We landed in Guayaquil at around 1am without having made any plans once we got there…must have slipped our minds. Exhausted, we decided to hop in a cab and ask the driver to take us to any nearby hostel. We really hadn’t given this part much thought prior, and unfortunately didn’t speak any spanish which made things rather difficult since the driver couldn’t speak English. Guayaquil does not have the best reputation to be so unsure at 1am without being able to properly communicate with people.
The driver ended up bringing us to a “hotel”, where we got out of the cab and he said something in spanish to a man inside. The man inside then came out and we gave him $40USD before he let us into a building which was definitley unlike any other hostel or hotel I’ve ever seen. It just seemed more like a dark concrete building where we walked down a couple hallways and he showed us to a room which had two beds (…and the doorknob fell off our door). We figured it was good enough ( not for what we paid), but having not planned this part and being tuckered out after landing at 1am in a foreign country and feeling a little buzzed from the airplane beers.
We woke up early the next morning and went to “check out”, and there was a different man outside this time. This man could speak english and looked puzzled when he asked us if we were staying there last night. Oh great, we figured we’d have to repay because there was no confirmation of us doing so last night, or this is just this guys house. Nope, he just smiled and shrugged and got back to what he was doing.
Needless to say, it was a decently successful arrival.
Meandering Megg 
Such a nice arrival. I hope you’ll enjoy Guayaquil. It’s said to be a fascinating city!
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