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- San Jose
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Top Hotels in Puntarenas
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Barcelo Tambor Beach Hotel Puntarenas
357 reviews -
Tioga Hotel Puntarenas
13 reviews
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Oleaje Sereno Hotel Puntarenas
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Villas del Roble Puntarenas
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Alamar Aparthotel Puntarenas
6 reviews
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Fiesta Resort & Casino All Inclusive Puntarenas
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Ayi Con Hotel Puntarenas
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Punta Leona & Selvamar Puntarenas
194 reviews
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Beach Break Costa Rica Puntarenas
21 reviews
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Villas Lirio Hotel Puntarenas
27 reviews
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Frank's Place Puntarenas
16 reviews
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Gran Hotel Chorotega Puntarenas
2 reviews
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Casa Caletas Boutique Hotel Puntarenas
1 review
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Hotel Amor de Mar Puntarenas
91 reviews
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Playa Bejuco Puntarenas
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Hotel Bahia Gigante Puntarenas
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Hotel Castanuelas Puntarenas
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Hotel La Punta Puntarenas
4 reviews
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Hotel Las Brisas Puntarenas
15 reviews
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Hotel Portobello Puntarenas
2 reviews
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Villas Corcovado Puntarenas
18 reviews
Puntarenas
Travel Blogs from Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Hey guys, this is your lucky day!!!
This is a top pick! ... good, but as soon as the weekend is over it gets quiet and a bit boring. The beaches are not particularly nice, to be Costa Rica, and the town got little atmosphere. A bit like an US suburb or small city with strip malls and fast food chains dotting the ...
Pure Vida
This is a top pick! ... in a real river - just pulled over to the side of the road and went up on the bridge and looked down!!!!!! Costa Rica has the world's largest biodiversity - more species here than anywhere else on earth. It is only the size of Nova ...
Manuel Antonio and Surf lessons
This is a top pick! ... ). We leave at 7:30am and won't arrive at our hostal until 5:30pm! That is the one thing they need to fix here in Costa Rica. A lot of the roads are terrible and the bus schedules are worse. There are two buses that leave Puntaranus for Monteverde one is ...
No paradise found.
This is a top pick! It's like a cheesy Hollywood movie. I have just arrived in beautiful Manuel Antonio with it's stunning beaches, where big surf crash in from the Pacific ocean. I'm walking down the beach in an incredible fiery orange sunset, when I spot Gabriella, the ...
The Great Kapok Tree
This is a top pick! Hi, So we went for a 2hr jungle walk this morning. I was hoping to see more but it was still pretty neat. We heard but did not see howler monkeys. We saw 3 tucans and a few other neat birds whose names I don't know as the guide only knew the ...
Pura Vida.
This is a top pick! Pura Vida or Pure Life, you hear it everywhere you go in Costa Rica, from smiling Ticos and Ticas, the locals around here. The country is absolutely beautiful, with amazing palm fringed white beaches dotting two different oceans, heaps of national parks, ...
Finally we made it.
This is a top pick! Hi all, Well we made it into Costa Rica 2days ago. We were in late due to a flight delay. We arrived at our Hostal and crashed for the night. The next morning we were to leave at 9am to head south (4hrs on 2 buses). Brett had other plans. She woke up ...
The Cloud Forests of Monteverde and Santa Elena
This is a top pick! ... world only a few hours away. After many STRONG recommendations by locals, we decided to rent a 4X4 to journey to Monteverde, Costa Rica's Cloud Forest. An adventure is such an understatement for what awaited us. I will let Mark describe the road ...
Monkey Mania in Manuel Antonio
This is a top pick! ... the Monkeys, some people just don't get it. Is it any wonder our world continues to sink. We, human beings, just don't get it. Costa Rica at last. It has been a long time coming but we've finally arrived in Central America. We took the Red Eye out of ...
Monteverde
This is a top pick! ... , the first we have had for about 3 weeks (just to clarify, we have showered but it has been cold) - bliss. Because Costa Rica is far more touristy than its neighbors our options we far more varied. Santa Elena and Monteverde's attraction is the Cloud ...
Driving the Nicoya Peninsula
This is a top pick! ... and we found ourselves forging onward. At unmapped Playa San Miguel, we stopped to investigate the possibility of land ownership in Costa Rica. After viewing several beachfront properties and collecting a wealth of data as well as a nasty barbed wire cut, ...
