Great vacation with my daughters

Apart from the beach, everything else was excellent. The food was good, the rooms were clean, the pool was great and the weather was perfect. Thanks to every employees for making it a great vacation, especially to Marilyne & Christian for their entertainment and Jimmy & Johnny for their excellent service.

Average

This resort was just ok. Clean, the food was decent. The service was not great. The pool area was great and the drinks were yummy! The beach was different than we are used to with the black sand but not an issue for us. This resort is out in the middle of nowhere. You habe to take a boat or taxi to get to town. About $80 for both. You can also rent a car and split the cost with a few others to reduce costs. We went for two weeks to relax. All in all i would say mission accomplished. And again [... read more] this hotel was 'fine'. It is what you make of it.

Excellent staff

With this being the first trip to Costa Rica to scope a wedding site it was all about location. We stumbled across this resort in magazine and came recommended by 2 coworkers. We arrived to be welcomed by the friendliest staff. Checkin was good and knowing from trip in that we were in for a treat with all the hills. A shuttle took us right to out floor as we call it because there is such a hill to the resort that all the buildings are built in levels so there is 3 levels. Room was a normal room  [... read more]with 2 beds. We had ground level so all the stairs were out for us. Now here's where everything got to the excellent part. We go to the buffet as we were hungry and was greeted by the hostess and sat basically anywhere as there wasn't more that 80 people in the resort. Our server (Jimmy) who in all my travels is the best server ever was very kind and spoke very good English. He stood tree and took our drink orders and never asked again. He made small talk and introduced us to Costa Rica culture. This man was by far a treasure well kept away from the world and is a gem that the rest of the world really needs to meet. Everyday we would come in and be sat in his area and he would bring us our drinks with out us asking. Great memory and great service. He recommended places to go and who we should see and took our enjoyment his personal priority. He definitely made the resort a special place to us. We did our excursions, 5 of them with some of them being the best things we have ever done. Very first thing we did was watch the leatherback turtles come to shore and lay eggs.. Total the most awesome feeling watching life start on its journey. We did ziplining, horseback riding, water sliding, rock climbing, hot tubbing, going to waterfall (on our own with car rental), bird watching and fishing out on papagayo bay. Excellent trip and are planning on returning at end of October again where we have arranged to spend a day with some of the staff in San José.