Ingrid
10/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Great Experience at Villas Maria Luisa
Pros: Villas Maria Luisa was a great experience to stayed excellent and friendly staff 👌the manager Yared was very friendly and helpful and professional answered every question we had about the place if we didn't know he helped us in everything he could thank you Yared! room was super clean and had all that we need inside like a microwave little cooker fridge glasses dishes cutlery cups TV air conditioning and fan etc plus a great location 2 mits walking from Colonia beach ⛱️
Jennifer
10/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
A nature lover's cabin hotel fantasy come true!
Pros: I love this cabin hotel concept! The villas and cabins are surrounded by lots of beautiful greenery. You'll see monkeys, stunning butterflies... It's very private yet right by the beach (which will take your breath away btw). It felt very unpretentious and I liked the crowd around there a lot. Came for a short trip from Manuel Antonio which is very 'White Lotus' (wealthy tourists, less community focused). Also... Villas Maria Luisa is Costa Rican-owned which is another reason to book, I believe. There are a lot of mosquitos on the premises (!) but my cabin was 100% proof and you're fine as long as you have a good repellent. Just come prepared. I also had solid air conditioning so the value for money was exeptional. I wish I coud have stayed longer and will definitely come back. If you're a nature lover and like more of an authentic, local experience... this is the one.
Matthew
10/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
A great place to stay !!
Pros: The staff are really friendly and helpful, the owners even invited us in for breakfast when we were leaving!! The Villas are close to the beach and restaurants. A great stay for a few nights.
Kevin
9/10
United States 🇺🇸
Excellent. Will be back soon for sure!
Pros: This is a great place to stay! Excellent, attentive staff! Always quick with check-ins and any needs/requests you might have. Clean everywhere you look. Super close to the beach! Stores and restaurants very close by. Affordable pricing!
Kevin
9/10
United States 🇺🇸
We will be back soon says it all.
Pros: Everything went perfect from quick, courteous check in, extremely clean accommodations, refreshing clean pool, well equipped kitchenette, powerful A/C, quiet surroundings and a very short 5 minute walk right to the beach! Villas Maria Luisa is a great place to be! You can hear the ocean inside your room/cabina!
Cons: I like everything about Maria Luisa! This has to be the best value in/near Uvita.
Kevin
9/10
United States 🇺🇸
Our stay was brief but very enjoyable. Very good amenities including the pool. A great experience!
Pros: Villas Maria Luisa was easy to find after asking a few friendly locals familiar with the area. We were attended to promptly by the staff at Villas Maria Luisa. Everyone working at the Villas was courteous, friendly and professional. Our room was clean with good A/C. The small kitchen(!) was equipped well enough to enhance the quality of our stay. Our shower did have hot water,, as hot as was necessary (electric showerhead, very common in these countries).The property is fairly expansive which allowed for great privacy! Being that this is the 'low' season the ambience was very quiet and laid back! Pricing is very fair considering location, privacy and amenities. We will definitely return.
Cons: Everything at Villas Maria Luisa met our expectations especially considering the modest pricing currently in effect. I would say that Villas Maria Luisa is a great value for the money! This is a great place for singles, couples and families with many choices in accomodations.
Nuno
8/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Brilliant location and very friendly staff :)
Pros: Brilliant location right by the 3rd and more quiet entrance to the national park. This entrance has a lifeguard tower right next to it, so good place to go in the ocean (although there are rip tides so you can’t swim out). Lovely garden with lots of different birds. Really friendly and helpful people that run the place.
Cons: This is a budget option, so don’t expect very fine sheets and great luxury; but that also makes it popular with local Costa Rican families which was lovely to see.
Haven
8/10
United States 🇺🇸
Lovely garden and property with private rooms, AC and a pool close to the beach.
Pros: Large property that feels like summer camp with pool, sport field, bbq area and garden. It was hard to tell what kind of room we were getting from the reservation, but it was a duplex mini apartment with A/C, mini fridge, microwave, and coffee maker. Parking was nearby in the back of property. The pool was great. The host only spoke Spanish, which was fine, he was very kind. The bird life was amazing! Especially the dawn song.
Cons: The beds were a bit hard and could feel the springs. The pillows are large and hard. The bathroom smelled like mold and maybe poor sewage drainage and had an open vent so we had to keep it closed off from the AC room. Looked like grey water running through drainage ditches in the property was a little stinky.
Renee
9/10
Canada 🇨🇦
It was generally a very relaxing, beautiful place to stay.
Pros: Loved the location, the property, the staff and the owner. It was very relaxing there. The park and the beach were just minutes away down the road and the area had a very rural atmosphere. We heard lots of different birds in the trees early in the morning. The kitchen had sufficient dishes etc. and the fridge and coffee maker worked well. The A/C unit was wonderful, as the climate there is hot and humid. It was lovely to have a small table and chairs on the front porch for eating breakfast.
Cons: The bed was small but comfortable. The sheets tended to slide off the mattress. This could have been avoided by having a mattress cover. Also the bathroom needs some hooks, some towel racks, a toilet paper dispenser, also a basket in the shower for keeping soap etc. A hand towel would have been convenient. The cupboard did not have any place to hang your clothes. On Sunday morning at 6 AM we were woken up by some guests in the big house next door playing music very, very loud. This was annoying.
Ali
10/10
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Pros: Brilliant staff wonderful spot for relaxing. Swimming pool to cool off in. Beautiful gardens with birds active in the morning. Close to the beach and national park entrance. Facilities nearby motorbikes hire and supermarket at the top of the road. Fabulous. I'm going back later in this trip just cos it's a great place to be
Cons: Can't fault it