Perfect home base for exploring/birding Sarapique region caribean low land rainforest Thanks for taking the time to write! We are glad you enjoyed our family run conservation and sustainable tourism project... read more and surrounding area!

Pura vida,

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A wonderfully relaxing place to stay! I stayed at Chilamate Eco Retreat for a week in February 2017. I was staying in one of the bungalows,... read more and was very well looked after by Meghan Casey and her staff. Everyone was extremely friendly and helpful and did everything they could to ensure that my visit was comfortable and to arrange trips and activities for me.

The Eco Retreat is quiet and relaxing - you can spend many hours swinging in a hammock on your verandah, but there are also plenty of things to do and places to visit.

While I was there I visited a cocoa plantation, went on guided tours through the rainforest, did a cooking class, went on an ethnobotanical guided walk, and visited several wildlife parks. You can also go white-water rafting and go horse-riding.

Meghan was very good at arranging transport for me and she really made me feel at home. It was a wonderful visit and I can highly recommend it. More read less

Ecotastic! We had a fantastic stay here at the beginning of our honeymoon. The retreat is well laid out and the... read more staff are friendly and very knowledgeable. Mechanic (one of the owners) certainly went the extra mile and helped us retrieve one of our bags which we left at an overnight stay in San Jose and managed to get it sent to the next resort on our little tour. William who greeted us at the front desk when we arrived turned out to also be an excellent tour guide and had a lot of information on the local rainforest, some of which is owned by the lodge. As an economic retreat they source all of their food locally and it really shows at breakfast lunch and dinner. As I'm writing this, one of the local farmers has shown up on his horse to deliver some eggs! The facilities are better than you might expect, considering the location and philosophy of the lodge. Not to be missed! read less

Quiet and friendly eco lodge surrounded by nature The Chilamate rainforest eco retreat is a friendly and quite lodge in an excellent setting. Unlike most lodges in the... read more area it is situated on the far side of the Sarapiqui River and quite distant from the rather busy road. It enjoys a wonderful and tranquil ambience.



The accommodation cabins are clean and spacious. These are not luxury cabins but are very homely. The only luxury we really missed was air-conditioning because the temperature when we were there was stifling and the fan made little impact.

At the hotel we were looked after by Megan, who was really accommodating and truly treated us as part of the family. She was assisted by William who had amazing local knowledge, particularly of the native wildlife.

We chose to eat at the hotel throughout our three-day stay and the food was good. There was no menu as such, you simply discussed what options were available and agreed a suitable dish. Personally, I liked this casual and personal service.

Overall this is a friendly and comfortable venue for exploring the local wildlife. read less