RATES & TRANSPORTATION INFO
Reservations can be made conveniently for you through the internet or by phone, in or out of Ecuador. Please contact us via email at info@cintocloudforest.com or rduchicela@yahoo.com. You can also call us at: 520-205-1797 in the US or 011-5938-743-4958 in Ecuador.
We would be more than happy to provide you with immediate assistance, information, and reservations for your trip to Ecuador, and to Cinto Cloud Forest.
Lodging Rates
All rates include stay at the Main House, 3 local meals/day, a local naturalist guide available at all times (our caretaker Efrain) and daily excursions through the Cinto Cloud Forest, along with explanation of flora and fauna.
The rate
(including
taxes)
per person per night
is:
One Night Stay: $45 for
a private
room or $35 for
a shared
room of
two beds
Two Night Stay: $35 for
a private
room or $25 for
a shared
room of
two beds
Three or more Nights: $30 for
a private
room or $20 for
a shared
room of
two beds
Note: We also have comfortable accommodations for backpackers in the smaller lodgings for $10 a night (with all crops and fishing available for your use, we have the utensils), and $15 a night (with 2 prepared meals for you), anytime.
* All children stay free
Other Activities contracted on site or through the Town of Mindo
We can help you arrange optional activities such as:
Mountain
biking
(contracted
in the
Town of
Mindo)
Saloya
River
big waterfall
with pond
full day
walk (available
on site)
Horseback riding (available
on site)
Local
fishing
(ataraya)
and herbal
medicine
workshops
(available
on site)
White
water
tubing
(contracted
in the
Town of
Mindo)
Canopy
cable
car (contracted
in the
Town of
Mindo)
Private transportation from Quito to Cinto Cloud Forest
We can pick you and your party up anywhere in Quito. The rate is $60 each way for parties up to three people and an extra $10 for each additional person. The trip takes about 3 hours.
Public Transportation from Quito to the Town of Mindo
A wonderful and recommended way to come and visit us. Connect directly with Ecuador and her people. Witness firsthand the well-mannered social dynamics of behavior, dressing, accents, and their charming ways with their families, friends, and visitors. This is a special and wonderful connection.
Your journey to us needs to stop in the Town of Mindo first, regardless if you are coming from Quito, or from the coast.
Our Quito – Cinto Cloud Forest Guide
Our dedicated guide and Quito native, Ronald Coronado, can accompany and guide you in any of these buses from Quito to Cinto Cloud Forest to offer you the best service in public transportation. The price for his accompanied guidance from Quito to Cinto Cloud Forest is $15.
Public Travel Information
The improved public inter-state bus lines (Transportes Interprovinciales) in Ecuador are safe, clean and ample. They readily and promptly connect all of Ecuador. These are private enterprises that have developed a trusted and regular “Greyhound” style type of professionalism, reliability and prompt schedule. Their service includes an overhaul towards modern, clean and comfortable buses with safe, prompt, and on-schedule service. This makes traveling through anywhere in Ecuador very easy and safe. The regular schedule of operation in this part of Ecuador is from 6 AM to 9 PM. The best times of travel are during the morning, when the views can be seen the best.
Therefore the total cost to go from Quito to the Town of Mindo is between $3.00 to $5.50 and will take around 3 hours.
For your convenience and as a courtesy, we would love to assist you in any way to make your Ecuador stay more enjoyable. We are available to help you to obtain any information in regards to Quito and Ecuador attractions in general.
Transportes Cayambe
The bus line Transportes Cayambe has daily regular direct buses between their Quito bus depot and the Town of Mindo. Its price is $3.00 for this direct and comfortable journey. Their location is in front of Parque Ejido near the Amazonas Avenue in Central Quito.
Other Transportes
Otherwise if you decide not to go through Transporte Cayambe you can go directly to the brand new Terminal Terrestre (Grand Central Bus Station) near Colonial Downtown (Centro Historico) and take a busline towards, or to Mindo directly. Alternatively, you can also get a taxi ($3.00 from the Airport or Downtown) to take you to Via Occidental (westbound highway) to wait for buses that come every 5 minutes, and get any bus line towards the Coast (Costa). The price for either option is only $2.50 towards the Town of Mindo and takes 2 hours from Quito.
Road junction to Mindo
Unless you are taking Transporte Cayambe, 2 hours after leaving Quito in bus you will get off at the road junction to the Town of Mindo. There will be various taxi pick-up trucks to take you in a 20-minute ride to the Town for $3.00. They run this business from 6 AM to 9 PM. If you decide to walk to Town it takes just over an hour of delightful visual and auditory experiences.
Travel from the Town of Mindo to Cinto Cloud Forest
Our knowledgeable and dedicated guide, Ronald, will meet you in the Town of Mindo, if he’s not with you already, and will accompany you in either of the following typical two ways to go from the Town to our lodges:
The Milk Truck (La Lechera) at 6 AM
Board La Lechera at 6 AM in the Town of Mindo which makes its daily routes to the cloud forest to bring milk back to the Town. The ride takes half an hour to the Cinto River Bridge. This ride costs $0.50. From the bridge we walk another half an hour to Cinto Cloud Forest. La Lechera will bring you back daily to Town by waiting at the bridge any day by 7 AM.
Private taxi pick-up truck at anytime
Take a 4 x 4 taxi from the Town to our lodges any time after 6 AM. This cost is $15 for your entire party, and takes approximately 45 minutes of enchanting sights and places along the way. Arrangements with the taxi are made to return at any time your party wishes, if you decide not to do La Lechera, bicycle, walk, horse, motorcycle, hitchhike, or other means locals use to get to Town.
Therefore the total cost to go from the town of Mindo to Cinto Cloud Forest is between $0.50 to $15.00 and takes around an hour either way.
Alternate Eco-ethno cultural detour - Quito to our lodging in Cinto Cloud Forest
As we leave the outskirts of Quito along the Coast-bound Highway (Via a la Costa) we will go past the world-renowned Mitad Del Mundo Complex. Then we will travel 5 minutes to the Volcano Pululahua slopes to admire the all-stone fortification of the Museo de Ortega, an important and delightful ethno-cultural Ecuadorian museum. This museum is owned and administered exclusively by Yumbo-Otavalo families, led by the internationally-renown artistic Ortega family. We will then go another 5 minutes away to observe from the top of the crater’s rim the Village of Pululahua under the volcanic clouds located inside the extinct 5-mile wide crater. The villagers are farmers using rich volcanic earth for their crops they sell in Quito, or have ecological local Bed and Breakfasts.
Along the way to Cinto Cloud Forest we will go near the ancient settlements adjacent to the Towns of Tulipe and Calacali, who were once regional centers of the influential Ecuadorian Yumbo cultures. The scientific and visionary historical impact this culture had over most of Ecuador is now slowly being acknowledged.
The rate is $100 for the entire day, and depending how long you desire to stay in each of these fabulous cultural and visual attractions it may take us between 6 – 8 hours to reach Cinto Cloud Forest. These experiences provide a framework of relevant Ecuadorian native cultural and spiritual history.