Accomodations

Costa Rica Explorer

Type: Rainforest Lodges and Mountain Hotels

Our Explorer itinerary specializes in some of Costa Rica's best known rainforest and mountain lodges, many of which are the leading lodges in their area. Great care has gone into our selection of lodging partners, with particular emphasis on lodges that offer outstanding wildlife viewing opportunities. These oustanding lodges offer all the comforts of home, including hot & cold water, flush toilets, tastefully decorated beds, and delicious home cooked meals, always catering to special dietary needs.

Monteverde Lodge

The Monteverde Lodge is recommended by more guidebooks than any other hotel in Monteverde. Located in the Tilarán Mountain Range at 4,600 ft. above sea level on the edge of the world's best-known mid-elevation cloud forest, The rooms at the Lodge are designed to put you "in the forest" while protecting you from the mist and strong wind so characteristic of the area. All are spacious with solar heated hot water private baths.

Volcano Lodge

Volcano Lodge is located a safe distance away from the Arenal volcano, with each room designed to enhance the incredible views. At night you’ll have the best views of the unforgettable fiery eruptions that are every photographer’s dream.

Tortuga Lodge

The essence of Tortuguero is slow-moving tropical rivers. Everything about Tortuguero is defined by the rivers. They are Tortuguero's roads and Tortuguero's soul. If you want to bring home the essence of Tortuguero you must get in tune with the rivers.

The all pervasive presence of the water blurs distinctions. As your boat moves slowly through the forest, you are immersed in a world where the forest merges with the rivers and the water becomes part of the tree. Land and water, indoors and outdoors lose part of their meaning. The first 10 rooms built at Tortuga Lodge were dark and enclosed. Now whatever was useful from those rooms has been recycled into the community, and all rooms at Tortuga Lodge have almost as much window area as walls.

Tortuga Lodge

Designed to blend into the river environment, the pool features an environmentally friendly purification system that uses an undetectable amount of salt instead of commercial chlorine. The water does not irritate the eyes.

During the season (June through October) the highlight of your trip to Tortuguero is standing a few feet from a 300 pound Green Sea Turtle while she lays 80-100 eggs, covers up her nest, perhaps digs a false nest to throw off predators, and, finally, after more than an hour, returns to the sea.