A place of trust
We understand that every traveler comes to CARLOTA with personal and diverse expectations. Combining unique and innovative concepts in design, sustainability, quality products and services, enriching cultural experiences and personalized service with attention to detail, we guarantee to exceed your expectations and provide you with the best experience during your stay.
Our Vision
CARLOTA is a sustainable design hotel that offers all its guests the best service and experience, respecting Quito, our city, and the environment, honoring our values and our dignity as individuals, team members and part of a wider community.
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Our Mission
At CARLOTA we focus on providing the best experience to our guests, with unique and quality services and products, integrating sustainable practices and becoming the first environmentally responsible hotel in the Historic Center of Quito. We strive to offer the best not only to our guests, but also to our team, staff and all our stakeholders, fostering innovation, growth and environmental awareness, respecting culture, diversity and our local community.
History
CARLOTA is a boutique hotel located in a renovated historic house in the Historic Center of Quito. The house was built in the early 20th century, around 1905. In 1966, Doña Carlota Echeverría de Moreno acquired this house, which would be her and her family's home for more than 40 years.
CARLOTA opened its doors in 2017 with the intention of preserving a historic monument of great value to the city and to Doña Carlota. Likewise, the hotel seeks to contribute to the city with an intimate, exclusive and innovative hospitality proposal that enriches the offer of the Historic Center. Design and sustainability are its main concepts.
UNESCO declared the Historic Center of Quito a World Heritage Site in 1978. The National Government and the Municipality of Quito have undertaken actions to revitalize the historic center and turn it into the most important tourist destination in Ecuador and Latin America. The city of Quito has distinguished itself as the best tourist destination in Latin America in recent years.
Carlota Echeverría Ruiz (1918-2021) was an exceptional woman. Born in the town of Cotacachi, province of Imbabura, she was sent to a convent at an early age, where she spent most of her childhood. Coming from a middle-class family, she married René Moreno Andrade, a lawyer known for his strong character.
Doña Carlota bought the property where this beautiful hotel is located today in 1966. A house built in 1905, where the former president of Ecuador, Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, lived for many years, also served as a school in the 1950s and as the headquarters of the conservative party in the 1960s. Carlota has lived there ever since with her four children.
Carlota passed away in May 2021, leaving an incalculable legacy not only for her family, but for the whole country. She wrote three books, recited numerous poems, but above all, her immense love for all those around her. She lived a full life and was able to see the inauguration of the Hotel Carlota, the result of the vision of her grandson and godson Renato.
Before and after
The restoration of the Hotel Carlota was complex and required about four years and numerous resources for its completion. The recognition received by the Municipality of Quito in 2018 as the best intervention in the historic center, as well as the award obtained at the Pan-American Biennial of Architecture in the category of restoration and recycling, are the result of the work done during this process.
The conceptualization, architecture and design of the project were the responsibility of architect Veronica Reed, recognized for her achievements in sustainable architecture, together with her team VIVAARQUITECTURA.
Services
CARLOTA offers you a unique hotel in the heart of Quito. The rich design proposal renews and restores the charm to a historic building while the interiors greet you with a modern and urban, where each room has its own personality and style.
CARLOTA has 12 rooms, each with its own style, in an area of 200 m2, with a maximum capacity for thirty-five guests. CARLOTA offers you its reception open 24 hours a day.
Guests and visitors of CARLOTA can enjoy all our spaces such as: The BISTRO where they can have breakfast buffet for our guests from 07h00 to 10h00, and open to the public from 13h00 to 22h00, for a unique urban culinary experience; and the LOUNGE, a cozy bar on our terrace with a magnificent view of the historic district to enjoy drinks or snacks, open continuously for guests and open to the public (Adults only).
Open from Wednesday to Sunday from 12h00 to 22h00.
- Wifi
- Transportation
- Reading and Media Room
- Laundry
- Breakfast
- Laptops and tablets
- Interior courtyards
- Tourist Information
- Bistro
- Security
Meet the owners
Renato Solines & Veronica Reed
We had to find a meeting point between architecture and design. We achieved this through color.
Turning a childhood home into a sustainable, well-restored hotel with a touch of distinction that captures the essence of the city - both past and present - is no easy task. But that is precisely what the owners of Hotel Carlota, Renato Solines and Veronica Reed, in Quito, Ecuador, have achieved. The early 20th century house, where the hotel is now located, belonged to Solines' grandmother, Carlota, who gave it its name and design. The story came from the winner of a design contest the couple organized to create the hotel's visual identity. "The designer, Pablo Iturralde, talked to my grandmother and together they came up with a plan. The "o" in the logo is in the shape of a suitcase with a blackbird (common thrush) on top. The blackbird is a very special bird in Quito and my grandmother reminded her of it," Solines explains.
In 2016, the couple decided to preserve and completely renovate a family property that belonged to Carlota, Renato's grandmother. With great affection and admiration for this wonderful and kind-hearted woman, they began work on restoring the beautiful historic home that would become Hotel Carlota.
Although Renato Solines studied law in Ecuador, he soon discovered that his passion and talent lay in entrepreneurship and business. With a master's degree in Global Business and Development, he and his wife, Veronica Reed, founded an architecture, environmental design and research firm. For some 15 years, the couple worked on a variety of environmental design and community development projects, always with highly ambitious environmental and social goals.
In 2011, they decided to preserve and completely renovate a family property that belonged to Renato's grandmother, Carlota. With great love and admiration for this wonderful woman, they began working on the restoration of the beautiful historic home that would become Hotel Carlota.
