Arenal Descanso

Pros: Beautiful location at Rio Burro. Breakfast place at the river, there was baby toecan living in the tree next to breakfast place. Delicious breakfast with lots of different fresh tropical fruits and cassada. De hotel is also an archeologic place where the found remnants of Pre-Colombian tribe. They have a little museum where you can see the artifacts. Very friendly family running the place.

Pros: We had a great time at Arenal Descanso. It’s a family owned place. The highlight was the breakfast cooked on real fire with a couple of toukans and other birds making us a company. The location was also great, a few restaurants were accessible on foot (10min walk). Perfect place for those who want to experience La Fortuna in the rustic environment.

Pros: We really enjoyed our stay at Arenal Descanso. The family hosting us was very nice and helpful and the breakfast was great. Especially, the Gallo pinto :) we loved to sit in the pretty garden watching the birds for the breakfast. Closeby are many restaurants and a river where you can swing into the water using a rope. It's fun!

Great hosts

Pros: The hosts at this property were great they were very friendly and accommodating. Breakfast was delicious and afterwards they gave us a fantastic tour around the premises where we saw frogs, different fruits, artefacts of indigenous ancestors and learnt about medicinal plants.

Pros: Very friendly family who gave us a nice tour in their beautiful garden next to the river. We saw a lot of animals there. The room was clean and very comfortable. Thank you !!

Pros: The place is beautiful and stunning. Inside and outside including the lovely people running it. The breakfast was amazing. ♡ Very nice water to swim in the river at the bridge in walking distance.

Kind family with beautiful place

Pros: WOW!!! Just amazing!!! The host family is the kindest and extremely generous. There is currently one cabine (very clean and comfortable; 2 more cabins to be built in the future), a garden with a lot of fruit trees and medicinal plants, a small archeological museum, and a dining area beside a river with wildlife. The breakfast with local food was delicious and generous, and we could see toucans just beside. The family shared a lot of information with us about the area and their plantation. Again, just WOW!

Cons: Nothing, just perfect.

Pros: A small comfortable house in nature but close to La Fortuna. By the small river, where monkeys shout, toucans and macaws are perched in the trees, turkeys are having breakfast, hummingbirds are making their nests in the garden. While sitting and drinking coffee in the terrace of the house, hummingbirds and various birds are constantly fly and chirp among the trees and flowers. Friendly and kind hosts, great breakfast. Wonderful time spent.

delightful b&b

Pros: Delightful small b&b (it has just one room!), managed by a very welcoming family. If you have basic Spanish, ask Alan to introduce you to the local flora and fauna. You will also have the opportunity to eat the fantastic breakfast cooked every day fresh for you by his wife while looking at birds. The room is large, very clean, and it has a TV with Netflix, which we enjoyed in the evening when it was dark early. The place is a 20-minute (not particularly nice) walk from the village, but it is very cheap to get an Uber or a taxi, so we did not have any problems with that. In fact, we loved not being in La Fortuna, which is not a particularly attractive village, but in the countryside, close to a small rio and a patch of forest. However, if you have a light sleep, mind that it can get noisy at night, as there are many dogs in the area.

Pros: Amazing quiet place owned by a local family. Room was neat and comfortable. Delicious breakfast by the river the next morning. Recommend this place 10/10.