Many of the furnishings and generally fascinating knick-knacks that decorate the hotel's public spaces were collected around the world by the peripatetic owners, including furniture from India. The bed is even more delightful after turndown when handmade chocolates are placed bedside. The hotel's 'Dream Beds' are completely modern, however, featuring a memory foam mattress topper and two types of pillows. Some bathrooms, for example, take on funny shapes and offer tiny showers, though the all-natural and locally made toiletries by La Botica are lovely. In places it can feel like modern hotel amenities have been wedged into the Colonial space. All rooms either face the street or a parking lot behind the hotel. There are also a handful of duplex suites which offer more space and bathtubs and are worth the splurge. Rooms on the top floor, for example, have an attic-like feel with steeply sloped ceilings, exposed beams, and small windows. It opened as the Santa Lucia Hotel in 2002 and the restoration of the building has been recognized as outstanding.Īs you would expect of a hotel that has created 20 rooms in what was a single family home (albeit a three-story monster of a home), none of the rooms are the same.

In 1999 the Vintimilla family, one of a handful of families that pioneered tourism in Cuenca, began restoring the property. Built in 1859 as an opulent home for the governor of the province, it remained in the Vega family for more than a century.

The building that houses the Hotel Santa Lucia has always been important.

Colonial bones combine with full service facilities to create an atmospheric place to stay that's as historic as the city itself.

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