When you are in a place like Arenal National Park, just a few miles off the La Fortuna airport in Arenal, Costa Rica, you are in paradise. One can call the place a present-day Garden of Eden, with its lush and evergreen jungles, and the calm and serene Arenal Lake.
Towering about all else is the Arenal Volcano, standing almost 1,657 meters about sea-level. This volcano is a monstrous structure that is still active and the last reported major eruption happened less than a decade ago.
But with all these beautiful sceneries and panoramic landscapes, the land has much to offer. From rafting canoes in the Arenal River to hiking though the jungles of the rainforest, one can find any and every adventure here. Just within the outskirts of this magnificent valley lies the Arenal Nayara Hotel, a location that should be on every tourist’s handbook and mind when they come to visit Arenal.
The hotel’s architecture and surrounding are molded into a tropical look and feel in such that everywhere you go, you will feel the true Costa Rican spirit visible in all spectacular glory. With the natural wonders at your doorstep you would always feel overwhelmed and every passing day would make you more curious about the nature surrounding you.
Arenal Nayara Hotel
Arenal Nayara Hotel and Gardens are an expanse of about 24 casitas or one-room cottages spread sparsely over green gardens and tropical lands overlooking the Arenal volcano. Each cottage is equipped with quality amenities like plasma televisions, internet access, air conditioning and coffee makers. Each casita has an outdoor shower where you can bathe under the blue sky listening to the sweet chirps of the colorful morning wrens.
The hotel excels in not only accommodating people visiting the land, but also provides them with guided tours of the local area. With its location so close to the volcano and that too, on a hill top, the hotel provides its visitors dynamic and breathtaking views of the landscape. Its open-air Altamira Restaurant is decorated with a serene and peaceful ambience to let you sip and enjoy your foods and drinks. There also is the Kali-Kali wet-bar accompanied by a large Jacuzzi to pleasure yourself in the freshly pumped warm hot-spring water.
The hotel also features Acantha Spa retreat where you can get facials, massages, wrap therapies, exfoliations and Jacuzzi therapies. The various activities that the hotel offers include hikes and tours of the northern Costa Rican plains where nature meets pure beauty and the landscape is marvelously diverse. You are often given the pleasure to indulge yourself in rafting in the whitewaters, ride on horsebacks, fishing, wind-surfing and crossing the various suspended and hanging rope bridges in the area.
It is no doubt the best adventure you can hope for when you reach Arenal Nayara Hotel and Gardens for perfect summer vacations. You enjoy all the beautiful sights of the tropical Costa Rican northern plains and the magnificent and majestic Arenal volcano and enrich live out your wildest fantasies.
