We stayed three nights at Carlota at the end of week on a live-a-board in Galapagos before heading back to the USA. This wonderful boutique hotel is a couple of blocks from the Grand Plaza. Great location. Prior to our trip, the hotel staff helped arranged our transfer to and from the airport. (The airport is about 40 minutes from downtown Quito. This relatively new hotel is beautiful. According to the owner whom we met, the building, originally his mother's, was converted into a hotel about last year. The front desk staff went out of their way to help us including arranging for a private driver to take us to all the attractions we wanted to see in our one full day in Quito. The food, wine, and service in the hotel restaurant were wonderful. The chief personally came to meet on more than one occasion. The roof top bar had incredible views of the surrounding community and the mountains in the back ground. All the rooms we looked into were beautiful. The only thing we wished for was a little more drawer space for our clothes. We had plenty of room to hang our clothes, but no real draw space. Maybe remove the small desk and put in a dresser. Otherwise, five star.