Gay friendly? meaning?

[Doc]

Typically at a gay-friendly hotel, you can expect to see other gay people staying there, but it will not be exclusively gay people staying there. You can expect that the staff will be courteous to gay people as well as anyone else.

As an example of a not-gay friendly hotel, my partner and I were recently in a small town and got a room for the night, reserving in advance a room with 1 king-sized bed. When the two of us together arrived the front desk clerk made a point to inform us we'd reserved a room with one bed, to which we replied, yes, that is what we wanted. Then he told us that the couch in the room we reserved was a pull out couch, if we wanted to use it. We told him we wouldn't need to use it as a bed. He responded that he could provide us with sheets for the pull out couch, completely ignoring the fact that we asked for reserved 1 bed, confirmed we wanted 1 bed, and intended to sleep together in 1 bed as we customarily do. He seemed completely baffled that we would want to do this. We were completely baffled that he didn't see us as a couple. That, to me is about the best experience you could expect at a not-gay-friendly hotel. It could be much worse from there.

[P.S. Ecuador is such a beautiful country! I spent a month there in Quito and high in the Andes, even hiking to the top of Cotopaxi. I'd love to see the coast someday.]

Thats so weird, the weekend before last three friends and I stayed in a hotel room with only two beds and the person at the desk thought nothing of it.