Welcome to Hotel La Garza
Comfortable.Natural. Simple. Family.
Twenty minutes from the bustling Arenal Volcano tourist town of Fortuna is La Garza. twenty minutes, or one hundred years.
What began as the weekend retreat for the city friends of the colonial founders of La Garza has evolved into a small, intimate hotel for discerning people who really desire pure escape from the twenty-first century. Like the farm's founders, you still awaken to the sounds of the birds and monkeys dwelling on the river bank in front of your room. You still watch the sunrise hitting the cone of arenal volcano. And you still cross a swinging bridge to reach the ranch house to eat breakfast in a casona (main farm house) built 100 years ago.
It's impossible to enter our forest without seeing the wildlife, literally leaping from tree to tree over your head. Standing beneath the magnificent strangler fig (it was an adult tree when Columbus arrived in Costa Rica), you start to realize the meaning of the word "timeless".
Imagine cantering through sugar cane plantations, fording thigh-deep rivers, rounding up cattle and trotting through virgin rain forest on top of a fine, well bred Paso Fino steed.
There is two ways to get up to the rapelling platform: One of our guide climb up for a rope helping the tourist
that is holding and seating in a chair.
You can join a tour group to drive up to one of the Arenal eruptions. Tour companies have access to several locations.