Monteverde Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Sometimes the journey is more exciting than the destination - a common consequence of travel. The 5 hour projected bus ride to Monteverde from San Jose turned into 8 hours. It is much more comforting when you are able to strike up conversations with strangers. I was fortunate to meet Luke and Natalie, from Bristol, UK. I initially mistook them f...

Día 7 - Nos perdimos en el camino. Cuando llegamos fuimos a la selva. Dimos una caminata, vimos monos y un pájaro bien grande y con muchos colores. Encontramos un club y pasamos la noche festejando en él. Conocimos a unos chilenos y hablamos mucho con ellos. También nos juntamos con unos amigos que conocimos en Moctezuma y pasamos la noche baila...

Hola! My last couple of days on Little Corn Island were, as expected, amazing! I did 2 more dives, at a site that was about a 50 minute boat trip away. Definitely worthwhile, as it was the best yet. We saw many reef sharks and a bull shark (which swam directly towards me, got within about 3 meters, then swam away), and literally the most fish I ...

With our SCUBA certificate in hand we headed off Bocas island via speedboat to catch our bus up to San Jose, Costa Rica. Costa Rica is not just home to endless banan plantations, but is a well oiled touristic machine. Despite the American influence it retains amazing natural beauty. From rainforests to surf beaches, this place has it all!! Staye...

We only had a couple of days in Monteverde, but it was a nice trip. First, however, we had to get there. 3:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon we got on a bus from Alajuela headed to Monteverde, with expected arrival around 6:30. After many hours on the steep mountain road in first gear, we finally reached the town of Santa Elena, around 8pm. I told Travis...

It´s been a beautiful couple of days. Travis flew in on Monday and we spent a few days with the friends in Nicoya, Grethel came to visit also. We had the opportunity to go to Playa Ostional. It is about 3 hours away on bus through crazy dirt roads and 3 rivers, but well worth the trip. Playa Ostional is known to be one of the very few beaches in...

Pura Vida!! Did the jeep-boat-jeep journey from Arenal to Santa Elena, Monteverde because to go around the hills would have been a nightmare. The roads are unpaved. There was a clear shot of Volcan Arenal as clouds parted and it put on a show just as we were leaving on the boat. Still have the watermelon! Seatbelts have been invented in Costa Ri...

If you are looking for big adventure in Monteverde, then zip lines are the way to go. Our host, Ronnie, booked us a canopy tour through 100% Adventura, and they guarantee total satisfaction. For $25 per person we were picked up in front of our Sleepers Hostel, and whisked up the hills of Monteverde. The roads were pretty bone-shattering, so we ...

When we left Nosara, we were hoping to get to Monteverde as quickly as we could, but we weren´t quite sure if we were going to Monteverde or Arenal, and we also thought there might be a chance to see some mass turtle arrivals at a different beach north up the coast. So we took a bus heading to San Jose, and got off in Liberia, the cowboy capital...

He Said: Central America has had more than its share of devastating political turbulence. Costa Rica is the bright exception to the revolutions and poverty that has plagued most of the "Banana Republics". The longstanding democratic tradition, high level of exports, and burgeoning tourism industry have given Costa Rica's population a level of af...