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1/27/2015

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Our first month in Cuenca we booked Casa Rio, a 3+ bedroom, two story condo with a dining table for eight, upscale kitchen appliances and washer and dryer.   The condo layout features two master suites with queen beds and also two terraces facing the Rio Tomebamba and Parque de Madre (one on each floor).  Other amenities include four TV's with the DirecTV gold package, which has many English-speaking channels, and a building caretaker who will help carry suitcases, etc. when he is on duty.
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This condo was perfect for our family (4 adults plus us) the first week of our stay and for having our friends Elsie and Charlie visit the last week of our stay.  It also allowed us to host dinner parties with our other friends in Cuenca.  The only downside of the condo was the 3 stories of stairs to reach the front door.

Sunday we sadly say goodby to Casa Rio and move to a condo 3 blocks away across the river.    This is a functional condo.  It has two bedrooms with full-sized beds which mostly fill the rooms, a small bathroom with toilet and shower, a "great room" that includes the sitting area, dining table for four and kitchenette.  There is a 32" flat-screen TV with a DVR and an HDMI cable.  No DirecTV or cable TV.  We connect the HDMI cable to our laptop or iPad to watch Netflix or US TV through the Internet or movies we have recorded.
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It's hard to move down in amenities.  Last year we stayed at a similar functional condo in the same complex and viewed it "fine".  It helped that it was a step up from the one bedroom student-dorm style apartment we had at Apartmentos Otorongo the year before.  The cost of the functional condo is 1.5 times Apartmentos Otorongo and Casa Rio is 2 times the functional condo.  As the saying goes, you get what you pay for.
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