251 rooms organised around a 14-storey glass-pyramid atrium on Avenida Orellana, La Mariscal's executive district, with three outdoor pools, a full-service spa, four restaurants, and the city's most consistent power-breakfast room.
"The hotel that solved Quito for the executive corridor, pyramid-glass atrium, three pools, four restaurants, and an unfussed brief on what a Latin American JW Marriott is for. Boring, in the best possible sense."
JW Marriott Hotel Quito opened in 1999 as the first international five-star property in the country, on the corner of Avenida Orellana and Avenida Amazonas, the geographic centre of La Mariscal, Quito's executive and commercial district. The property was designed by Ecuadorian architect Diego Banderas Vela in collaboration with Marriott's corporate architecture group; the building's signature is a 14-storey atrium capped by a pyramid-glass roof that draws daylight down through the central core to the lobby and to the tropical garden surrounding the pool deck below.
The 251 rooms, 232 standard rooms, 19 suites including two Presidential Suites, are organised across 14 floors, with the upper-floor categories looking north to the Cotopaxi cordillera and south to the Pichincha volcano on clear mornings. Standard rooms run 42 square metres, generous by Latin American five-star standards, and were refurbished in 2019 with a contemporary Andean-modernist palette and Marriott's signature king bed with the brand's bedding programme. Executive Suite categories (45, 110 sqm) add a separate living area and access to the Executive Lounge on floor 12, which runs daily breakfast, all-day pressed-coffee service, and evening canapés and cocktails.
Four restaurants run the daily food-and-beverage programme. Bistro Latino, on the ground floor, is the city's most consistent power-breakfast room, the all-day buffet handles the morning meeting circuit; the dinner menu is contemporary Ecuadorian. La Hacienda is the steakhouse, with a Mediterranean-and-Argentine emphasis and the country's best dry-aged-beef cellar. Exedra is the Mariscal's most-booked Japanese sushi-and-teppanyaki room; the Lobby Lounge runs an all-day patisserie-and-cocktail programme under the atrium. The Spa by JW runs eight treatment cabins, a hydrotherapy circuit, and a 25-metre indoor lap pool; the outdoor pool deck has three pools (one heated year-round), two hot tubs, and a casual grill.
The proposition is what JW Marriott is for: predictable five-star delivery for the executive corridor in a country that still rewards reliability over surprise. The 18 meeting rooms, totalling 2,200 square metres, include the city's largest hotel ballroom (1,200 capacity), the only Marriott Marquis-grade boardroom programme in the Andean north, and a private-dining facility used by half the Quito-based oil-and-gas, banking, and US-embassy programmes. For travellers on a Quito work trip, on a Quito family stopover before Galápagos, or on a circuit that needs a reliable Andean anchor between Lima and Bogotá, JW Marriott is the answer.
For Quito business stays, JW Marriott is the unambiguous answer. The 18 meeting rooms handle the city's largest corporate programmes; the Executive Lounge on floor 12 runs the most consistent canapé-and-cocktail evening room in La Mariscal; Bistro Latino is the city's most reliable power-breakfast room; the Spa fits a morning workout and steam-room circuit before the 9 a.m. board meeting. The position three minutes from the US Embassy and four from the principal Mariscal banking towers is decisive.
For a Quito family stopover, typically two nights before or after the Galápagos onward leg, the JW Marriott pool deck is the most child-friendly programme in the city. Three pools (one heated), the supervised kids' programme on weekends, and connecting rooms that can be configured into two-bedroom family suites; the concierge handles the Galápagos onward leg, Cotopaxi day trips, and the Middle of the World monument as a single brief.
An anniversary at JW Marriott runs at the easy intensity, a Pichincha-view Executive Suite, a La Hacienda steakhouse dinner, a Spa by JW couples' treatment in the morning, and the heated outdoor pool with the cordillera silhouetted behind. The kitchen runs an unfussed in-room set-up for two with rose petals, Champagne, and chocolate; the concierge handles the surprise without needing to be asked twice.
Avenida Orellana 1172 y Avenida Amazonas
La Mariscal
170524 Quito, Ecuador
3 minutes to US Embassy; 4 minutes to the Mariscal banking corridor; 15 minutes to the Old Town; 45 minutes to Mariscal Sucre Airport (UIO).
251 rooms (incl. 19 suites)
Deluxe room from USD 195/night
Executive Suite from USD 360/night
Presidential Suite from USD 1,800/night
Executive Lounge access included on suites
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Opened 1999; refurbished 2019
Marriott Bonvoy partner; ESPA partner spa
14-storey glass-pyramid atrium
3 outdoor pools and 2 hot tubs
Spa by JW with 25m indoor pool
4 restaurants, lobby lounge
18 meeting rooms (2,200 sqm)
Executive Lounge on floor 12
Gigabit Wi-Fi throughout
From USD 195/night. The Executive Suites and Presidential Suite book two to three months ahead for World Bank-IMF and OAS Quito programmes; six weeks ahead for European long-weekend Galápagos circuits.
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