very nice food, a lot of animal, 100% for tapirs, real rain forest

The location was ok, although you are off the path, it was still quite a lot of noise from the main road. Could have been great but…

Lovely place in the jungle has zip lining activity plus a gondola too all extra to pay. Room is clean basic no frills (like coffee maker etc)small semi detached with a small balcony at the front. There is no A/C in the room just a fan. The room is rather small but for a stay for a couple of nights it was absolutely fine. They offer a night tour which was good.

Nice location in the jungle.

“A wonderful place (if it does not rain!) for nature lovers”

The Tapirus lodge is actually situated in an ‘adventure park’ (almost within the borders of the Braulio Carrillo NP) with zip-lines, an aerial tram (US$60 pp!, didn’t do that), restaurant and souvenir shop which gives it a very touristy feel. However, the (only 10) well-designed cabins with large verandas are located along a very quiet trail amidst trees and flowering plants that attract Hummingbirds and other species. You can also visit the butterfly garden (Morpho’s) and the reptiles exhibition (Snakes and frogs). The guided night walk (‘on the doorstep’) was a wonderful and different experience of the jungle. Unfortunately and in spite of the ‘dry season’, it rained heavily through almost all of our 3 night’s stay so we made thankful use of the umbrellas ready waiting in the room. Due to the continuous rainfall, we couldn’t explore and fully appreciate the trails and wildlife on site but the Tapirus showed itself shortly while having dinner in the open-air restaurant. Different breakfast options on offer which could be served with one more slice of bread. Lunch/Dinner options are limited and some choices were not available.

“Good value for a 1-2 day visit and rainforest experience”

Professional management, very informative professional guide (Jaime/James), aerial tram and the animals we met several times in just one day (coati, tamandua, tapir)

Fantastic place. Great experience

“The jungle was beautiful.”

I felt really in the jungle. So beautiful. The night tour - only available for the guests sleeping in the hotel. - we saw beautiful frogs. Also a tapir. Next day many noseapes. Room very nice.

“If you want to see a tapir, this is your place. We were sitting around the hotel and saw so much wildlife :D”

The wildlife around the lodge is amazing Tapir, ant eater, toucan, aracaris, sloths, and more, without even stepping into the jungle.

“Sleeping in the woods”

Sleeping in a cabin in the middle of the woods

Excellent location in the middle of the rain forest. Very friendly staff.

“Nice stay directly in the jungle”

Nice room in the middle of the jungle, directly next to the national park. Good service at the restaurant and good free water dispenser. You get 20% off for the guided tours.

“Enjoyable nature break in the rainforest”

Location amidst rainforest, excellent birdwatching particularly for hummingbirds and amazing to seeing wild tapir wandering around the lodge entrance. Tasty food. Friendly helpful staff. The room was pretty functional but fine, great powerful hot shower and comfy bed.

“Excellent - highly recommend”

Everything. Setting, staff were very friendly and accommodating to our needs in the off-peak season. Great reptile walk at night, and Tapirs walking across the lodge was fantastic! The river flooded preventing driving directly to the lodge, and so they picked us up in a bus and carried our luggage across for us.

“Totally recommended to break up a journey heading east from San Jose”

A fantastic place to stay to break up a journey from San Jose to either rafting on the Pacuare River or to the Caribbean coast. Comfortable accommodation right on the edge of the Braulio Carillo national park - you definitely are in the forest. Lovely staff and good food. Unfortunately we didn’t enough time to do any organised activities but saw tapirs, butterflies, bird life, frogs, etc regardless.

“Comfortable room. Good breakfast. Fantastic Frogs.”

Good breakfast. Excellent location on the edge of the rain forest. The highlight was the Frogs and Snakes night walk which was fantastic!

“Perfect place to view wildlife”

The lodge is deep in the rainforest with lots of wildlife around - we had a wonderful couple of nights here. In contrast to some reviews we found the bungalows to be very clean and the bed extremely comfortable. Lovely balconies to watch humming birds on. They advise getting your drinking water from the fountain in the restaurant as the room water is not safe to drink, so bring bottles. The reception / car park area is excellent for wildlife spotting and we saw tapirs, tamandua, toucans and a whole family of coatis. There’s also a tree there full of the delightful sounds of the yellow tailed oropendola. The forest walkway is lovely, very easy on concrete walkways and has a good hide where we watched coatis. Breakfast is excellent but more coffee and toast would have been much appreciated. Road is one way controlled by security at each end. Staff are very friendly and helpful.

“Great for staying overnight after going on the aerial tramway”

We stayed for one night but it was very enjoyable. The room was clean and had a great shower. We would also recommend the food and cocktails.

Set in an incredible location, in the rainforest, on the edge of the Braulio Carrillo national park, as part of a tram / zip line tourist attraction complex. The staff member who checked us in was there until 10pm, after that we felt we and the other guests were very much on our own in the forest (in a good way). Part of the windows of our bedroom were insect mesh only (no glass) so expect to hear the forest sounds! Dinner was surprisingly nice, good choice including a well presented casados. We woke early and walked on the two short trails (200m & 800m) access for which is included free with the room, and saw a caoti family and hummingbirds. Good range of choice for breakfast, after which we got a good view of the local tapir! (it is wild, but I think it is encouraged to come to the complex with food). We opted not to pay the additional fees for the public forest canopy tram ride and the zip lines - for us sleeping and awaking in the forest was sufficient.

“Excellent nature resort with huge property abutting national park”

The guides were excellent and it felt like we were already in the Braulio Carillo park because there was so much woodland around. The restaurant on site was a good feature, though just so so with the food. Take the tram tour, it’s great to see the trees from up high. The night walk was well worth it; we saw an owl, frogs, a lizard and bonus mama tapir with her baby. The early morning bird tour with Marvin was also excellent. The tours are very reasonably priced compared to say, La Fortuna. Except for highway noise, we felt deeply in nature. The hummingbird area and snake display were quite interesting. The raccoon family wandering all over the resort was super cute and interesting.