10 Best Resorts in Costa Rica for Your Next Trip - AFAR

"A large, upscale beachfront resort on a 1,400-acre peninsula offering 182 rooms, suites, and private residences, multiple pools, and a newly refreshed Virador Beach Club with an infinity-edge pool, private cabanas, restaurant, and lounge. The property is geared to families and multigenerational groups with a renovated kids club and a teen center that includes a basketball court, plus family activities like surfing lessons through a women-run surf school and golf on an 18-hole Arnold Palmer–designed course that has implemented water-saving irrigation and expanded native vegetation. Wellness programming occurs in a new indoor–outdoor Wellness Shala, and guests can join excursions including rain forest wildlife spotting, aerial parks, mangrove paddling, UTV adventures, and hands-on coral restoration projects." - Devorah Lev-Tov