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Planing trip #4 and will be touring the beach area. I plan on staying in san jose my 1st two nights then leave to jaco for 3 nights and I will be staying at the Copa Cabana. Then go to quepos for 3 nights. but I dont know where to stay in quepos. I want a nice hotel that is chica friendly. What do you guy recomend.

Try Hotel verde Mar, its only 600m from the Manuel Antonio National park, nice room and friendly staff.
www.verdemar.com

I stayed again the other night at Hotel Babaloo, a fairly new and small hotel half way to Manuel Antonio. They have some small rooms and also a gorgious suite complete with kitchen, balcony and excellent view. Prices as low as $49. Also very good work benches (mattresses). Check other posts for phone number. Note: If they quote a higher rate.....hold your ground...they will negotiate especially for cash.

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Verde mar is good choice, so is Karahe, because both are on the beach. Alot of great hotels there but most up on the hill and a pain toget to the beach.


DON't Phuck it up for everyone and start asking if girls are OK for the rooms--they don't care there other than the Kamuk downtown, and won't know. Check in by yourself and tell them you are are with your novia or whatever.

Got it. Verde Mar it is. I checked the website and looks good. I will not ask about guest just checkin and bring my guest at my own risk and pleasure.

Thanks for all th info.

Nice thing about Verde Mar is the rooms have small kitchens. Stop at the grocery store across from the bus station donwtown and load up on beer and cokes and coffee (bring filters from usa) and snack stuff to get you through the day.

Also, a great little beach restaraunt right in front of Verde Mar called Baru. Owned by Memo, CR guy who has been to the states alot, and his brother Roberto--good food, soup, breakfast, cold beer--can't beat it--you will love your time in Quepos/M.A.--my favorite CR place.

Be sure to bring some kind of beach shoes like sandals or flip flops--the sand is white hot. Also, bug spray--alot of people get bit by the
'no see ums' around the feet and ankles and they itch like hell. You can buy colorful beach towels in town for about $12 and Memo will rent you a lounge chair and umbrella by the day.

If you walk the beach to the north about 100 yards, Hotel Karahe has a beach bar/restaraunt cabina you can access from the beach--but only canned beer and hard liquor, no bottled beers, and then north again maybe three hundred yards to another little bar restaraunt next to some cabins known as Hotel Arboleda. Best Margarita I ever had in my life in that place--no ice, yellow color--one and your done.

If you walk to the south on the beach in front of Verde Mar, you will hit Mar Y Sambra restaraunt, Memo's uncle's place, and then further south, a bunch of restaraunts up off the beach on the main drag leading to the entrance to the national park. Alot of people take the tour of the park--nice if you are into fauna and some animals and that but a lot of walking, although you do get to visit two beaches not accessible any other way from land that are from heaven.