Tapirus Lodge and Reserve

Good value for a 1-2 day visit and rainforest experience

Pros: Professional management, very informative professional guide (Jaime/James), aerial tram and the animals we met several times in just one day (coati, tamandua, tapir)

Cons: Very little room, not very exciting restaurant, very high prices especially of the skytram

The jungle was beautiful.

Pros: I felt really in the jungle. So beautiful. The night tour - only available for the guests sleeping in the hotel. - we saw beautiful frogs. Also a tapir. Next day many noseapes. Room very nice.

Cons: Yes it has something of an adventure park. It did not bother me.

If you want to see a tapir, this is your place. We were sitting around the hotel and saw so much wildlife :D

Pros: The wildlife around the lodge is amazing Tapir, ant eater, toucan, aracaris, sloths, and more, without even stepping into the jungle.

Pros: Excellent location in the middle of the rain forest. Very friendly staff.

Nice stay directly in the jungle

Pros: Nice room in the middle of the jungle, directly next to the national park. Good service at the restaurant and good free water dispenser. You get 20% off for the guided tours.

Cons: Room could have a bit more storage

Enjoyable nature break in the rainforest

Pros: Location amidst rainforest, excellent birdwatching particularly for hummingbirds and amazing to seeing wild tapir wandering around the lodge entrance. Tasty food. Friendly helpful staff. The room was pretty functional but fine, great powerful hot shower and comfy bed.

Cons: The noise insulation from neighbouring rooms - could hear our neighbours chatting away. The sloth enclosure looked sad and dark. A bird flew into the snake enclosure windows whilst we were stood nearby due to the sun / reflection on the window and died on impact - they need to do something to stop this e.g stickers on windows

Excellent - highly recommend

Pros: Everything. Setting, staff were very friendly and accommodating to our needs in the off-peak season. Great reptile walk at night, and Tapirs walking across the lodge was fantastic! The river flooded preventing driving directly to the lodge, and so they picked us up in a bus and carried our luggage across for us.

Totally recommended to break up a journey heading east from San Jose

Pros: A fantastic place to stay to break up a journey from San Jose to either rafting on the Pacuare River or to the Caribbean coast. Comfortable accommodation right on the edge of the Braulio Carillo national park - you definitely are in the forest. Lovely staff and good food. Unfortunately we didn’t enough time to do any organised activities but saw tapirs, butterflies, bird life, frogs, etc regardless.

Comfortable room. Good breakfast. Fantastic Frogs.

Pros: Good breakfast. Excellent location on the edge of the rain forest. The highlight was the Frogs and Snakes night walk which was fantastic!

Cons: Evening meals not very inspiring. Aerial tram ride was good but rather expensive.

Perfect place to view wildlife

Pros: The lodge is deep in the rainforest with lots of wildlife around - we had a wonderful couple of nights here. In contrast to some reviews we found the bungalows to be very clean and the bed extremely comfortable. Lovely balconies to watch humming birds on. They advise getting your drinking water from the fountain in the restaurant as the room water is not safe to drink, so bring bottles. The reception / car park area is excellent for wildlife spotting and we saw tapirs, tamandua, toucans and a whole family of coatis. There’s also a tree there full of the delightful sounds of the yellow tailed oropendola. The forest walkway is lovely, very easy on concrete walkways and has a good hide where we watched coatis. Breakfast is excellent but more coffee and toast would have been much appreciated. Road is one way controlled by security at each end. Staff are very friendly and helpful.

Cons: We would have liked to have gone on the canopy ride but it was far too expensive.