Costa Rica is a wonderland for those who love nature, adventure and the outdoors. The Small Unique Hotels are centrally located to all the important tourist developments, parks and reserves, San José and the Pacific Coast, giving you unencumbered access to a full range of activities.   

From one of the members of  Small Unique Hotels group, you can easily hike through a misty cloud forest, zip along the treetop on a canopy tour or mountain bike through dense, lowland forest. There are lots of facilities for horseback riding and bird and animal watching. You can encounter the underwater majesty of a manta ray, fish for record-breaking marlin or glide through the Pacific on a catamaran. You can even take in a few rounds of golf or just soak in the sunshine on a deserted beach. 

Volcano, canopy, hiking, mountain biking, bird watching, horseback riding, beaching, sport fishing, scuba diving, parks and reserves and more:

The natural diversity that Costa Rica is famous for can be seen in the range of national parks and private reserves all around the country.There's the mist-covered, dense rainforests of the Monteverde and Santa Elena National Cloud Forest Reserves.
The Rincón de la Vieja, Santa Rosa and Guanacaste national parks along with the Lomas Barbudal Biological Reserve are also examples of Costa Rica's immense biological diversity. Inside the Manual Antonio National Park,  the forest is home for sloths, iguanas, the rare and adorable squirrel monkeys and millions of colorful little crabs. And the trail that winds around Punta Catedral affords some spectacular views. Hiking in the trails in the upper reaches of the Braulio Carrillo National Park, will be unforgettable.

Costa Rica is a land of active volcanoes. Its most famous, Arenal, borders Guanacaste and tourists year round come to watch the volcano smolder and spew lava boulders at regular intervals.
Rincón de la Vieja, a compound volcano of nine craters, is known for its percolating mud pots and steaming fumaroles. 

A canopy tour gives you a unique treetop glimpse of rain forest life in Costa Rica. You zip along on cables suspended 60 to 100 feet or more above ground, for an unbeatable adventure and spectacular view of the forest and its wildlife.
Monteverde, Arenal, and Rincón de la Vieja offer some of the better known canopy adventures. But numerous others exist through Costa Rica, including one a few miles outside of Playa Hermosa Guanacaste.

Throughout all of Costa Rica's parks and reserves, there are multitudes of trails of varying intensity that can keep hikers and bikers "on the road" for hours--if not days.

The trails can take you through forest and pasture lands, into lush mountain valleys or up towering volcanoes, even past flowing rivers or tumbling waterfalls.

Short paths take only an hour or two to complete; others take up to a day. And still others are heavy duty backpacking routes where overnight camping is required.

Costa Rica is a bird lover's paradise with 850-plus species known to reside in the country. Within the parks and reserves--or even within the tropical greenery surrounding your own hotel, you can spot numerous varieties of hummingbirds, toucans, macaws, parrots, motmots and more.

The multi-colored Elegant Trogan lives only in Guanacaste. And in nearby Monteverde, it's possible to spot the region's prize attraction--the Resplendent Quetzel.

Costa Rica it is one of the most biologically diverse countries in the world - a treasure house of flora and fauna unequaled in so small an area.

Casual tourist and dedicated nature traveler alike come under the spell of a nature wonderland studded with tropical forest, rushing rivers, exotic animals, un-crowded beaches, high mountains, and awesome volcanoes.

Pick your own departure date at one of our hotel's member and pack your bags for a spectacular Costa Rica adventure on horseback.

The Pacific coast is dotted with scores of beaches, from developed stretches of white or black sand to secluded hideaways tucked into rocky coves. Those better-known offer plenty of leisure activities, including surfing, sailing, scuba diving and kayaking. Many more are remote and undeveloped, offering the chance to laze about in the sun, picnic or snorkel in total isolation.

Costa Rica, Quepos and the Papagayo Gulf are world-renowned for game fishing. From Playas del Coco and Quepos, a hub for the sport, a wide variety of charter boat operators are available to take sport fishermen out in search for that reaches of record-breaking marlin, sailfish or rooster fish. The bottom fishing also offers excellent opportunities for catching dorado, wahoo, cubera, snapper, grouper, tuna and more.

Scuba Diving:
The Papagayo Gulf offers premium diving. Its plankton-rich waters draw in an immense diversity of aquatic life in all shapes, colors and sizes. At local dive sites, huge schools of grunts, damsels, scorpionfish, triggerfish and more make their home within local dive sites as do frogfish, octopus, white tip sharks and several varieties of moray eels and rays. Further afield at the Catalinas or Bat Islands, mantas, huge schools of cow-nose or devil rays and bull sharks are the things to see.

Visiting San José’s museums can be a good way to get a feel for the country before you take to the road for the beaches or other areas of Costa Rica. The NATIONAL MUSEUM, located on Central Ave. and 17th Street, contains very well organized permanent exhibits of all periods of Costa Rican culture and history. Every visitor will marvel at the spectacular collection of indigenous gold art at the GOLD MUSEUM. The NATIONAL THEATER  is more than a theater, it is an interesting museum.  It is located on the 2nd Ave. beside of the Plaza de la Cultura. Shopping and night life will also contribute to make your vacation unforgettable.