The Harmony Hotel

Nosara, Costa Rica

Press Reviews

American Vogue, February 2008
"It’s all about catching the perfect wave at this surf-centric hideaway devoted to 'low key glamour and total escape.' Air and water hover around 80 degrees year round, locals include ospreys, armadillos and howler monkeys which double as island alarm clocks. For the novice, nearby surf schools - like Corky Carroll’s - abound."

Frommers
"This is easily the most complete, luxurious, and best located choice in the Nosara area. The room decor is simple but attractive, with white-tile floors, contemporary furnishings, and well-designed bathrooms. All the rooms have patios or wooden decks. In fact, even the most basic rooms here, their "Coco" rooms, feature quite large private wooden decks out back, with an outdoor shower...The hotel has a well-run and pretty spa, with various treatment options and regular yoga classes..."

Fodors
Surf's up... upscale, that is. This formerly frayed surfer's haunt has been reborn as an ultracool hipster's retreat. The American owners are surfers, but of an age where comfort and quiet are more appealing than partying. The rooms surround a huge garden that holds a gorgeous, chlorine-free pool and sundeck - an oasis of tranquility...Enclosed back decks with hammocks expand what are otherwise standard-size rooms...For the health-conscious traveler there's a "healing center" complete with spa, yoga classes, and juice bar. The best surf breaks are just down a shaded path.

Guest Ratings

Room:
100%
Food:
80%
Service:
100%
Value:
100%
Overall:
95%
Save to favouritesPrintMailThe Harmony HotelHarmony Hotel isn't easy to reach, but it’s well worth the effort. An eco-hotel with exemplary credentials, it sits in the jungle of Nosara - a coastal town made up of 4 beaches - and a few yards behind one of the most stunning surf beaches on the Nicoya Peninsula, Playa Guicones. It’s become the place to stay for city-dwelling surfers and grown-up Bohos who are too old - and too well-off - to stay in a grungy surf shack, but still want the feeling of a stylish, authentic hotel. With its wood and wicker furniture, palm trees, freshwater swimming pool and open air/open-plan layout, the hotel has a 1950s Hawaiian resort feel. This is not, I emphasise, a luxury hotel: there are no plasma screen TVs or iPods in the 24 [r:CO003:rooms], and service is more of the chat-at-the-breakfast-table variety than silent obedience. But if luxury means a healing centre, organic food, sunrise yoga on the beach before hitting the surf, a hotel with integrity, the sound of waves drifting you to sleep in a bed big enough to sleep 6, and a tropical paradise, then Harmony would more than qualify as a top-notch destination.

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