Tooth Fairy Visits
This is a top pick! ... is rich! ( although a few years ago it might have been in the millions!) We are busy trying to finalizing our planning for Costa Rica. We are hoping to go on a hiking tour of the rainforest tomorrow and to a butterfly farm the next day. We have ...
A rough ride and a relaxing cup of Coffee.
This is a top pick! ... Lake Arenal. From there, we boarded a boat, crossed the lake and began our rough ride through the mountain range. The locals call it a Costa Rican massage, in total we had a 4 hrs of it. I now understand the "overland driving warnings". I'd avoid taking a ...
Paradise
This is a top pick! ... Antonio is PARADISE!!! We fell in love at first sight. We spend our last 6 days relaxing on the beaches and enjoying life. Costa Verde's theme is "More Monkey's than People", and they are right. Each morning, we were greeted by an abundance of white face ...
The Sanctuary of Santa Elena
This is a top pick! ... cost us $12, saving us $17! When travelling every penny counts..... We are staying at Pension Santa Elena Hostel in the cloudforest of Costa Rica. The hostel is really nice and has a really nice vibe. We have hot water heated by solar power so it is on ...
Ahhhh
This is a top pick! Hi All, We are having a very relaxing time here although it is very humid. We walked up to a waterfall today and I was just dripping with sweat when we arrived. I couldn't wait to get in. There was a nice place to sit where the water just rushed ...
Zip Lining and Orchids
This is a top pick! ... After years of avoiding gardens, my Mom's influence finally rubbed off. We spend our afternoon relaxing and visiting the local Orchid Garden. Costa Rica has over 500 orchids, the smallest being the size of a pin head. I have attached a few photos. Enjoy! ...
Welcome to the jungle. It's this way! No that way!
This is a top pick! ... of nights, one of the least touristy areas in the accessible part of the park. But that doesn't say much, as this part of Costa Rica is much less touristy than the rest. Not many people make it down here. Mainly due to it's distance from the capital I ...
Hot and Humid
This is a top pick! ... in town were full. We took a walk along the coast, which a river runs into and is not a particularly attractive stretch of Costa Rica's coast. Des and I had some refreshments in the local bar which had many American tourists, and other tourists as well, ...
Lovely leafy ride
This is a top pick! ... get run over. Because of the heat, we decided to find accommodation at lunch time and settled in the El Bramadero Hotel in Liberia, Costa Rica. The first thing we did after Des brought both bikes into the Hotel complex, was to go for a swim in the Hotel ...
Rain, Rain, Rain
This is a top pick! ... Panama, but all our efforts to contact shipping agents there proved fruitless, and we finally stumbled upon a shipping opportunity directly from Costa Rica. On June 2nd our van will be loaded on to "MV Libra Leader", a Japanese vessel that delivers new ...
Walking on Water
This is a top pick! So we took one last trip to the beach today. We had a nice time playing in the surf and walking on water (what can we say?). We are looking forward to packing up and heading to Manuel Antonio tomorrow. The kids are really going to miss their friends ...
Cloud Forest, Continental Divide and Humming Birds
This is a top pick! Peter and I decided to do a tour, and I would not recommend it. It seemed appealing, mainly due to transportation issues. We now know that: you can take the bus (50cents), rent a guide at the park, and hike the divide for a quarter of the price. Oh well! ...
Christmas in the Bad Lands....Smells Like Fish
This is a top pick! So our time in Bocas del Torro was pretty cool before Christmas - we had a pretty good routine of heading to the beach, cooking dinner with some other travellers in the hostel and repeating. Then we ran into our Australian friends who we met in ...
Small-town Costa Rica (w/ p.u.)
This is a top pick! Ojochal is a teeny little town, not even in the Lonely Panic if you can believe it. It has all the necessary amenities including a French baker man, an internet cafe, and a grocery store. It doesn´t have many luxuries such as telephone service, power ...
Sleeping by the sea
... for dinner and this is when we met some more people. Firstly there was Rosa from Finland, 20 years old and spending 3 months in Costa Rica learning Spanish and enjoying the warm weather. She lives in Finland near the Arctic so pretty cold and they have no ...
Redneck Riviera
This is a top pick! ... . But, also, time has probably changed Costa Rica. I will likely be reluctant to return anytime soon. ----------- Part of Costa Rica's strength is due to a fascinating social experiment that they started in 1948 when they abolished their army. I ...