Tamarindo, located on Costa Rica's northwestern coast and bordered by the Pacific Ocean, is a town of beauty and relaxation. It's the largest beach town in Costa Rica's Guanacaste Province ...

One of Costa Rica's best beachfront boutique hotels, this place boasts solid Swiss hotelkeeping. It gets its name from the locale, eyeing Capitan Island, and, of course its Swiss owners, who built ...

One of the best truly budget beach hotels in all of Costa Rica, Villa Amarilla is set right on Playa Tamarindo in Guanacaste, and its rooms are bright, airy and modern, all decorated with local art.

Not so long ago, Costa Rica was a backpacker’s game. Other than a few business-class hotels in the capital of San José and a handful of isolated luxury properties scattered about the scenic ...