Day 1: 3rd Sept – Welcome to Costa Rica & San José Stay
Welcome to Costa Rica! Arrival at Juan Santamaría Airport. Private Transfer from SJO Airport to San José. One of our representatives will meet you at SJO Airport and take you directly to your hotel in San José, the capital of Costa Rica known for its culture, history, gastronomy, architecture, and natural beauty.
Hotel: Studio Hotel Boutique, Standard Room, Incl. Breakfast
A 2-minute walk from a bus stop, this modern art-themed hotel with mountain views is 12 km from La Sabana Metropolitan Park and 14 km from downtown San José shopping centers. Modern rooms and suites feature free Wi-Fi, TVs, minifridges, sofas, desks, and safes. Breakfast, parking, and transportation around the area are free. A lively café/bar with live music, Costa Rican art exhibitions, and meeting rooms are also available.
Day 2: 04th Sept – Journey to Tortuguero Rainforest
Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Transfer from San José to Guápiles. Pick up at your hotel. Early in the morning the expedition begins towards the plains of the North Caribbean, home to Tortuguero National Park—one of Costa Rica’s most exuberant parks with tropical forests, vast vegetation, and abundant wildlife.
Boat Transfer from Guápiles to Tortuguero:
Board a boat and travel through rainforest canals. Check in at your hotel and enjoy lunch.
Hotel: Pachira Lodge – 3 Days / 2 Nights Package (Standard Room, Incl. Boat Transfers, Guide, Meals & Activities)
Pachira Lodge is 5 minutes by boat from Tortuguero National Park. It offers an outdoor pool, sun terraces, treetop tours, and turtle tours. Rooms feature bright décor, ceiling fans, mosquito screens, and private bathrooms. Free Wi-Fi available at reception.
Tortuguero Village Tour & Turtle Museum Visit
Visit Tortuguero Village to learn about local life and culture. Then explore the Turtle Museum (Caribbean Turtle Conservation Center) to learn about species that nest here and conservation efforts.
Accommodation: Pachira Lodge in Tortuguero.
Day 3: 05th Sept – Exploring the Tortuguero Canals
Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Tortuguero Canals Tour
Known as the “Amazon of Costa Rica,” Tortuguero features canals, lagoons, and rivers home to green turtles, manatees, jaguars, monkeys, and over 300 bird species. Ecosystems include rainforests, beaches, mangroves, and wetlands.
Accommodation: Pachira Lodge in Tortuguero.
Day 4: 06th Sept – From Jungle to Puerto Viejo
Meals included: Breakfast & Lunch
Boat Transfer from Tortuguero to Guápiles.
Today we will wait for you in the hotel lobby and take you to Puerto Viejo, known for its beautiful Caribbean beaches, ideal for surfing and ecotourism, its vibrant Afro-Caribbean culture, and its proximity to Cahuita National Park and Manzanillo, which offer biodiversity and outdoor activities.
Accommodation: Almonds & Corals Boutique Hotel
Day 5: 07th Sept – Gandoca Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge Tour
Meals included: Breakfast
The Gandoca Manzanillo refuge encompasses tropical rainforest, exotic mangrove forests, and the Caribbean coast, as well as some of Costa Rica’s most endangered flora and fauna. With round-trip transportation from local hotels and commentary from an expert nature guide, this walking tour allows you to skip the hassle of finding your way around and fully immerse yourself in Costa Rica’s rich biodiversity
Accommodation: Almonds & Corals Boutique Hotel
Day 6: 08th Sept – Transfer to Arenal Volcano
Meals included: Breakfast
Today your transfer will pick you up at your hotel lobby and take you to the incredible Arenal area, known worldwide for the incredible Arenal Volcano, its beautiful lake, the exotic and lush forest that surrounds it, its hot springs and its incredible offer of nature and adventure.
Accommodation: Montaña de Fuego Resort & Spa
Day 7: 09th Sept – Arenal Hanging Bridges
Meals included: Breakfast
The guided hike on the Arenal Hanging Bridges takes place in a 600-acre (243-hectare) reserve filled with lush vegetation and a variety of fauna. The trail is 2 miles (3 km) long, crossing 10 fixed bridges and 6 hanging bridges with lengths between 16 and 328 feet (5 to 100 meters) and up to 180 feet (55 meters) in height, allowing the exploration of the different levels of the forest (understory, subcanopy and canopy) and offering the opportunity to observe a greater number of species.
Hotel: Montaña de Fuego Resort & Spa
Day 8: 10th Sept – Shared Volcano & Waterfall Tour
Meals included: Breakfast
The day will start with a hike up the stepped trail of high basaltic rock walls, taking about 15 minutes to reach the beautiful La Fortuna Waterfall, where you can swim or just take pictures and enjoy its beauty. Lunch is the next step, a delicious traditional meal will be waiting for you at our restaurant “La Finquita”. After lunch, you will have time to rest or hang out in town, before starting the hike to the volcano. We will choose one of several trails through the rainforest and cross paths of solidified lava. We will observe a variety of plants, animals and rock formations. At the top of the trail, we will have an incredible view of Lake Arenal. Our hike will end at a lookout point where you can see a small steam of pyroclastic gases emerging from fissures at the top of the volcano.
Accommodation: Montaña de Fuego Resort & Spa
Day 9: 11th Sept – Transfer to Monteverde
Meals included: Breakfast
Today one of our representatives will wait for you at the hotel lobby, and will take you directly to the incredible area of Monteverde, famous for ecotourism and its wonderful cloud forest.
Accommodation: El Establo Mountain Hotel
Day 10: 12th Sept – Shared Coffee, Chocolate & Sugar Cane Tour
Meals included: Breakfast
Don Juan Tours Monteverde is a family-run business that teaches visitors about the entire process behind three world-class products: coffee, chocolate, and sugarcane. On our tour, we’ll take you through the entire coffee process, from the seed to the delicious cup of coffee. Once the coffee tour is over, we’ll begin the sweetest part of the tour: delicious chocolate. Just like coffee, we’ll talk about
everything from the seed to the delicious chocolate bar, and we’ll conclude by selecting some members of the group to grind the cacao and make delicious chocolate.
Hotel: Si Como No Resort, Spa & Wildlife Refuge, Superior Room, Incl. Breakfast
Includes spa, pools, slide, butterfly garden, poolside bar, and jungle-view rooms.
Accommodation: El Establo Mountain Hotel
Day 11: 13th Sept – Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve Tour
Meals included: Breakfast
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve is one of the most famous reserves in the world and important in Costa Rica due to conservation activities and scientific research. Founded in 1972 and with an area of 3,500 hectares, it has 2.5% of the world’s biodiversity. The geographical, topographic and climatic conditions of the Monteverde Reserve have favored the surprising biodiversity. In its forests we find four “Ecological Life Zones”, which give life to different ecosystems inhabited by hundreds of species of mammals, birds, butterflies, amphibians, reptiles, insects and arachnids, as well as a great variety of plants such as mosses, epitaphs, lianas and common cloud forest trees.
Accommodation: El Establo Mountain Hotel
Day 12: 14th Sept – Monteverde to San José
Today we will pick you up in the lobby of your hotel and take you back to San José.
Accommodation: Studio Hotel Boutique
Day 13: 15th Sept – Farewell Costa Rica & Airport Transfer
Meals included: Breakfast
Private Transfer from Manuel Antonio to SJO Airport.
