Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí hotels

Pros: Beautiful garden, clean rooms, nice staff. Awesome place to observe the local wildlife and plants.

Pros: Beautiful facility and the staff were wonderful. The breakfast was perfect.

Pros: Nothing. Tried to checkout as soon as we arrived but it was late. Left first thing the next morning. The manager was within his rights not to give us a refund for the second night we would not use, ...

Cons: Location old rundown hot humid noise. So much truck noise from road. Barking dogs.

Pros: Located in a park with beautiful trees and plants. Good place for bird spotting. Very friendly staff.

Pros: The staff were polite and helpful and the Costa Rican breakfast was great. The grounds are lovely and the birds and wildlife are a treat. The front porch was great.

Cons: The family suite is very dark. The bed was so-so.

Pros: This was like paradise : a nice safe room with view on the wildlife and the great tropical sounds...better than I could ever dream. The manager, Melvin, was very kind and helped to identify the ...

Pros: Very nice setting... very beautiful gardens full of life... Very helpful and nice staff. Great food... For us a very nice surprise and we can recommend to all nature lovers...

Pros: The gardens & wildlife were the best I've experienced in 6 years here! Toucans and monkeys abounded, plus many other birds, a couple of sloths, the beautiful river & gardens - it was ...

Cons: The breakfast was fine, though I could've used coffee before 7am. Many people are up watching wildlife very early, and a coffee-maker in the room would've made it faultless for this addict......

Pros: The meals were very good. The location was lovely and feeding the birds at the feeder was a wonderful experience to see the local birds for photo ops.

Cons: The buildings and furnishings were needing some attention and upkeep and general cleaning in the common areas would have made the stay more comfortable. The A/C was not functional but we were ...

Pros: Lovely grounds with wildlife and birds. Good breakfast and friendly staff. Given alternative room to the one we booked but staff very helpful and provided a microwave. No A/C but fan kept us cool.

Cons: Difficult to transport the luggage over the bridge particularly in the heavy rain.

Pros: Very good food, clean and close to la Selva Biological Station. Good birding even even on hotel grounds.

Cons: Nothing that would warrant a complaint.

Pros: A friendly and warm reception after a tedious journey was appreciated. The receptionist organised a brilliant trip on the river for us - most helpful. Our room was surrounded by beautiful flowers and...

Cons: The bathroom could do with some modernisation.

Pros: Hotel with a great garden, a lot of opportunities to observe the wildlife. Great experience. Ara Ambigua Lodge in Sarapiqui was the highlight of my trip in Costa Rica. I recommend this hotel to ...

Pros: They feed the Birds in the Morning so you can see them while you have Breakfast.

Pros: I liked where the hotel is located. I enjoyed the fruit served at breakfast and I thought the overall standard of service of the staff was good.

Cons: The noise at night. I could hear the people in the room next to me and other sounds in the area. I also would have liked mosquito netting by the windows. At night I was concerned about having the ...

Pros: Gardens

Cons: Nothing

Pros: The grounds were kept up, a lot of birds to see and here, food was good, staff very pleasant.

Cons: Butterfly and frog garden un kept and poor.

Pros: Clean and compfortable and simple with beautiful grounds and a terrace looking into the gardens. Friendly staff.

Cons: Pool could have been cleaner

Pros: The gardens, look and restaurant were brilliant

Cons: Somewhere to try your clothes would of been great, maybe a line in the shower

Pros: Great place to stay with AC near la selva. Lots of birds in the gardens and on the feeders. Amiable staff.

Cons: No wifi in the rooms

Pros: Wonderful Experience. I was there for a photography trip. The room I stayed is really very big. The windows are big and with curtains open I was facing the forest. If you that are considering to stay ...

Cons: The hotel doesn't have air conditioning. It was may, beginning of the rainy, green, season, so temperatures shall decrease, but the thermal sensation was high since moisture is very high. Rooms ...

Pros: Need to mention the guy who took care of us, seems to be the manager or even the owner ( with glasses), don't remember the name. He did everything he could to recover the situation. A very good ...

Cons: We were assigned very bad rooms when we arrived with wrong numbers of guests (4 instead of 6) , on the side of the road with very significant noise from the trucks and cars . We lost almost two hours ...

