DIY Cuenca Landing Guide




DIY Cuenca Landing Guide

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Everything you need to know to Land on your feet and start running your own show in Cuenca Ecuador!






THIS LATEST UPDATED THIRD EDITION INCLUDES BRAND NEW SECTIONS ON REAL ESTATE AND QUITO AIRPORT YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS and is a full 190 pages!!




Dear Frank and Angie-
Thank you for your Cuenca landing guide. You did a wonderful job of putting it together. I am a publisher of print and ebooks so I have high standards for books. Yours is very well written and the best of the many I've read on Ecuador. Great job!  -- Linda from St Louis, Mo

Inside the DIY Cuenca Landing Guide Frank and Angie bring you more of the same – holding nothing back—from the ground up—practical and informative Ecuador details that you have come to trust them to deliver to you: 
Rental resources not well known or widely circulated within the expat community.  This is the secret to finding an economical, furnished or unfurnished apartment or hostel for long or short term stays, -- fast!!! You will have at your fingertips everything you’ll need to make your stay easier, more fulfilling, less expensive, and less stressful!
How can we make such a claim? Readers of our Discover Cuenca website blog know that we live here like the locals do and have done all the footwork already to make our own lives easier, more fulfilling, and less expensive, not to mention, less stressful! Now you too can know what we have learned, but without all the mistakes.
This Cuenca Landing Guide will save you many times the purchase price in real dollar terms - and in time saved. It’s like letting the authors Frank and Angie take you by the hand and showing you the ins and outs of Cuenca.  Let them take you around town, with vivid color photos, clearly defined maps and concise instructions.    

Here are just some of the things you will find inside

How to beat food inflation

Do you really want to pay $3-$4 per pound for real butter like the rest of the expats? Or would you prefer the inside scoop at $0.72 cents, yes that’s per pound, for farm fresh butter, not the old insipid stuff at higher prices! 

We were amazed when we found out about this one store in Cuenca that has farm fresh butter at a local price!  Anywhere else, expect to pay U.S prices, really! This Ecuadorian store also has good prices on other food items. It was a great find, and is virtually unknown to the expat community.  And now we’re sharing it with YOU! Just that one thing is worth the price of this book.      Save 50% to 100% on food shopping without negotiating!
How about going out for European pastries at Ecuadorian prices? Cuenca boasts some wonderful bakeries and we’ve been to almost every single one, which means we know where the cleanest, great service, best flavors, best atmosphere and value for your money is. We didn’t just come here and then write a book about the best places to go. We’ve gone local and we take you where the locals go for the really good pastry shops.
Secrets to receiving mail packages on time in Ecuador. This hard to find information is not well known, and this guide will save you many weeks or months of anguish.  Here’s the down to earth, clearly articulated and bottom line of what to do, where and how.  Forget  language barriers… we know the ins and outs and share them here with you in the DIY Cuenca Landing Guide.
After reading this Cuenca guide book you will know the old town area better than someone that has lived here for years.  No more wasting your precious time just trying to figure out where everything is, or paying a facilitator $75-$100 to orient you around town just to show you the tired and worn average gringo spots.  You will know, not only where it is, but what it looks like and how to get there, before you even step off the plane.
You won’t be a bumbling gringo…you will be a respected gringo for knowing your way.  When we first arrived in Cuenca, for two weeks we bumbled around like a family of chickens with their head cut off. Everything is in Spanish, everyone talks Spanish, and so most new-comers end up patronizing only the English run shops, restaurants, and stores, at corresponding North American prices! But we didn’t do that!  We went local and YOU can too, when you own the DIY Cuenca Landing Guide!
We will show you how to have a Cell Phone and a Landline for under $10 per month, because, we’re doing it now!  
In Addition, you will know the nitty gritty of Ecuadorian culture and what going local truly means. No more being despised by the locals for being a rich Gringo.
You may look like a Gringo, but you don’t have to act like one.  Why do we say this?  Because we’ve been pounding the streets on a daily basis just like the locals, intentionally staying away from Gringo establishments and getting to the bottom line of life in Ecuador, living well on small means and enjoying life to the fullest, just like the Ecuadorians do.
We share our most charming and precious stories in the Cuenca Landing Guide, giving you the real flavor of Ecuador. These anecdotal educational real stories will help you understand what it’s really like to go local.  Angie wanted to post the funny and factual stories and educational experiences on the blog, but Frank kept telling her to wait and share the best for last in the DIY Cuenca Landing Guide.
Short Term Stays
7 days to 30 days
Hostels –starting from $8! We share photos of hostels and their rooms with contact details. The frugal hostel finds in this guide book are clean, a great value, friendly staff, and we personally have been in each hostel checking it out for you, even the linens. We’re not going to send you to a dumpy place. If we wouldn’t stay there then it will not be posted in this Cuenca book.
Longer Term Stays
14 days to 6 months or longer
Apartments for Rent!  As of this writing it is getting more difficult to find  furnished rentals at a decent price. But they are out there and with the resources we provide in this guide book, a little patience and bargaining, you’ll still be able to find a decent place to stay that will not break your pocket book.
How to deal with rental agents, if you end up wanting to use one.  We offer free email support with this guidebook, let us know…we’ll help. 
For the true do it yourselfer Google translate works ok too.
Also included:
Clear Address Instructions with Maps!
Everything within (old Cuenca) Walking Distance 
What you’re missing away from Old Cuenca…
How and What Bus to Take 
Pictures to Recognize Spots 
Lots of Photos and Landmarks 
Personal Experience Recommendations 
Frugal Places to Stay with Clean and Cozy Rooms
rooms starting at just $8! -- PHOTOS of each Hostel 
Rental Contacts and Resources 
How to find rentals that are not advertised 
The inside scoop on Condo purchases 
Ecuadorian prices on dental work—full listing 
Free Email Support + Services 
How to Stay Safe in Cuenca 
What Stores to Shop at within Walking Distance 
How to Get a Cell Phone and Landline for under $10 bucks! 
What to do for fun, where to go 
And much, much, more!

WARNING:  with this guide in your hands, you will have the full understanding of what it’s really like to live in Cuenca Ecuador and you may decide it’s not for you after all, or-- decide you are not going to wait any longer to jump into your new life in Cuenca Ecuador and move here next week.  See you then!!!


"I am not suffering from so much sensory overload as I experienced when I first arrived, having gone to many of the places in your landing guide, which I found incredible in both its detail and up-to-date information. I congratulate you on being diligent in your efforts to create such a valuable item for those of us moving to Ecuador. The amount of incredibly important information contained in the document more than pays for itself. I think to myself...the cost of ten trips from Mall Del Rio equals the cost of the landing guide! Wow!" --Brian Osburn from New Mexico
    
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