Main Guest House
- 10 Bedrooms
- 8 Full Bathrooms
- 4 Half Bathrooms
- Sleeps 16 Adults, 8 Children
- 3 King Beds
- 6 Queen Beds
- 8 Twin Beds
- Heated Pool
- Game Room
- Movie Room
- Gourmet Kitchen
- Outside Sitting Area
- Covered Area for Eating
- Outside Loungers
- Outside Daybed for Sunning
- Second Floor Dining Area
- Dining Room
- WiFi
- Air Conditioning
- Telephone (charges may apply)
Included
- Private Cook
- Private Maid
- Concierge
- House Staff
- A Chef can be arranged
Can Be Arranged
- Gourmet Chef
- Transfers
- Day Trips
- Boat Rentals
- Galapagos Tours
Arriving Information
- Guayaquil Airport 2.5 Hours
- Private Airport Available Closer
Casa Olon staff adapts to your needs, from a “curated stay “to on call as requested.
Electronics in Casa Olon
Home theater
- Panasonic projector displaying a 170 inch diagonal screen.
- Sony 5.1 Amplifier
- Bose Acoustimas 10 Surround Speakers.
- Amazon Fire TV.
- Direct TV HD receiver.
- Play Station 2.
- Access to thousands of TV episodes and hundreds of latest movies stored on local network.
Sonos music system
- Four inside zones (kitchen, living room, billiard room, dining room) with Bose 791 in-ceiling speakers.
- Three outside zones (pool, gazebo, terrace) with Bose 151 outside speakers.
- Zones can be played separately or grouped.
- 70,000 track smooth jazz local music library.
- Napster (Rhapsody), Deezer, and Spotify streaming music services.
Wi-Fi
- Three downstairs routers plus two above-ceiling routers in second floor gives whole-house wifi coverage.
- External directional router pointing towards the sea gives wifi coverage in garden and on beach.
- Hard-wired LAN points in every bedside table.
Telephone
- Panasonic 10-extension telephone system for internal communication and for external calls using a US telephone line.
Air-conditioning
- Seventeen Trane XV18 central air-conditioning units with variable speed fans and digital touch-screen controls.
Sleeping capacity in Casa Olon
- Three bedrooms with one king-sized bed
- Four bedrooms with queen-sized beds
- One bedroom with two queen-sized beds
- All of the above have en-suite bathrooms. Each bedroom also has a queen-sized inflatable bed in the closet
- One bunk bedroom with six bunks (2 x 1.84m, 2 x 1.89m, 2 x 2.20m long)
- One bunk bedroom with two bunks (2 x 1.90m)
- One bedroom near kitchen with two twin sized beds and en-suite bathroom.
Bathrooms
- Besides the en-suite bathrooms there are also:
- One downstairs inside visitors bathroom.
- One downstairs outside visitors bathroom with shower.
- One gentleman's double bathroom below pool.
- One ladies double bathroom below pool.
Games
- Brunswick 8-foot pool table
- Stigo table tennis table.
- Board games: Chess, Risk, Liar dice, Rummicub, Poker, Scrabble, Clue, Hedbanz, Guestures, Dominoes.
Village of Olon
The village of Olon is a 1 km walk on the beach away.
Over the last few years, because of its beach, climate and peaceful relaxed living style, Olon has become a sought-after retirement destination for quite a number of US and other foreigners. As a result of this it has a thriving ex-pat community that has given life to three home style family-run American restaurants, a Venezuelan restaurant, an Israeli restaurant, and an Italian restaurant. There is also a French bakery, and even a Russian bakery. As well as these ex-pat run restaurants, there are also numerous other Ecuadorian restaurants in the village and also on the beach-front of Olon.
Montanita
The town of Montañita is only five minutes away via the main road. Montanita was the setting for the 2013 World Masters Surfing Championship, and is world famous for its surfing, night-life, and fun. Montañita is chock full of bars, cocktail stalls, restaurants, and discotheques. At night the narrow streets are thriving with young (and laid-back older) people from all over the world. Sipping a $5 cocktail and people-watching here is a must.
There are a number of tour companies in Montañita that offer many options including diving, snorkeling, horse-back riding, rain-forest/waterfall walks, paragliding, and whale-watching (in right season). Montañita also has one of the highest concentrations of surfing instructors in the world!
There is a LOT of information about Montañita on the internet.
Salinas and Manta
The town of Salinas is about 50 miles away.
Salinas is world famous for deep sea sport fishing, especially Tuna, Blue Marlin and Black Marlin. A number of world records were made fishing out of Salinas.
Manta is about 90 miles away. It is also famous for deep sea sport fishing especially Blue Marlin. When Salinas is out of season, Manta is often in season.