Blu Galapagos Sustainable Waterfront Lodge

The location was perfect and the staff super kind and helpful.

Fantastic location with great breakfast by the sea. Nice room with balcony. Free tea, coffee, water, bycicles

They asked for 140 USD for transfer from the airport - that's honestly ridiculous :) also the costs of their tours is off the market

On the water is a nice location.

The hotel facilities themselves were lovely. The hotel is built right up on the water's edge. The hotel is a series of buildings kind of built into mangroves, so it's a really cool facility. The restaurant has a deck that allows for outdoor dining literally right on the water, which is really pleasant and a great way to start the day. The hotel is also really ideally situated in town. It's kind of right on the edge of where a lot of the restaurants and shops are - you can be right on the main strip within a 5 minute walk, but it's also a little more quiet than being right in the middle of the nightlife. It's also situated on the way to the Darwin Research Station, so if that's on your list of things to do, it's easily accessible by foot. The rooms were fairly basic but had everything that was needed. There was surprisingly good water pressure and hot water, and the air conditioner worked excellently. The wifi was hit or miss, and not super reliable, but that seems to be more a circumstance of being on a remote island than necessarily a reflection of the quality of the wifi at the hotel. The food was pretty excellent. Breakfast was great - made to order with a few options to choose from that included coffee, juice, pastries, eggs, and some sides. Really excellent breakfast and a beautiful setting to relax and enjoy the views over the water.

My major issue with the hotel related to the staff - in particular the Experiences Manager. In general, the staff were great, welcoming, and helpful with any requests we had while on site. However, we had a really poor experience with the Experiences Manager prior to our arrival that in some ways ended up ruining our whole trip to the Galapagos. I travel a lot and this was truly one of the worst experiences I have ever had with customer service in the hospitality industry. I planned this trip only a couple weeks ahead of time because I found myself in the area on a last minute work trip. Unfamiliar with how day trips/tours work from Puerto Ayora, I reached out to the hotel to get some advice/recommendations about reliable tour companies to help arrange some day trips to other islands. I was referred to the Experiences Manager of the hotel who insisted that she could help book any of our day trip needs, sent some options, and mentioned a few times about the need to book asap because trips fill up. However, she was incredibly unresponsive - days would go by without hearing from her - and in the end she didn't book us on a single trip. I found it particularly frustrating because she not only did not book us on any trips but she wasted a lot of valuable time when we could have been exploring other options. We ended up missing out on a couple of the island trips that we really wanted to go on, that were available when we first reached out. Ultimately our trip was kind of ruined by this experience, not just missing out on day trips but also from the stress and frustration that came from the interactions with the Experiences Manager. I still recommend the hotel- it is lovely and ideally located- just a warning to not put trust in the Experiences Team to arrange parts of your trip. Hopefully this can prevent some future disappointment.