Pros: Many activities offered to explore the flora and fauna in the unspoiled beauty of the Jungle. Beauty river to bird watch and raft. Wonderful opportunities for watching tropical birds.

Pros: Location was great.

Cons: No AC, No TV

Pros: Food, room, facility

Cons: Our room was right by the road. Extremely noisy

Pros: Surrounded by wildlife, right in the middle of the rainforest. Really helpful staff who organised activities at short notice.

Cons: Right on an extremely noisy main road with a constant flow of lorries - description gave no impressoin of this. 1 member of staff Gus/Gustavo was irritatingly intrusive.

Pros: Good location for birders

Cons: Lack of WiFi in the rooms

Pros: A great location in the heart of the rain forest. Really good tours given by knowledgeable guides. We did the night walk and birdwatching and both were excellent.

Cons: The accommodation is really spectacular but a bit dated and could do with a refresh. The food in the Lodge's restaurant is rather bland and quite expensive. The pizzas in the on site Italian ...

Pros: The environment is very natural. The food is delicious. The staff are very nice.

Cons: The bed is not so comfortable for me.

Pros: The desk staff were very friendly and helpful. Thank you.

Pros: - The location is convenient on the way from Arenal to Tortuguero. - The cabins are big and comfy.

Cons: - There was a strong smell of some sorts of chemical product in the bathroom which spread everywhere in the room. It was really strong and made it very unpleasant to sleep in the room. - We were in ...

Pros: Very close to the sarapiqui outdoor centre to do rafting the day later. The owner was very nice and the breakfast was delicious

Cons: The cleanliness of the beds and bathroom was fine, but the kitchen was dirty. I wouldn't have use it, or utensils. Also, there was no hot water

Pros: Owner very friendly and overly eager to please. Recommended a nice restaurant which had his advertising. Very nice family owned hostel. Very clean. Well maintained except shower.

Cons: They had a suicide shower which electrically did not work so had to take a COLD shower which wasn't too cool on a chilly rainy night

Pros: Clean, quiet and comfy after a long day. Helpful friendly family running a little gem.

Cons: All good.

Pros: Well located near the Chocolate Tour and Aventuras Sarapiqui. Very friendly and committed personal.

Cons: The traffic on the main road was quite load.

Pros: The room was very nice -- modern furniture and bathroom, very clean. The owner was very nice and helpful.

Cons: Nothing to do there. It's on a main road with no facilities, no garden to sit in or places to walk to. The small restaurant across the street doesn't open until sometime in the afternoon, ...

Pros: This hotel was not far from La Selva, and the Sarapique River. It was comfortable, quiet and very clean. Excellent value for the money.

Cons: Perhaps thicker pillows.

Pros: Helpful staff. Many tropical birds surrounding

Cons: Nothing

Pros: Clean, friendly staff, cabins are separated to reduce noise

Pros: We had a wonderful stay at Cinco Ceibas. Although the sleeping accommodations are basic, the lodge, the food and the people are anything but basic. The food was the best we ate in Costa Rica, the ...

Pros: Food quite nice, breakfast typical. Staff super helpful and friendly, did everything they could for us. Local 'pub/bar' a bit, well, rustic but OK (but closed on Mondays). Local shop has ...

Cons: The bungalows were being renovated and ours was unfinished. Shower needed fixing. When fixed it was barely luke-warm and hardly more than a dribble. No air con but reasonable desk fans on the wall. On...

Pros: Everything! It is crazy that this amazing Oasis is just off of the main Street! Last night we went to bed watching fire flies and listening to wildlife and this morning woke up watching spider monkeys...

Pros: Right in the center of town, watched a soccer game right across the street. Had a room in the rear, couldn't even tell you were in the city. Last but in no way least is Angel. He loves his work...

Pros: Central location but close to forest/ wildlife. Helpful staff. Decent restaurant.

Cons: Basics need upgrading (beds, towels, etc)

Pros: Angel, the great guy working at the hotel. He took us on an exiting night walk.

Cons: Bed. Room. AC

Pros: The staff, location and room were all good. Additionally the property has a nice swimming pool, and is located very close to rainforest. Sloths, and other exotic creatures could all be seen from my ...

