Tamarindo Small Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Today was interesting, went out surfing this morning, or what I like to call surfing, more attempting to surf. It was a lot bigger than earlier this week, it was super hard to paddle out, walk out whatever...sets were coming in 8 at a time at one point, probably 3-4 feet...which is freaking huge for me. I actually did catch 2 good waves..which f...

Jaco Beach The next day I took the bus to Jaco Beach on the Pacific coast. Jaco is the next hot development spot in Costa Rica. Rumors are flying that Donald Trump is building there, and that the government will improve the highway and shorten the drive from San Jose from 3 hours to 1 hour. These are popular rumors. I have heard them with vario...

Arrived in Tamarindo on Saturday. We were thinking of staying in Liberia for a night, but we got there and it really looked as if there wasn´t a lot to see, so we ploughed on to our new home for 2wks Mel has to register with the school tomorrow, then we meet our host family. We´ve treated ourselves to a nice place with a pool right on the front!

After around 40 hours travelling (Tube, flights, 10 hours in LA airport, and 6 hour bus journey) We finally arrived at the beach in Tamarindo. Unfortunately it was already dark so we just found the first place we could find to stay - a hostel packed with drunk american teenagers, we moved the next night to a really nice cabina. lots of dawny sur...

couldn't resist one quick entry on the surfing safari. dude, this is the life. here's a model day: -get up at 7am. look out window at the gorgeous beach. do some pilates on the beach with some pilates instructors that are in my camp. -eat a big breakfast in the beachside cafe -have a morning surf session -sit on my patio over the beach and read ...

We surfed for a few hours at Playa Grande, right in front of our hotel. Again, the conditions were not good, but the surf was okay. We did an estuary tour in the early morning and "Pappy" the hotel dog followed us 2 miles to the tour launching point. She then jumped in the boat with us and lucky, the guide was in a good mood and allowed her to s...