La Fortuna Hostels - Reviews and Rates

27th July
Up early on Ometepe and head to the ferry point to grab some breakfast. The power goes out and we end up ******* around for far too long after deciding to wait to see if the power will come back on.
We eventually eat and get the ferry. From the ferry our taxi driver tells us that there is a direct bus to Monteverde but if we catc...

Today we were picked up from the town where we are building and taken to La Fortuna, a tourist town at the foot of Volcan Arenal. On the way we visited a famous high bridge where we stopped to take a few pictures. We were picked up by Alonso who spoke very good English and took us to his family run hotel where we stayed in wooden villas. After u...

Hej alle. Så kommer der lidt nyt herfra. Det bliver lidt kortere denne gang, jeg kan jo ikke spilde alt for lang tid ved computeren, nu hvor jeg kun har 2 uger tilbage! Der er lidt billeder fra vores dejlige lejlighed med tilhørende pool, og ellers er der billeder fra byture, og fra turen til Arenal som jeg vil skrive lidt om nu. Søndag morgen h...

So wow! I had a blast today! We started off the day a bit late ...around 10 am and slept in for once. The Lost Canyon tour that included 4 rappels off waterfalls was sooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome! I love love love it! We met up with the other GAP tour going on the same time as ours and the day was mostly rainy and cold. I wasn´t sure if the w...

We left early and caught the boat back to San Carlos. From here we catch another boat up the Rio Frio to the Costa Rican border at Los Chiles. On the way all the passengers were forced to don life vest but only when we pasted a military post on the river. The trip took about an hour and a half and we arrived at Costa Rican immigration at 11.45am...

Today would be our last day with taz the surfer from Oz. We´ll miss the little guy very much. We left at 5:00am to all take the punt that immigration and the crossing would be open on Sunday. In luck.We took the boat 3.5 hours up the river back to San Carlos in the rain to find immigration would open at noon. Yippieee! Into Costa Rica. We are al...

A very bumpy ride from Monteverde had us at the shore of Lake Arenal. An artificial lake from a hydro-electric dam, it couldn't be in a better location. Crossing it on the ferry, the active Volcan Arenal looms in front of you and lush vegetation comes down to the waters edge. Volcan Arenal reawakened in 1968 and rocks and gas exploded out the si...

Today was the day - Canopy Extreme. What is it - in the rain forest are about 16 zip wires between 40 and 500 meters long and between 20 to 80 meters high. Well, and you hang and race from platform to platform on quite a good speed. You brake with your hand - which is covered by a glove - have a look at the fotos and videos and enjoy (if I actua...

Hola! We left today for our Arenal adventure right after classes. We had to leave early (literally right after classes at 12) because this is the rainy season and there have been problems with mudslides and floods on the way to La Fortuna (the town closest to Arenal.) At some parts along on journey the roads were definitely flooded. With a few m...

Next stop, La Fortuna, at the base of the Arenal Volcano. It took three hours by 'jeep-boat-jeep' across the Arenal Lake to get to La Fortuna and the view of the volcano was spectacular, both from town and from the boat across the lake. Highlights - Probably one of the highlights of the whole trip: watching the red-hot rocks of lava spewing out ...