The hotel is on four floors with no elevator, with reception up one long and difficult flight of stairs from the street. Breakfast is included, but served up on the top floor, and only 8 to 10 AM, so I didn't wait around for it. I had to ask for a towel, and got a thin little GI or YMCA towel, not the kind appropriate to this medium price bracket. The shower is set up to use liquid soap from the dispenser provided, so no soap dish, and a very slippery floor. I paid up for a double room for individual use, but the double bed is two twins pushed together, with the old "feet dangle off the foot of the bed" problem, and the valley between the two beds makes diagonal sleeping uncomfortable. The hotel is clean, and the curtains keep the street noise down.
Added things to do information: There is a tourist train, the Freedom Train, running from Wednesday to Sunday at 10:30, from a refurbished station near the Obelisk. It's a one-car AutoFerro; the locals in Salinas, the destination, call it the AutoBurro, because it takes 90 minutes to go 30 kilometers. The local community provides a modest dance performance, a walking tour, and a place to have lunch, and then the railcar returns to Ibarra at 3, getting in at 4:30. Fare $10.50, lunch $4.25. Pretty scenery, but there's a lot of that going around in Ecuador! This is worth bearing in mind if you have a day scheduled in Ibarra, which would be a defensible choice as a place to live, but there just isn't much for tourists.