HIGHS
- A hotel in tune with nature – environmentally conscious, set in tropical gardens: howler monkeys, hummingbirds, iguanas
- The vegetable patch serves the kitchen, food is organic, shower water recycled, and the hotel contributes to local environmental and social projects
- New York levels of service delivered with ‘Tico’ charm
- Rooms have private patios, hammocks and outdoor showers
- Direct access to the beach down a pathway crowded on both sides by bush that sings and twitches with life
- A protected (no building allowed) 6km white sand beach for yoga, surfing, shell collecting, nature walks, horse and bike riding, cold beers at sunset
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LOWS
- An adventure to get there: most guests take a small plane from San José to Nosara. Once there, pot-holed, jungle dirt tracks are only suitable for 4X4s. The dry season means dust on the roads, the wet season thick mud
- Expensive compared to other hotels in the area
- Power cuts are a frequent occurrence
- With its rip tides, Playa Guiones is more of a surfing beach than a swimming beach
- Nosara is not so secret anymore: American retirees own many of the hotels, surf schools and restaurants
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