http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-25T23:55:51Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Galapagos%20Island%20Hotel%20Reviews http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/6/105050/134 <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/maps/Green-Hotels-Map"><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/redmangrove_sm_map.png"></a> The Today Show is doing a week long series on "the Ends of the Earth" and managed to remind us of a cool eco-hotel, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Red+Mangrove+Adventure+Inn/local/659"><b>Red Mangrove Inn in the Galapagos</b></a>, this morning. <p> We have talked about this hotel before, but now it is time to add it to our Best Green Hotels map. Claudio Dominguez, who owns the inn, built the place in an environmentally conscious way to protect the wild mangrove trees surrounding the property. The inn is near Puerto Ayora, and the 12 rooms have built-in platform beds plus bathrooms that are almost carved into the indigenous rock. <p> While the hotel is not 5 star earth killing comfort, this place markj 2007-11-06T11:02:04-05:00 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/