Lapa Rios Lodge
Hotel · Golfito ·
Screened bungalows with terraces, ocean views, open-air dining & pool
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Puntarenas Province, Punto Jimenez, Costa Rica Get directions
Screened bungalows with terraces, ocean views, open-air dining & pool
Puntarenas Province, Punto Jimenez, Costa Rica Get directions
"Experience jungle luxury with beach views at Lapa Rios. Enjoy ecotourism, pura vida wellness, and hiking through rainforests." - Travel + Leisure Staff
"Lapa Rios Lodge offers an immersive wildlife experience in Costa Rica, with modern design, plush furnishings, stress-busting spas, and decadent restaurants and bars. It includes private plunge pools and is set in a stunning natural environment." - Chadner Navarro
"Lapa Rios Lodge is a luxury eco-lodge on 1,000 acres of rainforest overlooking the Golfo Dulce. It features treehouse-style bungalows with solar-heated water and bamboo furnishings. Activities include guided night walks, birdwatching, surfing, and scuba diving. The on-site restaurant offers seasonal ingredients." - Travel + Leisure Editors
"A conservation-minded luxury lodge adjacent to one of Central America’s last coastal lowland rain forests, preserving over 1,000 acres and operating since the early 1990s. The 17 hardwood bungalows feature private verandas with plunge pools, and guest programming emphasizes active nature immersion—volunteer coral-reef restoration, bird-watching with frequent macaw and toucan sightings, waterfall hikes, and sustainability tours that reveal renewable building materials and an extensive renewables setup (including hundreds of solar panels, water turbines, and energy storage) providing purified water. The property grows food in organic gardens, raises pigs fed with restaurant food waste, and serves locally sourced plant-based and sustainably sourced meat, dairy, and seafood in its restaurant." - Devorah Lev-Tov
"I arrived at Lapa Rios at dusk and found a wild, pulsating rainforest experience spread across 1,000 acres with 17 ocean-view bungalows that feel like an eco-resort and a rainforest summer camp—each day offered birding, waterfall walks, secluded beaches, and expert guides like Danilo Alvarez Seguro who pointed out leaf-cutter ants, calamine trees, and poison-dart frogs; founded in 1993 by Karen and John Lewis to conserve land through tourism, the lodge cultivated local relationships, built a school, and now trains staff to teach environmental education while guests enjoy open-air dinners and bar mojitos served with a palpable sense of stewardship." - Gina DeCaprio Vercesi Gina DeCaprio Vercesi Gina DeCaprio Vercesi is a New York-based writer with a passion for adventure, history, and conservation. Her words and images have appeared in publications including Travel + Leisure, National Geographic Traveler, AARP The Magazine, Delta Sky, Hemispheres, and The Boston Globe. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines