La Fortuna Hotels - Reviews and Rates

I caught the 8 am boat from Sabalos Lodge to Sand Carlos and from there boarded the boat to cross to Costa Rica - another 1 1/2 hour trip. In Los Chiles I found an overpriced hotel and went looking for a tour of Cano Negro which is a wetlands wildlife refuge renowned for excellent birding and other wildlife. Although I saw several boats with gro...

Yesterday we continued east, down the goat paths(*), to La Fortuna. Although we chose the Jeep, Boat, Jeep option Nicky was rather disappointed because we actually went in a van instead of a jeep. We crossed the great Lake Arenal which was ŽbuiltŽabout 30 years ago to provide hydro-electric power to most of Costa Rica. Some of it is now exported...

Hola So from San Jose I met up with another 4 of the girls from the turtle project and we headed north to La Fortuna....where the famous and very very active Arenal Volcano is. It is spewing lava and sounded pretty cool. Unfortunately for us the whole thing was covered in cloud for the whole 2 days we were there and we only caught glimpses of it...

La Fortuna is a town that, unlike Pompeii, for example, sprung back to life after a volcano spewed its guts over the inhabitants. The Volcano Arenal makes for a very cool backdrop to this one-street town of tour companies, fried chicken joints and backpacker hostels. It is Central America's most active volcano (it erupted bigtime in 1968, and ha...

Two years ago I studied abroad and traveled around in Peru. I met a girl named Erin and instantly hit it off! We spent 7 weeks together and made perfect traveling companions. She lives in Seattle so I have not seen her in two years. By fate, we are both in Costa Rica at the same time and organized to meet back up! On Saturday I traveled to La Fo...

An active volcano, hammocks, swimming pool, canopy tours, rope swings, beautiful waterfalls...does life get any better than this?

I'm not exactly sure the route we took to get to La Fortuna. We had to a take a couple different buses and stop at a couple towns. We even took an extremely packed chicken bus for a couple hours. It was all wo...

We were told that the best time to see the lava flow at the top of the volcano is from 3-5 a.m., so we set our alarm and got up three times, but each time the cone was covered with clouds. Bummer. People have told us seeing the lava and red rocks go down the mountain is a life-changing sight. WeŽll try again tonight. This morning, we hiked over ...

It was a short trip for us on New YearŽs day - just 4 hours. A shuttle bus on a rough road for 2 hours and then a short boat ride across Lake Arenal. The lake is a 77 square kilometre, man made lake separating the mountain ranges of Guanacaste and Tilaran with a hydroelectric dam at one end of it. Lake Arenal is one of the best windsurfing desti...

Xmas day was a day off 2 halves, firstly with a walk in the rain forest, and boy did it rain, we were hiking through the mud, and it was raining so much that we could not see the volcano and all the animals were hiding, but you know what we just laughed our heads off all the way, crazy girls!!!! The afternoon could not have been any more differe...

So we left San Juan (Sniff, Sniff) for the lovely lush gardens of Costa Rica. We took a chicken bus to the next biggest town where we then bought a ticket for Costa Rica. We arrived about 12ish and bought a ticked for the 2pm bus (Tica Bus). So we sit and wait around for about an hour and a half then the bus pulls up. We are with about 6 people ...