Riu Guanacaste: Awesome view of ocean and outstanding resort

Small resort but the best place we have ever been. Can't wait to go back! Highly recrememt this place. Great pools beach food rooms and entertainment. The views are out of this world and short bus ride from the airport.

Riu Guanacaste: great time with friendly staff

The hotel was beautiful and the food delicious. Fresh fruit and scenery was something to see. Cant wait to go back. We went on the river boat tour, and saw crocodiles and monkeys in ther natural habitat

Riu Guanacaste: very nice

very nice..rooms clean...people friendly..meals were good and lots of selection..located in a nice area....beach was great...lots of tours to take..the riverboat tour was very nice...we had a room with a very nice view of the Ocean.

Riu Guanacaste: Winter Escape was Great!

The hotel grounds were immaculate and the rooms were very comfortable with great ocean views. There were many pools to cool down in but the ocean was the real draw for us (beautiful black beaches, lots of sun and shade). The staff and local people were very friendly!

Allegro Papagayo by Occidental: 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.