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About this property

Comfortable Accommodations: Hostal Gardner in Puerto Ayora offers family rooms with private bathrooms, air-conditioning, and tiled floors. Each room includes a work desk, TV, and wardrobe, ensuring a pleasant stay. Exceptional Facilities: Guests enjoy a sun terrace, free WiFi, and free use of bicycles. Additional amenities include a shared kitchen, minimarket, coffee shop, and games room. Private check-in and check-out services, a tour desk, and luggage storage enhance convenience. Prime Location: Located 29 mi from Seymour Airport, the hostel is a short walk from Los Alemanes Beach (9 minutes) and La Estacion Beach (0.6 mi). Tortuga Bay is less than 0.6 mi away. Nearby attractions include scuba diving and hiking opportunities. Guest Favorites: Guests highly rate the terrace, convenient location, and fully equipped kitchen, making Hostal Gardner a preferred choice for travelers.

Couples in particular like the location – they rated it 9.3 for a two-person trip.

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Property highlights

    • Located in the top-rated area in Puerto Ayora, this property has an excellent location score of 9.4!

    • Breakfast Info

    • American


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Room Type
Number of guests
 
1 twin bed
and
1 full bed
5 twin beds
3 twin beds
or
1 twin bed
and
1 full bed
4 twin beds
4 twin beds
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Guest reviews

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Guests who stayed here loved

  • Garth
    United States United States
    Believe that I was upgraded from dorm to private room | central location, clean, AirCon, solid WiFi | hot shower, towel, soap | filtered water, functional kitchen (10am-6pm) | paid using PayPal |
  • Jan
    Canada Canada
    Space in every room, comma only one night that a hot shower, let me leave my suitcase while I went on a trip, and super helpful.
  • Brian
    United States United States
    Nice, comfortable, simple, clean place. Nothing fancy but totally comfortable and good value. Friendly, helpful staff, who also operate a tour desk right next door and can book any Galapagos adventure you want. Nice rooftop deck and decent kitchen...
  • Jan
    Canada Canada
    Close to everything, lovely staff when they were at the desk, but they did always arrive once search for. Knight no hot water. That’s the only thing that wasn’t OK. The top floor area is lovely.
  • Naomi
    United Kingdom United Kingdom
    I stayed in both a private room and dorm room at this property. The private room was large and clean as was the dorm. The location is good - close the ferry port and restaurants. The property felt secure as you were only able to enter with a key...
  • K
    Switzerland Switzerland
    Walkable distance from port - 4 mins. Centrally located, hostel also helps book ferry tours between islands etc. Brand new, clean. Tour operator right opposite the hostel run by homero is perhaps the cheapest in Santa Cruz
  • K
    Switzerland Switzerland
    Brian at Hostel Gardner is simply amazing :) I have a knee injury so climbing stairs is tough, so he helped me first by helping to try find a single room and when that was not possible tried to offer me a refund or to give me the possibility of a...
  • Mark
    Australia Australia
    It's everything you need from a hostel :) it's central and close to everything you need or want . The rooms are clean, air-conditioned and quiet at night so you can get to sleep easy for those early morning starts . There is a lovely rooftop...
  • Satya
    United States United States
    Very smooth check in. Large clean room. Good a/c and hot water, ok internet. Convenient location close to port for tours and inter-island ferries. The young man at the reception Emerson, was very helpful in making tour reservations and arranging...
  • Georgina
    Australia Australia
    It's very close to the ocean and excellent food all around

Area info

House rules

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Check-in
From 11:30 AM to 6:30 PM
Check-out
From 6:00 AM to 10:00 AM
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Children & Beds

Child policies

Children of all ages are welcome.

Children 4 and above will be charged as adults at this property.

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Crib and extra bed policies

Cribs and extra beds aren't available at this property.

No age restriction
There's no age requirement for check-in
Pets
Pets are not allowed.
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