The Top 12 Hotels Near Manzú Restaurant
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A Greek-style amphitheater with columns sits on a Costa Rican clifftop a thousand feet above the Pacific, which tells you something about the vision here. Villa Caletas is a French-inflected hillside resort that skips the thatched-roof playbook entirely, mixing contemporary design with colonial antiques. Villas and suites run toward plunge pools and jacuzzi views; the basic rooms are comfortable without pretending otherwise. Pack walking shoes: the layout is all stairs, no elevator.
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Perched on a forested mountainside west of San José, this wellness resort skips the beach entirely in favor of rainforest views and a program that runs from yoga and spa treatments to IV therapy and something called emotional healing. Rooms scale from doubles to a three-bedroom villa, the restaurant leans local and health-forward, and the bar quietly ignores the detox menu. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.
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Santa Teresa's La Lora surf break is practically in the front yard, but Hotel Fermata leans boutique rather than backpacker, with villas, casitas, and suites done in warm neutrals and organic materials that feel effortless without trying too hard. The open-air restaurant and bar is the social hub, where a New York and Paris-trained chef runs a Mediterranean-leaning menu. The Pacific breeze does its part; the place handles the rest.
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Each villa comes with its own plunge pool, a hammock, and an ocean view, which covers most of what you flew to Costa Rica for. This boutique resort on the Nicoya Peninsula keeps things blissfully self-contained: canopied king beds, patterned textiles, tropical flora framing the terrace, a kitchenette, and in-room spa treatments if the hammock somehow isn't enough. The main pool has a waterfall. Nearby Mal País, still more fishing village than tourist trap, rewards an ATV.
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Each of the 35 adults-only villas at this jungle resort sits over a spring-fed private plunge pool, with volcanic mud treatments at an open-air spa and Arenal's canopy right outside. Honeymooners fill most of the hammocks, but anyone who wants to disappear into a national park without giving up the oversized bathroom has found the right address. Michelin awarded it 3 Keys and Forbes a Four Star rating.
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Plunge pools come standard with every casita and villa at this rainforest resort inside Arenal Volcano National Park, which sets a certain tone early. Nayara Gardens sits at the kind of altitude where the canopy stretches out below your terrace and the volcano fills the rest of the view. Between ziplines, river rafting, and volcano treks, the outdoor shower barely gets used. Multiple restaurants cover the range from Costa Rican to Asian-inspired.
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Hot springs fed directly by Arenal volcano run through the property, and the resort has leaned into that fact hard enough to build an entire thermal river system around it. Tabacón is a five-star eco-resort with 105 rooms, open-air spa bungalows, and a resident shaman who leads traditional sweat ceremonies in the rainforest. Rooms have private terraces and jacuzzis for the relaxation-averse who still want to relax. Two restaurants cover local and international ground.
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Cloud forest so dense the lodge will send an eco-concierge to help you find your way through it. El Silencio is a jungle resort about 90 minutes from San José where green credentials and high-thread-count sheets coexist without apology: solar power, natural cleaning products, private hot tubs. The spa sits beside a creek, the restaurant leans on organic produce grown on site, and there's no red meat on the menu, though they'll quietly hand you a voucher if the zip-lining changes your mind.
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Thirty-one casitas spread across a hundred-odd acres of rainforest, each with its own plunge pool and an unobstructed view of Arenal Volcano straight through the trees. This is a luxury rainforest resort that sits where most hotels don't bother, right at the park's edge, well away from the coasts. Local materials, low-key in atmosphere but not in comfort, and enough guided expeditions, from volcano hikes to sloth-spotting, to justify staying a week.
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Safari-style glamping on the lower slopes of an active volcano, which is either thrilling or deeply on-brand for Costa Rica, depending on your disposition. The tented roofs are the only thing between you and the jungle, but they do keep the rain out. Shared restaurants and a spa connect to two sister resorts nearby, though the real point is what's outside: ziplines, river trips, suspension bridges, and horses all waiting by morning.
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A fifty-foot thatched palm ceiling covers the restaurant, and a curving black sand beach sits a few hundred feet below the hillside rooms, each with a hammock aimed at the Pacific. This secluded Costa Rican eco-resort is four hours from San José by land (four-wheel drive required, nighttime arrival discouraged), though a short charter flight is the move if you'd rather arrive intact. Casitas have plunge pools; villas have full private pools and, presumably, the solitude you came for.
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Perched above the Valle del Sol with city lights flickering in the distance, this boutique hotel sits a thirty-minute drive west of downtown San José in the mountains, which is most of its appeal. Rooms channel the golden age of Costa Rican coffee culture: leather chairs, Art Nouveau headboards, Indian cotton linens, and private terraces big enough to actually use. The Spanish colonial meets poured-concrete interior is an unlikely pairing that the place commits to fully.