Tabacon Hot Springs La Fortuna

The Arenal area is a playground for light adventure - white water rafting, zip lines, canopy tours, horseback riding, hiking in the jungle, and windsurfing. Then there is the hot springs - capitalizing on the natural phenomenon of the volcanic heated water. Oh, and of course the reason anyone ever even started coming to this once remote farming …

Costa Rica was a short but sweet trip. We stayed in San Pedro, close to San Jose and actually travelled by public transport to get there most of the way which was really not a hassle during the day, though if we had arrived late i wouldn't have done it.

The hostel was wonderful (I've written and tagged a review of it on this page). It was …

Arenal was another dormant volcano, until 1968. A huge explosion triggered 4 rupture points and resulted in disaster. As a result, Arenal has little vegetation (unlike her sister Cerro Chato).

We began our hike at the rangers station, the trail was only 3.4 km (6.8 return). The hike was easy, but wet. For some reason we neglected to bring …

We again had the liberty of sleeping late today, but could not even sleep until 8 am. Guess our sleep schedules are adjusting... We then ate at the almost Samasati good breakfast buffet at Casa Luna Hotel. We had the morning off to do whatever we wanted. The others in our group decided to do additional activities like zip lining, riding ATV's or …

Being greeted by rain upon arrival to La Fortuna we had our fingers and toes crossed for a dry night! Alas, the dull hum in our room was not just the fan - it was the rain! Asking myself 'why are we putting ourselves through this at 3 in the morning?!', we reluctantly got dressed. After a quick 'breakfast' stop in town we started to make our bumpy …

So, when we left off our story, our car had a disassembled ignition and was left unlocked in the parking lot of our hotel, since we did not have a key which opened the door. This was obviously a very unsatisfying state of affairs. Thus, our first order of business after breakfast was to go to the locksmith and get the promised key for our car. We …

... pumps gallons and gallons of fresh water into the spring each minute. Eliminating the need for chemicals. After succumbing to \ a sweat induced exhaustion we enjoyed a beautiful dinner at the lodge. Tabacon Hot springs was another highlight for ...

... Seeing it was my birthday we had decided to splash out, and hence spent the afternoon and evening at the Tabacon Hot Springs. It´s a 5 star resort with 12 geothermically heated natural pools embedded in a primary rain forest with exotic gardens and ...

... and some random luck (we were asking about rooms and met a couple people who had an extra one reserved) we wound up at Tabacon Hot Springs, a super nice and cozy hotel with an amazing hot springs river that has been turned into a big spa/pool area. The ...

... with them. It was a rain poncho jump in puddles type day. We booked onto a bus that would take us to the Tabacon Hot Springs which are apparently world famous. This place was gourmet and tops for style. People were strutting around in white robes. ...

... near the hotel; the restaurant didn't look like much, but was pretty tasty.  After that, we headed to the Tabacon Hot Springs.  We had actually had a reservation there the night before, but had been unable to go for reasons obvious to anyone ...

... . Lunch is wonderful, and everybody is exited about what we might see today. Before we check out the volcano more, we visit Tabacon hot springs. Now I've been to Baden Baden with it's natural springs, and some of them are "thermal". These here are HOT. ...

... I went to a nearbny store so I could pick up one more gift from a shop.  Afterwards, we all headed out to the Tabacon hot springs.  It was dark by then, and sprinkling - as it had been for most of the latter part of the day, kind of like ...

... or spend the day in a relaxing and luxurious resort, you can find it in this beautiful part of Costa Rica. Whether you decide to stay in a hotel in La Fortuna Town like the San Bosco Hotel, Arenal Jireh Hotel, Luigi's Lodge, or near the volcano like the ...

... !! Aaaahhh... so lovely to soak in the pools of hot water from the volcano.  There are actually 2 different sets of hot springs in La Fortuna-the less expensive one is Baldi, which is still really nice and resembled a sort of fun- park with many ...

... a major eruption started. He said "no running - we just pray". After the volcano and it's dark now, we head to the Tabacon Hot Springs for a little bit of heaven! I don't even know how many pools there were, but the water got hotter as you climbed ...