Hostal Macondo is more akin to a B&B than a typical youth hostel. Hostal Macondo ( Editor's Pick) – Tarqui 11-64 & Mariscal (five blocks from the Cathedral) The majority of budget options are located along Calle Larga, the city's Zona Rosa. There are tons of hostels located throughout central Cuenca, so you should have no trouble finding a place to stay for the night. ![]() Remember to add an extra 15-minutes to your schedule and enjoy the new transportation in Cuenca.Garden courtyard at Hostal Macondo Where to Stay Hostels So, all in all the new terminals and the new buses and routes will take some getting used to but we think it will make the transportation system run much smoother and be a bit more organized. ![]() We will talk more about this in another blog post. We have seen many young people take advantage of the front row seats before the new changeover and just recently when we took the new red buses, young folks were sitting in the red seats that are reserved. Please take into consideration the red seats are reserved. The blue seats are for the general public, while the red seats, closer to the doors are RESERVED FOR pregnant women, folks carrying small children, and the disabled. The new red buses have color-coded seats. This is nice too, especially when the bus is full and almost everyone is getting off. The front door for boarding, and the middle and end door for getting off. There is a bit more leg room we guess about 3 to 4 inches, which makes the ride more comfortable. The new red buses are quieter and smoother. From our starting point to the ending point it took around 50-minutes and three different buses…but we made it safe and sound to our destination. We got on a red bus number 101, which took us to the Ricaurte area of Cuenca. So, we disembarked bus number 100 and a pleasant young lady showed us the bus to get on that goes to Ricaurte. So from the Arenal transfer station which is next to Feria Libre Mercado we traveled through El Centro and all the way to the old bus terminal called Terminal Terrestre, which to our surprise also has a transfer area behind the main station where passengers must transfer onto another bus to continue where they may need to go in the city of Cuenca. Now you get off at transfer stations and transfer onto a different red bus to continue either north or south. Las Americas the red buses now go north and south on same road, but with a twist. We also took some video shots of the new El Arenal Terminal.įrom Av. Here’s how our day went taking the new buses and routes in Cuenca. But thankfully there were lots of young people with clip boards helping passengers get to where they needed to go. ![]() It was the first day of the new bus routes and even the locals were walking around bewildered and feeling lost. We knew the bus routes were going to change we just didn’t know when…until yesterday when we no longer saw our familiar bus numbers that take us from one end of the city to the other. In fact taking the bus system had become a familiar standard and routine in our Cuenca lifestyle. We knew pretty much which bus number went to what area in Cuenca. After three years of living in Cuenca we had the old bus routes down.
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