http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T07:24:39Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelhotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/local/660 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/6/20/165124/442 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/galapagoshotels.jpg" class="imgborder"/><p>It's hardly a state secret that there are hotels in the Gal&#225;pagos, thanks to very occasional travel articles like this in the New York Times, from, yikes, November 1993. Just last year, Hotel Chatter reported that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Finch+Bay+Hotel/local/658"><b>The Finch Bay Hotel</b></a>, one of the Galapagos' finest, had won a World Travel Award as Ecuador's Best Resort. <p>Yet somehow, when people talk of Gal&#225;pagos goings, we think first of yachts, cruises, anything but landlubber lodgings. Maybe that's because the very idea of hotels, apparently several dozen of them, seems a bit untoward for this pristine and protected archipelago. But the thought of staying on terra firma in the Gal&#225;pagos has a certain appeal, tug as it might at our barbarab 2007-06-21T10:13:48-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/