Christine
9/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
A beautiful boutique hotel that was an oasis in a busy coastal village.
Pros: The location was beautiful nestled In the jungle and close to the beach.
Cons: The ground floor rooms were quite dark compared to the rooms on the upper floor.
Eve
10/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Perfect escape
Pros: Beautiful place, comfortable, clean and great food! So close to the beach and the town too. Loved seeing wild monkeys around the pool area.
Maarten
8/10
Belgium 🇧🇪
Wonderful and luxury stay close to sea
Pros: Great location, excellent breakfast, fantastic pool, nice rooms, pleasant to wake up so close to nature
Cons: The shower tends to spill water across the ridge so that a large part of the bathroom is wet after a shower.
Sara
10/10
Italy 🇮🇹
Wonderful place to stay in Montezuma. Clean and new with beautiful style.
Pros: We particularly appreciated the restaurant and the yoga classes in the morning. Also, it is really close to the beach while perfectly immersed in the jungle
Jo
8/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
A great choice if you book the King balcony room and want a comfortable room in downtown Montezuma.
Pros: The hotel is well located for downtown Montezuma, but has a really tranquil and quiet feel, surrounded by vegetation and the bonus that the monkeys visit each evening. The pool is a good size and picturesque. The restaurant facilities are also really tastefully done. Unfortunately the restaurant was closed during our visit except for breakfast (which was only advised after booking).
Cons: We booked a Queen Terrazza room (which showed on booking as the same price as the King balcony) but the room is quite dark, and the walkway to the balcony rooms crossed over the outdoor terrace. We asked to move to a King balcony room and they were able to accommodate the switch for 2 nights of our stay. The balcony rooms are much nicer. The hotel refused to honour the price shown on booking.com when we switched rooms, and booking.com themselves are taking no accountability for honouring the price shown on their site, which is pretty poor customer service. We were also disappointed that the hotel restaurant was only open for breakfast; and breakfast was particularly slow as they were training new staff (to be fair, the chef came out and apologised for the 45 mins wait).
Miranda
9/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Great place
Pros: Beautiful pool and breakfast , friendly staff and great location close to beach and town
Cons: Our room was a little small and we had ants visiting every night to eat our little treats the maids had left us but we were in the middle of the jungle
Kristiina
8/10
Estonia 🇪🇪
Great location, garden, pool and premises, but very small dark rooms
Pros: The location in Montezuma village was fantastic, everything in walking distance and the village itself charming. The surrounding greenery around the hotel was lovely, well kept and marvellous, plus lots of animal spotting (tapiri, monkeys, frogs). We also loved the pool and breakfast area. The additional option of yoga was magnificent, the terrace it was practiced on, was hidden in the midst of a jungle, with ocean and nature sounds all around you - nothing short of amazing! Even though the room itself did not have a balcony, the terrace outside with seating was nice.
Cons: The room was very small and felt cramped - nowhere to open your suitcase. It also was very dark, the windows were to the backside into the forest and gave no light. The bathroom was also scarce - no space to put your toiletries. The recommendation probably is not to book the basic room, but one with own balcony. Breakfast choice was a bit limited, you could only get either just fruit or just eggs, but to have both, there was an extra charge.
Jocelyne
8/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Book into hotel, go elsewhere to eat.
Pros: Great location and the hotel is nicely designed, but starting to look shabby and need a deep clean, The hotel is a separate business to restaurant and whilst they serve pretty good food,the staff were absolutely atrocious and clueless, the bar was never stocked, so every item they were leaving bar to go get 1/2 an hour was about time for two Margaritas each day! It was so frustrating that we didn’t bother eating there after the first night. The hotel staff very efficient and couldn’t do enough to help and very charming. We stayed here for a special occasion and the restaurant. We were disappointed.
Cons: The restaurant staff and cleanliness of restaurant.
Kath
9/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Great hotel would stay again
Pros: Location fantastic -close to beach and town but quiet and surrounded by tropical forest. Lots of wildlife in gardens.
Cons: Bar prices too expensive.
Mark
10/10
Australia 🇦🇺
Fantastic property - beautiful pool and breakfast
Pros: The pool area was sparklingly clean and very comfortable. Breakfast was the best we had in Costa Rica (with a choice from a full menu), and we were made to feel very welcome from the moment we arrived.
Cons: The rooms are on the smaller side, but well appointed and very clean.