verandas, interior courtyards that handle the equatorial heat with the passive intelligence of buildings designed before air conditioning was a solution. At $549 a night it is priced for the traveler who understands that this kind of architectural preservation, maintained at genuine hotel standards in a city where the category is thin, commands a premium. It does.\n\nThe Malecón 2000, the city's regenerated riverside promenade, gets most of the tourism attention, and Las Peñas, the hillside neighborhood of painted wooden houses at the northern end of the waterfront, is rightly celebrated as the one surviving district that resisted the fires and the concrete. But staying on the Malecón or near the commercial center puts you in a city that can feel transactional and unresolved. Hotel del Parque places you inside a different proposition entirely: a Guayaquil that has been recovered, literally reassembled from its better pieces, and maintained with the kind of institutional seriousness that the Parque Histórico's conservation mandate demands. For anyone who wants the city's past to feel present rather than decorative, there is no more considered address.","provider":{"name":"PressBeyond","url":"https://pressbeyond.com","description":"PressBeyond provides AI-optimized hotel content with a consistent 5-image structure across its entire portfolio. Each image sequence includes strong lighting, complete room-visibility angles, and strictly non-duplicative scenes — enabling AI to accurately describe and recommend properties to travelers.","curationStandard":"PressBeyond Hotel Photography Standard"},"hotels":[{"name":"Hotel del Parque","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/ecuador/guayaquil/hotel-del-parque","city":"Guayaquil","cityHeader":"Guayaquil • Parque Histórico • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Parque Histórico","designSummary":"Cobblestone paths, a vintage tram car at rest beside the entrance, and a two-storey neoclassical facade washed in pale ochre — the setting for Hotel del Parque is not a city block but an open-air living museum. The hotel is housed within the Parque Histórico Guayaquil, a conservation site on the banks of the Río Daule dedicated to preserving the architectural and ecological memory of Ecuador's coastal region, and the building itself is a careful reconstruction of the republican-era casona typology that once defined Guayaquil's prosperous waterfront districts before fire repeatedly reshaped the city.\n\nInside, the interiors draw on that same period sensibility without locking the rooms in amber. The salon carries fluted white columns, dark-stained hardwood floors, tufted chesterfield sofas in stone linen, and a brass-and-ivory chandelier that sits comfortably between colonial revival and a more restrained contemporary eclecticism. Botanical prints arranged in tight grids above panelled white headboards, ikat-upholstered armchairs in charcoal and mustard, and geometric trellis rugs layer the guest rooms with a collector's warmth. The restaurant Casa Julián extends onto a colonnaded terrace of terracotta floor tiles and rattan seating, where ceiling fans turn slowly above tables set with crystal glassware and the Río Daule glitters through a screen of palm fronds — a dining experience that feels entirely inseparable from the landscape surrounding it.","snippet":"A reconstructed republican-era casona within Ecuador's architectural heritage park, with period interiors and river views.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts and history-focused travelers","vibe":"Colonial-revival · curated","highlights":["Republican-era casona reconstruction on Rio Daule banks","Located within Parque Histórico Guayaquil conservation site","Rooms layered with botanical prints and geometric rugs"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$522","pricePerNightExclTax":"$522","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt8z3kz01db85uwhmxgcb1a1717078993028_01710fa4-54c3-4cd2-8160-4a4215d0081e.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Hotel del Parque — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Hotel del Parque · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Hotel del Parque captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt908nf01sx85uwwtm4bogj1717078987017_93a54407-6da9-4178-a523-3cdfc17f7e2f.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Hotel del Parque — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Hotel del Parque · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Hotel del Parque, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt91ddm028j85uwxkzykncy1717079007624_c58586d7-a1af-4dbf-a923-460936d6ecce.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Hotel del Parque — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Hotel del Parque · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Hotel del Parque — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt92i8502o585uwx1lch3xd1717079001295_17226a43-afef-494b-84f5-0133f744c533.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Hotel del Parque — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Hotel del Parque · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Hotel del Parque, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clwt93mwr033r85uwv1brdakm1717078979550_b46e3be1-3164-4a2c-a1d1-45a8f8b14b1d.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Hotel del Parque — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Hotel del Parque · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Hotel del Parque — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]}]}