Mashpi Lodge
Chocó cloud forest, Pichincha, Ecuador
Location
Chocó cloud forest
In the Chocó cloud forest, around 100 km and a 3.5-hour drive northwest of Quito, in a private 3,000-acre reserve at around 950 metres — a biodiversity hotspot.
Transfer
A Quito transfer
Around a 3.5-hour drive northwest of Quito.
Villas
24 rooms
24 rooms across three floors with floor-to-ceiling forest windows, from around 21 square metres, holding a maximum of 47 guests.
Best For
Who it suits
Couples and nature-and-adventure travellers wanting the cloud forest.
Board Basis
All-inclusive
Meals and naturalist-guided excursions and activities; minimum one night, two or more advised.
About the Resort
A design-icon lodge in the Chocó cloud forest
Mashpi Lodge is a design-led eco-luxury lodge in Ecuador's Chocó cloud forest — a recycled-steel-and-glass monolith built on a former timber-mill site without felling a tree, about 3.5 hours northwest of Quito in a private 3,000-acre reserve. Twenty-four rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows look from the ground into the canopy, holding a maximum of 47 guests. The Dragonfly canopy gondola runs two kilometres through the trees, a Sky Bike and an 85-foot observation tower add to it, and a research centre keeps in-house biologists. All-inclusive guided expeditions and a Life Center with an open-air hot tub complete it.
Accommodation
Rooms & suites
24 rooms with floor-to-ceiling forest windows.
Entry
Wawa Room
Sleeps one. Around 21 square metres with cloud-forest views; can adjoin a Wayra.
21 sqmSingle
Standard
Wayra Room
Sleeps two. Around 34 square metres with floor-to-ceiling windows from ground to canopy; interconnects.
34 sqmForest view
Top
Yaku Suite
Sleeps two. Around 46 square metres with a Philippe Starck bathtub with a view and twin sinks, over the cloud forest.
46 sqmTop suite
Food & Drink
Dining
Gourmet, from the forest.
Signature
The dining room
Two-storey, gourmet, on local forest ingredients.
All-inclusive
All-inclusive
Meals and guided excursions.
Bar
The bar
After the canopy.
Wellbeing
Life Center
Massage, an open-air hot tub, a yoga deck and a jacuzzi, immersed in the cloud forest.
Life Center
Massage and yoga.
An open-air hot tub
In the forest.
In-house biologists
A research centre.
Activities & Experiences
Signature Experiences
The canopy, the wildlife and the forest.
The Dragonfly gondola
Two km through the canopy.
The Sky Bike
Across the forest.
An 85-ft tower
Over the canopy.
Birds & wildlife
Hundreds of species.
Naturalist guides
All-inclusive.
Getting There
Location & Transfers
By road
From Quito
Around a 3.5-hour drive.
In the forest
Chocó cloud forest
A 3,000-acre reserve.
Guest Reviews
What Our Clients Say
★★★★★
“The most extraordinary place I have ever stayed. Nothing prepares you for the depth of the silence, the beauty of the reef, or the sheer generosity of the experience.”
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★★★★★
“We’ve stayed here three times now. The house reef has no equal. The stargazing was, genuinely, one of the most moving experiences of my adult life.”
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★★★★★
“I had stayed at Four Seasons, One&Only and Velaa before visiting Mashpi Lodge. They are all magnificent. But this is different in a way that is hard to articulate.”
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Good to Know
Good to know
Board basis
- All-inclusive; min one night.
Made for couples
- And nature travellers.
Sustainability
- Built without felling a tree.
Getting there
- A 3.5-hour drive from Quito.
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