Cons: It seemed odd not to provide any drinking glass/beaker within the bedrooms.

Pros: Nice hotel and comfy room. Good cleaning standards

Cons: A bit pushy in trying to sell a garden tour

Pros: The hotel is surrounded by nature. The swimming pool is a special treat after being outside doing sporty things all day. The staff were super nice and accommodating.

Cons: The restaurant is really the only restaurant in town and I thought it was a little expensive for the quality.

Pros: Lovely large room overlooking the garden. There was an attached restaurant which served good cheap meals.

Cons: Nothing

Pros: The hotel is right in the middle of the town but isolated from the sound and activity. Rooms have a balcony with views into the jungle.

Pros: Good hotel, big rooms, good location in the sarapiqui town close by to many shops The hotel staff were helpful On site restaurant with good food

Cons: WiFi not so good Pool was not so clean No family room, we had to split to 2 rooms, maybe you can ask specially to add extra bed to the room because the rooms are big and have plenty of space.

Pros: Just steps from the bus station, which was very handy. Nice little balcony on our room. A/C was nice.

Cons: Breakfast was pretty poor, as was the Bambu restaurant overall.

Pros: Friendly staff, nice gardens, many birds and insects

Cons: Poor value for the price we payed. Rooms are very basic and could use some freshing up

Pros: The staff at this lodge were excellent particularly the owner who I last met 11 years ago. She has made a great effort to maintain standards.

Cons: Very Little.

Pros: Property was nice and peaceful and ideally located as we were just passing through the town on way to the coast

Pros: Everything!! The quiet location on the edge of the forest made for a very relaxing stay. We saw monkeys, birds and all sorts of wildlife. The spring-fed pool was divine after a day exploring the ...

Cons: Nothing.

Pros: Fantastic location, close to nature. There is a very nice scale to this hotel and watching the birds at the feeder while having breakfast is awesome !

Pros: The overall experience was excellent! The staff is very welcoming, friendly and helpful when you want to book an activity. The location is beautiful, the garden is just wonderful and the rooms very ...

Cons: Nothing, everything was great!

Pros: We arrived very late for an one night stop over but Maria (the owner) was waiting for us with a smile on her face. Although it was very late she also offered us that the kitchen can make us something ...

Cons: The town itself is not a big thing.

Pros: Backs on the river with easy access. Clean and comfortable with fans in each room.

Cons: Traffice noise from nearby highway

Pros: Its clean.

Cons: This place is located in the middle of no where. Bookings.com stated that there was shuttle and airport shuttle service but that is untrue. You need a car to do any tours or to get around. Nothing is ...

Pros: Setting amazing. Outside space. WiFi.

Cons: Reception staff always more interested in using their phones than helping guests. Shared kitchen.

Pros: Great location, great atmosphere, very nice and helpful staff

Pros: The staff was wonderful.

Pros: Very friendly and helpful guide, Carlos. Plentiful and tasty costa rican food. Remoteness and opportunity to be very close to the rainforest environment.

Cons: Journey by horse and then foot (5 hours) carrying all kit for 3 days was very tough and parts of the track hazardous. This was not made clear in the information about the accommodation. We were ...

Pros: The lodge is in the middle of the jungle. The sounds and the views are amazing! The guide is very capable. You have a morning and afternoon walk (and night walk if you want to). The food is delicious...

Cons: Nothing! But you have to be fit to enjoy this. And you must be able to handle an occasionally cold shower.

Pros: Food OK. Large portions. Great activities right across the street.

Pros: There wasn't much to like here...the breakfast was ok. The lady who runs the place seemed nice, but difficult to communicate unless you speak good Spanish.

Cons: Where to begin? The first thing we saw was a cockroach in the bathroom - we thought 'hey it's Costa Rica, it happens,' but this should've been a warning. We left the light on in the ...

Cons: The dogs of the cabina right next to our room, which was obviously inhabited by a staff of the hotel, have been barking all night, and no one even tried to silence them. We didn't sleep. At all. ...

Pros: It was clean

Pros: It included a small kitchen, sitting room & bedroom for the price. Not to far from sarapiqui river.

Cons: Nothing special about view but we did not pick it for the view.

Pros: Swimming pool open until 10 for free ! Nice place for compensate jet lag.