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About Pura Vida
Situated in a residential area of the Tuetal Village and surrounded
by coffee and sugar cane farms,
we are just north of Alajuela and
minutes from the Juan Santamaria (San Jose) International Airport.
We have a private and secure parking compound.
The "Casa" or main house was originally a coffee finca and has been converted into a country
Inn with comfortable
guest rooms in the main house and our featured free standing Casitas in the garden.
The coffee plantation has evolved into a
delightful
tropical garden with all kinds of tropical fruit trees including bananas,
lemons, mangoes, star fruits, avocados, papaya, grapefruit, carambola, mango, cas, nance
and oranges.
We hope to provide you one of the
tastiest meals of your trip
- your hosts and owners
are from California via the UK and Asia. The garden restaurant is for
hotel guests and serves a delicious breakfast and very special three
course dinners featuring a blend of Costa Rican, French and Asian
cuisine, tasty stuff. The Pura Vida Hotel can be the
perfect place to start and end your explorations of Costa Rica.
We have also planted and are adding frequently many native species of flowers
and plants - particularly those that attract the birds and butterflies. We keep a
coffee plant in the Garden Restaurant for the memory of the old finca.
The gardens look out over the Tuetal valley,
a picturesque setting of coffee plantations
and a typical Costa Rican village (Tuetal Norte).
Actual photo of Dwayne Hoover and his family on their once in a lifetime trip to
Kilgore Trout's hotel in Costa Rica (don't believe everything you read on web sites eh?).
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Your Own Casita or a place in the Casa
The property includes 4 individual "Casitas" in the gardens.
Each free standing Casita
has 1 or two bedrooms
and sleeps 1 to 4 people. Each Casita has a private bathroom with hot water and either garden
views or views to the Poas Volcano.
We are just 4 km from the international airport, 25 minutes from San
Jose, the capital, right in the middle of the country. We are halfway
between the Pacific Coast and the Caribbean and just the place to start
your exploration of Pura Vida.
If you need transfers or tours anywhere in Costa Rica, visit
our own
InsightCostaRica here.
If you want to find the special places we have excellent English speaking local guides to
get you there.
Poas is just 45 minutes by car from the hotel. Other local
attractions include the La Paz Waterfall Gardens, Zoo Ave (a must visit), La Guacima Butterfly farm and, of course,
the local farmers market on Friday afternoon and Saturday.
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A Garden Dinner Delight
The gardens and Casitas are very private
- and an ideal setting for gourmet dinners or small meetings.
Parking is within the compound and completely secure.
For our signature prix fixe dinners, we only serve what
we can buy today fresh today, so make a reservation early.
For more information about our special dinners check out our food
page here.
Make Pura Vida the perfect place to start and end your
explorations of Costa Rica.
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A VERY GOOD MAP
If this is going to be your first (second, third,
fourteenth) trip to Costa Rica, you will need a really good map and a good guide book. One of our favorite maps
is - A Travelers Reference Map of Costa Rica from International Travel Maps
They have a waterproof one designed JUST for us (those that live in the
beautiful tropics). Also Toucan Maps has an excellent new map out (also waterproof).
A COUPLE OF GOOD GUIDE BOOKS
One of our favorite guide books thanks to its wonderful detail including city maps of such fascinatingly unmapped
places such as our own Alajuela (and even little Sarchi) is the Moon Handbook of Costa Rica written by Christopher Baker
The Moon Guide
ALSO Beatrice Blake thinks about conservation as much as she thinks about the traveller in Costa Rica. This guide book
is an easy read and has lots of unique material. Get involved here:
The New Key to Costa Rica
Thanks so much for visiting our web site.
Join us soon in Pura Vida,
Alajuela, Costa Rica,
Phone: 506-2430-2630 or 506-2430-2630
Cell 8878-3899 or
Email: info@puravidahotel.com,
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: If you are having trouble calling other locations in
Costa Rica,
FROM MARCH 20 2008, all phone numbers in Costa Rica have an extra digit. For example 506-430-2929
is now 505-2430-2929. Put a 2 in front of land lines and an 8 in front of cell lines.
Thank you.
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