OPacifico Hotel Boutique

I can never say enough warm words of how my family and I enjoyed the beauty and serenity of this absolute magnificent hotel, location, stuff, beach, gem of hotel. This boutique hotel with its lovely gardens, paths, pools, restaurant with fantastic food. Amazing décor and design in every corner both in the rooms inside and in the public places. Costarica is one of my favorite countries and OPacifico is one of my favorite hotels in costarica. I highly recommend it!! It’s absolutely wonderful!!

We stayed 2 nights. The guests are a mixture of Costa Rican and European. Staff are definitely happier speaking Spanish. It's not their fault if you don't speak Spanish, so take time to get things understood. The room was comfortable and we'll equipped. Many of the rooms are set back against the road. There is some traffic noise but nothing significant if you come from the UK. The gardens down to the beach are superb and full of birds. Frigates swoop over the headlands and pelicans form up in squadrons during the day, while little blue herons share the beach with egrets and waders. The hotel was quiet in the evening . The restaurant service was a bit erratic. Our vegan pizzas turned into vegetarian ones. When we queried the cheese on top we were assured the pizzas were vegan, despite the vegan pizza being listed as no cheese. Breakfast was adequate. But we came for the beach not for pizza. The beach is private, with beautiful views. Sand and silt bottom, shallow for some way out, so good for a gentle swim or kids to muck about in. Most preferred the 2 handsome pools set back from the beach.The hotel states that you can snorkel from the beach and there are fish. It would be truer to say that you can swim with a snorkel mask in the hope of seeing a fish. Visibility the first day was zero and on the second day less then a metre. Perhaps we were just unlucky in that respect. We made up for it by visiting the amazing Sylvestre Curu reserve, nearby if you have a car.